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Handel from Magdalena Kožená and the VBO at Enescu Festival

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“Kožená lunged herself at the painful dissonances of “Se pietà””
Reviewed at Romanian Atheneum (Ateneul Român), Bucharest on 3 September 2017
Handel, Concerto Grosso in B flat major, Op.3 No.2, HWV 313
Handel, Alcina, HWV 34: Verdi prati
Handel, Agrippina, HWV 6: Ogni vento
Handel, Concerto Grosso in G major, Op.6 no.1, HWV 319
Handel, Rinaldo, HWV7: Cara sposa
Handel, Rinaldo, HWV 7: Venti turbini
Handel, Ariodante, HWV33: Overture
Handel, Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17: Se pietà di me non senti
Handel, Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17: L'angue offeso mai riposa
Handel, Concerto Grosso in A minor, Op.6 no.4, HWV 322
Handel, Agrippina: Pensieri, voi mi tormentate
Handel, Ariodante, HWV33: Dopo notte
Vivaldi, La verità in cimento: Solo quella guancia bella
Magdalena Kožená, Mezzo-soprano
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Andrea Marcon, Conductor
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