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Rivals: Max Emanuel Cenčić pits Porpora and Handel against each other in Halle

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Reviewed at Konzerthalle Ulrichskirche, Halle on 8 June 2018
Porpora, Ifigenia in Aulide: Tu spietato, non sarai
Porpora, Arianna in Nasso: Nume che reggi 'l mare
Porpora, Meride e Selinunte: Torbido intorno al core
Porpora, Filandro: D’esser già parmi
Handel, Orlando, HWV 31: Già l'ebro mio ciglio
Handel, Orlando HWV 31:Cielo! Se tu consenti
Handel, Arminio, HWV 36: Al par della mis sorte
Handel, Arminio, HWV 36: Si cadrò, ma sorgerà
Vivaldi, L'estro armonico: Concerto for 2 violins, cello and strings in A minor, Op.3 no. 8, RV 522
Vivaldi, Trio Sonata in D minor Op.1 no. 12 RV 63 "La follia”
Vivaldi, Mandolin Concerto in C major, RV 425
Max Emanuel Cenčić, Countertenor
George Petrou, Conductor
Armonia Atenea
Sergiu Nastasa, Violin
Carmen-Otilia Alitei, Violin
Theodoros Kitsos, Mandolin
Leonardo Vinci's music revived by Franco Fagioli at Bayreuth Baroque
*****
Porpora's Orfeo: a plunge into the Neapolitan golden century
****1
Baroque tenor Juan Sancho at the Halle Handel Festival
****1
Jewel Arias: Scintillating Siroe at the Concertgebouw
*****
Greek myths galore from Armonia Atenea
***11
Alessandro wows the audience at Salle Pleyel
*****
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