Coming Soon,
Cecilia Bartoli goes Russian
She's already well known for her excavations of the Italian baroque, but Cecilia Bartoli's latest project comes with a Russian accent. Due out in October on Decca Classics, her next recording will focus on eighteenth-century St Petersburg, specifically music written during the reigns of three mighty empresses: Anna Ioannovna (1730–40), Elizaveta Petrovna (1741–62) and Yekaterina Alexeevna (otherwise known as Catherine the Great - 1762–96).
The three tsarinas were avid music-lovers with a particular proclivity for Italians as court composers, and Bartoli has explored the rich archives of the Mariinsky Theatre library to unearth arias from operas by Vincenzo Manfredini, Francesco Araia, Domenico Dall’Oglio and Domenico Cimarosa as well as the German Hermann Friedrich Raupach. The album will include 11 world premiere recordings, two of which (from Raupach's opera Altsesta) will be sung in Russian - a first for Bartoli!
Bartoli will be joined by I Barocchisti and Diego Fasolis, who collaborated with her for Mission, a celebration of the elusive polymath Agostino Steffani
Other recent recordings from Cecilia Bartoli
An exhilarating exploration of the work of the intriguing diplomat-cum-composer-cum-cleric Agostino Steffani (1654-1728), Mission is stuffed with world premiere recordings and vocal thrills aplenty under the stylish direction of Diego Fasolis.
Available Formats: MP3, FLAC, Hi-Res FLAC
Focusing on music written by Neapolitan composers for the great castrati, Sacrificium includes arias by Araia, Caldara, Graun, Porpora and Leonardo Vinci; Bartoli is accompanied by Il Giardino Armonico and Giovanni Antonini.
Available Formats: CD, MP3, FLAC
Katherine Cooper - Head of Editorial
