Handel - Neun Deutsche Arien [Sampson, King's Consort]

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Recorded: October 2006, Menuhin Hall, Yehudi Menuhin School

Stoke d'Abernon, Cobham, Surrey, United Kingdom

Released: June 2007 | Label: HYPERION

Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Alexandra Bellamy (oboe)
The King's Consort

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'With her pure, luminous tone, graceful sense of phrase and discerning musicality, Carolyn Sampson gives enchanting performances of music that is essentially about enchantment … 'Süsse Stille' is exquisitely shaped and savoured, with a rapt, confiding pianissimo at the da capo. Elsewhere Sampson perfectly catches the blissful langour of 'Künft'ger Zeiten eitler Kummer' and brings a smiling eagerness to 'Die ihr aus dunklen Grüften', enhancing the da capo with playful touches of ornamentation' (Gramophone)

'The nine German arias Handel composed … still rank among his best-kept secrets. Barthold Brockes's verses are a pantheistic celebration of God-in-Nature, and Handel responded with music of hedonistic enchantment, from the rapt, wondering Süsse Stille to the laughing ebullience of Das zitternde Glänzen. Always a lovely Handel soprano, Carolyn Sampson sings these arias with her trademark pellucid tone and refined phrasing. She spins a smooth, serene line in the more contemplative numbers, and dances blithely in an aria such as Süsser Blumen Ambraflocken, vying with violinist Stéphanie-Marie Degand in playful coloratura flourishes' (The Daily Telegraph)

Tracklist:

1 Die ihr aus dunkeln Grüften, HWV208 [5'41]

2 In den angenehmen Büschen, HWV209 [3'30]

Oboe Sonata in F major, HWV363a

3 Movement 1: Adagio [1'40]

4 Movement 2: Allegro [1'54]

5 Movement 3: Adagio [2'13]

6 Movement 4: Bourrée anglaise [0'49]

7 Movement 5: Menuet [1'16]

8 Künft'ger Zeiten eitler Kummer, HWV202 [6'31]

9 Süße Stille, sanfte Quelle, HWV205 [5'34]

Oboe Sonata in B flat major, HWV357

10 Movement 1: Allegro [3'05]

11 Movement 2: Grave [1'37]

12 Movement 3: Allegro [2'15]

13 Singe, Seele, Gott zum Preise, HWV206 [4'15]

14 Süßer Blumen Ambraflocken, HWV204 [7'17]

15 Das zitternde Glänzen der spielenden Wellen, HWV203 [4'37]

Oboe Sonata in C minor, HWV366 Op 1 No 8

16 Movement 1: Largo [2'08]

17 Movement 2: Allegro [1'34]

18 Movement 3: Adagio [1'49]

19 Movement 4: Bourrée anglaise [0'48]

20 Flammende Rose, Zierde der Erden, HWV210 [5'20]

21 Meine Seele hört im Sehen, HWV207 [5'29]

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