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Handel: Agrippina

Ulrike Schneider (Agrippina), João Fernandes (Claudio), Christopher Ainslie (Ottone), Jake Arditti (Nerone), Ida Falk Winland (Poppea), Ross Ramgobin (Pallante), Owen Willetts (Narciso) & Ronaldo Steiner (Lesbo)

Festspielorchester Göttingen, Laurence Cummings

Handel: Agrippina
Cummings focuses on the excitement of live production: with furious tempos, eloquent silences and spurts to the finish line, he and the band are dramatic from first measure to last. Cummings...

BBC Music Magazine, December 2015

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Handel: Agrippina

Ulrike Schneider (Agrippina), João Fernandes (Claudio), Christopher Ainslie (Ottone), Jake Arditti (Nerone), Ida Falk Winland (Poppea), Ross Ramgobin (Pallante), Owen Willetts (Narciso) & Ronaldo Steiner (Lesbo)

Festspielorchester Göttingen, Laurence Cummings

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Cummings focuses on the excitement of live production: with furious tempos, eloquent silences and spurts to the finish line, he and the band are dramatic from first measure to last. Cummings...

BBC Music Magazine, December 2015

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This new 'Agrippina' from Accent Records was performed for the first time in a new critical edition from the Halle Handel Edition at the Göttingen Handel Festival in 2015. The performance was received enthusiastically by the press and public alike. Will Agrippina emerge triumphant or will her adversaries manage to cut through the jungle of political conspiracy? Handel wrote this, one of his most impressive works, in Venice in 1709, achieving, with this tale about Rome’s great female schemer, his first truly resounding success as an opera composer.

  • Release date: 18th Sep 2015
  • Label: Accent
  • Catalogue number: ACC26404
  • Length: 3 hours 36 minutes
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Contents and tracklist

Handel: Agrippina
Work length3:36:10
Sinfonia
Track length3:35
Act I Scene 1: Nerone, amato figlio! (Argrippina, Nerone)
Track length2:44
Act I Scene 1: Col saggio tuo consiglio (Nerone)
Track length4:56
Act I Scene 2: Per cosi grande impresa - Scene 3: A' cenni tuoi sovrani (Agrippina, Pallante)
Track length3:46
Act I Scene 3: La mia sorte fortunata (Pallante)
Track length3:07
Act I Scene 4: Or che Pallante e vinto - Scene 5: Umile all tue piante … (Agrippina, Narciso)
Track length2:39
Act I Scene 5: Volo pronto, e lieto il core (Narciso)
Track length3:38
Act I Scene 6: Quanto fa, quanto puote - L'alma mia fra te tempeste (Agrippina)
Track length2:57
Act I Scene 7: Qual piacere a un cor pietoso (Nerone)
Track length2:36
Act I Scene 7: Amici, al sen vi stringo - Scene 8: Ecco chi presto - Scene 9: Voi, che dell'alta Roma (Nerone, Pallante, Agrippina)
Track length2:49
Act I Scene 9: Il tuo figlio … (Pallante, Narciso, Agrippina, Nerone)
Track length0:40
Act I Scene 9: Ma qual di liete trombe - Scene 10: Allegrezza, allegrezza! (Agrippina, Lesbo)
Track length0:48
Act I Scene 10: Che sento! Crudo ciel! - Scene 11: Alla tue piante, oh Augusta - Scene 12: Augusta, amo Poppea (Pallante, Narciso, Nerone, Agrippina, Lesbo, Ottone)
Track length5:20
Act I Scene 12: Tu be degno (Agrippina)
Track length3:34
Act I Scene 13: L'ultima del gioir meta gradita - Lusinghiera mia speranza (Ottone)
Track length4:02
Act I Scene 14: Vaghe perle, eletti fiori (Poppea)
Track length5:13
Act I Scene 14: Otton, Claudio, Nerone - Scene 15: Signora, o mia signora! - Scene 16: Di lieta nuova (Poppea, Lesbo, Agrippina)
Track length2:33
Act I Scene 17: Perche invece di Claudio - E un foco quel d'amore (Poppea)
Track length2:03
Act I Scene 17: Poppea, tu sai che t'amo (Poppea, Agrippina)
Track length2:44
Act I Scene 18: Ho un non so che nel cor (Agrippina)
Track length2:32
Act I Scene 19: Cieli, quai strani casi - Fa quanto vuoi (Poppea)
Track length2:45
Act I Scene 21: Pur ritorno a rimirarvi (Claudio)
Track length4:38
Act I Scene 21: Ma, oh ciel, meste e confusa (Claudio, Poppea)
Track length3:56
Act I Scene 21: Vieni, o cara (Claudio)
Track length1:27
Act I Scene 21: Che mai faro? - Scene 22: Signor, Signor, presto fuggiamo! - E quando mai i frutti (Poppea, Lesbo, Claudio)
Track length1:12
Act I Scene 23: O mia liberatrice - Non ho cor che per amarti (Poppea, Agrippina)
Track length6:12
Act I Scene 24: Se Ottone m'inganno - Se giunge un dispetto (Poppea)
Track length2:54
Act II Scene 1: Dunque noi siam traditi (Pallante, Narciso)
Track length0:57
Act II Scene 2: Coronato il crin d'altro (Ottone)
Track length3:14
Act II Scene 2: Roma, piu ch'il trionfo - Prelude - Scene 3: Ecco il superbo (Pallante, Narciso, Ottone, Agrippina, Poppea, Nerone)
Track length2:27
Act II Scene 3: Di timpani e trombe (Chorus)
Track length1:24
Act II Scene 4: Nella Britannia vinta - Cade il mondo soggiogato (Claudio)
Track length5:45
Act II Scene 4: Signor, quanto il mio core (Agrippina, Claudio, Poppea, Nerone, Narciso, Pallante, Ottone)
Track length2:24
Act II Scene 4: Deh tu, Agrippina, assisti! - Nulla sperar da me (Ottone, Agrippina)
Track length1:25
Act II Scene 4: E tu Poppea, mio bene? - Tuo ben e l trono (Ottone, Poppea)
Track length1:19
Act II Scene 4: Soccori almen, Neron! - Sotto il lauro ch'hai sul crine (Ottone, Nerone)
Track length2:42
Act II Scene 4: Scherzo son del destino (Ottone, Narciso, Pallante, Lesbo)
Track length0:38
Act II Scene 5: Otton, Otton, qual portentose - Voi che udite il mio lamento (Ottone)
Track length6:12
Act II Scene 6: Bella pur nel mio diletto - Scene 7: Il tormento d'Ottone (Poppea)
Track length3:54
Act II Scene 7: Vaghe fonti, che mormorando (Ottone)
Track length1:46
Act II Scene 7: Ma qui che veggo, oh cieli! - Voi dormite, o luci care - Fantasmi della mente (Ottone, Poppea)
Track length5:11
Act II Scene 6: Aria: Ti vo' giusta e non pietosa (Ottone)
Track length3:46
Act II Scene 8: Da quali ordite trame - Ingannata una sol volta (Poppea)
Track length1:52
Act II Scene 9: Pur ai fine ti ritrovo! - Scene 10: A non pochi perigli - Scene 11: Son qui, mia vita! (Lesbo, Poppea, Nerone)
Track length2:41
Act II Scene 11: Col peso del tuo amor (Poppea)
Track length3:44
Act II Scene 12: Qual bramato piacere - Quando invita la donna l'amante (Nerone)
Track length3:49
Act II Scene 13: Pensieri voi mi tormentate - Quel ch'oprai e soggetto (Agrippina)
Track length6:47
Act II Scene 14: Se ben nemica sorte (Pallante, Agrippina)
Track length1:46
Act II Scene 14: Col raggio placcido (Pallante)
Track length3:10
Act III Scene 16: Or e tempo, oh Narciso (Agrippina, Narciso)
Track length0:56
Act II Scene 16: Sperero, poi che mel dice (Narciso)
Track length2:15
Act II Scene 17: Per dar la pace al core - Scene 18: A vagheggiar io vengo - Scene 19: Signor, Poppea … (Agrippina, Claudio, Lesbo)
Track length4:52
Act II Scene 19: Basta sol che ti chieda (Claudio)
Track length2:19
Act II Scene 20: Favorevol la sorte oggi m'arride - Ogni vento ch'al porto lo spinga (Agrippina)
Track length4:58
Act III Scene 1: Il caro Ottone - Scene 2: Ah mis Poppea! (Poppea, Ottone)
Track length1:46
Act III Scene 2: Tacero, tacero (Ottone)
Track length3:57
Act III Scene 3: Attendo qui Nerone - Scene 4: Anelante ti reco (Poppea, Nerone, Poppea)
Track length1:44
Act III Scene 4: Coll'ardor del tuo bel core (Nerone)
Track length2:36
Act III Scene 5: Amico ciel, seconda il mio disegno! - Claudio, tu mi lusinghi - Temerario, insolente! - Ora, Claudio, che dici? (Poppea, Claudio, Nerone, Ottone)
Track length5:49
Act III Scene 8: Io di Roma il Giove sono (Claudio)
Track length2:45
Act III Scene 10: Vedi ch'io sprezzo - Purch'io ti stringa al sen (Poppea, Ottone)
Track length4:20
Act III Scene 10: Piega pur del mio cor - Bel piacere e godere (Poppea)
Track length2:06
Act III Scene 11: Cotanto oso Poppea? (Agrippina, Nerone)
Track length1:45
Act III Scene 11: Come nube che fugge dal vento (Nerone)
Track length4:19
Act III Scene 12: Evvi donna piu empia? - Scene 13: Agrippina, Nerone, Otton, Poppea - Scene 14: Adorato mio sposo (Pallante, Narciso, Claudio, Agrippina)
Track length8:17
Act III Scene 14: Se vuoi pace, o volto amato (Agrippina)
Track length3:32
Act III Scene 15: Ecco la mia rivale (Agrippina, Poppea, Nerone, Ottone, Claudio)
Track length3:41
Act III Scene 15: Lieto il Tebro increspi l'onda (Chorus)
Track length0:45
Bourree
Track length1:15

Awards and reviews

December 2015

Cummings focuses on the excitement of live production: with furious tempos, eloquent silences and spurts to the finish line, he and the band are dramatic from first measure to last. Cummings also inspires intense interpretations from his singers

November 2015

The international orchestra of leading expert practitioners play thrillingly; the overture is one of Handel's best, and it has a vivid synergy between alert strings, crisp continuo and dextrous solo oboe passages. Agrippina's 'Pensieri, voi tormentate' is played explosively by the orchestra and sung potently by Ulrike Schneider, whose characterisation of the scheming title-character is unusually acerbic…the vivid dramatic conviction of this performance reconfirms the stature of Agrippina as Handel's first great operatic masterpiece

Early Music Today Autumn 2016

Ida Falk Winland’s flamboyant, feisty Poppea is the set’s main attraction.
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