Elîna Garanča: Habanera

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Garanča's is a medium-scale mezzo approach, elegant and devoid of ugly lurches into chest voice. — BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 23rd Aug 2010
Catalogue No: 4778776
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Length: 68 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

23rd August 2010
Gramophone Magazine

October 2010

Editor's Choice

Barbieri, F: El barberillo de Lavapies

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Elina Garanča (mezzo-soprano), Claudio Fenoglio (chorus master)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI, Coro Filarmonico del Regio di Torino
Karel Mark Chichon
Recorded: 2010-03-18
Recording Venue: Auditorium RAI "Arturo Toscanini", Torino

Canción de Paloma

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Bizet: Carmen, WD 31 / Act 1

Work length4:41

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Elina Garanča (mezzo-soprano), Roberto Alagna (tenor)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI
Karel Mark Chichon
Recorded: 2010-03-14
Recording Venue: Auditorium RAI "Arturo Toscanini", Torino

Séguedille et Duo: "Près des remparts de Séville"

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Lehár: Zigeunerliebe (Gipsy Love) / Act 2

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Elina Garanča (mezzo-soprano), Alessandro Milani (violin)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI
Karel Mark Chichon
Recorded: 2010-03-14
Recording Venue: Auditorium RAI "Arturo Toscanini", Torino

Hör' ich Zymbalklänge

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Balfe: The Bohemian Girl - Arr. By Karel Mark Chichon

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Elina Garanča (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI
Karel Mark Chichon
Recorded: 2010-03-14
Recording Venue: Auditorium RAI "Arturo Toscanini", Torino

I Dreamt I Dwelt In Marble Halls

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Excerpt, Montsalvatge: Canciones negras (5)

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Elina Garanča (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI
Karel Mark Chichon
Recorded: 2010-03-14
Recording Venue: Auditorium RAI "Arturo Toscanini", Torino

4. Canción de cuna para dormir a un negrito

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Falla: El Amor Brujo

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Elina Garanča (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI
Karel Mark Chichon
Recorded: 2010-03-18
Recording Venue: Auditorium RAI "Arturo Toscanini", Torino

Canción del amor dolido

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Excerpt, Falla: Siete Canciones populares españolas

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José Maria Gallardo del Rey (guitar), Elina Garanča (mezzo-soprano)
Recorded: 2010-03-18
Recording Venue: Auditorium RAI "Arturo Toscanini", Torino

5. Nana

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Ravel: Vocalise-étude en forme de habanera

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Elina Garanča (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI
Karel Mark Chichon
Recorded: 2010-03-14
Recording Venue: Auditorium RAI "Arturo Toscanini", Torino

Lorente, R: El Barquillero

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Elina Garanča (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI
Karel Mark Chichon
Recorded: 2010-03-14
Recording Venue: Auditorium RAI "Arturo Toscanini", Torino

Romanza de Socorro "Cunado está tan honda"

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Bernstein: Candide / Act I

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Elina Garanča (mezzo-soprano), Claudio Fenoglio (chorus master)
Coro Filarmonico del Regio di Torino, Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI
Karel Mark Chichon
Recorded: 2010-03-18
Recording Venue: Auditorium RAI "Arturo Toscanini", Torino

I Am Easily Assimilated (Old Lady's Tango)

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Rey, J: Canción del amor

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Elina Garanča (mezzo-soprano), Enrico Maria Baroni (clarinet), José Maria Gallardo del Rey (guitar), Geri Brown (viola), Massimo Macri (cello), Cesare Maghenzani (double bass), Roberto Vozmediano (percussion), Alberto Barletta (flute)
Recorded: 2010-03-18
Recording Venue: Auditorium RAI "Arturo Toscanini", Torino

Excerpt, Falla: Siete Canciones populares españolas

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Elina Garanča (mezzo-soprano), José Maria Gallardo del Rey (guitar)
Recorded: 2010-03-18
Recording Venue: Auditorium RAI "Arturo Toscanini", Torino

4. Jota

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Pablo Carne Luna: El Niño Judìo

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Elina Garanča (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI
Karel Mark Chichon
Recorded: 2010-03-18
Recording Venue: Auditorium RAI "Arturo Toscanini", Torino

"De España vengo"

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Bizet: Carmen / Act 2

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Elina Garanča (mezzo-soprano), Cristina Antoaneta Pasaroiu (soprano), Giuseppina Bridelli (soprano)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI
Karel Mark Chichon
Recorded: 2010-03-14
Recording Venue: Auditorium RAI "Arturo Toscanini", Torino

Chanson: "Les tringles des sistres tintaient"

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Obradors: Canciones clásicas españolas

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Elina Garanča (mezzo-soprano), José Maria Gallardo del Rey (guitar)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI
Karel Mark Chichon
Recorded: 2010-03-18
Recording Venue: Auditorium RAI "Arturo Toscanini", Torino

El vito

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Serrano, J: Le alegria del battallon

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Elina Garanča (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI
Karel Mark Chichon
Recorded: 2010-03-18
Recording Venue: Auditorium RAI "Arturo Toscanini", Torino

Cancion de la gitana

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Bizet: Carmen, WD 31 / Act 1

Work length4:42

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Elina Garanča (mezzo-soprano), Claudio Fenoglio (chorus master)
Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI, Coro Filarmonico del Regio di Torino
Karel Mark Chichon
Recorded: 2010-03-18
Recording Venue: Auditorium RAI "Arturo Toscanini", Torino

"L'amour est un oiseau rebelle" (Havanaise)

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Bizet: Carmen / Act 1

Work length3:49

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Elina Garanča (mezzo-soprano), Claudio Fenoglio (chorus master)
Coro Filarmonico del Regio di Torino, Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI
Karel Mark Chichon
Recorded: 2010-03-18
Recording Venue: Auditorium RAI "Arturo Toscanini", Torino

"L'amour est un enfant Bohème" (Havanaise 1st version)

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Recording of the Week, Elīna Garanča goes Spanish

23rd August 2010

The Latvian mezzo sings the title-role in Bizet’s Carmen from the Metropolitan Opera on DVD, and explores gypsy music still further on her new recital Habanera, which includes music from zarzuela, operetta and musical theatre.

Elîna Garanča’s supple, seductive mezzo is aflame with the neon hues and rhythmic dash of Romany in excerpts from beguiling Gypsy roles in opera and operetta. Stand alone numbers add to the panache of Habanera.

With gorgeous pieces eliciting every gift Elîna Garanca boasts as a musician, Habanera's instrumental accompaniments – whether RAI’s full orchestra, small ensemble or guitar – add to the sultry atmosphere.

Conductor Karel Mark Chichon contributes taut yet elastic leadership that enhances the charm and variety of Elîna Garanca’s selections.

On this album, the ‘dialects’ derived from Gypsy musical language include Bizet’s Carmen, Chueca’s Tango de la Ermenegilda, Bernstein’s Candide, Lehar’s Hör ich Zymbalklänge and unknown gems like Obradors’ El vito (see the exceptional music video) making for a musically enlightening and delightful program.

Every generation has its “must see” Carmen. In 2010, the list of definitive gypsy seductresses – glittering with names like Baltsa, Bumbry, Calvé, Farrar, and Stevens – is enriched by the addition of Elīna Garanča.

After her triumphant success as Carmen in Riga, London, and Munich, Elīna Garanča, “the Carmen of our day” (News, Austria), has taken the NY Metropolitan Opera by storm in January 2010. This production was filmed live and the 2 DVD Set in 5.1 DTS surround sound will be released simultaneously.

The Wiener Zeitung said it all when it observed of Garanča’s Carmen that “the role and the singer are perfectly matched”.

Reviews

December 2010

Garanča's is a medium-scale mezzo approach, elegant and devoid of ugly lurches into chest voice.

November 2010

Garanča gorgeous voice comes as a fantastic package: it caresses the ear with its velvety warmth, tingles the spine with its ringing bright overtones, and impresses the imagination with its well-supported evenness from top to bottom.

October 2010

Garanča's voice has been described as "creamy", "silken" and "lustrous" (her chest register is superbly produced) but it also has a surprisingly rounded maturity. What sets her apart, however, is the unteachable ability to send shivers down the spine and make grown men salivate.

23rd August 2010

a brilliantly conceived album which shows off the agile and seductive voice of Garanča to the full...You can hear a lot of flamenco influence throughout this disc and the accompaniments vary between full orchestra, small ensemble and guitar.

9th September 2010

Her voice impresses, though one notices that the sound has brightened of late, and that a newly found ease at the top has come...The shift allows her to interpolate a showy, but thrilling top B into Carmen's Seguidilla, and to tackle De España Vengo, the big soprano number from Luna's El Niño Judío, with abandoned ease.

13th September 2010

Garanča may be Lithuanian but her mezzo-soprano has Mediterranean sensuality and warmth.

28th August 2010

Smoochy, smoky, with lambent top notes

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