Handel, G F - 3CD-BOX: Orlando - Malgoire, J-C (conductor)
Christophe Dumaux, Orlando
Elena de la Merced, Angelica
Jean Michel Fumas, Medoro
Rachel Nicholis, Dorinda
Alain Buet, Zoroastro
Grande Ecurie & Chambre du Roy
Cond. Jean-Claude Malgoire
In his setting of Orlando (drawn from Tasso's Orlando furioso) Handel offers us a score of remarkable dramatic power, diversity and originality. Orlando's mad scene and his slumber aria are among the composer's most striking creations. Everything in the opera arouses admiration: the extremely varied scoring, the exuberant vocal writing, the rhythmic invention, and the supple melodies.