Handel: Theodora, HWV 60 Classical Alpha

Handel: Theodora, HWV 60

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AJ 1025

Handel: Theodora, HWV 60

Label Catalogue Number:
ALPHA1025

Release Date: February 2024
Originally recorded in 2023

Genre:
Classical

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Among Handel's seventeen English oratorios, Theodora (1750) is unique. The story is not taken from the Bible, it is set in the Christian era, there is no national triumph and it does not end in joy. At the end, the hero and heroine are dead, the community with which the audience identifies is in mortal danger, and the final chorus is in a minor key. As a musical drama, it is the direct ancestor of Dialogues des Carmélites . At the age of 65, Handel produced a work that was too radical and complex for most of his audience. Today, Theodora is regarded as a benchmark "thinking person’s opera", both deeply stimulating and powerfully moving.

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Recording of the Month – June 2024

“Arcangelo's Theodora soars above all other accounts of Handel's masterpiece.” *****

Will Yeoman – Limelight-arts.com.au – 20 May 2024

**** Excellent Album

Jérémie Bigorie – Classica magazine (France) – April 2024

Performance **** Recording ****

“… outstanding recording, which is not only original, but stunning.”

Berta Joncus – BBC Music magazine – April 2024

“A splendidly cohesive musically-rewarding example of integrated casting and performance.”

Jonathan Woolf – Musicwebinternational.com – 12 March 2024

Editor’s Choice – Vocal Section

“… a strong recommendation.”

Lindsay Kemp – Gramophone magazine – March 2024

“A performance of Handel's late masterpiece that combines musical beauties with a sense of the inner meaning of the words, with a wonderful central performance from Louise Alder.”

Robert Hugill – planethugill.com – 20 February 2024

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