Delirio Amoroso: Handel Italian Secular Cantatas. Album by Ann Murray and The Sixteen.

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Delirio Amoroso: Handel Italian Secular Cantatas. Album by Ann Murray and The Sixteen.Album Description As a young man Handel spent four years in Italy, forging a uniquely exuberant operatic style. During that time he composed these three cantatas about classical love, a favourite theme of baroque composers. Ann Murray, a superb Handelian singer, here explores the different emotions engendered by the departure, absence, and finally the death of a lover, all with a telling range of colour and nuance much acclaimed in her Handel

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