Choose artist...
Home   >   Projects   >   Handel Goes Wild
Christina Pluhar | L'Arpeggiata

Handel Goes Wild

Warner Classics

Press Release

Read press

Artist Details

Read bio

Website

Visit
Christina Pluhar und der neue Orpheus - BR-KLASSIK
Chants traditionnels par l'Arpeggiata & Christina Pluhar
Pizzica di San Vito / Chants traditionnels par l'Arpeggiata & Christina Pluhar

Tour Dates

07/18/2017 - Schloss Ambras / Innsbruck, Austria
09/08/2017 - The Romanian Athenaeum / Bucharest, Romania
09/12/2017 - Philharmonie K?ln / Cologne, Germany
10/03/2017 - Eglise Saint-Pierre-Apotre / Montreal, Canada
10/06/2017 - Carnegie Hall / New York, NY
10/07/2017 - Carnegie Hall / New York, NY
1 Handel - Sinfonia From Alcina, act 3  
2 Handel - Venti turbine Aria di Rinaldo, from Rinaldo  
3 Handel - O sleep, why thost thou leave me Aria di Semele, from Semele  
4 Vivaldi - Concerto in g-minor (RV 157)  
5 Handel - Wherever you walk Aria di Semele, from Semele  
6 Handel - Cara sposa Aria di Rinaldo from Rinaldo  
7 Handel - Sinfonia Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, from Solomon  
8 Handel - Pena tiranna Aria di Dardano, from Amadigi di Gaula  
9 Handel - Piangero la sorte mia Aria di Cleopatra, from Giulio Cesare  
10 Handel - Improvisation Canario  
11 Handel - Verdi prati Aria di Ruggiero, from Alcina  
12 Handel - Tu del ciel ministro eletto Aria di Belezza, from Il trionfo del Tempo e della Verita  
13 Handel - Mi lusinga il dolce affetto Aria di Ruggiero, from Alcina  
14 Handel - Lascio ch'io pianga Aria di Almirena, from Rinaldo  
15 Handel - Ombra mai fu Aria di Serse, from Serse  
Show all tracks
Hide

George Frideric Handel now joins Purcell, Monteverdi and Cavalli on the list of composers who have inspired an album by Christina Pluhar and her ensemble L'Arpeggiata. Händel Goes Wild brings them together with soprano Nuria Rial, countertenor Valer Sabadus and jazz clarinettist Gianluigi Trovesi to explore and reimagine the cosmopolitan composer's music in their own inimitable and intoxicating style. L'Arpeggiata's aesthetic was summed up by the New York Times in 2012: "The group uses modern pop vocal inflections and improvisational techniques from jazz in its performances of antique pieces … Its audacious hybrids are driven principally by a fascination with reviving the Baroque art of ornamental extemporization and a curiosity about how contemporary improvisatory styles might be enlisted in that quest."

9 NEW  78 TOTAL
SYND: Classical 24, TRH, CBC
Markets include: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Boston, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Nashville, Albuquerque, Madison WI, Santa Fe, Hartford, Reno, OR(Statewide), WV(Statewide), Barcelona, Berlin
INTER: Canada, Spain, Germany
Online: AP-Reviews, Soulandjazz.com, Jazz from Gallery 41,  Jazz Weekly, Tedgioia.com, CBFwebRADIO, The Paul Leslie Hour, Passion Musique et Culture, Jazz Podium, Mundofonias, GURU, CBFWeb, GreenArrow

  • Christina Pluhar, L'Arpeggiata will present baroque jazz on Istanbul stage / DAILY SABAH
    Posted At: April 20, 2019 12:00 AM

    Sanat Concert Hall will host prominent music group, L'Arpeggiata on Thursday, April 25. The night, which will witness a combination of Baroque music and jazz, is expected to be one of the most unforgettable concerts ever held on Sanat stage. Founded in 2000 by Christina Pluhar, L'Arpeggiata consists of classical and jazz musicians. Following the success of their debut album "Improvisations on Hen...
    Bookmark and Share

  • Christina Pluhar leads L'Arpeggiata in WQXR/WFMT - Carnegie Hall Live
    Posted At: July 12, 2018 12:00 AM

    Plucked string player Christina Pluhar leads her ensemble, L'Arpeggiata, in a Carnegie Hall Live program of vocal and instrumental music of the early Italian Baroque by Luigi Rossi and his contemporaries. Produced by WQXR: New York and Carnegie Hall, and syndicated by the WFMT Radio Network, Carnegie Hall Live features some of the world's greatest performers and ensembles in a wide range of styles, ...
    Bookmark and Share

  • 'Handel Goes Wild' with L'arpeggiata on Classical101: WOSU
    Posted At: March 7, 2018 12:00 AM

    Picture it: George Frideric Händel's music played like jazz, complete with improv, riffs, sparkling syncopations and blisteringly virtuosic licks. Sound outrageous? Not really, says Christina Pluhar, founder and director of early music ensemble L'arpeggiata. "For Händel, improvisation was extremely important, and for all the musicians from that time, as well," Pluhar said in a recent phone inte...
    Bookmark and Share

  • L'Arpeggiata's Christina Pluhar interviews with Kansas Public Radio on new Handel recording
    Posted At: November 9, 2017 12:00 AM

    George Frideric Handel now joins Purcell, Monteverdi and Cavalli on the list of composers who have inspired an album by Christina Pluhar and her ensemble L'Arpeggiata. Händel Goes Wild brings them together with soprano Nuria Rial, countertenor Valer Sabadus and jazz clarinettist Gianluigi Trovesi to explore and reimagine the cosmopolitan composer's music in their own inimitabl...
    Bookmark and Share

  • Can Baroque music team with improvisation? Christina Pluhar and L'Arpeggiata say Yes! / Jazz Weekly
    Posted At: November 4, 2017 12:00 AM

    Can Baroque music team with improvisation? The chamber orchestra L'Arpeggiata, directed by Christina Pluhar, seems to defiantly say "Yes!" This album pieces composed by George Handel and through instrumentals and vocals by Valer Sabadus/ten and Nuria Rial/sop, mix rich classical with almost klezmer-like fervency. There are some moments of sublime strings as on "Cara Sposa" and the peppy "The Arrival of t...
    Bookmark and Share

  • Christina Pluhar and Handel, go wild on WRCJ's Listening Room
    Posted At: November 3, 2017 12:00 AM

    George Frideric Handel now joins Purcell, Monteverdi and Cavalli on the list of composers who have inspired an album by Christina Pluhar and her ensemble L'Arpeggiata. Händel Goes Wild brings them together with soprano Nuria Rial, countertenor Valer Sabadus and jazz clarinettist Gianluigi Trovesi to explore and reimagine the cosmopolitan composer's music in their own inimitable and into...
    Bookmark and Share

  • Christina Pluhar goes wild with classical radio
    Posted At: October 26, 2017 12:00 AM

    George Frideric Handel now joins Purcell, Monteverdi and Cavalli on the list of composers who have inspired an album by Christina Pluhar and her ensemble L'Arpeggiata. Händel Goes Wild brings them together with soprano Nuria Rial, countertenor Valer Sabadus and jazz clarinettist Gianluigi Trovesi to explore and reimagine the cosmopolitan composer's music in their own inimitable and into...
    Bookmark and Share

  • WQXR set to broadcast L'Arpeggiata's 'La lyra d'Orfeo'
    Posted At: October 6, 2017 12:00 AM

    On Friday at 7:30 pm (ET), WQXR will broadcast L'Arpeggiata's "La lyra d'Orfeo," an evening of selections from Luigi Rossi's operas Orfeo and Il Palazzo Incantato, as well as several pieces from the Italian composers Lorenzo Allegri, Giovanni Felice Sances and Maurizio Cazzati. L'Arpeggiata is led by Christina Pluhar; Céline Scheen, soprano, and Giuseppina Bridelli, mezzo soprano, are featured...
    Bookmark and Share

  • Putting your finger on what L'Arpeggiata is / Audiophile Audition review
    Posted At: October 5, 2017 12:00 AM

    p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 10.0px Arial} George Frideric Handel now joins Purcell, Monteverdi and Cavalli on the list of composers who have inspired an album by Christina Pluhar and her ensemble L'Arpeggiata. Händel Goes Wild brings them together with soprano Nuria Rial, countertenor Valer Sabadus and jazz clarinettist Gianluigi Trovesi. Sebastian Herrera - So...
    Bookmark and Share

  • Christina Pluhar and L'Arpeggiata ​- Handel Goes Wild is KZYX: CD of the Week
    Posted At: September 1, 2017 12:00 AM

    George Friedrich Handel was a prolific baroque composer who died in 1759. He belonged to a deep tradition of improvisation which was a valued skill of musicians through the 19th century. Christina Pluhar has breathed new life into baroque improvisation with her new album Handel Goes Wild. Her ensemble L'Arpeggiata highlights Handel's dynamism with jazz inspired performance styles. The effect is b...
    Bookmark and Share

  • Christina Pluhar and L'Arpeggiata ​are at it again with Handel Goes Wild! / KDFC: Download Of the Week
    Posted At: August 30, 2017 12:00 AM

    George Frideric Handel now joins Purcell, Monteverdi and Cavalli on the list of composers who have inspired an album by Christina Pluhar and her ensemble L'Arpeggiata. Händel Goes Wild brings them together with soprano Nuria Rial, countertenor Valer Sabadus and jazz clarinettist Gianluigi Trovesi to explore and reimagine the cosmopolitan composer's music in their own inimitable and into...
    Bookmark and Share

  • Endlessly listening to - Handel Goes Wild / The Paul Leslie Hour
    Posted At: August 21, 2017 12:00 AM

    Wild? Well, the interpretations are certainly lively.  I've been endlessly listening to the CD in my home and in the car, but perhaps Händel was a bit of a wild man as well.  Listening to "Händel Goes Wild" has been a pleasure and I recommend the album if you are looking for a lively introduction to the composer.  It's a reminder that the great works of art are eternal and also w...
    Bookmark and Share
Go to artist details