Philippe Jaroussky, Handel: Scherza, Infida

Do I still live? And without a sword, o gods? What shall I do? What do you say, my troubles? / Enjoy yourself, o faithless one, in the arms of your lover. Betrayed by you, I will now give myself up to death's embrace. / But in order to break this shameful tie, a sad shade and bereaved spirit, I will return to punish you. George Frideric Handel: from Ariodante. Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor. (For further information about high-male voices, check http://www.malesopranos.com )

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[MariadeBsAs]

Bravissssimo Philippe!!!! You fill our souls with immense beauty, nothing can pay this, it´s out of material world.

[Cissy97]

Jaroussky's Haendel is immaculate!

[crazyaboutbirra]

Genial, sublime, magnífico, celestial...



[revecom76]

@GlobalJukebox i couldn't agree more! The same happens to me!

[buboy1685]

Interesting reading

[GabrielPadecopeo]

Traduzco al castellano:

"Diviértete, infiel, en los brazos de tu amante.

Debido a tu traición ahora voy

Hacia los brazos de la muerte.

Aunque para romper ese indigno vínculo

Yo regresaré acosándote para tu castigo

Como una oscura sombra, un simple fantasma.

[GlobalJukebox]

It sounds so fast to me... The first version of this, one of my favourite songs was the version sung by Anne Sofie Von Otter from the Minkowski recording.

Now every other version just sounds brutally fast, like a record on the wrong speed.

To me this songs needs to be slow and brooding.

[51m0n77]

Amazing! 

[Asiilana]

Absolutely out of this world...,

[sfkcbf]

@Arsamenes1 You have a good ear for Baroque. "David of all Davids": that is why I made several productions of "Oh Lord, Whose Mercies Numberless" as I discovered better images and then later a second intepretation by Paul. It still is one of my favorites.

[Arsamenes1]

@sfkcbf

Mmh, Paul Esswood as Ariodante. An interesting idea. Sounds good to me. At least for "Scherza infida" having his voice in ear ever since I bought his recording of Saul. The David of all Davids.

[sfkcbf]

@Arsamenes1 With Baroque arias that are very emotional ("pathetic arias") and with slower tempi, my sense is that a darker, warmer voice is called for. The one singer that comes to mind first is Paul Esswood, although I am not aware that he ever sand or recorded it.