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Article: Apollo e dafne & Silete Venti: Karina Gauvin and Russell Braun.
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- Opera Canada
- Article date:
- March 22, 2001
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APOLLO E DAFNE & SILETE VENTI Handel Karina Gauvin, soprano, & Russell Braun, baritone; Les Violons du Roy, Bernard Labadie, conductor. Dorian CD-90288. ****
The bracing combination of fascinating, off-beat music drama and exhilarating interpretive forces makes this an extraordinary new release. Handel's cantata Apollo e Dafne was composed in Italy some time around 1706 and is small-scaled, scored only for two singers (soprano and bass), transverse flute, two oboes, bassoon, strings and continuo. But its effect is full and complex.
It describes the passion of the god Apollo for the nymph Daphne, whose rejection of Apollo, because of her determined ...