Serse, HWV 40: Atto I, no. 2. Arioso “Ombra mai fù” (Serse)

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composer:George Frideric Handel (German‐British baroque composer) (from 1737-12-26 until 1738-01-09)
librettist:[anonymous] (special purpose artist)
Wikidata:Q2458851 [info]
referred to in medleys:Hooked on Romance
later translated versions:Xerxès HWV 40 : Largo “Bois de lent oubli” (french version)
part of:Serse, HWV 40: Atto I (order: 2)
is the basis for:Crux fidelis
arrangements:Holy Art Thou (Largo from “Xerxes”)
Largo (transcription F. Pourcel)
Largo from “Xerxes” (for violin, harp, organ and strings, arr. Hellmesberger)
Serse, HWV 40: Atto I. Arioso “Ombra mai fù” (“largo”; catch‐all for arrangements)
Serse, HWV 40: Atto I. Arioso “Ombra mai fù” (for organ, Martin)
Serse, HWV 40: Atto I. Arioso “Ombra mai fù” (Serse) (for cello and orchestra)

Recordings

DateTitleAttributesArtistLength
recordings
1906Xerxes: Ombra mai fu (largo)Enrico Caruso4:12
1920-01-29Serse, Act I: Ombra mai fupartialEnrico Caruso, Victor Orchestra, Josef Pasternack4:15
1920-01-29Xerxes: “Ombra mai fu” (Largo)Enrico Caruso?:??
1920Serse, HWV 40: Act I. "Ombra mai fu"Enrico Caruso4:13
1928-05-14Serse: Act 1. “Ombra mai fù” (Serse)Maria Olszewska, Sir John Barbirolli4:06
1933-03-20Serse, HWV 40: Act 1. “Frondi tenere … Ombra mai fu” (Serse)Beniamino Gigli, Herbert Dawson, Sir John Barbirolli4:04
1948-07-03Serse (Xerxes), HWV 40, Act I: Frondi tenere e belle… Ombra mai fu, "Largo"Kirsten Flagstad4:34
1961-08Largo (Xerxes)London Symphony Orchestra, George Szell5:35
1961-08Serse, HWV 40: Recitativo "Frondi tenere" / Aria "Ombra mai fu"Ernst Haefliger, Münchener Bach‐Orchester, Karl Richter4:06
1963Xerxes: I. Akt "Ombra mai fu" (Largo) (Serse)Fritz Wunderlich, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Hans Müller-Kray3:06
1965-06Serse: Act 1: "Ombra mai fù"Maureen Forrester, Martin Isepp, Vienna Radio Orchestra, Brian Priestman2:44
1972-12Serse: Atto I. "Frondi tenere e belle" / "Ombra mai fù"Janet Baker, Raymond Leppard, English Chamber Orchestra4:04
1976-01-29Xerxes, HWV 40: LargoAcademy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner5:13
1976-10-26Xerxes, HWV 40: LargoAcademy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner5:13
1979-03 – 1979-04Serse, Act I: Arioso: "Ombra mai fu"Carolyn Watkinson, La Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy, Jean‐Claude Malgoire3:10
1982 – 1984Largo (Ombra mai fu) from SerseWolf Harden, Takako Nishizaki4:43
1982 – 1984Xerxes: Ombra mai fu (Largo)Alain Zaepffel, New Bach Collegium Musicum, Max Pommer3:13
1985-05-19Ombra mai fuAled Jones, BBC Welsh Symphony Orchestra, Robin Stapleton2:37
1986-03Serse, HWV 40: Atto I. Arioso "Ombra mai fù" (Serse)Jozef Cejka, Capella Istropolitana, Richard Edlinger3:42
1986-11 – 1987-06Serse: Frondi tenere... Ombra mai fuJochen Kowalski, Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Hartmut Haenchen3:38
1987Xerxès, récit et air de Xerxès : "Frondi tenere... Ombra mai fu"Jochen Kowalski, Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Hartmut Haenchen3:34
1990-09-18 – 1990-10-04"Serse"- Ombra mai fu (Largo) in ItalianPlácido Domingo, Itzhak Perlman, New York Studio Orchestra, Jonathan Tunick3:12
1992-03 – 1992-04Ombra mai fuJosé Carreras, English Chamber Orchestra, Vjekoslav Šutej3:39
1995-10-29Ombra mai fu (largo)liveCosta di Angelo & Elsebeth Brodersen2:47
1997-01Serse, Act 1: "Ombra mai fù"Anthony Way, Daniel Phillips, English Sinfonia, Neil Page2:39
1997-06-04 – 1997-06-07Serse, HWV 40: Act 1: No. 2 Arioso: "Ombra mal fu"partialJudith Malafronte, The Hanover Band, Nicholas McGegan2:47
1997-07-20 – 1997-07-21Serse, HWV 40: Atto I. Arioso “Ombra mai fù”The Brandenburg Sinfonia, David Guest3:05
2000-12-01 – 2000-12-05Xerxes: ... Ombra mai fuStephanie Blythe, Emmanuelle Haïm, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, John Nelson2:48
2002-01-01 – 2002-08-31Serse, HWV 40: Act I, Scene I. Arioso "Ombra mai fù" (Serse)Daniel Taylor, Stephen Stubbs, Arion Baroque Orchestra2:55
2002-02Frondi tenere e belle - Ombra mai fuPlácido Domingo, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Marcello Viotti3:47
2003-08-24 – 2003-08-26Serse, HWV 40: Aria: “Ombra mai fu”Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Harry Bicket3:18
2003-11-15 – 2003-11-24Ombra mai fùRenée Fleming, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Harry Bicket3:07
2003-11-17 – 2003-11-25Serse: Act 1, Scene I: No 1b Arioso - Ombra mai fu (Serse)liveAnne Sofie von Otter, Les Arts Florissants, William Christie3:23
2006Kserska ārija Ombra Mai Fu no operas KserkssSergejs Jēgers3:48
2008-04 – 2008-05Serse, Akt I: “Ombra mai fu”Rolando Villazón, Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh2:42
2008-06-14Ombra mai fu (live, 2008-06-14: Miskolci Jégcsarnok, Miskolc, Hungary)cover and liveEpica3:06
2009-01-28 – 2009-03-24Serse: Atto I, Scena I. “Ombra mai fu” (Serse)Cecilia Bartoli, Il giardino armonico, Giovanni Antonini3:24
2010-10-13Serse: "Ombra mai fù di vegetabile" (Serse)livel’arte del mondo2:37
2012-02-05 – 2012-02-07Serse (Xerxes), HWV 40, Act I: Frondi tenere e belle ...Ombra mai fu, "Largo"Sasha Cooke, The Colburn Orchestra, Yehuda Gilad4:10
2012-08-13 – 2012-08-17Serse, HWV 40: Act I: Aria. Serse: ‘Ombra mai fu’. LarghettoEarly Opera Company, Christian Curnyn2:21
2013-06Serse, HWV 40: Ombra mai fuJulie Boulianne, Clavecin en concert, Luc Beauséjour2:47
2014-09-07 – 2014-09-11Serse: Ombra mai fùBlandine Staskiewicz, Les Ambassadeurs, Alexis Kossenko3:56
2018-05-28 – 2018-06-01Serse, HWV 40: Ombra mai fu (Act I, Scene 1)Simone Kermes3:15
2018-11Serse, HWV 40, Act I: "Ombra mai fù"Il Pomo d’Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev2:51
2022-03-07 – 2022-03-11Serse, HWV 40, Act I Scene 1: Ombra mai fuNicolò Balducci, Baroque Academy Gothenburg Symphony, Dan Laurin3:00
2022-05-10 – 2022-05-16Serse HWV 40: Recitative: Fronde tenere; Aria: Ombra mai fuEmily D'Angelo, The English Concert, Harry Bicket3:16
2022-05-10 – 2022-05-16Serse, HWV 40, Act I: Aria. Ombra mai fu (Serse)Emily D'Angelo, The English Concert, Harry Bicket2:35
"Frondi tenere... Ombra mai fu": LargoJochen Kowalski, Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Hartmut Haenchen3:36
AriosoJochen Kowalski, Philharmonic Art Ensemble, Frank Böhme3:49
Aus: "Xerxes": Serse: "Ombra mai fu"Jennifer Lane, Kammerorchester Brewer, Rudolph Palmer3:35
Frondi tenere / Ombra mai fuKathleen Battle, Margo Garrett4:11
Frondi tenere / Ombra mai fuAndrea Bocelli3:56
Frondi tenere... Ombra mai fuIan Bostridge3:22
Frondi tenere...Ombra mai fu (from Serse)George Frideric Handel3:44
Handel: Ombra mai fù [Serse]Eugenia Zukerman2:56
Handel: Ombrel Mai Fu (Serse)David Daniels3:47
Handel: Serse, HWV 40 / Act 1 - "Ombra mai fu"Andreas Scholl3:04
Handel: Serse, HWV 40, Act 1, Scene 1: Arioso. “Ombra mai fù” (Serse)David Daniels3:08
LargoCanadian Brass2:37
LargocoverPOND3:32
LargoinstrumentalMartin Souter3:03
LargoYvonne Printemps3:04
Largoinstrumental[unknown]?:??
LargocoverRick Wakeman3:04
LargoJennifer Larmore, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, Jesús López Cobos3:36
LargoLisa Gerrard2:52
LargoRichard Clayderman2:47
LargoReginald Kilbey and His Strings3:08
LARGOLondon Symphony Orchestra, John Georgiadis6:23
Largo "Ombra mai fu", from XerxesAcademy of St Martin in the Fields, Iona Brown4:52
Largo “Ombra mai fu” from XerxesLondon Symphony Orchestra, Philip Gibson3:33
Largo (from "Xerxes")[unknown]3:11
Largo (from Xerxes)Stephen Cleobury3:08
Largo (from Xerxes) (mx. VP 743)Ezio Pinza, Donald Voorhees?:??
Largo (Ombra Mai Fu) From Serse[unknown]2:33
Largo (Xerxes)[unknown]4:58
Largo aus "Xerxes"Eberhard Büchner, Hans Otto, Dresdner Philharmonie, Kurt Masur2:48
Largo aus Xerxes HWV40 (The London Symphony Orchestra)London Symphony Orchestra5:11
Largo from 'Xerxes'Salzburg Consort3:15
Largo from ‘Xerxes’Plácido Domingo with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra2:52
Largo from "Xerxes"Hans Hagen & His Orchestra5:00
Largo from "Xerxes"London Festival Orchestra3:10
Largo From "Xerxes"Orchestra Filarmonica di Roma, Massimo Freccia5:01
Largo from “Xerces”Riga Radio Choir, Latvian Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra, Ilmar Lapinsch4:11
Largo from Serse, HWV 40: Act IStephen Cleobury3:08
Largo From The Opera 'Xerxes': 7St. Petersburg Chamber Festival Orchestra, Arkady Terentiev3:55
Largo from XerxesChamber Orchestra “Renaissance”, Leo Korchin4:03
Largo from XerxesinstrumentalOrchestre de chambre Jean‐François Paillard, Jean‐François Paillard5:23
Largo From XerxesLondon Symphony Orchestra, George Szell5:30
Largo uit "Xerxes": Ombra mai fùRuggero Orofino, Hans Otto, Dresdner Philharmonie, Kurt Masur2:42
Largo, from "Xerxes"Budapesti Vonósok3:07
Largo: “Ombra Mai Fu” From SerseReginald Kilbey and His Strings2:25
Ombra Ma Fu (Largo From Xerxes)Edward Carroll, New York Philharmonia Virtuosi, Richard Kapp3:01
Ombra mai fuAmira Willighagen2:38
Ombra mai fuCai Thomas3:07
Ombra mai fu[unknown]?:??
Ombra mai fuMalena Ernman, Stockholm Sinfonietta, Alberto Hold-Garrido2:56
Ombra mai fuJackie Evancho3:34
Ombra mai fuAnthony Roth Costanzo, Les Violons du Roy, Jonathan Cohen3:20
Ombra mai fuEnrico Caruso4:13
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