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Pene Pati
Pene Pati (tenor), Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Choeur de l'Opéra national de Bordeaux, Emmanuel Villaume
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th April 2022
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Opera, May 2022, Disc of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2022
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Young Artist of the Year
A generosity of spirit not always to be taken for granted with tenors is in constant evidence on Pene Pati’s debut album…His voice certainly has the colour for both the French and Italian repertoire...
Pene Pati
Pene Pati (tenor), Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine, Choeur de l'Opéra national de Bordeaux, Emmanuel Villaume
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th April 2022
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Opera, May 2022, Disc of the Month
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2022
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Opus Klassik, 2022, Young Artist of the Year
A generosity of spirit not always to be taken for granted with tenors is in constant evidence on Pene Pati’s debut album…His voice certainly has the colour for both the French and Italian repertoire...
About
Samoan tenor Pene Pati matches favourite showpiece arias with rarer operatic gems in a programme of Verdi, Rossini, Donizetti, Meyerbeer, Gounod and Benjamin Godard.
Contents and tracklist
- Pene Pati (tenor)
- Choeur de l'Opéra national de Bordeaux, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine
- Emmanuel Villaume
- Pene Pati (tenor)
- Choeur de l'Opéra national de Bordeaux, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine
- Emmanuel Villaume
- Pene Pati (tenor), Stéphane Rougier (viola d'amore)
- Chœur de l'Opéra National de Bordeaux, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine
- Emmanuel Villaume
- Pene Pati (tenor)
- Choeur de l'Opéra national de Bordeaux, Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine
- Emmanuel Villaume
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Franco-Italian recitals from Benjamin Bernheim and Pene Pati
8th Apr 2022
Bernheim traces the history of Italian composers in Paris with his customary elegance and eloquence, whilst Pati's equally impressive debut on Warner reveals a voice of immense character and versatility.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week8th April 2022
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OperaMay 2022Disc of the Month
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BBC Music MagazineMay 2022
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Opus Klassik2022Young Artist of the Year
May 2022
A generosity of spirit not always to be taken for granted with tenors is in constant evidence on Pene Pati’s debut album…His voice certainly has the colour for both the French and Italian repertoire presented here…The sweet-toned elegance and sense of line he brings to the Duke (Rigoletto) in the opening tracks is matched with rollicking vigour when he gets to ‘Possente amor’.
May 2022
Pati opens with the Duke of Mantua’s scena, in which listeners will be instantly struck by a distinctively clear, marvellously sunny timbre, as well as innate musicality and exceptionally vivid textual projection…[in the excerpt from Moïse et Pharaon] Pati offers exactly the right vocal weight, plus ideal agility and sovereign command above the stave.
8th April 2022
On the evidence here, his star looks set to rise and rise: the opening Rigoletto excerpts in particular showcase an open, golden sound that’s more than a little reminiscent of the young Pavarotti, with free, ringing top notes and an easy, unmannered charm which makes the Duke’s paean to female fickleness come up as fresh as paint. And in the final stretches of Arnaud’s aria from Guillaume Tell he tackles a veritable assault-course of them with the agility of an Olympic pole-vaulter,
