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New CDs and DVDs

A selective list of new commerical recordings featuring Handel's music that have been released recently.
The inclusion of a CD or DVD on this list does not guarantee its availability in all territories; nor does it
indicate our personal recommendation. To purchase CDs see online retailers.

Semele (HWV 58)
- recorded live at Alexandra Palace, May 2019; a few cuts but more complete than Gardiner's 1981 Erato recording -

Louis Alder (Semele; soprano)
Hugo Hymans (Jupiter; tenor)
Lucile Richardot (Ino/Juno; alto)
Carlo Vistoli (Athamas; countertenor)
Gianluca Buratto (Cadmus/Somnus; bass)
Emily Owen (Iris; soprano)
Angela Hicks (Cupid; soprano)
Peter Davoren (Apollo; tenor)
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Soli Deo Gloria

Samson (HWV 57)
- abridged version recorded live in July 2018 -

Matthew Newlin (Samson; tenor)
Klara Ek (Dalila; soprano)
Julie Roset (Philistine Woman / Israelite Woman; soprano)
Lawrence Zazzo (Micah; countertenor)
Maxime Melnik (Israelite Man / Philistine Man; tenor)
Luigi Di Donato (Manoah / Harapha; bass)
Choeur de Chambre de Namur
Millenium Orchestra
Leonardo García Alarcón
2 CDs
Ricercar

Concerti Grossi, Op. 6, Nos. 7-12 (HWV 325-330)

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Georg Kallweit
CD
Pentatone

Rinaldo (HWV 7)
- live recording made at Teatro Sociale di Como in January 2019 -

Delphine Galou (Rinaldo; alto)
Francesca Aspromonte (Almirena; soprano)
Anna Maria Sarra (Arminda; soprano)
Raffaele Pe (Goffredo, countertenor)
Luigi de Donato (Argante; bass)
Federico Benetti (Mago cristiano; bass)
Anna Bessi (Donna; mezzo-soprano)
Accademia Bizantina
Ottavio Dantone
2 CDs
HDB-Sonus

Saul (HWV 53)
- recorded live during the 2019 Göttingen Handel Festival -

Markus Brück (Saul; bass)
Eric Jurenas (David; countertenor)
Mary Bevan (Michal; soprano)
Sophie Bevan (Merab; soprano)
Benjamin Hulett (Jonathan; tenor)
Raphael Höhn (High Priest / Witch; tenor)
NDR Choir
FestspielOrchester Göttingen
Laurence Cummings
3 CDs
Accent

Saul (HWV 53)
- recorded live in San Francisco, April 2019 -

Daniel Okulitch (Saul; bass-baritone)
Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen (David; countertenor)
Sherezade Panthaki (Michal; soprano)
Yulia Van Doren (Merab; soprano)
Aaron Sheehan (Jonathan; tenor)
Jonathan Smucker (Witch; tenor)
Christian Pursell (Samuel; bass-baritone)
NDR Choir
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale
Nicholas McGegan
3 CDs
PBO [download only - not released on physical CDs]

Messiah (HWV 56)
- Dublin 1742 version -

Dorothee Mields (soprano)
Benno Schachtner (countertenor)
Benedikt Kristjánsson (tenor)
Tobias Berndt (bass)
Gaechinger Cantorey
Hans-Christoph Rademann
2 CDs
Accentus

Witches, Queens and Heroines
- opera arias -

Margriet Buchberger (soprano)
Il Giratempo
CD
Perfect Noise

Concerti per Organo
- concertos by Bach, CPE Bach and Handel, including Organ Concerto in B flat major, Op. 4 No. 2 (HWV 290) -

Lucas Pohle (Silbermann organ, Crostau)
Dresdner Barockorchester
Margret Baumgartl
CD
Rondeau

Portraits de La Folie
- mixed programme of French, English and German composers includes Handel's cantata Ah! crudel nel pianto mio (HWV 78) -

Stéphanie d'Oustrac (mezzo-soprano)
Ensemble Amarillis
Héloïse Gaillard
CD
Harmonia Mundi

Arcadian Affairs
- five continuo cantatas Nice, che fa? Che pensa? (HWV 138), Chi rapì la pace al core? (HWV 90), Fra pensieri quel pensiero (HWV 115), Lungi dal mio bel nume (HWV 127a) and La Lucrezia (HWV 145), accompanied only by harpsichord -

Ditte Marie Bræin (soprano)
Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo-soprano)
Christian Kjos (harpsichord)
CD
Simax

Handel Arias
- opera arias -

Avery Amereau (alto)
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
Nicholas McGegan
CD
PBO

Care pupille: Handel - Gluck
- the high soprano countertenor's Handelian half of the recital includes arias from Atalanta, Arminio and Berenice -

Samuel Marino (countertenor)
Händelfestspielorchester Halle
Martin Hofstetter
CD
Orfeo

Chaconne for the Princess
- music by Handel and Leclair exploring their connections to Princess Anne of Orange -

Jana Semeradova (flute)
Erich Traxler (harpsichord)
CD
Supraphon

Handel Arias
- also includes Concerto grosso in C minor, Op. 6 No. 8 (HWV 326) -

Christophe Dumaux (countertenor)
FestspielOrchester Göttingen
Laurence Cummings
CD (recorded live during the 2019 festival)
Accent

The Life. The Light. The Way. Handel sacred arias
- mostly English oratorio airs -

Franz Vitzthum (countertenor)
L'Orfeo Barockorchester
Julian Christoph Tölle
CD
Christophorus

Messiah (HWV 56), arr. Sir Eugene Goossens and Sir Thomas Beecham

Penelope Schumate (soprano)
Claudia Chapa (mezzo-soprano)
John McVeigh (tenor)
Christopher Job (bass)
National Youth Choir of Great Britain and The Jonathan Griffith Singers
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Jonathan Griffith
2 CDs
Signum

Sacred Handel
- a quasi-liturgical mixed programme of Colonna, Antonio Maria Bononcini, Pasquini, Corelli, Alessandro Scarlatti and Handel of music mostly (but not all) connected to Carmelite Vespers feasts during the 1690s and early 1700s. Recorded in S Maria di Montesanto in Rome, it includes Dixit Dominus (HWV 232), Haec est Regina virginum (HWV 235) and Te Decus Virgineum (HWV 243) -

Coro da Camera Italiano
Musica Antiqua Latina
Giordano Antonelli
CD
DHM

Arianna
- cantatas by Alessandro Scarlatti, Haydn, and Handel's Ah! crudel nel pianto mio (HWV 78) -

Kate Lindsay (mezzo-soprano)
Arcangelo
Jonathan Cohen
CD
Alpha

Almira (HWV 1)

Emöke Baráth (Almira; soprano)
Amanda Forsythe (Edilia; soprano)
Colin Balzer (Fernando; tenor)
Christian Immler (Consalvo, baritone)
Zachary Wilder (Osman; tenor)
Jesse Blumberg (Raymondo, baritone)
Teresa Wakim (Bellante, soprano)
Jan Kobow (Tabarco; tenor)
Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
Paul O'Dette and Stephen Stubbs
4 CDs
CPO

Agrippina (HWV 6)
- complete and uncut, two bonus tracks, and performing edition by Peter Jones and David Vickers includes reconstruction of ballo -

Joyce Di Donato (Agrippina; mezzo-soprano)
Jakub Józef Orliński (Ottone; countertenor)
Elsa Benoit (Poppea; soprano)
Luca Pisaroni (Claudio, bass)
Franco Fagioli (Nerone; countertenor)
Carlo Vistoli (Narciso, countertenor)
Andrea Mastroni (Pallante, baritone)
Biagio Pizzuti (Lesbo; baritone)
Il Pomo d'Oro
Maxim Emelyanychev
3 CDs
Erato

Samson (HWV 57)
- complete and uncut; CD features large choir of 39 singers including boys; Linn download has alternative small choir of 9 singers (soloists and an extra soprano) as Handel might have done at the first performance in 1743 -

Joshua Ellicott (Samson; tenor)
Sophie Bevan (Dalila; soprano)
Mary Bevan (Israelite Woman; soprano)
Emily Mitchell (Philistine Woman; soprano)
Jessica Dandy (Micah; contralto)
Hugo Hymas (Israelite Man / Philistine Man; tenor)
Matthew Brook (Manoah; bass)
Vitali Rozynko (Harapha; bass)
The Dunedin Consort
John Butt
3 CDs
Linn

Concerti Grossi, Op. 6, Nos. 7-12 (HWV 325-330)

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Bernhard Forck
CD
Pentatone

Messiah (HWV 56)

Rachel Redmond (soprano)
Damien Guillon (countertenor)
Nicholas Mulroy (tenor)
Matthias Winckhler (bass)
La Capella Reial de Catalunya
Le Concert des Nations
Jordi Savall
2 SACDs
Alia Vox

Handel Uncaged
- includes cantatas Udite il mio consiglio (HWV 172), Stanco di piu soffrire (HWV 167a), Figli del mesto cor (HWV 112) and 'Amore uccellatore' (manuscript in the Fitzwilliam Museum that contains HWV 176 and 175 organised within a single larger work) -

Lawrence Zazzo (countertenor)
Jonathan Manson (cello / viola da gamba)
Andrew Maginley (theorbo / guitar)
Guillermo Brachetta (harpsichord)
CD
Resonus

Brockes Passion (HWV 48)
- first recording to use one-voice-per-part (concertists and a few ripienists), as was normal practice in early eigtheenth-century Hamburg -

Maria Keohane, Joanne Lunn, Hanna Zumsande (sopranos)
Daniel Carlsson, Daniel Elgersma (countertenors)
Ed Lyon, Gwilym Bowen (tenors)
Peter Harvey, Jakob Bloch Jespersen (basses)
Concerto Copenhagen
Lars Ulrik Mortensen
2 SACDs
CPO

Brockes Passion (HWV 48)
- recorded live at Barbican on Good Friday 2019 -

Elizabeth Watts, Ruby Hughes (sopranos)
Tim Mead (countertenor)
Robert Murray, Gwilym Bowen, Nicky Spence (tenors)
Cody Quattlebaum (bass)
Academy of Ancient Music
Richard Egarr
2 CDs
AAM

Rodelinda (HWV 19)

Jeanine De Bique (Rodelinda; soprano)
Tim Mead (Bertarido; countertenor)
Benjamin Hulett (Grimoaldo; tenor)
Avery Amereau (Eduige; mezzo-soprano)
Jakub Józef Orliński (Unulfo; countertenor)
Andrea Mastroni (Garibaldo; bass)
Le Concert d'Astrée
Emmanuelle Haïm
Jean Bellorini (stage director)
DVD/BluRay
Erato

Rodrigo (HWV 5)

Erica Eloff (Rodrigo; mezzo-soprano)
Fflur Wyn (Esilena; soprano)
Anna Dennis (Florinda; soprano)
Jorge Navarro Colorado (Giuliano; tenor)
Russell Harcourt (Evanco; countertenor)
Leandro Marziotte (Fernando; countertenor)
FestspielOrchester Göttingen
Laurence Cummings
3 CDs (recorded live during the 2019 festival)
Accent

Complete Solo Sonatas
- survey of all solo sonatas by or attributed to Handel -

Il Rossignolo:
Martino Noferi (oboe), Martino Noferi (recorder), Florian Deuter (violin), Marica Testi (flute), Paolo Biordi (viola da gamba)
Ottaviano Tenerani (harpsichord)
4 CDs
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

Joseph and his brethren (HWV 59)

Diana Moore (Joseph; mezzo-soprano)
Sherezade Panthaki (Asenath; soprano)
Nicholas Phan (Simeon/Judah; tenor)
Abigail Levis (Phanor/Potiphera; mezzo-soprano)
Philip Cutlip (Pharaoh/Reuben; baritone)
Gabrielle Haigh (Benjamin; soprano)
Philharmonia Chorale
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
Nicholas McGegan
3 CDs
Philharmonia Baroque

Sosarme (HWV 30)
- remastered from original L’Oiseau-Lyre tapes (1955) for the first time -

Margaret Ritche (Elmira; soprano)
Alfred Deller (Sosarme; countertenor)
Nancy Evans (Erenice; mezzo-soprano)
William Herbert (Haliate; tenor)
Helen Watts (Melo; contralto)
John Kentish (Argone; tenor)
Ian Wallace (Altomaro; bass)
St. Anthony Singers
St Cecilia Orchestra
Anthony Lewis
Eloquence

Concerti Grossi, Op. 6, Nos. 1-6 (HWV 319-324)

Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Bernhard Forck
CD
Pentatone

Handel's Queens: Cuzzoni & Faustina
- arias by Handel and many others (Pollarolo, Orlandini, Bononcini, Ariosti, Vivaldi, Torri, Leo, Porpora, Hasse, Vinci, Greene) -

Mary Bevan, Lucy Crowe (sopranos)
London Early Opera
Bridget Cunningham
2 CDs
Signum

Cantatas Vol. 2
- Alpestre monte (HWV 81); Chi rapì la pace al core (HWV 90); Pensieri notturni di Filli (Nel dolce dell'oblio) (HWV 134); Ah, che pur troppo è vero (HWV 77); Non sospirar, non piangere (HWV 141); Figlio d'alte speranze (HWV 113) -

Beatrice Palumbo (soprano)
Contrasto Armonico
Marco Vitale
CD
Ayros

Concerti Grossi, Op. 3 (HWV 312-317)

Berlin Barock Solisten
Reinhard Goebel
CD
Hänssler

Utrecht Te Deum and Jubilate (HWV 278 and HWV 279)
- also includes Eternal source of light divine (HWV 74) and some of the overture from Il pastor fido (1712 version) -

Gaechinger Cantorey
Hans Christoph Rademann
CD
Carus

Baroque Gender Stories
- includes arias and duets from numerous operas by baroqe composers, including excerpts from Siroe, Alcina, Serse and Deidamia -

Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano)
Lawrence Zazzo (countertenor)
Lautten Compagney
Wolfgang Katschner
2 CDs
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

Brockes Passion (HWV 48)

Johanette Zomer, Ana Maria Labin (sopranos)
David Erler (countertenor)
Sebastian Kohlhepp, Rupert Charlesworth (tenors)
Tobias Berndt (bass)
NDR Choir
Festspiele-Orchester Göttingen
Laurence Cummings
2 CDs (recorded live during the 2017 festival)
Accent

Il Giardino dei Sospiri
- includes Qual ti riveggio, oh Dio (HWV 150) and cantatas by Benedetto Marcello, Gasparini, Leo and Sarro -

Magdalena Kožená (mezzo-soprano)
Collegium 1704
Václav Luks
Pentatone

Messiah (HWV 56)

Giulia Semenzato (soprano)
Benno Schachtner (countertenor)
Krystian Adam (tenor)
Kresimir Stražanac (bass)
Collegium 1704
Václav Luks
2 CDs
Accent

Duel: Porpora and Handel in London
- includes 'Scherza infida' with anonymous eighteenth-century embellishments preserved in the Royal Academy of Music library -

Giuseppina Bridelli (soprano)
Le Concert de l'Hostel Dieu
Franck-Emmanuel Comte
Arcana

Trio sonatas, Op. 2

Al Ayre Español
Eduardo López Banzo
CD
Challenge Classics

Rinaldo (HWV 7)
- revised version by Leonardo Leo (Naples, 1718) -

Teresa Iervolino (Rinaldo)
Carmela Remigio (Armida)
Loriana Castellano (Almirena)
Francesca Ascioti (Argante)
Francisco Fernández-Rueda (Goffredo)
Dara Savinova (Eustazio)
Ensemble La Scintilla
Fabio Luisi
Giorgio Sangati (stage director)
CD, DVD and BluRay
Dynamic

Total Eclipse: Music for Handel's Tenor
- arias for John Beard -

Aaron Sheehan (tenor)
Pacific MusicWorks Orchestra
Stephen Stubbs
Naxos

Mio caro Händel

Simone Kermes (soprano)
Amici Veneziani
Boris Begelman
Sony

Acis & Galatea (HWV 49a)
- 1718 Cannons version -

Grace Davison (Galatea; soprano)
Jeremy Budd (Acis; tenor)
Mark Dobell (Damon; tenor)
Stuart Young (Polyphemus; bass)
Simon Berridge (Corion; tenor)
Instrumentalists of The Sixteen
Harry Christophers
2 CDs
Coro

Chandos Te Deum (HWV 281)
- also includes Chandos anthem O come, let us sing unto the Lord (HWV 253) -

Grace Davidson (soprano)
Charles Daniels, Nicholas Mulroy, Benedict Hymas (tenors)
Edward Grint (bass)
London Handel Orchestra
Adrian Butterfield
CD
Onyx

Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo
- all nine sonatas for violin and continuo either by or attributed to Handel -

The Brook Street Band:
Rachel Harris (violin)
Tatty Theo (cello)
Carolyn Gibley (harpsichord)
CD
Avie

Judas Maccabaeus (HWV 63)

Kenneth Tarver (Judas Maccabaeus; tenor)
Deanna Breiwick (Israelitish Woman; soprano)
Sophie Harmsen (Israeliteish Man; mezzo-soprano)
Owen Willetts (Priest; countertenor)
Joao Fernandes (Simon/Eupolemus; bass)
NDR Choir
Festspiele-Orchester Göttingen
Laurence Cummings
2 CDs (recorded live during the 2014 festival)
Accent

Italian cantatas
- Aminta e Fillide (HWV 83), Armida abbandonata (HWV 205), La Lucrezia (HWV 145) -

Sabine Devieilhe (soprano)
Léa Desandre (mezzo-soprano)
Le Concert d'Astrée
Emmanuelle Haïm
Erato

Song for St Cecilia's Day (HWV 76)

Cassandra Lemoine (soprano)
Benjamin Butterfield (tenor)
Bach Choir of Bethelehem
Greg Fungfeld
CD
Analekta

Recorder Sonatas

Stefan Temmingh (recorder)
Wiebke Weidanz (harpsichord)
CD
Accent

Abbandonata
- Armida abbandonata (HWV 205), Tra le fiamme (HWV 170), Figlio d'alte speranze (HWV 113) and Agrippina condotta a morire (HWV 110) -

Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
The King's Consort
Robert King
Vivat

Serse (HWV 40)

Franco Fagioli (Serse; countertenor)
Inga Kalna (Romilda; soprano)
Vivica Genaux (Arsamene; mezzo-soprano)
Francesca Aspromonte (Atalanta; soprano)
Delphine Galou (Amastre; alto)
Biagio Pizzuti (Elviro; bass)
Andrea Mastroni (Ariodate; bass)
Il Pomo d'Oro
Maxim Emelyanychev
3 CDs
Deutsche Grammophon

Song for St Cecilia's Day (HWV 76)
- also includes Concerto Grosso in A minor, Op. 6 No. 4 -

Carolyn Sampson (soprano)
Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Polish Radio Choir
Dunedin Consort
John Butt
CD
Linn

Agrippina (HWV 6)

Patricia Bardon (Agrippina; mezzo-soprano)
Filippo Mineccia (Ottone; countertenor)
Danielle de Niese (Poppea; soprano)
Mika Kares (Claudio, bass)
Jake Arditti (Nerone; countertenor)
Tom Verney (Narciso, countertenor)
Damien Pass (Pallante, baritone)
Christoph Siedl (Lesbo; baritone)
Balthasar Neumann Ensemble
Thomas Hengelbrock (conductor)
Robert Carsen (stage director)
DVD / BluRay Naxos

Serse (HWV 40)

Gaëlle Arquez (Serse; mezzo-soprano)
Elizabeth Sutphen (Romilda; soprano)
Lawrence Zazzo (Arsamene; countertenor)
Louise Alder (Atalanta; soprano)
Tanja Ariane Baumgartner (Amastre; alto)
Thomas Faulkner (Elviro; bass)
Brandon Cedel (Ariodate; bass)
Frankfurt Opern-und Museumsorchester
Constantinos Carydis (conductor)
Tilman Köhler (stage director)
DVD/Blu-Ray
C-Major

Semele (HWV 58)
- reissued on CD for the first time -

Jennifer Vyvyan (Semele; soprano)
William Herbert (Jupiter; tenor)
John Whitworth (Athamus; countertenor)
Helen Watts (Ino; contralto)
Anna Pollack (Juno; mezzo-soprano)
Brenda Griffith (Iris; soprano)
George James (Somnus; bass)
George Prangnell (Cadmus; bass)
The Saint Anthony Singers
The New Symphony Orchestra of London
Anthony Lewis
Eloquence

Arminio (HWV 36)

Christopher Lowrey (Arminio; countertenor)
Anna Devin (Tusnelda; soprano)
Sophie Junker (Sigismondo; soprano)
Helen Rasker (Ramise; mezzo-soprano)
Cody Quattlebaum (Segeste; bass)
Paul Hopwood (Varo; tenor)
Owen Willetts (Tullio; countertenor)
FestspielOrchester Göttingen
Laurence Cummings
3 CDs (recorded live during the 2018 festival)
Accent

Acis & Galatea (HWV 49a)
- 1718 Cannons version -

Lucy Crowe (Galatea; soprano)
Allan Clayton (Acis; tenor)
Benjamin Hulett (Damon; tenor)
Neal Davies (Polyphemus; bass)
Jeremy Budd (Corion; tenor)
Early Opera Company
Christian Curnyn
2 CDs
Chandos Chaconne

Handel's Finest Arias for Base Voice, volume 2

Christopher Purves (bass)
Arcangelo
Jonathan Cohen
CD
Hyperion

Didone abbandonata
- pasticcio based on an opera by Vinci, performed by Handel (London, 1737) but not including any music by him -

Robin Johannsen (Didone; soprano)
Olivia Vermeulen (Enea; mezzo-soprano)
Antonio Giovannini (Iarba; countertenor)
Julia Böhme (Selene; alto)
Polina Artsis (Osmida; mezzo-soprano)
Namwon Huh (Araspe; tenor)
Lautten Compagney
Wolfgang Katschner
2 CDs
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi

Vivaldi - Handel
- includes Silete venti (HWV 242), Salve Regina (HWV 241) and the spurious Gloria in excelsis Deo attr. to Handel -

Grace Davidson (soprano)
Academy of Ancient Music
Joseph Crouch
CD
Signum

Messiah (HWV 56)

Jennifer O'Loughlin (soprano)
Diana Moore (alto)
Nicholas Phan (tenor)
Sidney Outlaw (bass)
Concert Artists of Baltimore Symphonic Chorale
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
Edward Polochick
2 CDs
Naxos

Handel's last prima donna: Giulia Frasi in London
- music by Handel, Ciampi, Arne, J. C. Smith junior, and Philip Hayes -

Ruby Hughes (soprano)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Laurence Cummings
CD
Chandos Chaconne

Sonatas for Violin and Basso Continuo
- all nine sonatas for violin and continuo either by or attributed to Handel -

The Brook Street Band:
Rachel Harris (violin)
Tatty Theo (cello)
Carolyn Gibley (harpsichord)
CD
Avie

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