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Alfonso Sebastián, Fernando Santiago, Gabriel Díaz

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Between 1706 and 1710, a young George Frideric Handel undertook an extended journey through Italy that would prove transformative. Immersed in the most sophisticated musical culture of his age, he composed prolifically a wealth of secular cantatas that rank among the most intimate and emotionally penetrating works of his entire career. An Italian Portrait brings together five of these cantatas in what is probably their first complete recording with countertenor.

Heard through the prism of the male voice, these pages take on a new luminosity, the poetry of unrequited love and inner conflict coloured with a timbre as distinctive as the works themselves are remarkable. Countertenor Gabriel Díaz is joined by harpsichordist Alfonso Sebastián and baroque cellist Fernando Santiago in a performance recorded in the gorgeous acoustics of the Iglesia de San Miguel de Daroca, Zaragoza.

Gabriel Díaz, Countertenor
Alfonso Sebastián, Harpsichord
Fernando Santiago, Cello

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1.
Irene idolo mio HWV 120b I. Recitativo. Irene idolo mio
00:51
2.
Irene idolo mio HWV 120b II. Aria. Tormento maggiore
03:16
3.
Irene idolo mio HWV 120b III. Recitativo. Talor che cerco o Irene
00:47
4.
Irene idolo mio HWV 120b IV. Aria. In tanti affanni è immerso il core
02:22
5.
Irene idolo mio HWV 120b V. Recitativo. Contro forza fatale del Dio bendato
00:29
6.
Irene idolo mio HWV 120b VI. Aria. Quanto più rigida si mostra Irene
02:11
7.
Clori degli occhi miei HWV 91a I. Recitativo. Clori degli occhi miei
00:41
8.
Clori degli occhi miei HWV 91a II. Aria. Quel bel rio ch’a duro scoglio
04:03
9.
Clori degli occhi miei HWV 91a III. Recitativo. Ma d’un scoglio peggiore
00:43
10.
Clori degli occhi miei HWV 91a IV. Aria. Quella che miri aura scherzosa
04:20
11.
Stanco di più soffrire HWV 167a I. Recitativo. Stanco di più soffrire
00:58
12.
Stanco di più soffrire HWV 167a II. Aria. Era in sogno almen contento
04:22
13.
Stanco di più soffrire HWV 167a III. Recitativo. Quando mi parve allora
01:00
14.
Stanco di più soffrire HWV 167a IV. Aria. Se più non t’amo non ti doler
02:36
15.
Lungi da me pensier tiranno HWV 125b I. Recitativo. Lungi da me pensier tiranno!
00:38
16.
Lungi da me pensier tiranno HWV 125b II. Aria. Pensier crudele se vuoi ch’io creda
02:29
17.
Lungi da me pensier tiranno HWV 125b III. Recitativo. Ma se amor ciò contrasta
00:29
18.
Lungi da me pensier tiranno HWV 125b IV. Aria. Fuggi da questo sen
01:55
19.
Lungi da me pensier tiranno HWV 125b V. Recitativo. Non sa il mio cor sincero
00:29
20.
Lungi da me pensier tiranno HWV 125b VI. Aria. Tirsi amato adorato mio Nume!
03:49
21.
Dolc’è pur d’amor l’affanno HWV 109a I. Aria. Dolc’è pur d’amor l’affanno
04:57
22.
Dolc’è pur d’amor l’affanno HWV 109a II. Recitativo. Il viver sempre in pene stanca
00:41
23.
Dolc’è pur d’amor l’affanno HWV 109a III. Aria. Se più non t’amo non ti doler
02:20

Total time: 00:46:26

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EUDDR2605
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Recording Location

Iglesia de San Miguel de Daroca, Zaragoza, Spain
Recording Engineer

Gonzalo Noqué
Producer

Gonzalo Noqué
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Horus, Merging Technologies
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Microphones: Sonodore LDM54 & RCM402, Pearl CC2, Neumann U89 & Schoeps Other Equipment: Hifiman headphones; Dutch & Dutch 8c speakers
Release Date August 21, 2026

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