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Passions baroques déchirées avec Olena Tokar et Terry Wey à Bâle

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“tout cela n'était que fiction virtuose, dans un esprit bien napolitain !”
Reviewed at Peterskirche, Basel on 25 November 2019
Pollarolo, Ariodante: Overture
Porpora, Vanne e vivi con la speranza
Hasse, Euristeo: Amo, bramo, e non dispero
Albinoni, Concerto in D minor for oboe, Op.9 no.2
Albinoni, Ereclea: Vado a pugnar o bella
Handel, Partenope HWV 27: Ch'io parta? Sì, crudele
Leo, Rinaldo: Rendi la cara sposa
Giacomelli, Gianguir: Placide a miglior vita
Handel, Rinaldo, HWV 7: Venti turbini
Handel, Tamerlano, HWV 18: ouverture
Handel, Rodelinda HWV 19: Io t'abbraccio
Porta, Farnace: Affanni del pensier
Hasse, Cleofide: Se mai più sarò geloso
Olena Tokar, Soprano
Terry Wey, Countertenor
Basel Chamber Orchestra
Julia Schröder, Conductor
Schumann v Schumann: a surprise victor in Vienna concerto play-off
****1
Handel's somewhat rare oratorio Susanna in the Halle Handel Festival
***11
Swish playing from a Swiss orchestra
****1
Daniel Hope and the Basel Chamber Orchestra
****1
Sol Gabetta a stylish soloist with the Basel CO
***11
Mozart disappoints, but Rameau and Bizet compensate
***11
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