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Millennium of Music
Music List # 10-08
Spotlight on the Netherlands: Italian Cantatas
We continue our long and fruitful association with our partners at Radio Netherlands in presenting a series of concerts from the 2009 Holland Festival of Early Music at Utrecht. The RNW web site provides more in-depth information about the music and performers we hear as well as more information about the festival (www.rnmusic.nl). The primary theme for 2009 was the 250th anniversary of the death of Handel and the 350th of the birth of Purcell.
RNW has also prepared a short YouTube video introduction to the festival for this year:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8gw2qGUaBw
NOTE: All All of the music on these programs is performed by Contrasto Armonico with soprano Stefanie True, conducted by Marco Vitale. for more information:
www.contrastoarmonico.eu
GEORG FRIEDRICH HÄNDEL (1685-1759): Il delirio amoroso, HWV 99 (1707) [story line: Despite being rejected by Tirsis, Cloris, the lovelorn shepherdess, follows him on his death to the underworld, in order to escort him from Hades to Elysium.]
HANDEL: Tra le fiamme, HWV 170 [a meditation on the dangerous powers of attraction: a moth burning in the flame of a candle and Icarus plunging to earth when his wax-coated wings melt in the heat of the sun...only the phoenix can rise from its ashes, so mortals should "beware a heart so easily inflamed, and resist temptation."
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