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each comes across fully formed, assured in recitative, rhythmically alert, skilful in phrasing...a distinctive musical personality is evident throughout, supporting by first-rate 'period' accompaniment. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2010, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 1st Mar 2010
Catalogue No: TEL3182702
Label: Telarc
Length: 60 minutes

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Mozart: Idomeneo, K366: Overture

Work length4:28

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Boston Baroque
Martin Pearlman
Recorded: 2010

Mozart: Idomeneo, K. 366: Recitiative & Aria. Ah qual gelido orror... Il padre adorato

Work length3:49

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Michael Maniaci (soprano)
Boston Baroque
Martin Pearlman
Recorded: 2010

Mozart: Lucio Silla, K. 135: Recitative & Aria. Dunque sperar poss'io... Il tenero momento

Work length10:24

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Michael Maniaci (soprano)
Boston Baroque
Martin Pearlman
Recorded: 2010

Mozart: Lucio Silla, K. 135: Aria. Ah se a morir mi chiama

Work length8:50

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Michael Maniaci (soprano)
Boston Baroque
Martin Pearlman
Recorded: 2010

Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, K621: Overture

Work length4:46

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Boston Baroque
Martin Pearlman
Recorded: 2010

Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, K. 621: Aria. Deh per questo istante solo

Work length6:25

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Michael Maniaci (soprano)
Boston Baroque
Martin Pearlman
Recorded: 2010

Mozart: La clemenza di Tito, K. 621: Aria. Parto, ma tu ben mio

Work length6:22

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Michael Maniaci (soprano)
Boston Baroque
Martin Pearlman
Recorded: 2010

Mozart: Exsultate, Jubilate, K. 165: I. Allegro

Work length4:31

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Michael Maniaci (soprano)
Boston Baroque
Martin Pearlman
Recorded: 2010

Mozart: Exsultate, Jubilate, K. 165: II. Recitative

Work length0:51

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Michael Maniaci (soprano)
Boston Baroque
Martin Pearlman
Recorded: 2010

Mozart: Exsultate, Jubilate, K. 165: III. Andante

Work length7:24

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Michael Maniaci (soprano)
Boston Baroque
Martin Pearlman
Recorded: 2010

Mozart: Exsultate, Jubilate, K. 165: IV. Allegro. Alleluja

Work length2:39

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Michael Maniaci (soprano)
Boston Baroque
Martin Pearlman
Recorded: 2010

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The highly-rated early music ensemble Boston Baroque and its conductor Martin Pearlman join forces with the talented American singer and true male soprano Michael Maniaci, in a recording of arias that Mozart originally composed for the castrato voice. The disc contains arias from Idomeneo, Lucio Silla, and La Clemenza di Tito, as well as the beloved motet Exsultate, jubilate. The recording also includes two brilliant orchestral pieces, the overtures to Idomeneo and Clemenza.

The first permanent Baroque orchestra established in North America, Boston Baroque is widely regarded as one of the world’s premier period-instrument bands. The ensemble's performances and recordings of the Baroque and Classical repertoire have been hailed by audiences and critics in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia for their freshness, virtuosity, and exuberant appeal. Although Maniaci’s voice is natural, his stunning performances give Boston Baroque the opportunity to add yet another “original” instrument, the male soprano voice, to their performing forces. A voice type that was enormously popular in opera and religious music in the 17th century but completely disappeared over a century ago, the male castrato’s true chest voice – unlike falsetto singers – was in the soprano or alto range, yet extremely powerful due to the male lung capacity. Up until now, all we have really known of this voice are the verbal descriptions of contemporary listeners and a single, scratchy recording made late in the life of the last castrato performer.

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April 2010

each comes across fully formed, assured in recitative, rhythmically alert, skilful in phrasing...a distinctive musical personality is evident throughout, supporting by first-rate 'period' accompaniment.

28th February 2010

Maniaci’s voice is truly extraordinary. Its range is about a sixth higher than that of most countertenors, and high C presents no problem...The arias...are all delivered with assurance, their testing passages of coloratura negotiated with disarming ease

28th March 2010

This is quite an unsettling recording. It's as though we have opened a door on another world...It's probably the nearest we have to the sound of the castrato voice...the voice is effortless, with no hint of a break into falsetto

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