Handel-Caldara: Carmelite Vespers 1709 – review

Invernizzi/Johannsen/Oro/Brutscher/Abete/Academia Mortis Regalis/De Marchi(Deutsche Harmonia Mundi - Two CDs)In 1709, Antonio Caldara succeeded Handel as maestro di cappella to Cardinal Ruspoli in Rome. The two composers had probably met the previous year, at the premiere of Handel's La Resurrezione, but they never worked together or collaborated, as the title of these discs might imply. The Carmelite Vespers recorded here is, in fact, a modern reconstruction of what might have been performed at...

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