The candidate list (in no particular order) included the following recordings:
Handel Arias from Rinaldo & Orlando
Ewa Podles (contralto)
Moscow Chamber Orchestra (modern instruments)
Conductor: Constantine Orbelian
Delos DE 3253
Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (HWV 46a)
La Bellezza: Deborah York
Il Piacere: Gemma Bertagnolli
Il Disinganno: Sara Mingardo
Il Tempo: Nicholas Sears
Concerto Italiano (period instruments)
Director: Rinaldo Alessandrini
Opus 111 OP 30321
Acis and Galatea
The Scholars of London
Dorian Recordings DOR-93227
- A live recording from 1991.
(Same vocal soloists but different performance from Naxos' Acis and
Galatea with "The Scholars Baroque Ensemble" - recorded in 1993: catalog
8.553188)
Sacred Cantatas
Salve regina (HWV 241); O qualis de coelo sonus (HWV 239); Trio
Sonata in G minor (HWV 393); Coelestis dum spirat aura (HWV 231); Laudate
pueri Dominum in F major (HWV 236)
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
London Baroque (period instruments)
BIS-CD-1065
The Occasional Songs
Airs français or 'Sans y penser' (HWV 155); Four Songs in
different languages (HWV deest) -- includes Sans y penser, Quand on suit
l'amoureuse loi, Der Mund spricht zwar, and Dicente mis ojos; The Dream or
'Beneath a shady willow' (HWV deest); The Beauteous Cloe or 'Cloe, you're
witty' (HWV deest); Di godere ha speranza il mio core / Oh my dearest, my
lovely creature (HWV 228.7); Strephon's Complaint of Love: Oh cruel Tyrant
Love (HWV 228.14); Minuet in G major (HWV 530); Minuet in G minor (HWV
543); An Answer to Collin's Complaint: Ye winds to whome Collin complains
(HWV 228.23); Charming Cloris: Ask not the cause / The poor Shepherd: The
Sun was sunk beneath the Hills (HWV 228.2); Minuet in D major (HWV 506);
Minuet in A major (HWV A 15.7); Yes, I'm in love (HWV 228.24); The unhappy
Lovers: As Celia's fatal arrows flew (HWV 228.1); The Satyr's Advice to a
Stock-Jobber: On the shore of a low ebbing sea / Ye Swains that are
courting a Maid / Molly Mogg: Says my uncle, I pray you discover (HWV
228.15); The faithful Maid / The Melancholy Nymph: 'Twas when the seas
were roaring (Ballad from The What d'ye Call It) (HWV 228.19); I like the
am'rous youth that's free (Song from The Universal Passion) (HWV 228.11);
Love's by the frailty of the mind (HWV 218); Hunting Song or 'The morning
is charming' (HWV 226); Stand round, my brave boys (Song made for the
Gentlemen Volunteers of the City of London) (HWV 228.18); March in G (HWV
418); From scourging rebellion or A Song on the Victory obtained over the
Rebels by His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland (HWV 228.9).
Emma Kirkby (soprano)
Charles Daniels (baritone)
Andrew Carwood (tenor)
Simon Davies (tenor)
Adrian Butterfield (violin)
William Thorp (violin)
Katherine Sharman (violoncello)
David Miller (archlute/theorbo)
Paul Nicholson (harpsichord, director)
Somm CD 226
Concerti Grossi Op.3
Northern Sinfonia
Bradley Creswick (conductor)
Naxos 8.553457
Arminio
Arminio: Vivica Genaux
Tusnelda: Geraldine McGreevy
Sigismondo: Dominique Custer
Ramise: Manuela Custer
Varo: Luigi Petroni
Tullio: Syste Buwalda
Segeste: Riccardo Ristori
Il Complesso Barocco (period instruments)
Alan Curtis (conductor)
Virgin Veritas 5-45461-2
Apollo e Dafne (HWV 122)
Incidental music from The Alchemist (HWV 43)
Olga Pasichnyk (soprano)
Robert Pomakov (bass)
European Union Baroque Orchestra (period instruments)
Roy Goodman (Conductor)
Naxos 8.555712
Harpsichord Works - Volume 2 (1720)
Suite No. 1 in A major; Suite No. 2 in F major; Suite No. 3 in D
minor; Suite No. 4 in E minor; Suite No. 5 in E major.
Sophie Yates
Chandos Chaconne CHAN 0569
Arie & Lagrime - Operatic Arias & Trio Sonatas
Lascia ch'io pianga (Rinaldo), transposed; Sonata No. 1, Opus 5
(excerpt); Cara sposa (Rinaldo); Armati, oh core (Admeto); Sonata No. 2,
Opus 5 (excerpt); Se il cor ti perde (Tolomeo), with Anne Cambier,
soprano; Stille amare (Tolomeo); Sonata No. 5, Opus 5 (excerpt);
Svegliatevi nel core (Giulio Cesare); Sonata No. 4, Opus 5 (excerpt); Pena
tiranna (Amadigi); Sinfonia from Orlando; Tacero (Agrippina).
Pascal Bertin (countertenor)
Anne Cambier (soprano)
Mensa Sonora (period instruments)
Conductor: Jean Maillet
Pierre Verany PV700022
Cantates & Duos italiens
Quondo in calma ride il mare; Nell'africane selve; Che vai
pensando; La Lucrezia; Giù nei Tartarei regni; Dalla guerra amorosa;
Tacete ohime.
Sandrine Piau (soprano)
Jérôme Correas (bass)
Les Paladins (period instruments)
Conductor: Emmanuelle Haïm (harpsichord)
Arion ARN68505
Deidamia (HWV 42)
Deidamia: Julianne Baird
Ulisse: Brenda Harris
Lycomede: John Clark
Achille: D'Anna Fortunato
Nera: Máire O'Brien
Fenice: Peter Castaldi
Palmer Singers
Brewer Chamber Orchestra (period instruments)
Conductor: Rudolph Palmer
Producer: John Ostendorf
Albany Records TROY 460
Recorder & Oboe Sonatas
Sonata in D minor (HWV 367a); Sonata in F major (HWV 363a); Sonata
in A minor (HWV 362); Sonata in C major (HWV 365); Sonata in C minor (HWV
366); Sonata in F major (HWV 369); Sonata in G minor (HWV 360)
Héloïse Gaillard (recorder & oboe)
Ensemble Amarillis (period instruments)
Ambroisie AMB 9910
Complete Violin Sonatas
Sonata in D major, Op.1 No. 13 (HWV 371); Sonata in F major -
Walsh's edition of Op. 1 No. 12; Sonata in D minor (HWV 359a); Sonata in A
major, Op. 1 No. 3 (HWV 361); Sonata in G minor, Op. 1 No. 6 (HWV 364a);
Sonata in A major - "Roger's" edition of Op. 1 No.10; Sonata in E major -
"Roger's" edition of Op. 1 No. 12; Sonata in G major (HWV 358); Andante in
A minor (HWV 412); Allegro in C minor (HWV 408).
Andrew Manze (violin) & Richard Egarr (harpsichord)
Harmonia mundi - HMU 907259
Coronation Anthems (HWV 258-61)
Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne (HWV 74)
Susan Gritton (soprano)
Robin Blaze (countertenor)
Michael George (bass)
Choir of King's College, Cambridge
Academy of Ancient Music (period instruments)
Conductor: Stephen Cleobury
EMI Classics 7243 5 57140 2 2
Dettingen Te Deum (HWV 283)
Te Deum in A major (HWV 282 - premiere recording)
Dorothee Mields (soprano)
Ulrike Andersen (alto)
Mark Wilde (tenor)
Chris Dixon (bass)
Alsfelder Vokalensemble (Bremen, Germany)
Concerto Polacco (Warsaw, Poland; period instruments)
Conductor: Wolfgang Helbich
Naxos 8.554753
Messiah (HWV 56)
Lynne Dawson (soprano)
Nicole Heaston (soprano)
Magdalena Kozena (mezzo-soprano)
Charlotte Hellekant (contralto)
Brian Asawa (countertenor)
John Mark Ainsley (tenor)
Russell Smythe (baritone)
Brian Bannatyne-Scott (bass)
Choeur des Musiciens de Louvre
Les musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble (period instruments)
Conductor: Marc Minkowski
DG/Archiv 471 341-2 AH
Belshazzar (HWV 61)
Belshazzar, King of Babylon: Markus Brutscher (tenor)
Nitocris, his mother: Simone Kermes (soprano)
Cyrus, Prince of Persia: Christopher Robson (countertenor)
Daniel, a Jewish Prophet: Patrick van Goethem (countertenor)
Gobrias, an Assyrian Nobleman: Franz-Josef Seelig (bass)
Collegium Cartusianum (period instruments)
Kölner Kammerchor
Conductor: Peter Neumann
MDG 332 1079-2
Complete Flute Sonatas
Sonata in D major (HWV 378); Sonata in E minor (HWV 379); Sonata
in B minor (HWV 367b); Sonata in G major (HWV 363b); Sonata in E minor (HWV
359b)
Konrad Hünteler (traverso)
Rainer Zipperling (violoncello)
Carsten Lohff (harpsichord)
MDG 311 1078-2
Crude Furie degli orridi abissi - Evil Arias
Arias from Admeto, Serse, Amadigi di Gaula, Faramondo, Alessandro, Rodrigo, Partenope, Teseo, Siroe, and Tamerlano.
Angelo Manzotti (sopranist)
Ensemble Rocinante (period instruments)
Conductor: Tito Ceccherini
Callisto Records CLS 0102 (PC & Mac compatible "multimedia booklet", including
scores)
Deborah (HWV 51)
Deborah: Elizabeth Scholl
Jael: Natacha Ducret
Barak: Lawrence Zazzo
Sisera: Ewa Wolak
Canaanite Herald: Knut Schoch
Abinoam / Priest: Jelle S. Draijer
Junge Kantorei
Barockorchester Frankfurt (period instruments)
Conductor: Joachim Carlos Martini
Naxos 8.554785-7
Messiah
Lynne Dawson
Guillemette Laurens
Charles Daniels
Antonio Abete
Coro della Radio Svizzera
I Barocchisti (period instruments)
Conductor: Diego Fasolis
ARTS 47627-2
