(...) A period instrument performance, recorded in concert in 1993, by La Grande Ecurie et La Chambre du Roy under the direction of Jean-Claude Malgoire. There is an excellent group of soloists and a fine choral ensemble, the Choeur de Chambre de Namur (22 strong). The trombones, however, alas, do not appear to be playing, colla parte, the choruses. It is, nonetheless, a most enjoyable undertaking. (...)|
Orlando (HWV 31) is an opera seria in three acts by George Frideric Handel written for the King's Theatre in London in 1733. The Italian-language libretto was adapted from Carlo Sigismondo Capece's L'Orlando after Ludovico Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, which was also the source of Handel's operas Alcina and Ariodante. More an artistic than a popular success at its first performances, Orlando is today recognised as a masterpiece. (...)|
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