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Atalanta

Georg Friedrich Händel

Reviews (3)

BBC music magazine

2012 December

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Paul Riley (musikanmelder)

2012 December

"Labelle's Atalanta is every inch the blue-blooded shepherdess whose inner Princess surfaces with her exquisitely polished tone. She also produces some deliciously seductive sighs ... Impressive, too, is Susanne Ryden's breathtaking verve in dispatching the high notes ... As ever, McGegan directs with incisive intelligence, drawing wonderfully spirited playing from the Philharmonia Baroque".

The gramophone

2012 September

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David Vickers

2012 September

"This 2005 live recording ... presents a charming Arcadian tale full of warm-heated characterisations and wonderful music ... The Phlharmonia Baroque Orchestra excel at detailed sensitive accompaniment ... and Nicholas McGegan's gently charismatic conducting ... The performance is certainly more accomplished and captivating than the only other recording of Atalanta, also conducted by McGegan but with Hungarian forces in 1984".

International record review

2012 July/August

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Hugh Canning

2012 July/August

"The music is enchanting and the entire work has the atmosphere of a super-refined divertissement ... For compulsive Handelians, the set is worth hearing above all for Dominique Labelle's entrancing heroine ... She's the shining star of the set ... McGegan himself is always worth hearing in Handel, with his lively pacing and apparently instrinctive sense of tempo relationships - the slow arias never sound a drag - and his long rapport with the Philharmonia Baroque reveals itself in playing which is as sprightly in fast numbers as it is expressive in slow".