Solo voices, choir,
orchestra (3 Soprano
Voice Solo, 3 Tenor Voice
Solo, 2 Bass Voice Solo,
SATB Choir, 2
recorder-Alto, 2 Oboe,
bassoon, 3 Trumpets,
timpani, 3 Violins,
Viola, Cello, Bassi(Vc,
double bass, bassoon,
harpisc.))
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BA.BA04050
Opera
in three acts.
Composed by George
Frideric Handel. Edited
by Dorothea Schröder.
This edition: complete
edition, urtext edition.
Linen. Halle Handel
Edition (HHA) Series II,
Volume 1. Oper, Barock
(Opera, Baroque).
Complete edition, Score.
HWV 1. Duration 3 hours,
30 minutes. Baerenreiter
Verlag #BA04050_00.
Published by Baerenreiter
Verlag (BA.BA04050).
ISBN 9790006443598. 33
x 26 cm inches. Language:
German. Text: Feustking,
Friedrich
Christian.
“A
lmiraâ€,
Handel’s first
opera, was well received
when premiered in 1705 at
the Theater am
Gänsemarkt in Hamburg.
The director was Reinhard
Keiser, who, remarkably,
had himself already set
Friedrich Christian
Feustking’s text
to music. The role of
Fernando was sung by
Johann Mattheson. The
translation used by
Handel leaves several
Italian arias in their
original language,
resulting in a delightful
mixture of German and
Italian.
The opera
which, after sundry
entangled romances, ends
in the wedding of three
couples, is characterised
by exuberant scenes: the
procession at
Almira’s crowning
ceremony, a duel, a
prison scene and a
masked-ball involving the
three continents Europe,
Africa and Asia.
The vocal score
to “Almiraâ€
by George Frideric Handel
brings about a small
sensation: Whilst
conducting a reenactment
of this work in 1732,
Georg Philipp Telemann
removed the Aria no. 28
“Ingrato,
spietato†from his
conducting score. Since
then this aria has been
deemed lost. Due to
necessity only the edited
vocal text devoid of any
music was presented in
the 1994 volume of the
“Halle Handel
Editionâ€.
Thanks to a recently
discovered contemporary
manuscript copy from the
beginning of the 18th
century which was found
in the music library of
the Mariengymnasium in
Jever, this aria has now
been made available to
performers for the first
time in this new vocal
score edition. Previous
to this the corresponding
pages could only be seen
as a facsimile in an
article of the
“Göttinger
Händel-Beiträgeâ
.
Now the aria can
be performed again.
Furthermore, with the
help of this new source,
missing measures in the
basso continuo which had
initially been completed
by the editor of the
“Halle Handel
Edition†volume,
could be reconstructed
from the basso continuo
part of the Bellante aria
“Ich brenne
zwar†(no. 71).
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