MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Steffani: Mission (Deluxe Hardcover Edition)
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MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Steffani: Mission (Deluxe Hardcover Edition)
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis, with Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)
[ Decca Classics / CD/Book ]
Release Date: Thursday 4 October 2012
"Bartoli leaps around the vocal ladder with customary gusto and a rather too vigorous vibrato. The pleasures are subtler when the music is simpler and the voice quieter" (The Times)
"Steffani's art is elegantly expressive, Italianate with French dressing...Several brazen display arias are here...Bartoli leaps around the vocal ladder with customary gusto and a rather too vigorous vibrato. The pleasures are subtler when the music is simpler and the voice quieter...Notte amica, say, from La Libertà contenta, or the silky caress of Sfere amiche...These two tracks were definitely worth Bartoli shaving her head." The Times, 21st September 2012 ***
A sensational new album from the world's best-selling classical artist, Cecilia Bartoli, and a project with international politics, religious conflict, diplomatic secrecy, spying and sensational music at its heart.
This album showcases the music of a little-known Italian composer and includes solo arias of various moods and styles, several duets, solo numbers with chorus - all sung in Italian - and instrumental interludes that create an organic transition from one piece to the next and an arc that reaches from the beginning to the end of the album.
Such was the appeal of this project that longtime Bartoli admirer and global best-selling author Donna Leon decided to write a mystery novel - Jewels of Paradise - to accompany Cecilia's album, which uses the mystery surrounding the composer's story as the centre of its plot. Jewels of Paradise will be released simultaneously with Cecilia Bartoli's album in English (UK and USA), German, French, Dutch, Spanish and Catalan.
Among the distinguished names appearing on Mission is star French counter-tenor Philippe Jaroussky who features in a first-time collaboration with Cecilia on a selection of duets, alongside the Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera, the period orchestra I Barocchisti from Lugano, Switzerland, and conductor Diego Fasolis.
Tracks:
Schiere invitte, non tardate (from Alarico il Baltha)
Ogni core può sperar (from Servio Tullio)
Ove son? Chi m'aita? In mezzo all'ombre...Dal mio petto (from Niobe)
Più non v'ascondo (from Tassilone)
Amami, e vederai (from Niobe)
T'abbraccio, mia Diva...Ti stringo, mio Nume (from Niobe)
Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)
Mie fide schiere, all'armi!...Suoni, tuoni, il suolo scuota
Sposa, mancar mi sento...Deh non far colle tue lagrime (from Tassilone)
Non prendo consiglio
Si, si, riposa, o caro...Palpitanti sfere belle (from Alarico il Baltha)
Notte amica al cieco Dio (from La libertà contenta)
Combatton quest'alma (from I trionfi del fato)
Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)
A facile vittoria (from Tassilone)
Tra le guerre e le vittorie (from Leonato)
Foschi crepuscoli
Dell'alma stanca a raddolcir le tempre...Sfere amiche, or date al labbro (from Niobe)
La cerasta più terribile (from La lotta d'Hercole con Acheloo)
Serena, o mio bel sole...Mia fiamma/Mio ardore (from Niobe)
Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)
Dal tuo labbro amor m'invita (from Tassilone)
Deh stancati, o sorte (from La libertà contenta)
Svenati, struggiti, combatti, suda (from La libertà contenta)
Padre, s'è colpa in lui (from Henrico Leone)
Timori, ruine (from Henrico Leone)
Morirò fra strazi e scempi (from Henrico Leone)
Non si parli che di fede
