The growth in popularity in the countertenor voice has worked to the benefit of the listener, who can now choose from among singers of various types. There are big-voiced, athletic singers specializing in operas and emphasizing the power a male soprano or alto can deliver. There are melancholy tragedians who trade in the dolorous sighs of the ...
What a luscious and luminous recital! Alto Marie-Nicole Lemieux's voice is lush and lovely with effortless skill combined with a full-bodied tone, and she's chosen repertoire for this program of mélodies that suits her wonderfully well. Some of the music is fairly familiar -- Debussy's Fétes Galantes II -- some of it is known only to French ...
Diving into Vivaldi's Orlando furioso with Jean-Christophe Spinosi, Matheus Ensemble, and a shockingly good cast is enough to make even the most jaded listener smile. It is fresh, unrelentingly impressive, and entertaining to a fault. The opera is over-plotted: the first paragraph of the synopsis is enough to confuse anyone not taking notes. And ...
If you thought composing somewhere around 500 concertos was an achievement, remember that Antonio Vivaldi also composed 49 operas. Indeed, Vivaldi probably thought of himself primarily as an opera composer -- with 67 productions in a career of 28 years, he may not have had a chance to think of himself as anything else. Yet, while Vivaldi is well ...
Tafelmusik, Canada's leading Baroque orchestra, gets points for sheer ambition with this unusual children's release: it attempts to do nothing less than give the field of classical children's music a Baroque-era entry to match such favorites as A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra and Peter and the Wolf. The album contains a spoken story, with ...
This disc is a sampler of Vivaldi discs released by France's Naïve label, and it's highly recommended to listeners who haven't yet given these recordings a try. The group of performers is pan-European, with French singers and Italian instrumentalists especially strongly represented, but a compilation like this brings home how well this label has ...
Naïve's compilation album Classique & Zen offers no explanation of the relationship between the two concepts other than the simple direction, "You are free to be Zen." The lack of specificity in no way detracts from the effectiveness of the CD and its artful presentation. It stands out from many of the other collections with the goal of inducing a ...
Joyaux Romantiques, the second volume of Analekta's Jewels of the Romantic Era, covers very familiar ground, insofar as its program includes some of the best-known examples of nineteenth century music. Yet in its representation of the era's masters, it overlaps the first volume by drawing from two composers who were already introduced. Granted, ...
Marie-Nicole Lemieux's 2004 Brahms recital presents the popular Serious Songs (4) and Op. 91 "viola" songs, and two groups that are less often heard in their entirety: Sechs Lieder, Op. 86, and Neun Gesänge, Op. 69. It is a richly interesting selection of songs, and an impressive effort from Lemieux, who emerged as an exciting new talent in the ...
The logistical efforts involved in the making of this album must have been as strenuous as those on the musical side, for this is one of the first real all-star releases to have emerged from the historical-instrument side of the recording catalog. Lovers of vocal music per se may be interested in the dsic purely because it offers a rare ...
This set includes one disc of excerpts from Naïve's 2003 recording of Orlando Furioso and one disc that offers samples of other operas and instrumental and sacred music from the Vivaldi Edition, all performed by Jean-Christophe Spinosi leading Ensemble Matheus and Choeur "Les Eléments," with a uniformly outstanding cast of vocal and instrumental ...
Antonio Vivaldi's probably early Nisi Dominus, RV 608, and Stabat Mater, RV 621, both for solo voice and ensemble, have received several top-notch recordings, so the listener can pick on the basis of voice type and stylistic preference. Countertenor David Daniels has essayed the pair with Fabio Biondi and his Europa Galante ensemble, and you can ...
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