#Lascia ch&039;io pianga (Händel&039;s opera Rinaldo)

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The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude - Lascia ch'io pianga

The DWR Friday Baroque Interlude – Lascia ch’io pianga

Its melodyis first found in act 3 of Handel’s 1705 opera Almira as a sarabande;[1] the score for this can be seen on page 81 of Vol. 55[2] of Friedrich Chrysander. Handel then used the tune for the aria “Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa”, or “Leave the Thorn, Take the Rose”, for the character Piacere in part 2 of his 1707 oratorio Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (which was much later, in…