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…Bartoli…sings everything with vivid personality. The accompaniments are well handled under Adam Fischer. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2007, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 12th Nov 2007
Catalogue No: E4759077
Label: Decca
Length: 78 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

12th November 2007
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Pacini: Irene, o L'Assedio di Messina / Act 2

Work length6:06

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Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano), Una Prelle (harp)
International Chamber Soloists, Orchestra La Scintilla
Ádám Fischer
Recorded: 2006-10-06
Recording Venue: Evangelisch -reformierte Kirchgemeinde, Zurich

"Se un mio desir... Cedi al duo!"

Track length3:45

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"Ira del ciel"

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Excerpt, Persiani: Ines di Castro

Work length4:09

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Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano), Maria Goldschmidt (flute), Una Prelle (harp), Daniel Pezzotti (cello)
Orchestra La Scintilla
Ádám Fischer
Recorded: 2006-10-06
Recording Venue: Evangelisch -reformierte Kirchgemeinde, Zurich

"Cari giorni" (Romanza der Ines)

Track length4:09

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Mendelssohn: Infelice, Op. 94

Work length12:13

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Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano), Maxim Vengerov (violin)
Orchestra La Scintilla
Ádám Fischer
Recorded: 2006-10-06
Recording Venue: Evangelisch -reformierte Kirchgemeinde, Zurich

Excerpt, Garcia, M: El Poeta Calculista

Work length2:21

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Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano), Elena Vicini (castanets), Claudio Mermoud (guitar), Ricardo Espinosa (clapping), Isabel Amaya (clapping)
Orchestra La Scintilla
Ádám Fischer
Recorded: 2006-10-06
Recording Venue: Evangelisch -reformierte Kirchgemeinde, Zurich

"Yo que soy contrabandista"

Track length2:21

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Bellini: La sonnambula / Act 2

Work length7:39

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Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano), Celso Albelo (tenor)
International Chamber Soloists, Orchestra La Scintilla
Ádám Fischer
Recorded: 2006-10-06
Recording Venue: Evangelisch -reformierte Kirchgemeinde, Zurich

"Ah, non credea mirarti"

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"Ah, non giunge uman pensiero"

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Hummel, J: Variations on 'Tyrolienne'

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Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano), Maria Goldschmidt (flute), Robert Pickup (clarinet)
Orchestra La Scintilla
Ádám Fischer
Recorded: 2006-10-06
Recording Venue: Evangelisch -reformierte Kirchgemeinde, Zurich

Excerpt, Garcia, M: La Figlia dell'Aria

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Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano)
International Chamber Soloists, Orchestra La Scintilla
Ádám Fischer
Recorded: 2006-10-06
Recording Venue: Evangelisch -reformierte Kirchgemeinde, Zurich

"E non lo vedo... Son regina"

Track length7:01

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Malibran: Rataplan

Work length2:24

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Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano), Benjamin Forster (drum)
Orchestra La Scintilla
Ádám Fischer
Recorded: 2006-10-06
Recording Venue: Evangelisch -reformierte Kirchgemeinde, Zurich

Pacini: "Dopo tante e tante pene" (After Rossini's "Tancredi")

Work length3:13

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Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra La Scintilla
Ádám Fischer
Recorded: 2006-10-06
Recording Venue: Evangelisch -reformierte Kirchgemeinde, Zurich

Bellini: I puritani / Act 2

Work length8:06

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Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano), Celso Albelo (tenor), Luca Pisaroni (baritone)
Orchestra La Scintilla
Ádám Fischer
Recorded: 2006-10-06
Recording Venue: Evangelisch -reformierte Kirchgemeinde, Zurich

"O rendetemi la speme"

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"Vien, diletto, è in ciel la luna"

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Excerpt, Halévy: Clari

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Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano), Ada Pesch (violin)
Orchestra La Scintilla
Ádám Fischer
Recorded: 2006-10-06
Recording Venue: Evangelisch -reformierte Kirchgemeinde, Zurich

"Come dolce a me favelli"

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Excerpt, Rossi, Lauro: Amelia ovvero otto anni di costanza

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Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano), Robert Pickup (clarinet)
International Chamber Soloists, Orchestra La Scintilla
Ádám Fischer
Recorded: 2006-10-06
Recording Venue: Evangelisch -reformierte Kirchgemeinde, Zurich

"Scorrete, o lagrime"

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Malibran: "Prendi per me sei libero" (After Donizetti's "L'Elisir d'amore")

Work length4:13

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Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra La Scintilla
Ádám Fischer
Recorded: 2006-10-06
Recording Venue: Evangelisch -reformierte Kirchgemeinde, Zurich

Bellini: Norma (Act 1)

Work length6:43

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Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano), Maria Goldschmidt (flute)
International Chamber Soloists, Orchestra La Scintilla
Ádám Fischer
Recorded: 2006-10-06
Recording Venue: Evangelisch -reformierte Kirchgemeinde, Zurich

"Casta Diva"

Track length6:43

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Recording of the Week, The forgotten Maria

12th November 2007

Cecilia Bartoli explores the legacy of the nineteenth-century Spanish mezzo Maria Malibran, who created the title-role in Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda and was particularly associated with the heroines of Rossini.

“Opera… must make one weep, shudder, die.” Vincenzo Bellini

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December 2007

…Bartoli…sings everything with vivid personality. The accompaniments are well handled under Adam Fischer.

11th January 2008

[Bartoli] has aimed not only to present Malibran's repertoire but also to capture her sound. Bartoli's rich voice, with its pyrotechnical capabilities and dramatic powers, couldn’t have been better suited to the task...More than just a history lesson though, this is wonderful music sung by a modern-day star.

2010

This new recital is a brilliant summation of Bartoli's art and the special contribution it makes. At best, she has brought an individuality and sense of personal commitment to her singing, rare both in kind and degree. Voice and usage have always been fascinating, whatever their limitations. Enthusiasm, the awareness of a remarkable will–power and with it the recognition of an adventurous musical spirit in seeking out new material: all these have further distinguished her. And now she appears to have found a figure on whom she can hang all these gifts while exploring the repertoire that appeals to her most strongly.
Maria Malibran (1808-36) is now remembered for her death almost as much as for her life. In poor health, she sang in a duet which became so competitive that she determined to repeat it, thus vanquishing her rival, even if it killed her.
And it did; at least, she died (in Manchester, aged 28) nine days later. The concentration of a scorching will–power is strikingly caught in Bartoli's performances: in the cabaletta of the first item, from Pacini's Irene, for instance, the phrase 'mi squarcia il seno' is almost ferociously intense. Gaiety and charm were also at Malibran's command, as they are at Bartoli's in the Spanish song by the father, Manuel García, and in Maria's own Rataplan. The quality of her voice is variously reported (at times she was said to be practically voiceless), but there is no doubt about the magical effect of her singing upon her audiences. If it was anything like the spell Bartoli herself casts in the quiet rapture of her 'Casta diva' it must have been memorable indeed.

December 2007

This new recital is a brilliant summation of Cecilia Bartoli's art and the special contribution it makes.

12th November 2007

Bartoli, who has spent the last twenty years submerged in earlier music, has a keen interest in the musicological performance practice ethic, and an astonishingly flexible voice, with both rich contralto notes and dancing top notes, might just be closer to Malibran (and therefore the sound that Rossini and Bellini had in mind) than anyone else since.

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