Festival CD Recordings

Handel to enjoy at home

The Festival season is over all too quickly but Handel is to be enjoyed all year round. Delight in his many and diverse compositions at your leisure. You can acquire a range of our Handel recordings as CDs at specialist record shops. If you’re interested, we also invite you to enquire at the Festival office. There, members of the Göttinger Händel-Gesellschaft e. V. can obtain certain CDs at a special price.

Lotario

Dramma per musica in three acts by George Frideric Handel

‘(…) an exquisite ensemble of soloists and a FestspielOrchester Göttingen (FOG) in brilliant form created a most compelling performance on an...

Water Music

Water Music and Alexander's Feast with the FestspielOrchester Göttingen and Laurence Cummings

‘(...) what Laurence Cummings produces each year with this band of period specialists (...) is something quite unique and wonderful. It’s a sound of...

Susanna

Oratorio in three Acts by George Frideric Handel

A remarkable female figure takes centre stage in Handel’s oratorio Susanna. The work dates from the year 1749 and together with Theodora marks a change...

Coronation Anthems

NDR Chor and Festspielorchester Göttingen with Laurence Cummings

Agrippina

Opera in three Acts by George Frideric Handel

Among the operatic works by George Frideric Handel, Agrippina, written in Venice in 1709, occupies a prime position. This is due not only to the outstanding...

Joshua

Oratorio in three Acts by George Frideric Handel

Joshua is one of the so-called ‘victory oratorios’ through which Handel celebrated in London, in 1746/47, the victory of the Hanoverian dynasty...

Faramondo

Opera in three Acts by George Frideric Handel

Faramondo was composed at the end of the 1730s when Italian opera was in a state of deep crisis. With this work, Handel proves that the genre’s power to...

Siroe, Re di Persia

Opera in three Acts by George Frideric Handel

Treachery, revenge, inheritance disputes and forbidden love at the Persian court – this explosive mixture forms the basis of the libretto by Pietro...

Esther

Oratorio in three Acts by George Frideric Handel. 1732 version

Esther – first recording with the FestspielOrchester Göttingen under the musical direction of Laurence Cummings Carolyn Sampson, Sopran (Esther)...

Messias

Oratorio in three Acts by George Frideric Handel edited by Johann Adam Hiller

Dominique Labelle, SopranoMonica Groop, ContraltoVirgil Hartinger, Tenor Raimund Nolte, Bass NDR Chor Frank Markowitsch, Chorus master FestspielOrchester...

Jephtha

Oratorio in three Acts by George Frideric Handel

John Mark AinsleyDominique LabelleWilke te BrummelstroeteFranz VitzthumWilliam BergerNetta Or Winchester Cathedral ChoirThe English ConcertNicholas McGegan...

Rodelinda

Opera by George Frideric Handel

Dominique Labelle Robin Blaze Ian Paton Ewa Wolak Cécile van de Sant Andrew Foster Concerto Köln Nicholas McGegan, Conductor

Dettinger Te Deum

Sacred choral work

Dominique Labelle Thomas Cooley Colin Ainsworth William Berger NDR Chor FestspielOrchester Göttingen Nicholas McGegan, Conductor

Partenope

Opera by George Frideric Handel

Meredith Hall Annette Markert Kai Wessel Christopher Josey John McVeigh William Berger Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra Nicholas McGegan Conductor Orders can...

Orlando

Opera by George Frideric Handel

William Towers, AltusDominique Labelle, SopranDiana Moore, MezzosopranSusanne Rydén, SopranWolf Matthias Friedrich, Bass FestspielOrchester...

Solomon

Oratorio in three Acts by George Frideric Handel

Tim Mead Dominique Labelle Claron McFadden Michael Slattery Roderick Williams Winchester Cathedral Choir FestspielOrchester Göttingen Nicholas McGegan,...

Poro, re dell'Indie

Opera by George Frideric Handel

William Towers Jutta Böhnert Franziska Gottwald Thomas Piffka Torben Jürgen Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin Konrad Junghänel,...