Giulio Cesare in Egitto album review – Sabine Devieilhe’s exquisite Cleopatra could make stones weep
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TLDRGiulio Cesare is Handel’s most popular opera with at least 15 versions in the current catalogue. This new recording comes off the back of a European tour, thus benefiting from the experience of live performances. A lived-in quality is palpable here, from the frisson of emotional risk-taking to imaginatively decorated da capo sections.
Giulio Cesare is Handel’s most popular opera with at least 15 versions in the current catalogue, several of them historical. This new recording by period instrument band Il Pomo d’Oro comes off the back of a European tour, thus benefiting from the experience of live performances. A lived-in quality is palpable here, from the frisson of emotional risk-taking to imaginatively decorated da capo secti
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