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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0028944768923
Format: Import
Label: Dg Imports
Manufacturer: Dg Imports
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Dg Imports
Release Date: September 01, 1995
Studio: Dg Imports
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Hercules is much better heard as an opera rather than as an oratorio. Handel had had well and truly enough of Italian opera, but there was another way of doing it. Hercules is genuine drama unlike, say, Saul which is a kind of animated musical narrative. The difference in approach is vividly clear if we compare the astounding chorus `Jealousy! Infernal pest' in this work with `Envy eldest born of hell' in Saul. The sentiments are much the same, but the ways the composer expresses them could hardly ... Read More
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Handel's "Musical Drama" HERCULES (1744) is one of a pair of secular dramas on Greek myths - the other is SEMELE - which the composer wrote for concert performance after he had shifted his energies from Italian opera to English oratorio. A dark drama of the destructive power of jealousy, it boasts a score of great power, of which Dejanira's scene of madness and remorse "Where Shall I Fly?" has become a favorite of mezzo-sopranos.
Complete recordings are another matter, and it's an odd fact that ... Read More
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