Handel: Alcina / Arminio / Serse / Berenice / Rinaldo / Rodelinda / Ariodante: Instrumental Music

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Alcina, HWV 34 (more info)
Performed by: London Symphony Orchestra Collegium Musicum 90 Montreal Baroque Orchestra Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Orchestra Handel Festival Orchestra
Composed by: George Frideric Handel
Conducted by: Joel Thiffault Wolfgang Katschner Howard Arman Don Jackson
Alexander Weimann, harpsichord
Simon Standage, violin
Kenneth Sillito, violin
Lutz Gabler, violin
Petra Hiltawsky, horn
Gunter Strobelt, oboe
Frank Benkendorf, bassoon


1.   Overture - 3:22
2.   Musette: Un peu lentement - 1:51
3.   Gavotte - 0:51
4.   Sarabande - Gavotte (reprise) - 2:42
5.   Minuet - 1:42
6.   Act II Scene 12: Aria: Verdi prati, selva amene - 3:50
7.   Act II: Entree des Songes agreables - 2:15
8.   Act II: Entree des Songes funestes - 2:05
9.   Act II: Entre des Songes agreables effrayes - 0:53
10.   Act II: Le combat des Songes funestes et agreables - 1:26


Arminio, HWV 36 (more info)
Performed by: Collegium Musicum 90
Composed by: George Frideric Handel
Simon Standage, violin


11.   Overture - 3:27
12.   Minuet - 1:03


Serse (Xerxes), HWV 40 (more info)
Performed by: Cologne Chamber Orchestra Capella Istropolitana Collegium Musicum 90 Pierre Rameau Orchestra
Composed by: George Frideric Handel
Conducted by: Pierre Rameau Richard Edlinger Laszlo Kovacs Helmut Muller-Bruhl
Jozef Cejka, oboe
Simon Standage, violin
Jozsef Mukk, tenor


13.   Serse (Xerxes), HWV 40, Act I: Ombra mai fu, "Largo" (arr. for orchestra) - 3:00


Berenice, HWV 38 (more info)
Performed by: Collegium Musicum 90
Composed by: George Frideric Handel
Simon Standage, violin


14.   Overture — - 3:05
15.   Andante larghetto [Minuet] — - 3:45
16.   Ghigg - 1:33


Rinaldo, HWV 7 (arr. for orchestra) (more info)
Performed by: Collegium Musicum 90
Composed by: George Frideric Handel
Simon Standage, violin


17.   Rinaldo, HWV 7, Act II Scene IV: Aria: Lascia ch'io pianga (Let me Lament) (arr. for orchestra) - 4:02


Rodelinda, HWV 19 (more info)
Performed by: Vienna Radio Orchestra Collegium Musicum 90 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Chamber Orchestra London Philharmonic Orchestra English Concert Handel Festival Orchestra
Composed by: George Frideric Handel
Conducted by: Wolfgang Katschner Brian Priestman Hartmut Haenchen Christophe Rousset Daniel Taylor David Parry Howard Arman
Alexander Weimann, harpsichord
Simon Standage, violin
Sarah Connolly, mezzo-soprano
Suzie Le Blanc, soprano
Christine Brewer, soprano
Harry Bicket, organ
Della Jones, mezzo-soprano
Rosemary Joshua, soprano
Sandrine Piau, soprano
Maureen Forrester, contralto
Jochen Kowalski, counter-tenor
Axel Kohler, counter-tenor
Stephen Stubbs, lute
Lutz Gabler, violin
Petra Hiltawsky, horn
Gunter Strobelt, oboe
Frank Benkendorf, bassoon


18.   Overture - 4:19
19.   Minuet - 2:36
20.   Act I: Aria: Dove sei, amato bene - 4:27


Ariodante, HWV 33 (more info)
Performed by: Collegium Musicum 90 Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Orchestra
Composed by: George Frideric Handel
Simon Standage, violin
Kenneth Sillito, violin


21.   Overture - 3:30
22.   [Alla breve] - 1:57
23.   Act I: Aria: Volate, amori - 3:53
24.   Mussette: Lentement - 1:34
25.   Mussette: Andante - 1:03
26.   Allegro - 1:52

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