Handel wrote the secular oratorio Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (The triumph of Time and of Enlightenment) to the text of one of his patrons, Cardinal Benedetto Pamphili, in Rome in 1707. The libretto, which doesn't stand up to close logical scrutiny, centers on Beauty, who must choose between self-indulgent Pleasure and the austerity of ...
Dedicated Dvorák fans, particularly devotees of his Stabat Mater, will have to hear this recording of the work by Laurence Equilbey and the choral group Accentus. Heretofore, only the 1877 version of the Stabat Mater was known and performed, but scholars recently discovered an earlier version from 1876 that differs in two significant ways from the ...
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