Help
Skip to main content

US TARIFFS UPDATE | August 2025 | No impact expected on your Presto orders | Read full details

Rokoko: Hasse Opera Arias

Max Emanuel Cencic (countertenor), Theodoros Kitsos (mandolin)

Armonia Atenea, George Petrou

Rokoko: Hasse Opera Arias
Cencic's easy command of the craziest diminutions - the length, rapidity and range of which challenge the physically possible - shows why Hasse's music enthralled audiences. Authority abounds:...

Rokoko: Hasse Opera Arias

Max Emanuel Cencic (countertenor), Theodoros Kitsos (mandolin)

Armonia Atenea, George Petrou

Purchase product

96 kHz, 24 bit, FLAC/ALAC/WAV

$17.50

44.1 kHz, 16 bit, FLAC/ALAC/WAV

$13.75

320 kbps, MP3

$10.00

This release includes a digital booklet

Stream now Hi-RES 96 kHz, 24 bit
Cencic's easy command of the craziest diminutions - the length, rapidity and range of which challenge the physically possible - shows why Hasse's music enthralled audiences. Authority abounds:...

About

Launching his new recording contract with Decca Classics, critically-acclaimed countertenor Max Emanuel Cencic performs arias from the finest of Hasse’s dramatic works

From the exquisite delicacy of the aria di sostenuto to the fiery passion of the aria di bravura, Cencic’s sensational performance brings Hasse’s greatest works to a new audience, brilliantly fresh and with maximum effect

Rokoko follows on from Cencic’s incredibly well received Alessandro on Decca Classics. Critics from the world’s leading press recognised the album’s outstanding qualities: Gramophone described it as “an essential purchase”; Opera News observed that Cencic “commands the music totally”, while Diapason awarded it Diapason de l’or de l’année and it also won recognition in the International Opera Awards in London

For this new recording Cencic is accompanied by the superb Armonia Atenea under their internationally-renowned conductor George Petrou.

Contents and tracklist

"Notte amica"
Track length9:45
"Cadro ma qual si mira"
Track length5:43
"La sorte mia tiranna"
Track length6:22
"Opprimete i contumaci"
Track length4:13
"Siam navi all'onde"
Track length3:05
"Ma rendi pur contento"
Track length7:50
1. Allegro
Track length2:20
2. Largo
Track length3:31
3. Allegro
Track length2:16
"De' folgori di giove"
Track length4:20
"Se un tenero affetto"
Track length2:55
"Dei di Roma"
Track length4:15
"Solca il mar"
Track length4:11
"Vo disperato a morte"
Track length3:31

Spotlight on this release

Awards and reviews

August 2014

Cencic's easy command of the craziest diminutions - the length, rapidity and range of which challenge the physically possible - shows why Hasse's music enthralled audiences. Authority abounds: Cencic leaps elegantly across his register, and the band intervenes in delightfully unexpected ways.

May 2014

Whatever the piece, one hears Cencic at his best, in quality of voice and in his control of it...These Hasse arias would make a worthy introduction to Cencic's abilities for anyone who has yet to make his acquaintance and are confirmation for his admirers, should they need it.
View download progress