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 | Radu Marian, male soprano.
Ave Maria, Johann Sebastian Bach / Charles Francois Gounod.
This recording of the extremely rare male voice (one in a billion) singing Ave Maria understandably has become one of the most popular of the many videos that I have produced and uploaded. In addition to the ten...
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 | Chei più si tarda omai; Inumano fratel, from Tolomeo, George Frideric Handel.
Drew Minter, countertenor.
Tolomeo (Ptolemy VIII) disputes the thrown with his brother Alexander. In exile in Cyprus, he disguises himself as a shepherd. His wife Seleuce, disguised as a shepherdess, seeks him. Ptol...
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 | Christoph Willibald Gluck: Che faro senza Euridice, from Orfeo ed Euridice.
First performed Vienna, 1762 with alto-castrato Gaetano Gaudagni as Orfeo.
Jochen Kowalski, countertenor.
Che farò senza Euridice?
Dove andrò senza il mio ben?
Euridice, o Dio, rispondi!
Io son pure il tuo fedele....
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 | George Frideric Handel: Ombra mai fu, from Serse.
Jochen Kowalski, countertenor.
Ombra mai fu
Di vegetabile,
Care ed amabile
Soave piu.
Never was made
the shade of a plant,
dear and loving,
or more gentle.
sfk
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 | Drew Minter, countertenor. Recitative: Già, per la man; Aria: Già l’ebro mio ciglio, from Orlando by George Frideric Handel (King’s Theatre, 1733). Libretto by Carlo Sigismundo Capece.
Hero-soldier Orlando (with the army of Charlemagne) falls madly in love with Princess Angelica, a pagan, who l...
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 | Peter Jelosits, boy soprano (1975). J.S. Bach: Es ist und bleibt der Christen Trost,
from Cantata, Sie werden euch in den Bann tun, BWV 44.
Es ist und bleibt, der Christen Tros,
Dass vor seine Kirche wacht.
Denn wen sich gleich die Wetter türmen,
So hat doch nach den Trübsalstürmen
Die Freu...
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 | Antonio Vivaldi: La faralletta s’aggira al lume (1st aria), Cantata for soprano castrato and bass continuo, RV 660. Randall Wong, soprano.
La farfalletta s’aggira al lume,
sen vola l’ape d’intorno ai fiori,
e Clizia amante segue il suo sol.
Per te mio caro vezzoso bene
nel sen io sento gli...
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 | George Frideric Handel, O thou that tellest, from Messiah, paraphrased by Charles Jennens from text of Isaiah 40, verse 9; 60:1
Russell Oberlin, male alto
O thou that bringest good tidings to Zion,
get thee up into the high mountain;
O thou that tellest good tidings to Jerusalem,
lift up t...
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 | George Frideric Handel: Oh King, Your Favours with Delight I take (Part A only of A-B-A).
From the oratorio “Saul” (1739). Paul Esswood, countertenor.
Oh King, your favours with delight
I take, but must refuse your praise:
For ev’ry pious Israelite
To God alone that tribute pays.
Through hi...
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 | Paul Esswood, countertenor. Rinaldo (1711), George Frideric Handel.
Sorge nel petto, air de Goffredo.
Sorge nel petto
certo diletto
che bella calma
promette al cor.
Sarà il contento,
dopo gran stento
coglier la palma
del nostro ardor.
A feeling of gladness
within me
assures ...
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