HANDEL
PORTRAIT

Suzie LeBlanc, soprano - Marc Bleeke, ténor | tenor
Claire Guimond, flûte | flute - Ensemble Arion
Alexander Weimann, clavecin | harpsichord
Académie Baroque de Montréal - Les Boréades
Theatre of Early Music

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oprano Suzie LeBlanc enjoys an enviable celebrity throughout the world.   Her expressive range combines sensitivity and emotion with a crystalline voice of unparallelled purity.   Her repertoire extends from Baroque (for which she has a partiality) to music of her native Acadia.   She has made 15 recordings for ATMA Classique. This disc, of Bach and Handel, will help listeners discover her fascinating voice.

2005 marks the 10th Anniversary of ATMA Classique and it's time to celebrate, with the launch of this new, specially priced, 2005 Catalogue CD.

Handel:   1. Lascia ch'io pianga (Rinaldo)      4:30   2. Ouverture HWV 337 (Adagio - Allegro)      3:56   3. Da Tempeste (Giulio Cesare)      6:15   4. Ombre, piante (Rodelinda)      5:31 Gloria in Excelsis Deo Attribué à Handel | Attributed to Handel   5. Gloria in excelsis Deo      2:27   6. Et in terra      2:45   7. Luadamus te      2:06   8. Domine Deus      1:09   9. Qui tollis peccata      4:00 10. Quoniam tu solus - Cum Sancto Spirito      3:16 Acis & Galatea   (extraits | excerpts) 11. Sinfonia      3:18 12. Hush, ye pretty warbling quire (Air, Galatea)      5:56 13. Oh! didst thou know the pains of absent love        (Récitatif | Recitative Galatea)        As when the dove (Air, Galatea)      6:29 14. Happy we! (Duo | Duet, Acis, Galatea)      2.34 15. Happy we! (Chœur | Chorus)      0:53