Purcell & Handel: ... - Arianna Savall - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

With If Love’s a Sweet Passion, soprano Arianna Savall, tenor Petter Udland Johansen, and the Freitagsakademieunder the direction of Katharina Suske present a carefully curated selection of vocal and instrumental works by Henry Purcell and George Frideric Handel. The album illuminates essential aspects of Baroque affect, stylistic hybridity and dramatic rhetoric. Its programme brings together Purcell’s distinctly English musical language—marked by rhetorical clarity and subtle chromatic inflection—with Handel’s Italianate, operatically expansive melodic writing and his masterful shaping of musical character.

Label: Prospero | Origin: Holland