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Great Oratorio Duets

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Nicholas Kraemer Robin Blaze Format: Audio CD
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Track Listings

1 Jephtha, Oratorio, HWV 70: These Labours Past
2 Joshua, Oratorio, HWV 64: Oh Peerless Maid
3 Joshua, Oratorio, HWV 64: Our Limpid Streams
4 Belshazzar, Oratorio, HWV 61: Great Victor, at Your Feet I Bow
5 Susanna, Oratorio, HWV 66: When Thou Art Nigh
6 Susanna, Oratorio, HWV 66: To My Chaste Susanna's Praise
7 Theodora, Oratorio, HWV 68: To Thee, Thou Glorious Son of Worth
8 Theodora, Oratorio, HWV 68: Streams of Pleasure Ever Flowing
9 Solomon, Oratorio, HWV 67: Welcome As the Dawn of Day
10 Solomon, Oratorio, HWV 67: Ev'ry Joy That Wisdom Knows
11 Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne (Eternal Source of Light Divine), HWV 74: Kind Health Descends
12 Saul, Oratorio, HWV 53: O Fairest of Ten Thousand Fair
13 Saul, Oratorio, HWV 53: At Persecution I Can Laugh
14 Deborah, Oratorio, HWV 51: Where Do Thy Ardours Raise Me!
15 Deborah, Oratorio, HWV 51: Smiling Freedom, Lovely Guest
16 Alexander Balus, Oratorio, HWV 65: Hail Wedded Love
17 Alexander's Feast, Ode for St. Cecilia's Day, HWV 75: Let's Imitate Her Notes Above
18 Esther, Oratorio, HWV 50B: Who Calls My Parting Soul

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  • Language ‏ : ‎ German
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.94 x 5.51 x 0.43 inches; 3.88 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ BIS
  • Original Release Date ‏ : ‎ 2006
  • SPARS Code ‏ : ‎ DDD
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ March 8, 2010
  • Label ‏ : ‎ BIS
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000ENC41G
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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  • Claudine Torfs
    5.0 out of 5 stars Glorious voices
    Reviewed in the United States on October 14, 2012
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    Robin Blaze has a superb counter tenor voice and Carol Simpson is the perfect match. A great gift for Baroque music-loving friends. Hope they reprint it!
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  • Abert
    5.0 out of 5 stars The 'English' Handel
    Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2013
    It is useless to debate whether G. F. Handel is a German or English composer, for he was a prolific composer and wrote many vocal pieces of German, English as well as Italian.
    These Oratorios were composed in England to English libretti, and certainly they are 'English'. So, as always, the most idiomatic interpretation of these works come from British musicians, and this compilation of duets from handel's English Oratorios and Odes holds no exception.
    With the exception of 'Kind Health descends' taken from HWV 74 and 'Let's imitate her notes above' from HWV 75, other pieces are from oratorios.
    As one reviewer so aptly observed, the style is more devotional than dramatic in these duets. Certainly, it would be inappropriate to adopt an approach now in full swing in respect of many HIP Italian baroque compositions: the baroque 'rock-n'roll'.
    The performances here are stylish and elegant, with an overriding devotional element befitting the compositions' genre.
    Carolyn Sampson is one of the foremost Handel sopranos now singing in Britain. Her singing is simply impeccable. Robin Blaze is a younger counter-tenor, owning a very pure and light timbre and blends completely with Sampson's lyrical soprano. Nicholas Kraemer is careful to desist from choosing extreme tempi and harsh rhythmic thrusts, so the album remains one primarily spiritual instead of dramatic in character.
    This album is a desert island among the current dramatic HIP outputs of baroque vocal albums.
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  • Nicholas A. Deutsch
    5.0 out of 5 stars Ravishing performances of Fine Handel Duets
    Reviewed in the United States on May 30, 2006
    This is a lovely CD. There have been several discs devoted to Handel's Italian duets, both the non-dramatic chamber genre and the operas - in the latter case, notably the superb Patrizia Ciofi/Joyce Di Donato 'Amor e gelosia' (Virgin Veritas) - but this is the first I've run across comprising only ones from English-language works. It's a well-chosen and -sequenced selection from a dozen works, ten of them plotted 'sacred dramas,' plus one number each from the 'Ode for the Birthday of Queen Anne' and 'Alexander's Feast'; ending the program with a relatively downbeat duet from 'Esther' is an unexpected and inspired stroke. Soprano Carolyn Sampson and counter-tenor Robin Blaze sing ravishingly and blend beautifully, and are stylish and sensitive interpreters. They receive excellent support from the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Nicholas Kraemer. The more overtly dramatic duets from 'Belshazzar,' 'Theodora' and 'Saul' may not pack quite the intense punch of other versions - no doubt Sampson and Blaze would go further in specific characterization in the context of a complete performance of those works - but that's an observation, not a reservation. I do not own an SACD player, so I can't report on that aspect of the disc, but the sound on a standard CD player is excellent. Complete texts. Highly recommended.
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  • Flaminio Z.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Für mich eine der schönsten CDs überhaupt
    Reviewed in Germany on January 16, 2019
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    Ich weiß nicht, wieviele zig Male ich diese CD schon angehört habe! Nie werde ich es über - wie es mir in der Regel passiert, wo ich nach einer Phase intensiven Hörens meist erst mal nichts mehr von einer CD wissen will. Hier handelt es sich um so überirdisch schöne Musik, um zwei so toll zusammen klingende Stimmen, um ein so stimmiges, intelligentes, gefühlvolles Musizieren, dass ich die CD wieder und wieder anhöre. Allen Fans der Barockmusik - und vielleicht nicht nur ihnen - absolut zu empfehlen!
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  • LoloPépé86
    5.0 out of 5 stars Près d'une heure de grâce...
    Reviewed in France on October 3, 2016
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    apportée par les timbres absolument exquis de Carolyn Sampson et Robin Blaze.
    Beaucoup de ces pages sont généralement appréhendées dans le cadre de l'écoute de l'oeuvre intégrale mais les écouter "sorties" de leur écrin habituel n'est pas dérangeant, surtout chantées de cette manière.
    A titre personnel, je les connaissais pour la plupart dans des versions que j'aime toujours autant (Gardiner, McCreesh, Minkowski, entre autres) mais là, j'ai eu l'impression de les redécouvrir et ce pour les raisons suivantes :
    - une attention peut-être accrue en raison justement de leur "isolement" par rapport à l'oeuvre complète,
    - des voix qui se marient parfaitement, on à l'impression de ressentir la complicité jusque dans les tessitures des deux solistes,
    - une prise de son au cordeau : c'est déjà clair dans la version CD mais, si vous avez la chance d'écouter ce disque en SACD, vous montez d'un cran très nettement et ça devient cristallin, "clair comme un lac de montagne. Aussi clair qu'un ciel d'azur par un beau matin de mai" (Orange mécanique, je n'ai pas pu résister, désolé). On entend toutes les nuances des instruments, tous les détails de la partition, tout le grain des deux voix, ça respire, la vie est là. L'écoute au casque confirme mes impressions...
    Après coup, je ne peux m'empêcher de me dire que, peut-être, je me "fais des films"; peut-être...N'empêche que la sensation est là au départ et comme il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu...
    En somme, un très beau disque comme il y en a peu et techniquement à la hauteur, ce qui n'est pas si courant...
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  • Vigata
    5.0 out of 5 stars Double trouble, no, double bubble!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 9, 2024
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    I was alerted to the existence of this CD when a track was played on Radio 3. I enjoyed the track, and now I've enjoyed the rest of the CD. Congratulations to all the performers, and I'll be checking out more of their work.
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  • Paulo Berndt
    5.0 out of 5 stars Ótima gravação
    Reviewed in Brazil on August 30, 2020
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    Ótima gravação dos duetos de oratórios de Handel. Tudo perfeito.
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  • domdup
    3.0 out of 5 stars Assez soporifique.
    Reviewed in France on March 21, 2019
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    C'est une bonne idée que de réunir en un CD des duos si riches en inventivité de Haendel. C. Sampson et R. Blaze ( Bien connus dans un tel répertoire, mais plus tous jeunes ... ), n'offrent hélas rien de remarquable en raison de tempi soporifiques adoptés par le chef N. Kraemer. Ces extraits existent évidement dans les nombreuses intégrales de ces oeuvres et les comparaisons ne finiront pas en faveur de ce disque.
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