Forthcoming Handel
Recordings & Videos


NOTE: The following list includes information about definite, probable, possible, and rumored recording and video releases. Although a recording may have already been released in another country, the item remains listed here until we have access to the recording. Once released, the new release is featured at the Recent Releases page.

 

RECORDINGS


"The Italian Handel: At a time when vast recording surveys are rather going out of fashion and artists are starting to commit themselves to making personal selections from with the areas of music that they feel most connected – an obvious exception being that of the four (yes, 4!) cycles of Bach cantatas which are currently underway – Glossa has identified, in small and select surveys of a part of the work of a composer, a new way of engaging all the creative ideas involved. Thus, to the Monteverdi and Gesualdo editions is now added a collection which will bring together all of the Italian cantatas by Handel, which we will record and release in chronological order. Singers such as Roberta Invernizzi, Emanuela Galli, Gloria Banditelli and Nuria Rial will lend their marvellous vocal artistry to this project, one led by Fabio Bonzzioni directing his group, La Risonanza. The first volume will appear in the spring of 2006."

La Risonanza will perform and record all of the cantatas with instrumental accompaniment (about one-third of the total cantatas). A total of 9 CDs are anticipated. It is anticipated that the final volume will be released in 2009.

Source: http://www.glossamusic.com

Volume 3
Soloists: Raffaella Milanesi (soprano), Furio Zanasi (baritone), Salvo Vitale (bass)
Recorded in early 2007. To be released by end of 2007.


Joshua

Achsah, Angel: Miriam Allan, soprano
Othniel: David Allsopp, countertenor
Joshua: Mark LeBrocq, tenor
Caleb: James Rutherford, bass

Maulbronner Kammerchor
Hannoversche Hofkapelle (on period instruments)
Conductor: Juergen Budday

KuK 07 (2 CDs. ISBN 978-3-930643-07-3)
(Recorded in May 2007. To be released circa October 2007.)


Organ Concertos, Op. 4 Nos. 1-6

La Divinia Armonia
Director: Lorenzo Ghielmi (organ)

Passacaille 944
(To be released circa November 2007.)


Amadigi

Amadigi: Maria Riccarda Wesseling, soprano
Oriana: Elena de la Merced, mezzo-soprano
Melissa, Orgando: Sharon Rostorf Zamir, mezzo-soprano
Dardano: Jordi Domenech, countertenor

Al Ayre Espanol Orquestra (on period instruments)
Director: Eduardo Lopez Banzo

Naïve
(Recorded in July 2006 at the Montpellier Festival. To be released circa December 2007.)


Organ Concertos, Opus 4

The Academy of Ancient Music (on period instruments)
Conductor & organist: Richard Egarr

Harmonia Mundi
(Recorded in October 2006. To be released circa Autumn 2007.)


Tolomeo

Ann Hallenberg
Karina Gauvin
Anna Bonitatibus
Romina Basso
Pietro Spagnoli

Il Complesso Barocco
Director: Alan Curtis

Archiv/Deutsche Grammophon 477 710-6 (3 CDs)
(To be released in February 2008.)


Concerti Grossi, Opus 6

La Cetra Barockorchester Basel (on period instruments)

Zig-Zag Territoires
(To be released in 2007.)


Riccardo Primo

Riccardo Primo: Lawrence Zazzo, countertenor
Costanza: Nuria Rial, soprano
Pulcheria: Geraldine McGreevy, soprano
Oronte: Tim Mead, countertenor
Isacio: David Wilson-Johnson, bass
Berardo: James Gilchrist, tenor

Kammerorchester Basel (on period instruments)
Music Director: Paul Goodwin

Sony BMG - Deutsche Harmonia Mundi (?)
(Recorded in 2007. To be released circa January 2008.)


Aci, Galatea e Polifemo

Aci: Stefanie True, soprano
Galatea: Luciana Mancini, mezzo-soprano
Polifemo: Mitchell Sandler, bass

Contrasto Armonico (on period instruments)
Conductor: Marco Vitale

Brilliant Classics
(Recorded in 2007. To be released circa February 2008.)


Organ Concertos, Opus 7

The Academy of Ancient Music (on period instruments)
Conductor & organist: Richard Egarr

Harmonia Mundi
(Recorded in February 2007.)


Chamber Music: Op. 1, Op. 2, Op. 5

Members of The Academy of Ancient Music (on period instruments)
Conductor: Richard Egarr

Harmonia Mundi
(To be recorded in late 2007.)


Alcina

Alcina: Joyce DiDonato, soprano
Ruggiero: Maite Beaumont, mezzo-soprano
Morgana: Karina Gauvin, soprano

Il Complesso Barocco (on period instruments)
Director: Alan Curtis

Label: DG Archiv
(To be recorded in September 2007.)


Joshua

Simone Kermes, soprano
Alex Potter, countertenor
NN, tenor
Konstatin Wolff, bass

Kölner Kammerchor
Collegium Cartusianum
Director: Peter Neumann

Label: MDG (?)
(To be recorded in November 2007)


Handel Arias

Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano
Les Talens Lyriques
Director: Christophe Rousset

Label: EMI/Virgin Classics
(To be recorded in April 2008 and released in Autumn 2008.)


Handel Trio Sonatas

London Handel Players (on period instruments)

Label: Somm Recordings
(To be recorded date: ?)


Samson

Thomas Cooley, Tenor;
Sophie Daneman, Sopran;
Franziska Gottwald, Alt;
Michael Slattery, Tenor;
William Berger, Bass;
Wolf Matthias Friedrich, Bass.

NDR Chor
FestspielOrchester Göttingen
Nicholas McGegan
Carus 83.425 / 2008


Saul

Dresdner Kammerchor
Hans-Christoph Rademann

Carus 83.243 / 2008


Acis & Galatea

-- Oratorio in the arrangement of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
-- Cooperation with the Göttinger Händel-Festpielen

Pregardien, Kleiter, Slattery, Friedrich;
FestspielOrchester Göttingen,
NDR Chor,
Nicholas McGegan

Carus 83.420 / Summer 2008


Israel in Egypt

Vocalensemble Rastatt
Les Favorites
Holger Speck

Carus 83.423 / 2008


Messiah

Kammerchor Stuttgart
Barockorchester Stuttgart
Frieder Bernius

Carus 83.218 / 2009


Anthems and Psalms

Iris-Anna Deckert, Susan Eitrich, Sopran;
Franz Vitzthum, Altus;
Andreas Weller, Dieter Wagner, Tenor;
Jens Hamann, Bass;

Gli Scarlattisti
Capella Principale
Jochen Arnold

Carus 83.421 / 2008


Ode for St. Cecilia's Day
Alexander's Feast

Simone Kermes, Sopran
Benjamin Hulett, Tenor
Konstantin Wolff, Bass

Kölner Kammerchor
Collegium Cartusianum
Peter Neumann

Carus 83.424 / 2009


Nine German Arias

Monika Mauch, Soprano
L'arpa festante

Carus 83.426 / 2008


Israel in Egypt (A reconstruction of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's 1833 Düsseldorf performance.)

Soloists: Monika Frimmer, Veronika Winter, Heike Grötzinger, Hans Jörg Mammel, Ekkehard Abele
Rheinische Kantorei
Das Kleine Konzert (on period instruments)
Conductor: Hermann Max

Label: ?
(Recorded 26 September 2001 at Kloster Knechtsteden, Dormagen, Germany. Release date unknown)


Opus 1 (complete)
Accademia Daniel (on period instruments)

Stradivarius (2 CDs) - in preparation
(Recorded in 1998.)

http://www.phil.muni.cz/~shalev/recording.htm


VIDEO (VHS or DVD)



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