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" Ombra mai fu" ("Never was a shade ... solo piano, violin or cello and piano, and string ensembles, often under the title "Largo from Xerxes" or ...
Movement Type Grove [1] reference Händel-Gesellschaft reference Hallische Händel-Ausgabe reference Notes 1 Prelude: 107 xlviii, 149 The prelude did not appear in the first edition published by John Walsh [2] and was taken from Handel's keyboard suite HWV 428.
The King of Persia, Serse, gives effusive, loving thanks to the plane tree for furnishing him with shade (Arioso: "Ombra mai fu"). His brother Arsamene, with his buffoonish servant Elviro, enters, looking for Arsamene's sweetheart Romilda. They stop as they hear her singing from the summerhouse. Romilda is making gentle fun of Serse with her song.
Bononcini's Xerse was in turn adapted by Handel in his Serse with a third (and best known) version of "Ombra mai fu". Bononcini's song "Vado ben spesso cangiando loco" was used by Franz Liszt in his suite for piano Années de pèlerinage: Deuxième année: Italie under the erroneous title "Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa".
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Monday 7 September 1959, Basil Cameron, John Hollingsworth, Constance Shacklock , Nicanor Zabaleta , Maurice Cole (piano) Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No. 3; Handel, "Ombra mai fu", recitative and aria from Xerxes; Bach, Piano Concerto No. 1 in D minor; Handel, Concerto in B-flat for Harp and Small Orchestra
"Ombra mai fu" from Serse: George Frideric Handel: 17 15: Piano Concerto No. 21 in C: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: 25 16: Adagio for Strings: Samuel Barber: 14 17: Piano Concerto No. 5 in E Flat 'Emperor' Ludwig van Beethoven: 24 18 "Méditation" from Thaïs: Jules Massenet: 39 19: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor From the New World: Antonín Dvořák: 36 20
After his death, Handel's Italian operas fell into obscurity, except for selections such as the aria from Serse, "Ombra mai fu". The oratorios continued to be performed but not long after Handel's death they were thought to need some modernisation, and Mozart orchestrated German versions of Messiah and other works.