L'Alessandro amante
Xavier Sabata (countertenor)
Vespres d’Arnadi, Dani Espasa
Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, December 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Vocal
Sabata sings this complex programme with his customary elegance and flair. His dark, warm alto has always sounded good in slower arias, where the long lines flow with ease and his breath control...
L'Alessandro amante
Xavier Sabata (countertenor)
Vespres d’Arnadi, Dani Espasa
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Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, December 2018
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2019, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Baroque Vocal
Sabata sings this complex programme with his customary elegance and flair. His dark, warm alto has always sounded good in slower arias, where the long lines flow with ease and his breath control...
About
The irresistible and warm voice of counter-tenor Xavier Sabata never ends to bewitch us in his new medley of jubilant baroque arias. Alexander The Great inspired him the theme his new album: Porpora, Händel, Bononcini and many other composers were seduced by this character who mingled the strength of the Emperor and the sensibility of a man.
Xavier Sabata focuses on that multifaceted feeling that keeps nourishing music, especially baroque opera. With the Spanish conductor Dani Espasa and his ensemble Vespres d’Arnadí, the singer performs a tailor-made programme: the new exciting chapter of a unique voice and a fascinating artist.
Contents and tracklist
- Xavier Sabata (soloist)
- Vespres d'Arnadí
- Dani Espasa
- Xavier Sabata (soloist)
- Vespres d'Arnadí
- Dani Espasa
- Xavier Sabata (soloist)
- Vespres d'Arnadí
- Dani Espasa
- Xavier Sabata (soloist)
- Vespres d'Arnadí
- Dani Espasa
- Xavier Sabata (soloist)
- Vespres d'Arnadí
- Dani Espasa
- Xavier Sabata (soloist)
- Vespres d'Arnadí
- Dani Espasa
- Xavier Sabata (soloist)
- Vespres d'Arnadí
- Dani Espasa
- Xavier Sabata (soloist)
- Vespres d'Arnadí
- Dani Espasa
- Xavier Sabata (soloist)
- Vespres d'Arnadí
- Dani Espasa
- Xavier Sabata (soloist)
- Vespres d'Arnadí
- Dani Espasa
- Xavier Sabata (soloist)
- Vespres d'Arnadí
- Dani Espasa
- Xavier Sabata (soloist)
- Vespres d'Arnadí
- Dani Espasa
- Xavier Sabata (soloist)
- Vespres d'Arnadí
- Dani Espasa
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Xavier Sabata on L'Alessandro amante
30th May 2019
Ahead of his appearance as Ottone in Handel’s Agrippina at the Barbican tomorrow evening, the Catalan countertenor talks to Katherine about his recent album exploring baroque representations of Alexander the Great.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Editor's ChoiceDecember 2018
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Gramophone MagazineApril 2019Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards2019Nominee - Baroque Vocal
April 2019
Sabata sings this complex programme with his customary elegance and flair. His dark, warm alto has always sounded good in slower arias, where the long lines flow with ease and his breath control is exemplary…His coloratura, always placed at the service of characterisation or drama, can be spectacular…A wonderfully accomplished recital, and highly recommended.
May 2019
Attention has on previous occasions been drawn in these pages to his great assets: the intrinsic beauty of his well-rounded voice, and a technique that allows him to articulate passaggi with fluent panache…There is, too, much evidence of musical intelligence, with stylish ornamentation of da capos, where in several instances it is used not just as embellishment but also to intensity emotion.
December 2018
There’s huge stylistic variety across this selection of baroque depictions of Alexander the Great, from the swaggering coloratura fireworks of Handel’s ‘Vano amore’ and Francesco Mancini’s ‘Spirti fieri’ to the gentle lyricism of Davide Pescetti’s ‘Serbati a grande imprese’ and the sparse textures of Bononcini’s curiously austere ‘Chiare faci’. Sabata is firm-toned and florid in equal measure, and the Barcelona-based Vespres d’Arnadí yield nothing to Il Pomo d’Oro for snap and spring.
