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Purves performs Handel arias with the ensemble Arcangelo, led by Jonathan Cohen

Compact disc

Includes full credits, program notes by David Vickers in English, with French and German translations, biographical notes on the performers in English, and texts in English or Italian with English translations (19 pages ; portraits) inserted in container

Christopher Purves, baritone ; Arcangelo ; Jonathan Cohen, conductor

Sung in English and Italian

Siroe, re di Persia: Gelido in ogni vena (5:02) -- Esther: Turn not, O Queen, thy face away (2:49) -- Athalia: When storms the proud (3:11) -- Belshazzar: Oh, memory! (0:45) ; Opprest with never-ceasing grief (4:01) -- Catone: È ver che all'amo intorno (aria by Porpora) (7:55) -- Concerto grosso in F major, op 3 no 4 (10:33) -- Tolomeo, re di Egitto: Piangi pur (2:59) -- Athalia: Ah, canst thou but prove me! (3:40) -- Nell'africane selve, HWV136a (13:55) -- Joshua: The walls are levell'd (0:30) ; See, the raging flames arise (3:18) -- Esther: How art thou fall'n from thy height! (6:37) -- Siroe, re di Persia: Tu di pietà mi spogli (4:27) -- Rinaldo: Vieni, o cara (4:15) -- Joshua: Shall I in Mamre's fertile plain (3:07)