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Five Crusaders
With Donald Macleod.
Rinaldo and Armida - Christian knight and Saracen sorceress - are the protagonists of Tasso's huge poem Gerusalemme Liberata. There are over a hundred separate operas on the subject - most of them utterly forgotten. Music includes:
Vivaldi Overture: Armida al Campo d'Egitto
Gluck Le Perfide Renaud Me Fuit
(Armide)
Lully, arr d'Anglebert Les Sourdines (Armide)
Rossini D'Amor al Dolce Impero (Armide)
Jommelll Caro Mio Ben (Armida Abbandonata) eeminiani The Enchanted Forest (Act 5)

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Donald MacLeod.
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