Handel, Georg Frideric: Atalanta

Atalanta (HWV 35) by Georg Frideric Handel
Cast: Katalin Farkas, Eva Bartfai-Barta, Eva Lax, Janos Bandi, Jozsef Gregor and Laszlo Polgar with the Szombathely Vocal Ensemble and Capella Savaria conducted by Nicholas McGegan
Libretto: anonymous
Label: Hungaroton
Catalogue number: SLPD 12612-4
Country of Issue: Hungary
Date: 1985
World Premiere Recording
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Format: LP Boxed Set (3 discs plus booklet)
Label design: new style yellow with black print
Discs: Near Mint, unmarked
Outer box: Near Mint, spotless
Inner sleeves: orignal, polylined, as new
Booklet: full size 60pp, perfect, full libretto, note and translations 

This item appears as new throughout except as mentioned above. Acquired by us in 2007 as part of a large collection but never played since.

Handel's last succesful season was that of 1735/6  and it was then m in 1736, that he presented Atalanta, an opera in 3 Acts. The anonymous libretto is an adaptation of La c accia in Etolia by B. Valeriani,  a typical tale of a mythical paradise. The work is overall written in a light, serene pastoral style.