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Forgotten Arias
Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Le Concert de la Loge, Julien Chauvin
Awards:
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2023
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - World Premiere Recording of the Year
He tears up and down the runs, ornamenting at will, and offers great firework cadenzas that draw us into the situation and emotion.
Forgotten Arias
Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Le Concert de la Loge, Julien Chauvin
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Awards:
-
Presto Editor's Choice, October 2023
-
Opus Klassik Awards, 2024, Nominated - World Premiere Recording of the Year
He tears up and down the runs, ornamenting at will, and offers great firework cadenzas that draw us into the situation and emotion.
About
With Forgotten Arias countertenor Philippe Jaroussky pays tribute to composers of the late Baroque era and to the great librettist of the age, Pietro Metastasio. All ten arias on the album, written between 1748 and 1770 by nine composers, are heard in world premiere recordings. Metasasio’s librettos were set by multiple composers – Vivaldi, Handel, Gluck and Mozart among them – resulting in hundreds of operas. The more familiar names on the multi-faceted programme of Forgotten Arias are Gluck, Johann Christian Bach, Jommelli, Hasse and Piccinni. Less well-known are Bernasconi, Ferrandini, Traetta and Valentini. Jaroussky’s partners on the album are the conductor Julien Chauvin and his orchestra Le Concert de la Loge. All in all, Forgotten Arias looks set to be highly memorable.
Contents and tracklist
- Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)
- Le Concert de La Loge
- Julien Chauvin
- Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)
- Le Concert de La Loge
- Julien Chauvin
- Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)
- Le Concert de La Loge
- Julien Chauvin
- Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)
- Le Concert de La Loge
- Julien Chauvin
- Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)
- Le Concert de La Loge
- Julien Chauvin
- Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)
- Le Concert de La Loge
- Julien Chauvin
- Le Concert de La Loge
- Julien Chauvin
- Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)
- Le Concert de La Loge
- Julien Chauvin
- Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)
- Le Concert de La Loge
- Julien Chauvin
- Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)
- Le Concert de La Loge
- Julien Chauvin
- Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)
- Le Concert de La Loge
- Julien Chauvin
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Philippe Jaroussky celebrates 25 years in the profession
31st Dec 2025
The French countertenor reflects on the changes he's seen during his first quarter-century in the business, his recent album of Italian secular cantatas, his blossoming parallel career as a conductor, and why he's a firm believer that 'the grass is not always greener in another field'.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Editor's ChoiceOctober 2023
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Opus Klassik Awards2024Nominated - World Premiere Recording of the Year
Christmas 2023
He tears up and down the runs, ornamenting at will, and offers great firework cadenzas that draw us into the situation and emotion.
October 2023
Jaroussky is at the absolute top of his game in this beautifully-curated tribute to the great librettist Pietro Metastasio...there's a new depth and grit to the voice in the lower register (the opening aria from Andrea Bernasconi's L'Olimpiade takes him down to a resonant low C!), and he conjures some extraordinary colours in Ferrandini's setting of 'Gelido in ogni vena' from Il Siroe.
