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Rokoko: Hasse Opera Arias
Max Emanuel Cencic (countertenor), Theodoros Kitsos (mandolin)
Armonia Atenea, George Petrou
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
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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:...
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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
- Max Emanuel Cenčić (countertenor)
- Armonia Atenea
- George Petrou
- Recorded: 2013-07-14
- Recording Venue: Dimitris Metropoulos Hall, Athens
- Max Emanuel Cenčić (countertenor)
- Armonia Atenea
- George Petrou
- Recorded: 2013-07-14
- Recording Venue: Dimitris Metropoulos Hall, Athens
- Max Emanuel Cenčić (countertenor)
- Armonia Atenea
- George Petrou
- Recorded: 2013-07-14
- Recording Venue: Dimitris Metropoulos Hall, Athens
- Max Emanuel Cenčić (countertenor)
- Armonia Atenea
- George Petrou
- Recorded: 2013-07-14
- Recording Venue: Dimitris Metropoulos Hall, Athens
- Max Emanuel Cenčić (countertenor)
- Armonia Atenea
- George Petrou
- Recorded: 2013-07-14
- Recording Venue: Dimitris Metropoulos Hall, Athens
- Max Emanuel Cenčić (countertenor)
- Armonia Atenea
- George Petrou
- Recorded: 2013-07-14
- Recording Venue: Dimitris Metropoulos Hall, Athens
- Theodoros Kitsos (mandolin)
- Armonia Atenea
- George Petrou
- Recorded: 2013-07-14
- Recording Venue: Dimitris Metropoulos Hall, Athens
- Max Emanuel Cenčić (countertenor)
- Armonia Atenea
- George Petrou
- Recorded: 2013-07-14
- Recording Venue: Dimitris Metropoulos Hall, Athens
- Max Emanuel Cenčić (countertenor)
- Armonia Atenea
- George Petrou
- Recorded: 2013-07-14
- Recording Venue: Dimitris Metropoulos Hall, Athens
- Max Emanuel Cenčić (countertenor)
- Armonia Atenea
- George Petrou
- Recorded: 2013-07-14
- Recording Venue: Dimitris Metropoulos Hall, Athens
- Max Emanuel Cenčić (countertenor)
- Armonia Atenea
- George Petrou
- Recorded: 2013-07-14
- Recording Venue: Dimitris Metropoulos Hall, Athens
- Max Emanuel Cenčić (countertenor)
- Armonia Atenea
- George Petrou
- Recorded: 2013-07-14
- Recording Venue: Dimitris Metropoulos Hall, Athens
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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.