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Reviewer: David Vickers
Faustina Bordoni was one half of Handel’s so-called ‘Rival Queens’ for just under three seasons (1726-28), and in 1730 she married Hasse in Venice — so Vivica Genaux’s recital of arias for Faustina by Handel and Hasse is such an obviously sensible idea that it’s amazing it hasn’t been done before. Quantz praised Faustina’s immaculate articulation and excellent trills — and Genaux lives up to that vocal artistry brilliantly wich the copious trills and arching melodic phrases in the long but lovely ‘Piange quel fonte’ from Hasse’s Numa Pompilio. Hasse gets the lion’s share and the recital concludes with the elderly husband’s touching tribute to his wife composed after her death in 1781, ‘Ah! Che mancar mi sento’. Handel’s best dramatic creations for Faustina are not chosen and there are manifold deficiencies in the booklet-notes. The florid ‘Parmi che giunta in porto’ is not from Handel’s 1720 Radamisto, as the track listing states, but is a bona fide rarity composed for Faustina in the 1727 revival of Floridante (later used in the 1728 revival of Radamisto). Cappella Gabetta accompany with considerable warmth and judicious elegance, and their horns have a great time in the splendid overture to Hasse’s Didone abbandonata. I cannot remember enjoying Genaux’s singing more than this.
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