G.F. Handel in his 20s and 30s

It is not usual to see the young Handel... Anyway I'm not going to demonstrate that he has been slim. I'm sharing some of the operas premiered in his first twenty years (roughly) of career at the theatre.
I had never listened to any until recently and I decided to make this post for other beginners like me. There is much good music, even if the plot is often not so engaging.
By the way, if you happen to find the miniature shown here, give it back to the Händel-Haus in Halle where it was stolen in 1948.


Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)

Cantate italiane
Diana cacciatrice, Il consiglio, Armida abbandonata, Delirio amoroso, Ero e Leandro, "Spande ancor a mio dispetto", "Ah, crudel, nel pianto mio", "Cuopre talvolta il cielo"

Emanuela Galli, Roberta Invernizzi, Raffaella Milanesi, Salvo Vitale, Furio Zanasi
La Risonanza, Fabio Bonizzoni
Amadeus AM217-2 (2007)
[flac, cue, log, scans]



Rodrigo
(Vincere se stesso è la maggior vittoria)

Gloria Banditelli, Sandrine Piau, Elena Cecchi Fedi, Rufus Müller, Roberta Invernizzi, Caterina Calvi
Il Complesso Barocco
Alan Curtis
Virgin 5 45897 2 (1999)
[flac, cue, log, scans]



La resurrezione. Oratorio

Nancy Argenta, Maria Cristina Kiehr, Marijana Mijanovic, Marcel Reijans, Klaus Mertens
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
Jan Willem de Vriend
Challenge Classics CC 72120 (2001)
[flac, cue, log, covers]



Agrippina

Della Jones, Alastair Miles, Derek Lee Ragin, Michael Chance,  Donna Brown
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner
Philips 438 009-2 (1997)
[flac, cue, log, scans]




Rinaldo

Ileana Cotrubas, Carolyn Watkinson, Jeanette Scovotti, Paul Esswood, Charles Brett, Ulrik Cold
La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy
Jean-Claude Malgoire
Sony SM3K 34 592 (1997). Recorded 1977
[flac, cue, log, scans]




Esther. Oratorio

Lynda Russell, Nancy Argenta, Michael Chance, Thomas Randle, Mark Padmore, Michael George
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers
Regis RRC2025 (2003)
[flac, cue, log, scans]
Showing cover of Collins Classics 70402 (1996)



 Flavio

Jeffrey Gall, Derek Lee Ragin, Lena Lootens, Bernarda Fink
Ensemble 415
René Jacobs
Harmonia Mundi HMX 2901312.13 (2003). Recorded 1989
[flac, cue, log, scans]





Giulio Cesare

Jennifer Larmore, Barbara Schlick, Bernarda Fink, Marianne Rørholm, Derek Lee Ragin
Concerto Köln
René Jacobs
Harmonia Mundi HMX 2901385.87 (2003). Recorded 1991
[flac, cue, log, covers]




Tamerlano

Nancy Argenta, Jane Findlay, Derek Lee Ragin, Michael Chance, Nigel Robson, René Schirrer
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner
Erato 2292-45408-2 (1985)
[flac, cue, log, scans]


 Rodelinda

Sophie Daneman, Daniel Taylor, Adrian Thompson, Catherine Robbin, Robin Blaze, Christopher Purves
Raglan Baroque Players
Nicholas Kraemer
Virgin 5 45277 2 (1998)
[flac, cue, log, scans]
A boring performance :-(