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Orlando, HWV 31 / Act 2 : Handel: Orlando, HWV 31 / Act 2 - No. 17 Cavatina "Quando spieghi" - Rec. "Perchè, gentil Dorinda"
by Bejun Mehta
About This Song
About "Orlando, HWV 31 / Act 2 : Handel: Orlando, HWV 31 / Act 2 - No. 17 Cavatina "Quando spieghi" - Rec. "Perchè, gentil Dorinda"" by Bejun Mehta
Handel's cavatina glows with pastoral calm, but the recitative that follows cracks the idyll like frost on glass. The voice hovers between Dorinda's tender hope and Orlando's unraveling mind—a fragile bloom in a garden already poisoned by jealousy, each phrase a step deeper into delusion.