Handel - "Un pensiero nemico di pace" N. Dessay

George Frideric Handel Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV 46a “Un pensiero nemico di pace“ Oratorio in two parts Libretto by: Benedetto Pamphilj In this recording: Natalie Dessay Le Concert D`Astrée/Emmanuelle Haïm The Triumph of Time and Truth is an oratorio by George Frideric Handel which has seen three iterations across 50 years of Handel’s career. HWV 46a is an Italian oratorio from 1707, in 1737 Handel revised and expanded the oratorio to create HWV 46b, and HWV 71 is the work expanded and revised again, possibly without much involvement at all by Handel, into an English-language oratorio from 1757. Under the title which translates “The Triumph of Time and Disillusionment“ (HWV 46a), Handel composed his very first oratorio to a libretto by Cardinal Benedetto Pamphili. The work, which consisted of two sections, was composed in the Spring of 1707 and premiered that summer in Rome. Il Tr