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Handel: Apollo e Dafne.(Sound Recording Review)
[] Pasichnyk; Pomakov; European Union Baroque Orchestra, Goodman. Text and translation. Naxos 8555712
One of the prizes Olga Pasichnyk and Robert Pomakov received as winners of the 2000 Queen Elizabeth of Belgium singing competition was a tour and recording of Apollo e Dafne, one of several mini-opera masterpieces from Handel's Italian years. The bass Apollo, fresh from a successful scrap with a nasty python, pompously dares Cupid, the "God of idleness and pleasure," to match arrows with him, then runs smack dab into the lovely, free-spirited soprano Daphne. Hearing her sing one of Handel's most gorgeous arias, the siciliano "Felicissima quest'alma," the boastful Apollo is smitten instantly. When flattery and intimidation fail, the god resorts to force and, at the climax of his vivace pursuit aria, the nymph eludes him by turning herself into a laurel tree, the leaves of which the dejected Apollo must grudgingly admire.
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