Artist: Julia Lezhneva, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini
Album: Handel
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2015
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 96 kHz
Duration: 01:14:03
Total Tracks: 16
Total Size: 1,25 GB

Tracklist:

1. Julia Lezhneva/Il Giardino Armonico – La Resurrezione (1708), HWV 47 / Parte Prima: ‘Disserratevi, o porte d’Averno’ (04:50)
2. Julia Lezhneva/Dmitry Sinkovsky/Il Giardino Armonico – Rodrigo, HWV 5 / Act 1: ‘Per dar pregio all’amor mio’ (09:07)
3. Julia Lezhneva/Il Giardino Armonico – Il Trionfo del Tiempo e del Disinganno, HWV 46a – Oratorio: ‘Lascia la spina cogli la rosa’ (06:33)
4. Julia Lezhneva/Il Giardino Armonico – Dixit Dominus, HWV 232: Tecum principium in die virtutis (02:48)
5. Il Giardino Armonico – Agrippina, HWV 6: Sinfonia (03:52)
6. Julia Lezhneva/Il Giardino Armonico – Salve Regina HWV 241: I. Salve regina, mater misericordiae (03:15)
7. Julia Lezhneva/Il Giardino Armonico – Salve Regina HWV 241: Ad te clamamus (03:45)
8. Julia Lezhneva/Il Giardino Armonico – Salve Regina HWV 241: II. Eia ergo, advocata nostro (03:28)
9. Julia Lezhneva/Il Giardino Armonico – Salve Regina HWV 241: III. O clemens, o pia, o dulcis virgo Maria (02:06)
10. Julia Lezhneva/Il Giardino Armonico – Agrippina, HWV 6 / Act 2: ‘Pensieri, voi mi tormentate!’ (06:31)
11. Julia Lezhneva/Il Giardino Armonico – Il Trionfo del Tiempo e del Disinganno, HWV 46a – Oratorio: ‘Un pensiero nemico di pace’ (03:56)
12. Julia Lezhneva/Il Giardino Armonico – Apollo e Dafne, HWV 122: ‘Felicissima quest’alma’ (05:55)
13. Julia Lezhneva/Dmitry Sinkovsky/Marco Bianchi/Thomas Meraner/Il Giardino Armonico – Il Trionfo del Tiempo e del Disinganno, HWV 46a – Oratorio: ‘Come nembo che fugge col vento’ (05:04)
14. Julia Lezhneva/Il Giardino Armonico – Il Trionfo del Tiempo e del Disinganno, HWV 46a – Oratorio: ‘Pure del cielo intelligenze eterne’ (01:18)
15. Julia Lezhneva/Dmitry Sinkovsky/Il Giardino Armonico – Il Trionfo del Tiempo e del Disinganno, HWV 46a – Oratorio: ‘Tu del Ciel ministro eletto’ (07:12)
16. Julia Lezhneva/Il Giardino Armonico – Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 1: ‘Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter Of Zion’ (04:16)

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The emphasis for this album is very much on youth and prodigious talent: at 25, Julia Lezhneva is ideally suited to the soprano arias of the young Handel, who arrived in Italy from Germany as a 21 year old at the beginning of the 18th century.
Lezhneva has been praised for her unforgettable spiritual expression and perfect artistry in Handels music, whether in rapidfire coloratura passages or the gentle radiance that casts a tangible spell in slow music. –The Guardian
She has the perfect partners in Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini whose recordings of music from the Italian baroque are celebrated for their fizzing virtuosity and exquisite cushion of sound –The Independent. For some tracks the orchestra is led by Dmitry Sinkovsky, the extraordinary Russian violinist and one of today s most versatile Baroque musicians.
The music encompasses the best of Handel s operatic and religious works from his years in Florence and Rome: the operas Rodrigo and Agrippina and the oratorios Il Trionfo and La Resurrezione as well as the complete Salve Regina and soprano solo from Dixit Dominus. Best known is the radiant Lascia la spina from Il Trionfo and its later incarnation as Lascia ch’io pianga from the opera Rinaldo
The recording was made in the famously musical and historic Italian city of Cremona in the beautiful auditorium of the Museo del Violino.
„. . . a singer of uncommon ability . . . Her take on Handel s Saeviat Tellus Inter Rigores is marked by rare grace.“ –The Independent
„Julia Lezhneva is at her most accomplished here, providing spirited and focused vocalism, running up and down the scales with effortless abandon and to fine effect . . .“ –BBC Music Magazine