Handel Aria F major from the opera "Rinaldo". Cello Georg Mertens / piano Gavin Tipping

Aria de Almirena "Lascia ch'io pianga (Let me weep)" from the opera "Rinaldo", in F major. The sheet music (including the Recitativo) is now part of the collection "Georg's Little Music Library", available at http://www.georgcello.com/sheetmusic.htm This piece used to be on a beautiful recording on an old fashioned CD - now it is unfortunately only digitally available. see: http://www.georgcello.com/music.htm Recorded in the 1870's Gulgong 'Prince of Wales' Opera House (NSW Australia) on 6th Dec 2008, launch of the CD "Cello Favourites". The Gulgong Opera House is a beautiful olden times venue in a tiny little town equipped with a Steinway Grand piano. For public performances and House concerts visit: http://www.georgcello.com/cello.htm More videos with Georg and Gavin: Breval - Sonata C major Allegro Marie - La Cinquantaine Dalla Bella - Giga Bach Gounod - Ave Maria J.S. Bach - Arioso Popper - Happy (Fond) Recollections Tschaikovsky - Valse Sentimental B. Romberg - Sonata e minor, Allegro non troppo Bruch - Kol Nidrei Saint-Saens - The Swan Apart from giving concerts Georg Mertens teaches cello and Classical guitar in Katoomba / Blue Mountains. This video has been recorded and edited by "bushtrailer" http://au.youtube.com/user/bushtrailer

George Frideric Handel was a German, later British, Baroque composer who spent the bulk of his career in London, becoming well-known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, and organ concertos. Handel received important training in Halle-upon-Saale and worked as a composer in Hamburg and Italy before settling in London in 1712; he became a naturalised British subject in 1727. He was strongly influenced both by the great composers of the Italian Baroque and by the middle-German polyphonic choral tradition.

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