Kaleidoscope
Fatma Said (soprano), Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Sascha Goetzel
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd September 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year & Solo Vocal
Said vaults effortlessly across stylistic boundaries, often via dazzling arrangements by her collaborator Tim Allhoff. And that Whitney Houston track? Even diehard sceptics will be moved by...
Kaleidoscope
Fatma Said (soprano), Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Sascha Goetzel
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd September 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year & Solo Vocal
Said vaults effortlessly across stylistic boundaries, often via dazzling arrangements by her collaborator Tim Allhoff. And that Whitney Houston track? Even diehard sceptics will be moved by...
About
Fatma Said follows her award-winning debut album El Nour with an even more colourful release. Imbued with the spirit of the dance, Kaleidoscope spins across cultures, genres and eras, moving from Strauss, Lehár, Offenbach, Gounod, Weill and Piazzolla to Broadway (My Fair Lady) and the hits of Serge Gainsbourg, Gino Paoli and Whitney Houston. The young Egyptian soprano sings in French, German, English, Spanish, Italian and Arabic, and among her partners are the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo and conductor Sascha Goetzel, mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa and trumpeter Lucienne Renaudin Vary.
“Music and dance interlink as one,” says Fatma Said, “They are emotion and physicality in unison. This album is a montage of many different songs and arias, each with its own story to tell through a particular style of music and rhythm. You will encounter my voice turning and changing kaleidoscopically, giving these disparate characters the diversity of voices and musical styles they need: multiple vocal colours, dance inflections, linguistic timbres. With each of them I could have danced – and sung – all night.”
Contents and tracklist
- David Bergmüller (lute), Fatma Said (soprano)
- Fatma Said (soprano), Heinrich Köbberling (drums), Henning Sieverts (double bass), Tim Allhoff (piano)
- Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo
- Sascha Goetzel
- Fatma Said (soprano), Heinrich Köbberling (drums), Henning Sieverts (double bass), Tim Allhoff (piano)
- Fatma Said (soprano), Heinrich Köbberling (percussion), Tim Allhoff (piano)
- Quinteto Ángel
- Fatma Said (soprano)
- Quinteto Ángel
- Fatma Said (soprano)
- Quinteto Ángel
- Fatma Said (soprano), Heinrich Köbberling (percussion), Philip Krause (percussion)
- Quinteto Ángel
- Christian Gerber (bandonéon), Fatma Said (soprano), Heinrich Köbberling (drums), Henning Sieverts (double bass), Rageed William (panpipes), Tim Allhoff (piano)
- Christian Gerber (bandonéon), Fatma Said (soprano), Heinrich Köbberling (drums), Henning Sieverts (double bass), Tim Allhoff (piano)
- vision string quartet
- Christian Gerber (bandonéon), Fatma Said (soprano), Heinrich Köbberling (drums), Henning Sieverts (double bass), Tim Allhoff (piano)
- vision string quartet
- Fatma Said (soprano), Tim Allhoff (piano)
- vision string quartet
Spotlight on this release
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Fatma Said's Kaleidoscope
2nd Sep 2022
Featuring music by composers including Léhar, Gounod, Weill and Piazzolla, the Egyptian soprano's beguiling, wide-ranging invitation to the dance proves impossible to resist.
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Fatma Said on Kaleidoscope
25th Aug 2022
Ahead of the release of her eclectic dance-inspired album next Friday, the Egyptian soprano talks to Katherine about taking her first steps in ballroom as a hip-hop-loving teenager in Cairo, the parallels between Argentinian tango and classical singing, and two very different divas who inspired her programming...
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week2nd September 2022
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International Classical Music Awards2023Nominated - Vocal Music
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Presto Recordings of the YearWinner 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards2023Nominated - Female Singer of the Year & Solo Vocal
October 2022
Said vaults effortlessly across stylistic boundaries, often via dazzling arrangements by her collaborator Tim Allhoff. And that Whitney Houston track? Even diehard sceptics will be moved by this vulnerable rendition in a translucent arrangement.
October 2022
Concerns that all this might be too much for one voice are by and large dispelled by idiomatic performances that are often sharply characterised.
2nd September 2022
it’s evident that the singer’s love and affinity for all this music is grounded in real-life experience on the dance-floor: the rhythmic impetus and ebb and flow of each number is clearly born of something beyond the notes on the page, whether she’s elongating the phrases of a Viennese waltz to delicious effect or tapping into the raw energy of Piazzolla’s María de Buenos Aires.
25th September 2022
Purists may blench, but that’s their loss. Whether navigating I Could Have Danced All Night, Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, Barcarolle from Les Contes d’Hoffman or Whitney Houston’s I Wanna Dance with Somebody, Said sounds to the manner born.
