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HANDEL: L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato.(Review)
HANDEL: L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato
[] Brandes, Dawson; Daniels, Bostridge, Miles; Bach Choir, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Nelson. Texts and translations. Virgin Classics 7243 5 45417 28
Handel's mood-swinging oratorio (1740) found its inspiration in two poems by John Milton and a third ("Il Moderato") by his librettist, Charles Jennens. As the title suggests, the score skips back and forth between the light-hearted and the thoughtful before settling for the in-between; most performances reveal a sympathy for one humor over another. Conductor John Nelson accentuates the positive. No matter how penseroso the mood, the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris sparkles under his baton. Handel's orchestrations are unusually rich and expressive, and Nelson dearly delights in allowing his instrumentalists to show off their virtuosity. (There is no indication which edition of the score Nelson uses; some arias and their sequence differ from other recorded versions.) There's an excitement throughout this recording, as if all concerned believed they'd just discovered something really special.
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