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With If Love’s a Sweet Passion, soprano Arianna Savall, tenor Petter Udland Johansen, and the Freitagsakademieunder the direction of Katharina Suske present a carefully curated selection of vocal and instrumental works by Henry Purcell and George Frideric Handel. The album illuminates essential aspects of Baroque affect, stylistic hybridity and dramatic rhetoric. Its programme brings together Purcell’s distinctly English musical language—marked by rhetorical clarity and subtle chromatic inflection—with Handel’s Italianate, operatically expansive melodic writing and his masterful shaping of musical character.
Fairy queen (Z.629) Duetto: If love’s a sweet passion
King Arthur (Z.628) Air: How Blessed are Shepards (Tenor)
Solomon HWV 67 Recitative: May peace in Salem ever dwell! (Queen of Sheba)
Aria: Will the sun forget to streak (Queen of Sheba)
Esther (HWV 50), Arie: Tune your harps (1st Israelite)
Amadigi di Gaula (HWV 11) Recitative: Il crudel m’abbandona (Melissa)
Aria: Ah! Spietato! (Melissa)
L’Allegro, il Penseroso, ed il Moderato (HWV 55) Duetto: As steals the morn
Terpsichore (HWV 8b), Chaconne
Giulio Cesare (HWV 17) Recitative: Che sento? Oh Dio! (Cleopatra)
Aria: Se pietà di me non senti (Cleopatra)
Semele (HWV 58) Aria: Where’re you walk (Jupiter)
Aria: I must with speed (Jupiter)
Acis & Galatea: Recitative: Ye verdant plains and woody mountains (Galatea)
Recitative: O didst thou know the pains (Galatea
Aria: As when the dove laments her love (Galatea)
Acis & Galatea (HW49) Recitative: ´Tis done, Heart (Galatea)
Aria: Heart, the seat of soft delight (Galatea
Dido and Aeneas (1689) Recitativ: Thy hand Belinda! (Dido)
Arie: Dido’s Lament
King Arthur (Z.628) Chaconne and Duetto: How happy the lover
