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The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > Your CD collection when you were 15.
 
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Ortho
Jul 6, 2021


 That would have been, what, 1998? Pop music, none at all, other than the soundtrack to Evita. Selecting ten Baroque albums, I had:

  • Handel - Water Music
  • Handel - Acis and Galetea
  • Handel - Alcina
  • Handel - Rinaldo
  • Handel - Harpsichord concerti
  • Vivaldi - Four Seasons
  • Vivaldi - Mandolin concerti
  • Purcell - The Fairy Queen
  • Purcell - Come Ye Sons of Art
  • Jean-Phillippe Rameau - Les Indes Galantes

Others, too, but those I remember most fondly. Alcina remains my desert island opera.

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Ortho
Jul 6, 2021

HenryJLittlefinger posted:

get in the locker
Hey, Alcina is great. It's about a wicked sorceress (Alcina) who transforms all those stranded on her island into plants and animals until the fiancée (Bradamante) of one of her soon-to-be victims (Ruggiero), a courageous paladin with a magical lance disguised as a man, comes to rescue him, destroying* Alcina's magical charm that keeps her young and beautiful, transforming her into a thousand year old witch and restoring her victims to human form. Here's "Non è amor, né gelosia" ("This is not love nor jealousy"), my absolute favorite of Handel's trios, featuring Alcinia, Bradamante, and Ruggiero. And Ruggiero's aria "Sta nell'Ircana pietrosa tana" ("In her rocky Hycanian lair"). Really, I could cite a dozen great arias from Alcina. And Alcina is super short at about 75 minutes when most Baroque operas are in excess of three hours.

And in The Fairy Queen, a drunken poet emerges from audience and the fairy (a "damned tormenting punk", according to the poet) and her lackeys attack him, pinching him forty-forty times until he confesses his crime of being a drunk, crap poet, then pinching him forty-forty more times as a punishment until he passes out. Baroque operas are wild.

* Bradamante's magical lance is a gun in this performance

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