Händel, Georg Friedrich
La Bellezza ravveduta nel trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno HWV 46a
Oratorio in two Parts
Rome 1707
- Urtext edition based on the “Halle Handel Edition” (HHA)
- With literal German and English translations
- Comprehensive Foreword (Ger/Eng)
- Idiomatic uncluttered piano reduction
Handel composed his first Italian oratorio “La Bellezza ravveduta nel trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno” in 1707. It is based on an allegorical moral libretto written by Cardinal Benedetto Pamphili who also commissioned this work.
Disinganno (Illumination) and Tempo (Time) try to get the young, beautiful and frivolous Bellezza (Beauty) to recognise the true values of life and to act accordingly. The audience accompanies Bellezza in her spiritual development, in which she increasingly distances herself from Piacere (Pleasure) and listens more and more to Tempo and Disinganno.
The oratorio contains some of the most beautiful music Handel ever composed. This includes the enchanting aria “Lascia la spina”, in which he uses the music of the sarabande from the opera “Almira”, composed in Hamburg in 1704, and which then achieved immortal fame in “Rinaldo” (1711) as “Lascia ch’io pianga”. / Partitions classique / Vocale - chorale / Choeur et ensemble vocal / BARENREITER

Für die Passionszeit des Jahres 1680 komponierte Dieterich Buxtehude sein größtes oratorisches Werk, den Kantatenzyklus Membra Jesu nostri und widmete diesen dem mit ihm befreundeten schwedischen Hofkapellmeister Gustav Düben. In den sieben Einzelkantaten, die prinzipiell alle dem Schema „instrumentale Einleitung – Chorsatz mit Bibeltext – Vokalsoli (Aria) mit mittelalterlicher geistlicher Dichtung – Wiederholung des Chorsatzes“ folgen, werden Füße, Knie, Hände, Seite, Brust, Herz und Gesicht des gekreuzigten Christus allegorisch gedeutet.
BuxWV 75
Coro SSATB, 2 Vl, Vne, 5 Vga (2 Vl, Vne, 2 Vga), Bc
Latin / Partitions classique / Vocale - chorale / Choeur et ensemble vocal / CARUS

Solo SST, Bc
Nach dem Hymnus Veni redemptor gentium / Partitions classique / Vocale - chorale / Choeur et ensemble vocal / CARUS

1617
Soli SST, Bc, [Bassinstr] / Partitions classique / Vocale - chorale / Choeur et ensemble vocal / CARUS