Friday 20 September 2019

Handel - Admetus, King of Thessaly [Admeto - sung in English] (Anthony Lewis, 1968) [3CD]


Ponto 2004 [rec. 1968] | EAC LOG FLAC+CUE | 3CDs + booklet | 548MB



G.F. Handel


"ADMETUS, King of Thessaly"


(ADMETO, Rè di Tessaglia, opera, HWV 22 - sung in English)


performed by

Maureen Lehane, alto (Admetus)

Sheila Armstrong, soprano (Antigona)

Janet Baker, mezzo-soprano (Alcestis)

John Kitchener, baritone (Hercules)

Margaret Lenski, soprano (Thrasymedes)

Jean Temperley, mezzosoprano (Orindo)

Norman Welsby, baritone (Meraspes / Oracle of Apollo) 

 

The Baroque Opera Orchestra

(on modern instruments)

Sir Anthony Lewis, dir.


Recording: 5/1968
TT: 180'53''
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Bonus:

J.S. Bach

Cantata "Geist und Seele wird verwirret", BWV 35

Janet Baker

English Chamber Orchestra

Benjamin Britten, dir.


Recording: Blythburgh Church, 6/1969
TT: 31'40''