Arias for Marietta Marcolini: Rossini’s first muse

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Hallenberg is up to all the acrobatics Marcolini seems to have revelled in, her warm mezzo managing the writing's difficulties with assurance and articulating text and notes with flair...The... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 24th Sep 2012
Catalogue No: V5309
Label: Naive
Series: Naïve Discoveries
Length: 70 minutes

Mayr: Il sagrifizio di Jefte (The Sacrifice of Jephtha)

Work length5:11

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Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano)
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra Chamber Choir, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra
Fabio Biondi

Il sacrifizio di Iefte, Part II: Sol di morte nero velo

Track length5:11

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Excerpt, Rossini: L'Equivoco Stravagante

Work length7:22

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Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano)
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra Chamber Choir, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra
Fabio Biondi

L'equivoco stravagante, Act II: Se per te lieta ritorno

Track length7:22

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Weigl, J: L' Imboscata

Work length6:25

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Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano), Johannes Weisser (baritone), Harvor F. Melien (baritone)
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra Chamber Choir, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra
Fabio Biondi

L' Imboscata: Dille che in lei rispetto

Track length6:25

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Paër: L'eroismo in amore

Work length9:25

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Siri Karoline Thornhill (soprano), Birgitte Christensen (soprano), Johannes Weisser (baritone), Marius Roth Christensen (tenor), Fredrik Akselberg (tenor), Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano)
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra Chamber Choir, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra
Fabio Biondi

L'eroismo in amore: Io morro

Track length9:25

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Mosca, G: Le bestie in uomini

Work length7:42

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Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano)
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra Chamber Choir, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra
Fabio Biondi

Le bestie in uomini: Aria: Mentre guardo, oh Diot me stessa

Track length7:42

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Excerpt, Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri

Work length12:50

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Harvor F. Melien (baritone), Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano), Johannes Weisser (baritone), Marius Roth Christensen (tenor)
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra Chamber Choir, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra
Fabio Biondi

Act II: Per lui che adoro

Track length6:36

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Act II: Pensa alla patria, e intrepido

Track length6:14

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Coccia: La donna selvaggia

Work length7:01

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Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano), Johannes Weisser (baritone)
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra Chamber Choir
Fabio Biondi

La donna selvaggia: Tu mi stringi

Track length7:01

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Rossini: Ciro in Babilonia (Cyrus in Babylon)

Work length14:40

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Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano), Siri Karoline Thornhill (soprano), Birgitte Christensen (soprano), Johannes Weisser (baritone), Sofie Almroth (mezzo-soprano), Marius Roth Christensen (tenor), Fredrik Akselberg (tenor)
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra Chamber Choir, Stavanger Symphony Orchestra
Fabio Biondi

Ciro in Babilonia (Cyrus in Babylon), Act II: T'abbraccio, ti stringo

Track length14:40

$3.00

$3.85

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Marietta Marcolini was an Italian contralto born in Florence in 1780. Rossini’s career would not have taken flight in so meteoric a fashion without a series of providential encounters, and that with Marietta Marcolini was to leave an indelible stamp on his entire output. By creating roles to measure for her, as in 'La pietra del paragone' and 'L’Italiana in Algeri', and exploiting this interpreter’s uncommon resources more fully than had other composers before him, Rossini ushered in the fashion for a new type of comedy, the brilliant, virtuoso comedy of which he was to remain the master until 'Le Comte Ory' (1828).

Unlike the numerous recorded recitals devoted exclusively to Rossini, this one presents the young Rossini in the context of the Italian musical theatre of the second decade of the 19th century. Included are extremely well-known arias like the spectacular rondo from 'L’Italiana' and that of 'L’equivoco stravagante', the original version of Clarice’s rondo in 'La pietra del paragone'. It also reveals also the richness and variety of the pre-Rossinian composers are forgotten today. The Swedish mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg has become established as one of Europe’s leading mezzosopranos. Her operatic repertoire includes a large number of roles by Rossini, Mozart, Gluck, Massenet, Handel, Vivaldi and Monteverdi. Equally at home on the concert platform, she frequently appears in concert halls and festivals throughout Europe and North America.

With this recording, NAIVE launches a new series of CDs called NAIVE DISCOVERIES, which will assemble our enthusiasm for rare repertoires, atypical projects, releases distinct from signings of exclusive artists or production contracts spread over several years.

Includes 4 arias in world premiere recordings.

Reviews

June 2013

Hallenberg is up to all the acrobatics Marcolini seems to have revelled in, her warm mezzo managing the writing's difficulties with assurance and articulating text and notes with flair...The accompaniments are well-managed under Fabio Biondi.

January 2013

Having won plaudits in Handel and Vivaldi, Ann Hallenberg proves no less persuasive in bel canto. Just occasionally she sounds stretched in the stratosphere. But her even, gleaming tone, eloquence of phrase and fluent, never mechanical coloratura give virtually unalloyed pleasure.

March 2013

Her voice is flowing and controlled, rippling fluently and fearlessly through the fioriture with the best … very good sound.

Arias for Marietta Marcolini

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