Julia Lezhneva & Kammerorchester Basel

As early as 2018, the Church of Saanen shone brightly through touching love arias from the celebrated interpreter – then as now beside the Kammerorchester Basel. The Russian soprano Julia Lezhneva returns for an evening full of baroque splendor, where Händel's brilliant concerti grossi engage in a sparkling dialogue with rarely heard Italian opera arias – those famous "travel arias" that primadonnas and tenors of that time always carried ready in their luggage (hence their German name Kofferarien), in order to impressively showcase their vocal bravura.

Julia Lezhneva, soprano

Kammerorchester Basel

Dmitry Smirnov, violin & conductor

Georg Friedrich Händel (1685–1759)

Concerto grosso in B major op. 3 No. 2 HWV 313 12'

Attilio Ariosti (1666–1729)

“Mi sento intorno al cor”, aria of Berenice from the opera “Lucio Vero” (London 1727) 7'

Nicola Porpora (1686–1768)

“Timida pastorella”, aria of Adelaide from the opera “Adelaide” (Rome 1723) 7'

Georg Friedrich Händel (1685–1759)

Concerto grosso in D minor op. 3 No. 5 HWV 316 10'

Pietro Baldassare Galuppi (1706–1785)

“Son qual nave esposta ai venti”, aria of Solinda from the opera “L’inganno tradito dall’amore” (Vienna 1735) 7'

Johann Adolph Hasse (1699–1783)

“Se fra turbini”, aria of Attalo from the opera “Attalo, re di Bitinia” (Naples 1728) 5'

Georg Friedrich Händel (1685–1759)

Concerto grosso in B minor op. 6 No. 12 HWV 330 (1739) 12'

Giovanni Porta (1675–1755)

“Mi parla nel seno”, aria of Merione from the opera “Farnace” (Bologna 1731) (original version with solo oboe) 8'

Geminiano Giacomelli (1692–1740)

“Bel cader qualor pugnando”, aria of Quinto Fabio from the opera “Lucio Papirio dittatore” (Parma 1729) 7'

80'