Handel

Handel’s solo cantatas, many of them written during his formative stay in Italy, contain some of his finest music. Lucy Crowe’s recording of the composer’s youthful works with the English Concert was praised by BBC Music Magazine for the ‘imaginative sensitivity’ of the soprano’s interpretations and as being 'well-nigh ideal’ by Gramophone, while Hugh Cutting was described by The Telegraph as ‘a Handelian Puck – entertainingly amoral and mischievous’ while playing Unulfo in Garsington Opera’s Rodelinda.

Programme:

GF Handel

• Cantata: Mi palpita il cor HWV132c

• Violin Sonata in D HWV371

• Troppo cruda, troppo fiera HWV198

• Conservate, raddoppiate HWV185

• Alpestre monte HWV81

• Trio Sonata in G minor HWV390

• Langue, geme, sospira HWV188

• A mirarvi io son intento HWV178 178

The English Concert

Lucy Crowe - soprano

Guy Cutting - countertenor