Handel: Orlando
Bejun Mehta (Orlando), Sophie Karthäuser (Angelica), Kristina Hammarström (Medoro), Sunhae Im (Dorinda), Konstantin Wolff (Zoroastro)
B'Rock Orchestra, René Jacobs
Awards:
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Building a Library, September 2014, First Choice
Mehta brings lively characterisation to the mythical hero's subtle duality. I the uppermost notes of his vocal range sound a little pinched, there is ample compensation in bravura passagework...Im...
Handel: Orlando
Bejun Mehta (Orlando), Sophie Karthäuser (Angelica), Kristina Hammarström (Medoro), Sunhae Im (Dorinda), Konstantin Wolff (Zoroastro)
B'Rock Orchestra, René Jacobs
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Awards:
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Building a Library, September 2014, First Choice
Mehta brings lively characterisation to the mythical hero's subtle duality. I the uppermost notes of his vocal range sound a little pinched, there is ample compensation in bravura passagework...Im...
About
Grammy award winning conductor Rene Jacobs, “the most exciting opera conductor of the day” (Münchner Merkur), leads the dynamic B’Rock Orchestra Ghent and an outstanding cast in Handel’s most spectacular and ravishingly beautiful creations, Orlando.
Contents and tracklist
- Konstantin Wolff (bass), Bejun Mehta (countertenor), Sunhae Im (soprano), Sophie Karthäuser (soprano), Kristina Hammarström (mezzo-soprano)
- B’Rock Baroque Orchestra
- René Jacobs
- Recorded: 2013-07-29
- Recording Venue: Concertgebouw, Bruges
Rec. "M'hai vinto al fin" / 10. Duettino "Ritornava al suo bel viso" / Rec. "Spera, mio ben"
Track length3:03
Rec. "Dopo tanti perigli" / 22. Aria "Non potrà dirmi ingrato" / Rec. "Dove guidate"
Track length5:37
33. Duetto "Finchè predi ancora il sangue" / Rec. "Vieni! Vanne precipitando" / 34. Acc."Già per la man d'Orlando"
Track length4:41
Rec. "Ecco il tempo prefisso" / 36. Acc. "Tu, che dal gran Tonante" / 37. Sinfonia / Rec. "Ah! che fate, Signor?"
Track length3:05
Rec. "Dormo ancora, o son desso?" / 38. Duettino "Per far, mia diletta" / Rec. "Che vedo, oh Dei!"
Track length3:48
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Awards and reviews
July 2014
Mehta brings lively characterisation to the mythical hero's subtle duality. I the uppermost notes of his vocal range sound a little pinched, there is ample compensation in bravura passagework...Im brings youthful playfulness to the role of Dorinda...All is well paced under René Jacobs's direction with a fine contribution from the B'Rock orchestra.
6th July 2014
This Orlando is the most dramatic on disc — although not all will love Jacobs’s extremes of slow and fast tempi, or the “baroque” sound effects. Bejun Mehta’s psychotic titular antihero is superb throughout, and I’ve never heard a more thrilling — or sinister — Zoroastro than Konstantin Wolff, while Sophie Karthäuser and Kristina Hammarström blend raptly as the lovers
Early Music Today
Spectacular: the singing is both passionately committed and richly expressive, with Bejun Mehta (Orlando), Sophie Karthäuser (Angelica) and Sunhae Im (Dorinda) absolutely spellbinding.
