With works by George Frideric Handel
Baroque bassoon, director: Burak Özdemir
Bass: José Coca Loza
Musica Sequenza Berlin
50/35 €
In his operas and oratorios, Handel uses the deep male voice for particular characters. They grumble, seduce, rage – and musically always give as good as they get to their great opposite numbers in the castrato range. The internationally sought-after bass singer José Coca Loza and Baroque bassoonist Burak Özdemir with his celebrated and charismatic ensemble Musica Sequenza follow in the footsteps of legendary bass singers such as Antonio Montagnana and Giuseppe Maria Boschi. Together, they focus on the rarely heard, deep dark tones of the Baroque world. In a range spanning heroic pathos to inner turmoil, figures such as the power-conscious Emperor Claudio (Agrippina), the lonely giant Polifemo (Aci, Galatea e Polifemo) and the noble-minded King Oronte (Floridante) meet: figures the depths of whose souls Handel illuminates with both subtlety and drama – and whose voices deploy an expressive power that elevates them above the conventionally high voices of heroes.