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Porpora - Alto Giove (from Polifemo)
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Opera » Opera Arias
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[Bartoli] darts from note to note with admirable precision in Porpora’s ‘Nell’attendere il mio bene’, with octave leaps and drops into the chest register. If Farinelli delighted in adagio arias,... —
Awards:
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Diapason d’Or, December 2019, Nouveauté
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Porpora: Il Maestro
RecommendedOpera Arias
Franco Fagioli (countertenor)
Academia Montis Regalis, Alessandro de Marchi
Fagioli forges his own powerful execution out of practices that Porpora helped invent. Ornaments of fiendish length, tempo and range spur Fagioli onto ever-greater displays, racing ahead of... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2014
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Opera, January 2015, Recording of the Month
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Special offer. Farinelli - A Portrait
Live in Bergen
Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano)
Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
Hallenberg is a force of nature, in stark contrast to the synthetic singing of the film, for which sound engineers fuse a mezzo with a male alto voice. Hallenberg’s voice is unmistakably her... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2017, Opera Choice
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Opera, February 2017, Recording of the Month
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Porpora: Farinelli Arias
Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo)
Venice Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon
Jaroussky's rapid passagework in quick heroic arias is precise...but the outstanding moments are slow arias that could have been tailor-made for Jaroussky's sweetly graceful melodic singing...Marcon... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Recital
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Special offer. Virtu e Amore
Sinfonie e arie del secondo Barocco
Inés Lorans Millán (soprano), Orchestra Da Camera Benedetto Marcello, Maurizio Colasanti
The voice itself is engagingly fresh and youthful with a touching quality in gentler moments. —
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Porpora: Farinelli Arias (casebound deluxe)
Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo)
Venice Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon
Jaroussky's rapid passagework in quick heroic arias is precise...but the outstanding moments are slow arias that could have been tailor-made for Jaroussky's sweetly graceful melodic singing...Marcon... —
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Special offer. Handel & Porpora: Arias
Julie Boulianne (mezzo soprano)
Clavecin en concert, Luc Beauséjour
Beausejour's unmannered and judicious direction and his excellent small band Clavecin en Concert provide astutely characterised platforms for Julie Boulianne's elegantly sincere singing...I'm... —
