Credits:

Medtner, N.

Description:

Handel’s young talent explodes with music that sharply expresses the emotions of the characters! Il Pomo d’Oro, led by Corti, the third release on the PENTATONE label is “Apollo and Daphne” and “Armida Abandoned”! The third release on the PENTATONE label by Francesco Corti and Il Pomo d’Oro, whose two CDs of Bach’s harpsichord concertos were “specially selected” by Record Geijutsu magazine and made a big splash in Japan, is two masterpiece cantatas from Handel’s youth. In his early twenties, Handel left his native Germany for the home of music, Italy, mainly in Rome, where he quickly absorbed the styles of his predecessors such as Stradella and A. Scarlatti, and composed numerous cantatas in Italian. Two of these masterpieces are “Apollo and Daphne” and “Armida Abandoned”. These two works, in which Handel’s youthful talent for expressing the emotions of his characters through music exploded, are