A Treasury of Handel Compositions

G.F. Handel, Le Cantate per il Cardinal Pamphili (Roma 1706-1707). Roberta Invernizzi, soprano; La Risonanza; Fabio Bonizzoni, harpsichord and director. Producer: Tini Mathot; sound engineer: Adriaan Verstijnen. One CD, 66’14’’ minutes; recorded in October 2005, Chiesa di San Salvatore, Rodenga Saiano, Brescia (Italy); Glossa Music GCD 921521

Handel is a composer who is notoriously famed for his self-borrowings. Therefore, it is always a pleasure to find a CD containing solely early works –one can find many ‘old friends’. Handel’s years in Italy from about 1706 until 1710 are generally slightly neglected by scholars, as well as by performers. It has been only in recent years that Handel’s works from that time have moved a bit more into the limelight (perhaps connected with a Gloria from this period, which some scholars attribute to Handel?). In any case, the present CD is a very welcome contribution to a discography of Handel’s earlier works.

While Handel stayed in Rome, he was supported mainly by two important, influential, and music loving patrons: the Cardinals Ottoboni and Pamphili. The present CD contains music that is linked with Cardinal Benedetto Pamphili, who…

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