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Arias from each role might as well have been tailor-made for Hallenberg’s pinpoint virtuosity and lyricism, communicative use of language, idiomatic embellishment, intelligently sculpted phrasing... — More…
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Cecilia & Sol: Dolce Duello
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Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Sol Gabetta (cello)
Cappella Gabetta, Andres Gabetta
Bartoli and cellist Sol Gabetta make for valiant duelling partners who converse, parry and riposte in spirited combat. Bartoli is velvet-toned, vivacious and voluptuous as ever. Her diction is... — More…
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An often feisty recital of operatically-influenced 17th and 18th century sacred music intercut with instrumental items by Dantone’s firebrand ensemble. — More…
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Nicola Porpora: Opera Arias
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Max Emanuel Cencic (countertenor)
Armonia Atenea, George Petrou
There are three absolute gems here: 'Quando s'oscura is cielo' (Carlo il Calvo, Rome, 1738), with its ambiguous tonality, the gentle flute-inflected pastoral siciliana 'Ove l'erbetta', a love... — More…
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There’s huge stylistic variety across this selection of baroque depictions of Alexander the Great, from the swaggering coloratura fireworks of Handel’s ‘Vano amore’ and Francesco Mancini’s ‘Spirti... — More…
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I Viaggi di Faustina
Faustina Bordoni’s journeys to Naples
Roberta Invernizzi (soprano)
I Turchini, Antonio Florio
Invernizzi triumphs in this recording, re-animating Baroque prima donna Faustina Bordoni's legacy with grace and authority. The Italian soprano deftly captures Bordoni's celebrated qualities... — More…
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Hallenberg is on scintillating form, fluent alike in bravura, of which Graun's 'Mi paventi' with horns provides a dazzling example, and cantilena. The instrumental support provided by Il Pomo... — More…
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Semiramide - La Signora Regale
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Arias & Scenes from Porpora to Rossini
Anna Bonitatibus (mezzo-soprano)
Accademia degli Astrusi, Federico Ferri
There is much coloratura and here, as elsewhere, Anna Bonitatibus is spot-on...This set, sumptuously illustrated, is an absolute must-have. — More…
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Arie Napoletane: Max Emanuel Cencic
Max Emanuel Cencic (countertenor)
Il Pomo D'Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev
Cencic negotiates this complex emotional parabola wonderfully well. This is a great voice, dark in tone, beguiling in its liquidity and finely equalised. His coloratura flows with great ease...though... — More…
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Offer, Farinelli - A Portrait
Live in Bergen
Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano)
Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
Hallenberg is a force of nature, in stark contrast to the synthetic singing of the film, for which sound engineers fuse a mezzo with a male alto voice. Hallenberg’s voice is unmistakably her... — More…
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