An educational programme featuring early music. Part 1 of our new series ‘Highlights from Handel’s operas’.
Today the first broadcast of our new series ‘Highlights from Handel’s operas’. Besides many oratorios, Handel also composed a large number of operas. In this series, always a selection of their most beautiful arias.
In part 1: arias from the opera ‘Amadigi di Gaula’. This was the 5th Italian opera which Handel composed for London in 1715.
Georg Frideric Handel (1685-1759) 
‘Amadigi di Gaula’, HWV 11 (opera in 3 acts)
1. Ouverture
2. “Oh caro mio terror” (Oriana)
3. “Oh rendetemi il mio bene” (Amadigi)
4. Sinfonia
5. “Sussurrate, onde vezzose” (Amadigi)
6. “S’estino e l’idol mio” (Oriana)
7. “T’amai, quant’il mio cor” (Amadigi)
8. “Ti pentirai, crudel” (Oriana)
9. “Pena tiranna io sento al core” (Dardano)
10. “Tu mia speranza” (Dardano)
11. “Cangia al fine il tuo rigore” (Oriana, Amadigi)
12. “Godete omai felice” (Organda)
13. “Godete, oh cori amanti” en Ballo (Coro, Oriana, Amadigi)
Amadigi: Nathalie Stutzmann, alto. Oriana: Jennifer Smith, soprano. Melissa: Eiddwen Harrhy, soprano. Dardano: Bernarda Fink, alto. Orgando: Pascal Bertin, countertenor. Les Musiciens du Louvre conducted by Marc Minkowski
(CD Erato 2292-45490-2, 1991)
Georg Frideric Handel
14. Flute sonata in E minor, op. 1/1A, HWV 379
Simon Preston, traverso. Susan Shappard, cello. John Toll, harpsichord
(Brilliant Classics)
