Gabrieli Consort & Players
Handel - L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato
- Type CD
- Label Signum Classics
- UPC 0635212039229
- Catalog number SIGCD 392
- Release date 05 June 2015
About the album
The Gabrieli Consort & Player’s first Handel recording in over a decade is particularly special, recreating in painstaking detail the very first performance of L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, given in 1740, with additional instrumental repertoire including a Handel organ concerto and two concerti grossi. The recording sessions for this project began in May 2013 with the then 15-year old star treble Laurence Kilsby, who sang four of the L’Allegro arias that Handel himself assigned to a treble voice. The project’s remaining recording sessions took place in June 2014, with the complete Consort & Players, and soloists Gillian Webster, Jeremy Ovenden, Ashley Riches and Peter Harvey, only to be finally completed in December 2014 with the recording of the additional instrumental repertoire that features the longstanding principal members of the Gabrieli Players – Catherine Martin, Oliver Webber, Christopher Suckling and William Whitehead – performing as solois
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11Concerto Grosso Op.6, No.1 in G Major I. A Tempo Giusto
01:14 -
12Concerto Grosso Op.6, No.1 in G Major II. Allegro
01:44 -
13Concerto Grosso Op.6, No.1 in G Major III. Adagio
02:33 -
14Concerto Grosso Op.6, No.1 in G Major IV. Allegro
02:37 -
15Concerto Grosso Op.6, No.1 in G Major V. Allegro
02:39 -
16L’Allegro Tenor recitative accompany'd
02:03 -
17Il Penseroso Soprano recitative accompany'd
00:51 -
18L’Allegro Treble air
01:41 -
19Il Penseroso Soprano air
02:54 -
110L’Allegro Tenor air & chorus
02:14 -
111L’Allegro Tenor air & chorus
02:26 -
112Il Penseroso Soprano recitative accompany,d
01:01 -
113Il Penseroso Soprano air & chorus
02:02 -
114L’Allegro Tenor & Treble recitative
00:27 -
115L’Allegro Treble air
04:04 -
116Il Penseroso Soprano recitative accompany,d
00:55 -
117Il Penseroso Soprano air
13:28 -
118L’Allegro Bass recitative
00:10 -
119L’Allegro Bass air
02:26 -
120Il Penseroso Soprano air
03:23 -
121L’Allegro Tenor recitative
00:14 -
122L’Allegro Tenor air
01:43 -
123L’Allegro Treble air & chorus
03:45 -
124Concerto Grosso Op.6, No.3 in E Minor I. Larghetto
01:19 -
125Concerto Grosso Op.6, No.3 in E Minor II. Andante
01:25 -
126Concerto Grosso Op.6, No.3 in E Minor III. Allegro
02:36 -
127Concerto Grosso Op.6, No.3 in E Minor IV. Polonaise - Andante
04:56 -
128Concerto Grosso Op.6, No.3 in E Minor V. Allegro, Ma Non Troppo
01:31 -
129Il Penseroso Soprano recitative accompany'd
01:25 -
130Il Penseroso Soprano air
06:00 -
131Il Penseroso Soprano recitative
00:38 -
21L’Allegro chorus
03:20 -
22L’Allegro Tenor air
02:08 -
23Il Penseroso Soprano recitative accompany'd
00:53 -
24Il Penseroso Soprano air
03:48 -
25L’Allegro Tenor air
01:59 -
26L’Allegro Treble air
03:01 -
27L’Allegro Tenor air & chorus
03:19 -
28Il Penseroso Soprano recitative
00:52 -
29Il Penseroso Chorus
01:58 -
210Il Penseroso organo ad libitum & chorus (with Soprano)
04:39 -
211Organ Concerto Op.7, No.1 in B flat Major I. Andante
09:16 -
212Organ Concerto Op.7, No.1 in B flat Major II. Largo E Piano
03:32 -
213Organ Concerto Op.7, No.1 in B flat Major III. Fuga
02:38 -
214Organ Concerto Op.7, No.1 in B flat Major IV. Adagio: Organo Ad Libitum
00:31 -
215Organ Concerto Op.7, No.1 in B flat Major V. Bourrée
02:33 -
216Il Moderato Baritone recitative accompany'd
00:31 -
217Il Moderato Baritone air, recitative accompany'd & chorus
05:51 -
218Il Moderato Soprano air
01:34 -
219Il Moderato Tenor recitative
00:38 -
220Il Moderato Tenor air
02:04 -
221L’Allegro & Il Penseroso Soprano & Tenor duet
06:20 -
222Il Moderato chorus
02:51