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The disc is a delight not just because Genaux is a technically accomplished and warmly communicative artist, but also because the arias themselves are of high quality. Costanza's 'Agitata da... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 2nd Nov 2009
Catalogue No: 6945730
Label: Erato
Length: 75 minutes

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Excerpt, Vivaldi: Catone in Utica

Work length5:27

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Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi
Recorded: 2008-12-17
Recording Venue: 17-23 December 2008. Biblioteca del Monastero di San Giovanni, Parma

Come in vano il mare irato

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Excerpt, Vivaldi: Semiramide

Work length4:55

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Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi
Recorded: 2008-12-17
Recording Venue: 17-23 December 2008. Biblioteca del Monastero di San Giovanni, Parma

E prigioniero e re

Track length4:55

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Excerpt, Vivaldi: La Fida Ninfa

Work length5:10

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Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi
Recorded: 2008-12-17
Recording Venue: 17-23 December 2008. Biblioteca del Monastero di San Giovanni, Parma

Alma oppressa

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Excerpt, Vivaldi: Griselda, RV718

Work length5:19

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Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi
Recorded: 2008-12-17
Recording Venue: 17-23 December 2008. Biblioteca del Monastero di San Giovanni, Parma

Agitata da due venti

Track length5:19

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Excerpt, Vivaldi: La Fida Ninfa

Work length5:55

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Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi
Recorded: 2008-12-17
Recording Venue: 17-23 December 2008. Biblioteca del Monastero di San Giovanni, Parma

Destin nemico....Destin avaro

Track length5:55

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Excerpt, Vivaldi: Il labbro ti lusinga

Work length7:29

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Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi
Recorded: 2008-12-17
Recording Venue: 17-23 December 2008. Biblioteca del Monastero di San Giovanni, Parma

Excerpt, Vivaldi: Ipermestra

Work length3:50

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Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi
Recorded: 2008-12-17
Recording Venue: 17-23 December 2008. Biblioteca del Monastero di San Giovanni, Parma

Vibro il ferro

Track length3:50

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Excerpt, Vivaldi: Farnace

Work length7:50

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Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi
Recorded: 2008-12-17
Recording Venue: 17-23 December 2008. Biblioteca del Monastero di San Giovanni, Parma

No, ch'amar non è fallo in cor guerriero....Quell'usignolo

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Excerpt, Vivaldi: Tito Manlio RV 738

Work length4:49

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Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi
Recorded: 2008-12-17
Recording Venue: 17-23 December 2008. Biblioteca del Monastero di San Giovanni, Parma

Splender fra 'l cieco orror

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Excerpt, Vivaldi: Rosmira Fedele

Work length6:52

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Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi
Recorded: 2008-12-17
Recording Venue: 17-23 December 2008. Biblioteca del Monastero di San Giovanni, Parma

Vorrei dirti il mio dolore

Track length6:52

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Excerpt, Vivaldi: Catone in Utica

Work length7:25

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Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi
Recorded: 2008-12-17
Recording Venue: 17-23 December 2008. Biblioteca del Monastero di San Giovanni, Parma

Chi può nelle sventure....Nella foresta

Track length7:25

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Excerpt, Vivaldi: Farnace

Work length3:45

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Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi
Recorded: 2008-12-17
Recording Venue: 17-23 December 2008. Biblioteca del Monastero di San Giovanni, Parma

Ricordati che sei

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Vivaldi: Sin nel placido soggiorno

Work length6:50

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Vivica Genaux (mezzo-soprano)
Europa Galante
Fabio Biondi
Recorded: 2008-12-17
Recording Venue: 17-23 December 2008. Biblioteca del Monastero di San Giovanni, Parma

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The balmy lagoon of Venice is a long way from the chill waters of America’s most northern state, but Alaska-born mezzo soprano Vivica Genaux now lives near La Serenissima, and Antonio Vivaldi, the city’s emblematic composer, figures prominently in her repertoire. This album of Vivaldi arias features numbers from a dozen or so operas and includes five arias receiving their first recording.

Describing Vivica Genaux in her trademark virtuoso repertoire, The New York Times observed that: “Her voice is as striking as her looks: less striking, even, for the light, free upper notes or rich chocolaty lower ones than for the runs of coloratura that she releases with jackhammer speed, gunfire precision and the limpid continuity of spring raindrops.”

Genaux herself says that: “In Baroque music, what I really like is the interaction between the voice and the orchestra. The orchestra doesn’t just accompany but punctuates what you are saying as a singer, so you have the opportunity of really working closely with the instrumentalists. There are plenty of pyrotechnics in this recital, but in the sense of using ornamentation to amplify the emotion – so there is rapid coloratura and more delicate ornamentation too. I love working with Europa Galante, and Fabio, being a violinist as well as a conductor, understands that a singer can’t just go on forever on one breath – just as a violinist is limited by the length of his bow.”

The Vivaldi expert Frédéric Delamea takes up this theme:

‘Famed as a virtuoso violinist, Vivaldi divided his artistic life between composing concertos for his preferred instrument and writing operas. It should therefore come as no surprise that in his stage works he shows a predilection for vocal pyrotechnics, playing the voice and singer like a human violin. Even in the glory days of the castrati, however, he avoided falling into the trap of reducing singing to mere exhibitionist acrobatics. Throughout his career, he took up the pyrotechnic challenge with finesse, deploying an unrivalled variety of expression and wrapping up the display in a refined orchestral setting that draws direct inspiration from his concertos while also responding to the demands of the drama. The dazzling arias in this programme – some of which have never been recorded or, indeed, performed in concert – illustrate the different phases and forms of Vivaldian pyrotechnics, exploring every emotion and the most diverse dramatic situations, and continually varying instrumentation, tonality and tempo. The composer of the Four Seasons, flamboyant as ever, sets his unique operatic stamp.’

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January 2010

The disc is a delight not just because Genaux is a technically accomplished and warmly communicative artist, but also because the arias themselves are of high quality. Costanza's 'Agitata da due venti', from Act II of Griselda, is immensely rewarding; so, too, is the virtuosic 'Come in vano il mare irato' from Act II of Catone in Utica. Genaux manages its remarkably wide compass and coloratura with seeming effortlessness, as indeed she does in the aria 'Nella foresta' with its two horns.

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