Cantatas for alto and continuo HANDEL, George Frideric edited by Harris Price: £35.00 ISBN-10: 0-19-345413-0 ISBN-13: 978-0-19-345413-2 Alto/mezzo & keyboard Publication date: 2 August 2001	Ordering
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Description

Sixteen cantatas for alto or mezzo voice and keyboard
These cantatas includes more ornamentation than any other Handel cantata collection. Most are published here in an ornamented version, corrected form or complete for the first time. Included is a full description of the songs and their sources and notes for performers, as well as editorial method and critical notes.

Contents

	Clori, degli occhi miei
	Deh! lasciate e vita e volo
	Dolc'è pur d'amor l'affanno
	Figli del mesto cor
	Fra pensieri
	Ho fuggito Amore
	Irene, idolo mio
	La solitudine: 'L'aure grate'
	Lungi da me, pensier tiranno!
	Lungi n'andò Fileno
	Nel dolce tempo
	Qualor crudele
	Quando sperasti, o core
	Siete rose rugiadose
	Son gelsomino
	Stanco di più soffrire

Reviews

• 'OUP has brought out a new edition of 16 alto cantatas by Handel based on manuscripts held in the Bodleian Library. Some of these have been previously available but a few are unique to this edition, others are here in their complete version for the first time and the included original ornamentation is a valuable resource in its own right. This is a beautiful and scholary volume - in its performance advice, its realisation of the figured bass and its annotation of ornamentation achieves a a balance between clarity of text and space for the flexibility this style requires.' Pamela Lidiard, Music Teacher July 2002
• 'This is an interesting volume and should be seized upon by altos (of both sexes) . . . The scholarship lying behind this volume is first rate, but its main value is in providing at what is in 21st-century terms quite a low price such a cornucopia of excellent and mostly unknown music . . . This is a solid publication (singers will need a music stand or a memory) that deserves wide circulation.' Early Music Review, December 2001

The specification in this catalogue, including without limitation price, format, extent, number of illustrations, and month of publication, was as accurate as possible at the time the catalogue was compiled.

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