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Summer Opera - up to 40% off selected titles

We're delighted to offer a more affordable way to begin or continue your opera journey, with up to 40% off selected titles on CD, SACD, Vinyl, DVD and Blu-ray, until 12th August. Please note, downloads are not included in this offer.

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  • Handel: Alceste

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    Lucy Crowe (soprano), Benjamin Hulett (tenor) & Andrew Foster-Williams (bass-baritone)

    Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn

    Curnyn's delicious recording of the surviving score is amplified with a sinfonia from Admeto and a passacaglia from Radamisto. These fizzily, sexily swung orchestral additions emphasise the... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2012, 5 out of 5 starsMore…
    • Release Date: 30th Apr 2012
    • Catalogue No: CHAN0788
    • Label: Chandos
    • Series: Chaconne
    • Length: 63 minutes

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  • Handel: Acis and Galatea

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    Lucy Crowe (Galatea), Allan Clayton (Acis), Benjamin Hulett (Damon), Jeremy Budd (Coridon) & Neal Davies (Polyphemus)

    Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn

    Curnyn has hit on a secret that eluded previous interpreters of this work: it was conceived specifically to showcase the beauty of the English language…Channelling Handel’s enthusiasm, Curnyn... — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 5 out of 5 starsMore…
    • Release Date: 1st Jun 2018
    • Catalogue No: CHSA0404(2)
    • Label: Chandos
    • Series: Chaconne
    • Length: 86 minutes

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  • Handel: Amadigi di Gaula

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    Tim Mead (Amadigi), Mary Bevan (Melissa), Anna Dennis (Oriana), Hilary Summers (Dardano), Patrick Terry (Orgando), Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn

    Handel took a less-is-more approach to his Amadigi di Gaula. Christian Curnyn’s answering restraint reveals the stark solos, shimmering textures, ringing silences and stunning one-to-a-part... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2022, 5 out of 5 starsMore…
    • Release Date: 16th Sep 2022
    • Catalogue No: CHSA04062
    • Label: Chandos
    • Length: 2 hours 36 minutes

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  • Handel: Serse

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    Anna Stéphany (Serse), Rosemary Joshua (Romilda), David Daniels (Arsamene), Hilary Summers (Amastre), Joélle Harvey (Atalanta), Andreas Wolf (Elviro), Brindley Sherratt (Ariodate)

    Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn

    [Stéphany's] is a stunning central performance, comfortably matched by incisive playing from the Early Opera Company orchestra. Sopranos Rosemary Joshua (as Romilda) and Joelle Harvey (Atalanta)... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2013, 4 out of 5 starsMore…
    • Release Date: 2nd Sep 2013
    • Catalogue No: CHAN0797(3)
    • Label: Chandos
    • Series: Chaconne
    • Length: 2 hours 45 minutes

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  • Handel: Flavio

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    Tim Mead (Flavio), Rosemary Joshua (Emilia), Iestyn Davies (Guido), Renata Pokupić (Vitige), Hilary Summers (Teodata), Thomas Walker (Ugone), Andrew Foster-Williams (Lotario)

    Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn

    Flavio has some fine music, but is rarely performed...The aria 'Amante stravagante'...nicely displays [Joshua's] bright, silvery tone...The vocal star is Renata Pokupic as Vitige. Her 'Non credo'... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, 3 out of 5 starsMore…
    • Release Date: 27th Sep 2010
    • Catalogue No: CHAN0773(2)
    • Label: Chandos
    • Series: Chaconne
    • Length: 2 hours 26 minutes

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  • Eccles - The Judgment of Paris & Three Mad Songs

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    Roderick Williams (baritone), Benjamin Hulett (tenor), Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano), Claire Booth (soprano) & Lucy Crowe (soprano)

    The Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn

    Christian Curnyn elegantly captures the unique charms of Eccles's music. …as Venus, Lucy Crowe's melting lyricism, delicately underpinned by plucked and bowed instruments, is irresistible;... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2009, 5 out of 5 starsMore…
    • Release Date: 30th Mar 2009
    • Catalogue No: CHAN0759
    • Label: Chandos
    • Series: Chaconne
    • Length: 62 minutes

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  • Handel: Semele

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    Rosemary Joshua (Semele), Hilary Summers (Juno/Ino), Richard Croft (Jupiter), Stephen Wallace (Athamas), Brindley Sherratt (Cadmus/Somnus) & Gail Pearson (Iris), David Croft (Apollo)

    Early Opera Company (on period instruments), Christian Curnyn

    In the title role, soprano Rosemary Joshua applies light and graceful tone and conveys Semele's wilful, pleasure-seeking nature. As her immortal lover Jupiter, tenor Richard Croft is equally... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2008, 3 out of 5 starsMore…
    • Release Date: 29th Oct 2007
    • Catalogue No: CHAN0745(3)
    • Label: Chandos
    • Series: Chaconne
    • Length: 2 hours 48 minutes

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  • Handel: Partenope, HWV 27

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    Rosemary Joshua (Partenope), Kurt Streit (Emilio), Stephen Wallace (Armindo), Andrew Foster-Williams (Ormonte), Hilary Summers (Rosmira), Lawrence Zazzo (Arsace)

    Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn

    Handel composed Partenope for the 1730 London season, less than a year into the so-called 'Second Academy' period in which he enjoyed increased artistic control over his productions. Partenope... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010More…
    • Release Date: 9th May 2005
    • Catalogue No: CHAN0719(3)
    • Label: Chandos
    • Series: Chaconne
    • Length: 3 hours 9 minutes

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