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Alan Curtis
Alan Curtis was an American harpsichordist, musicologist, and conductor of baroque opera. Born in Mason, Michigan, Curtis graduated from studies at the University of Illinois, and received his PhD in 1960 with a dissertation on the keyboard music of Sweelinck. He then relocated to Amsterdam to work with Gustav Leonhardt, with whom he subsequently recorded a number of Bach's concerti for harpsichord. In the 1960s and 1970s, he made a number of recordings of solo harpsichord music including albums dedicated to the keyboard music of Rameau and the works of Johann Sebastian Bach, such as his recording of the Goldberg Variations made on a 1728 Christian Zell harpsichord. Following an academic career divided between UC Berkeley and Europe, Curtis devoted his time to performing dramatic music from Monteverdi to Mozart. As a student in the 1950s, he was the first modern harpsichordist to examine problems surrounding Louis Couperin's unmeasured preludes for harpsichord, and to commission the first modern copy of a chitarrone and the first chromatic harpsichord constructed in the 20th century. From Wikipedia (

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Catone in Utica, RV 705, Act I, Scene 9: Apri le luci e mira
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Handel: Rodelinda / Act 1 - Ombre, piante, urne funeste!
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Catone in Utica, RV 705, Act II, Scene 4: Se mai senti spirarti sul volto lieve
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Handel: Rodelinda / Act 2 - Io t'abbraccio
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Handel: Rodelinda / Act 3 - Mio caro, caro bene

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Handel: Radamisto, HWV 12a

2020
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Gluck: Ezio

2011
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Handel: Ezio

2009
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Haendel: Streams of Pleasure

2016
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Handel: Ariodante, HWV 33 (feat. Joyce DiDonato)

2011
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Handel: Alcina

2009
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Vivaldi: Catone in Utica

2016
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Handel: Berenice

2010
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Handel Giove in Argo

2013
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Porpora arias

2009

Singles & EPs

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You Put the Kiss In Christmas

Single2011

Videos

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Roberta Mameli "Apri le luci, e mira" (Vivaldi)

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Per salvarti, idolo mio (Handel) Hilary Summers

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Händel: "Alma Mía", aria de Floridante | Xavier Sabata y Dani Espasa

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Credete al mio dolore (Handel) Karina Gauvin

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Qual nave smarrita (Handel) Joyce DiDonato

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Chi t’intende? o cieca instabile! (Handel) Klara Ek

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Handel Tolomeo. 'Tutta contenta or gode'. Hallenberg, Gauvin

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Maite Beaumont sings "Stà nell'Ircana pietrosa", Ruggiero's aria from Alcina

Maite Beaumont45K views

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