Chi più mi piace (Handel) Emőke Baráth

Chi più mi piace from the opera Almira, Königin von Castilien, HWV 1
by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Emőke Baráth, soprano
Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra
Paul O’Dette & Stephen Stubbs, Musical Directors

Chi più mi piace io voglio
Stretto legarmi al sen;
Mi sento un tal ardore
Ch’ogn’ora pensa il core
Al lucido suo ben.

TRANSLATION (by Ellen Hargis):
He whom I love the most,
I wish to bind firmly to my heart.
I feel such passion
That my heart thinks constantly
Of its radiant beloved.

Available from CPO Records:
https://bemf.org/recordings/handel-al...

Art in the video;
[0:37] Hedwig Elizabeth Charlotte of Holstein-Gottorp by Alexander Roslin (1718–1793)
[1:46] Louise of Great Britain, Queen of Denmark and Norway by Carl Gustaf Pilo (1711–1793)
[2:43] Portrait of an Archduchess of Austria by Johann Gottfried Auerbach (1697–1753)
[3:26] Louise-Marie de France after François-Hubert Drouais (1727–1775)