Serse / Handel.
Material type:
MusicPublisher number: CHAN 0797(3) | ChandosSpoken language: Italian Series: ChaconnePublisher: Colchester, Essex, England : Chandos, [2013]Copyright date: ℗2013Description: 3 audio discs (2:46:29) : digital, CD audio, stereo ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - performed music
- audio
- audio disc
- Produced by Rachel Smith.
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult CD
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Main Library | CD | OPERA Handel, George Frideric | Available | 33111009089133 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Serse is performed by the Early Music Company under Christian Curnyn, who won a BBC Music Award in 2013 for its recording of Handel's Alceste. They are joined on this recording by a host of excellent soloists including Rosemary Joshua, Anna Stéphany, David Daniels, and Hilary Summers.
Opera in 3 acts, HWV 40, 1737-38.
Sung in Italian.
Libretto adapted anonymously from Silvio Stampiglia's Il Xerse (Rome, 1694), after Nicolò Minato.
Performing edition by Peter Jones.
Title from disc label.
Rosemary Joshua, Joélle Harvey, sopranos ; Anna Stéphany, mezzo-soprano ; Hilary Summers, contralto ; David Daniels, countertenor ; Andreas Wolf, bass-baritone ; Brindley Sherratt, bass ; Early Opera Company, Christian Curnyn, conductor.
Produced by Rachel Smith.
Recorded 2012 August 13-17 St. Silas the Martyr, Kentish Town, London.
Program notes by David Vickers, synopsis, and biographical notes on the performers in English, French, and German, and libretto with English translation (162 pages : illustrations, portraits) in container.