Mitologia - Handel: Arias & Duets Christiane Karg

• Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759): Il Parnasso in festa, HWV 73:
• 1Già le furie vedo ancor01:46
• 2Dopo d'aver perduto il caro bene (Accompagnato)00:53
• 3Ho perso il caro bene06:40
• Semele, HWV 58:
• 4No, No, I'll Take No Less05:22
• Hercules, HWV 60:
• 5Where Shall I Fly?05:54
• Apollo e Dafne, HWV 122:
• 6Felicissima quest'alma05:42
• Atalanta, HWV 35:
• 7Cara, nel tuo bel volto (Duetto)07:39
• Semele, HWV 58:
• 8Overture (Maestoso - Allegro - Adagio)07:17
• 9Gavotte02:45
• 10Come Zephyrs, Come05:57
• Arianna in Creta, HWV 32:
• 11Bell'idolo amato... Deh, Taci crudel (Rec. & Duetto)03:57
• Partenope, HWV 27:
• 12Voglio amare insin ch'io moro06:33
• Echegiate, festeggiate, Numi eterni, HWV 119:
• 13Echeggiate, festeggiate!03:57
• 14Non più barbaro furore (Duetto)04:53
• Total Runtime01:09:15

Info for Mitologia - Handel: Arias & Duets

Arias & Duets from Semele, Partenope and other Handel Masterpieces. One of the very last recordings of Alan Curtis, an authority on Early Music and a profound musician who pioneered the revival of Baroque opera. With Christiane Karg, one of the most-sought-after lyric sopranos of the present day.

One of the very last recordings of baroque-pioneer conductor Alan Curtis (1934-2015), a supreme Handelian conductor and scholar. Alan Curtis, described by the New York Times’ as “one of the great scholar-musicians of recent times”, conducts a brilliant cast including German soprano star Christiane Karg and the Italian mezzo soprano Romina Basso. Christiane Karg is one of those fascinating voices of our time. She is certainly one of today’s most interesting German singers with an international profile. Many of her recordings such as “Scene!”, “Heimliche Aufforderung” or “Portrait” (for Berlin Classics) have been internationally acclaimed and were big commercial successes. A selection of arias, duets and instrumental pieces from Handel masterworks such as Semele, Hercules, Partenope, a.o. With liner notes by the British Handel specialist Dr. David Vickers. Incl. a dedication by mystery writer DONNA LEON, who was a close friend to Alan Curtis. Booklet texts in three languages (German, English, French).

Christiane Karg, soprano
Romina Basso, contralto
Il Complesso Barocco
Alan Curtis, conductor

Christiane Karg
Born in Feuchtwangen, Bavaria, Christiane Karg studied singing at the Salzburg Mozarteum and at the Music Conservatory in Verona. She is a member of the ensemble of the Frankfurt Opera where her roles include Susanna, Musetta, Pamina, Servilia, Zdenka (Arabella), the title role of La Calisto. She returns to Frankfurt this season to sing Mélisande in a new Claus Guth production of Pelléas and Mélisande and for her role debut as Adele (Die Fledermaus).

In 2006 she made her auspicious debut at the Salzburg Festival and has returned to sing Amor/Orfeo ed Euridice with Riccardo Muti and Zerlina/Don Giovanni with Yannick Nezet-Seguin.

She is a regular guest at the Theater an der Wien where she has sung Ismene/Mitridate and Telaire/Castor and Pollux. She will return this season to sing Hero/Beatrice et Benedict. At the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich she has sung Ighino/Palestrina, at the Komische Oper Berlin, Musetta/La bohème and Norina/Don Pasquale, and at the Opera de Lille, Anne Trulove/The Rakes Progress. In 2010/11 she sang Poppea/L'incoronazione di Poppea with Glyndebourne Touring Opera. She will make her debut at the Glyndebourne Festival this season singing the role of Aricie in Hippolyte et Aricie.

A prestigious concert singer, Christiane Karg has recently appeared with Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Concentus Musicus Wien, Daniel Harding and the Dresden Staatskapelle, Yannick Nézet-Séguim and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, Marek Janowski and the OSR, and Laurence Equilbey at the Salzburg Festival. She has also sung with Emmanuel Krivine in Paris, Josep Pons in Madrid, Paul McCreesh in London and Paris (Haydn's Seasons), Jonathan Cohen and Les Arts Florissants in Paris, and Thomas Hengelbrock for the opening of the Schleswig-Holstein Musik Festival (Solveig/Peer Gynt).

Her concert engagements this season include the Salzburg Easter Festival with Christian Thielemann and the Dresden Staatskapelle (Brahms Requiem), the Bayerischer Rundfunk Orchestra and Mariss Jansons in Tokyo (Beethoven 9) and Daniel Harding in Munich (Schumann Faustszenen), the Rotterdam Philharmonic and Yannick Nézet-Séguin (Mahler 4), the RSO Wien and Cornelius Meister at the Vienna Konzerthaus (Brahms Requiem), and the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and Jonathan Nott on tour in Spain (Mahler 4).

Christiane Karg is a committed and distinguished recitalist and has made excellent recital debuts at the Vienna Musikverein, Schwarzenberg Schubertiade, Wigmore Hall and Edinburgh Festival. Other recent appearances include the Mozarteum Salzburg, Philharmonie Essen, Philharmonie Köln, Schwetzinger Festspiele, Elbphilharmonie Hamburg, and Innsbruck. In 2012/13 she will make recital debuts at the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Konzerthaus Wien, Oper Frankfurt, and Musikfest Stuttgart.

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