Giulio Caesare, a Baroque hero (2018)

The concept of this album by Italian countertenor Raffaele Pe is unusual, almost novel: he assembles a collection of operatic arias depicting a single figure, Giulio Cesare, or Julius Caesar. Other singers have devoted programs to arias of various types, but audiences of the 18th century knew their classical stories well, and quite a variety of these furnished material for opera. To pull this one off, in fact, Pe and the historical-instrument group La Lira di Orfeo under Luca Giardini have to include some rarer material. ... Read More

The concept of this album by Italian countertenor Raffaele Pe is unusual, almost novel: he assembles a collection of operatic arias depicting a single figure, Giulio Cesare, or Julius Caesar. Other singers have devoted programs to arias of various types, but audiences of the 18th century knew their classical stories well, and quite a variety of these furnished material for opera. To pull this one off, in fact, Pe and the historical-instrument group La Lira di Orfeo under Luca Giardini have to include some rarer material. Handel is liberally represented, but he is joined by Italian followers who aren't often heard but who turn out to be well worth hearing: Francesco Bianchi, Geminiano Giacomelli, Niccolò Piccinni, and Carlo Francesco Pollarolo. All these composers had Handel's Giulio Cesare as a model, and they had to find new aspects to his character and his story. This fits Pe's considerable talents; he has not only pure power in the midrange, but also an affecting tragic sense. For the latter, sample... Read Less

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