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1 Online-Ressource (1 video file 1 hr., 40 min., 50 sec.)
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sound, color
Uniform Title:
Jephtha Scenes of horror
Content:
"In the midst of chaos, how do you find peace?" Superstar mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato turns to Baroque opera to answer this very contemporary question. This filmed concert at Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu presents DiDonato performing arias from her latest album, accompanied by Il Pomo d'Oro and its harpsichordist-conductor Maxim Emelyanichev. Joyce DiDonato's most recent CD began life as a project to present a collection of little-known Neapolitan Baroque opera arias in collaboration with the excellent Italian baroque orchestra Il Pomo d'Oro and their director Maxim Emelyanichev. Then, in the wake of the brutal November 2016 terror attacks in Paris, the musicians felt a more urgent calling to respond musically to the turmoil and violence of modern times. Their answer was an album of arias by Handel, Purcell, Jommelli, and Monteverdi that explore war and peace, both external and internal. The singing is magnificent - at 47, DiDonato's voice is at its very peak - the diction is exemplary and the playing of the Italians is simply to die for. This recital is probably her most personal project to date and represents one of the most eloquent and moving pleas for peace in a long time."--Steve Moffatt, Limelight Magazine. Joyce DiDonato - Official website Discover Joyce DiDonato's new album, In War and Peace: Harmony through Music, released on the Erato / Warner Classics label
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Jephtha. Some dire events hang o'er our heads / George Frideric Handel -- Andromaca. Prendi quel ferro, o barbaro! / Leonardo Leo -- Rappresentatione di anima, et di corpo. Sinfonia / Emilio de' Cavalieri -- Dido and Æneas. Thy hand Belinda / Henry Purcell -- Agrippina. Pensieri, voi mi tormentate ; Rinaldo. Lascia ch'io pianga / George Frideric Handel -- The Indian Queen. They tell us that your mighty powers above / Henry Purcell -- Susanna. Crystal streams in murmurs flowing ; Rinaldo. Augelletti che cantate ; Da tempeste il legno infranto / George Frideric Handel -- Par che di giubilo / Niccolò Jommelli.
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Sung in English or Italian, with English subtitles
Language:
English
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