Juan Sancho | Akateeminen Kirjakauppa

"What a beautiful and tender, almost unintentionally flowing and always somehow comforting soprano," the Süddeutsche Zeitung enthusiastically describes the voice of the Catalan soprano Nuria Rial. Her recordings for Deutsche Harmonia Mundi are highly praised all over the world. Her album "Muera Cupido" with the Ensemble Accademia del Piacere has just been nominated for the Opus Klassik. For her new album, the soprano, together with the Spanish tenor Juan Sancho, has selected arias and duets from G. F. Handel's operas, oratorios and cantatas, which sing about human and divine love. The accompanying Capella Cracoviensis under the direction of Jan Tomasz Adamus rounds off the album with dance movements and overtures. In the baroque opera it was customary for the duets to be sung by sopranos and castrati. Handel also used this combination successfully, especially in his operas. At the same time, however, he also devoted himself to the then little common duo line-up "Soprano & Tenor". Handel's art of duet is reflected on this album in the exquisite sound samples from the operas "Ariodante" and "Hercules, the oratorio" Esther ", the secular cantata" Cecilia, volgi un sguardo "and the ode" Acis and Galatea " there are eight solo arias describing different forms of human love: the traditional love of two lovers, for example by Aminta for Fillide ("Se vago rio") or by Grimoaldo for Rodelinda ("Prigionera ho l'alma in pena"). One also encounters other forms of love, affection, including the love of Judas Maccabeus for his son who has fallen in battle, whom he celebrates with an immortal elegy "With honor let desert be crown'd." The Israelite pays homage in "Let the." bright, Seraphim "their victorious God. And in the aria" È un folle, è un vile affetto ", the figure of Orontes shows himself to be extremely angry in the face of a spurned love. The album" Human Love, Love Divine "finally leads to a special There was a happy ending - with the duet "Happy, happy we" from "Acis and Galatea".