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Handel: Alceste / Lucy Crowe, Benjamin Hulett, Andrew Foster-Williams - Christian Curnyn

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2012-05-29

Works: George Frederick Handel: Alceste, incidental music, HWV 45; Admeto, re di Tessaglia, HWV 22; Radamisto, HWV 12a
Performers: Foster-Williams, Andrew
Conductors: Curnyn, Christian
Ensemble: ; Early Opera Company

This recording of Alceste is performed by the Early Opera Company and Christian Curnyn, whose other Handel recordings for Chandos have all received glowing accolades:...continue...
Recording information: St Jude on the Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London (11/07/2011-11/08/2011)....continue...

Handel: Flavio, re di Longobardi, opera

2 CD / Chandos Records / 2010-10-26

Works: George Frederick Handel: Flavio, Rè di Longobardi, HWV 16
Conductors: Curnyn, Christian

Although Flavio, premiered in 1723, deals with motives of love, honour, and duty, the tone is domestic, with less emphasis than in many other operas...continue...
Recording information: All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London (02/08/2010-02/12/2010)....continue...

Benjamin Britten: The Beggar's Opera / Christian Curnyn, et al

2 CD / Chandos Records / 2009-10-27

Works: Benjamin Britten: The Beggar's Opera, ballad opera
Performers: Barnard, Thomas; Batho, Katy; Bickley, Susan; Evans, Bryn; Fox, Sarah; Gardiner, Robert Anthony; Gibson, Siobhain; Hopwood, Paul; Jenkin, Kathryn; Jones, Leah-Marian; Lord, Bernadette; Maxwell, Donal...
Conductors: Curnyn, Christian

The popularity of Britten's three chamber operas proper (The Rape of Lucretia, Albert Herring and The Turn of the Screw) has tended to somewhat overshadow...continue...

Eccles: The Judgement of Paris, Mad Songs / Curnyn, Williams, Hulett, Bickley, et al

1 CD / Chandos Records / 2009-04-28

Works: John Eccles: The Judgment of Paris or the Prize Music, masque; Mad Songs (3)
Performers: Bickley, Susan; Booth, Claire; Crowe, Lucy; Hulett, Benjamin; Williams, Roderick [Bass-Baritone Vocal]
Conductors: Curnyn, Christian
Ensemble: Early Opera Company

BBC Music Magazine
Christian Curnyn elegantly captures the unique charms of Eccles's music. ... as Venus, Lucy Crowe's melting lyricism, delicately underpinned by plucked and bowed...continue...

Handel: Semele / Curnyn, Joshua, Summers, et al

3 CD / Chandos Records / 2008-01-08

Works: George Frederick Handel: Semele
Performers: Croft, Richard [Tenor Vocal]; Joshua, Rosemary; Pearson, Gail; Sherratt, Brindley; Wallace, Stephen
Conductors: Curnyn, Christian
Ensemble: Early Opera Company

This 3 CD set represents the first complete recording on period insruments of Handel's 'Semele'. Written at the peak of Handel's powers, and derisively described...continue...

Handel: Partenope / Christian Curnyn, Early Opera Company

3 CD / Chandos Records / 2005-06-21

Works: George Frederick Handel: Partenope
Performers: Foster-Williams, Andrew; Joshua, Rosemary; Streit, Kurt; Wallace, Stephen; Zazzo, Lawrence
Conductors: Curnyn, Christian
Ensemble: Early Opera Company

"...Christian Curnyn has as infallible a sense of tempo and musico-dramatic shape - in individual numbers, in whole scenes and acts - as the composer...continue...