Berlioz: Les Nuits D'ete / La Mort de Cléopâtre / etc
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Berlioz: Les Nuits D'ete / La Mort de Cléopâtre / etc
Karen Cargill (mezzo-soprano) / Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Robin Ticciati
[ Linn SACD / Hybrid SACD ]
Release Date: Monday 6 May 2013
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Robin Ticciati cements his reputation as an outstanding Berliozian with his latest recording, 'Berlioz: Les nuits d'été', which includes excerpts from Roméo & Juliette and La Mort de Cléopâtre.
A pupil of Sir Simon Rattle and the great Berliozian Sir Colin Davis, Robin's reputation as one of this generation's best conductors was assured when he was announced as the next music director of Glyndebourne, taking over from Vladimir Jurowski in 2014.
Named one of the top ten young 'conductors on the verge of greatness' by Gramophone Magazine, Robin delivers fresh insights and vivid colours into this luminous work.
The recording features Kathleen Ferrier prize-winning mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill, who has sung at the Metropolitan Opera, New York and won acclaim as Cleopatra, a role she reprises here: '...the core of this stunning concert was a shattering, heart-rending performance by Cargill in awesome voice.' (The Herald)
The works of Berlioz have featured prominently in Ticciati's programmes with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra since he became their principal conductor in 2009.
Ticciati's recording debut, 'Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique', received rave reviews: it was named Critics' Choice 'Sound of 2012' (The Independent), 'Classical CD of the Week' (The Sunday Times), 'Disc of the Week' (BBC Radio 3 'CD Review') and No. 3 in The Sunday Times' Best Classical Albums of 2012 list.
The Scottish Chamber Orchestra is internationally recognised as one of the finest chamber orchestras in the world with a multi award-winning catalogue of recordings under Robin Ticciati, Sir Charles Mackerras, Alexander Janiczek and Joseph Swensen.
"[Cargill] has a remarkably beautiful voice, full of sunny delicacy and warmth but also capable of Wagnerian dramatics...Ticciati's chamber forces do make a difference from the sound we're used to, without disturbing any essential balances. Against them, the brass especially, the voice sounds more at ease and more flexible...the players in turn underpin Cargill's performance with more precise shading"
(BBC Music)
"With his second release for the Glasgow-based label Linn, Ticciati could do for the Scottish mezzo what Barbirolli did for the young Janet Baker in the 1960s. Cargill's tone is plusher, but Baker is clearly one of her exemplars...her Nuits d'été and Cleopatra suggest a Trojans Dido of stature in the making."
(Sunday Times)
"One of the striking facets of Ticciati's conducting and the SCO's playing in Les nuits d'ete is the clarity and details that spring from the score...The SCO's collaboration with the mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill is also an entirely felicitous one... This is a performance of Les nuits d'ete that is all of a piece" (Gramophone Disc of the Month June 2013)
Tracks:
Les Nuits d'été, Op. 7
Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17: Love Scene
La Mort de Cléopâtre - Scène lyrique
