Julia Lezhneva – Handel (Dedicated to Elena Obraztsova) – Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (2015) [PrestoClassical FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Julia Lezhneva – Handel (Dedicated to Elena Obraztsova) – Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:56 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
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Recorded: Museo del Violino Antonio Stradivari Cremona – Giovanni Arvedi Auditorium, 2-4 & 6-10 January 2015

The emphasis for this album is very much on youth and prodigious talent: at 25, Julia Lezhneva is ideally suited to the soprano arias of the young Handel, who arrived in Italy from Germany as a 21 year old at the beginning of the 18th century.
Lezhneva has been praised for her unforgettable spiritual expression and perfect artistry in Handels music, whether in rapidfire coloratura passages or the gentle radiance that casts a tangible spell in slow music. -The Guardian
She has the perfect partners in Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini whose recordings of music from the Italian baroque are celebrated for their fizzing virtuosity and exquisite cushion of sound -The Independent. For some tracks the orchestra is led by Dmitry Sinkovsky, the extraordinary Russian violinist and one of today s most versatile Baroque musicians.
The music encompasses the best of Handel s operatic and religious works from his years in Florence and Rome: the operas Rodrigo and Agrippina and the oratorios Il Trionfo and La Resurrezione as well as the complete Salve Regina and soprano solo from Dixit Dominus. Best known is the radiant Lascia la spina from Il Trionfo and its later incarnation as Lascia ch’io pianga from the opera Rinaldo
The recording was made in the famously musical and historic Italian city of Cremona in the beautiful auditorium of the Museo del Violino.
„. . . a singer of uncommon ability . . . Her take on Handel s Saeviat Tellus Inter Rigores is marked by rare grace.“ -The Independent
„Julia Lezhneva is at her most accomplished here, providing spirited and focused vocalism, running up and down the scales with effortless abandon and to fine effect . . .“ -BBC Music Magazine

Tracklist:
George Frideric Handel (1685 – 1759)
01 – La Resurrezione (1708), HWV 47 / Parte Prima: “Disserratevi, o porte d’Averno” 04:50
02 – Rodrigo, HWV 5 / Act 1: “Per dar pregio all’amor mio” 09:08
03 – Il Trionfo del Tiempo e del Disinganno, HWV 46a – Oratorio: “Lascia la spina cogli la rosa” 06:33
04 – Dixit Dominus, HWV 232: Tecum principium in die virtutis 02:49
05 – Agrippina, HWV 6: Sinfonia 03:53
Salve Regina HWV 241
06 – I. Salve regina, mater misericordiae 03:15
07 – Ad te clamamus 03:46
08 – II. Eia ergo, advocata nostro 03:29
09 – III. O clemens, o pia, o dulcis virgo Maria 02:07
10 – Agrippina, HWV 6 / Act 2: “Pensieri, voi mi tormentate!” 06:32
11 – Il Trionfo del Tiempo e del Disinganno, HWV 46a – Oratorio: “Un pensiero nemico di pace” 03:56
12 – Apollo e Dafne, HWV 122: “Felicissima quest’alma” 05:56
Il Trionfo del Tiempo e del Disinganno, HWV 46a – Oratorio
13 – “Come nembo che fugge col vento” 05:04
14 – “Pure del cielo intelligenze eterne” 01:19
15 – “Tu del Ciel ministro eletto” 07:12
16 – Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 1: “Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter Of Zion” 04:16

Personnel:
Julia Lezhneva – soprano
Il Giardino Armonico
Elisa Citterio – concert master
Dmitry Sinkovsky – concert master
Fabrizio Haim Cipriani, Liana Mosca, Fabio Ravasi – violins I
Marco Bianchi, Francesco Colletti, Fabio Ravasi, Maria Cristina Vasi – violins II
Gianni De Rosa, Alice Bisanti – violas
Marcello Scandelli, Elena Russo – cellos
Giancarlo De Frenza – double bass
Herbert Walser, Bernhard Lampert – trumpets
Giovanni Antonini – transverse flute
Thomas Meraner, Federica Inzoli – oboes
Alberto Guerra – bassoon
Michele Pasotti – theorbo
Riccardo Doni – harpsichord and organ
Giovanni Antonini – conductor