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	Michael Korn, soprano Judith Bergen, soprano Benita Valente Handel: Roman Vespers Genre: Classical World Premiere Recording.
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All Artists: Michael Korn, soprano Judith Bergen, soprano Benita Valente, contralto Maureen Forrester, tenor Jon Garrison, bass John Cheek, Philadelphia Singers, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia
Title: Handel: Roman Vespers
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Label: RCA Red Seal
Original Release Date: 1/1/1986
Album Type: Box set
Genre: Classical
Styles: Opera & Classical Vocal, Historical Periods, Baroque (c.1600-1750), Sacred & Religious
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 078635718225

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World Premiere Recording.

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CD Reviews

"Fremat Lucifer inter adores . . . "

Eric A. Isaacson | San Diego, CA USA | 12/23/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

""Fremat Lucifer inter adores; artibus astibus Ditis minas irredete." (Though Lucifer may rage at you from his flames, you [Carmelites] may laugh at the menacings of the Lord of Hell.)

However Lucifer might rage, this is a stunningly beautiful performance of Handel's Roman, or Carmelite, Vespers - the finest that I have heard.

The recording is clear and crisp and bright but . . . the sopranos' most beautiful runs are afflicted by a crackling distortion. I'm afraid it is in the recording - for I have played my disc on several systems, and the noise always is there. What a shame!

Still, the music is lovely, and the performance sends chills down my spine. I would not want to do without it. This is Handel's music at its best.

Handel aficionados will note, incidentally, that the much-loved air in the Suite in F major from Handel's "Water Music" of 1717 borrows from "Haec est Regina Virginum" of the 1707 Carmelite Vespers. (Compare Handel: Water Music track 5, with track 7 of this recording).

Whatever its flaws, I far prefer this recording to the one released first on EMI Reflexe, and re-released on Virgin Veritas, with Andrew Parrott conducting the Taverner Choir and Taverner Players - a recording of a performance that valiantely strives for historical accuracy but that sounds relatively dull, even muddy, by comparison to this one. (Compare on Virgin Veritas: Handel - Carmelite Vespers 1707 / Feldman · Kirkby · Van Evera · M. Cable · M. Nichols · Cornwell · Thomas · Parrott; and on EMI Reflexe: Handel: Carmelite Vespers, 1707).

Eric Alan Isaacson

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