Sacred Duets

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SCARLATTI / PASQUINI / CALDARA / PORPORA / LOTTI
Sacred Duets
Nuria Rial (Soprano) Valer Sabadus (countertenor) & Julia Schroder (violin) / Kammerorchester Basel

[ Sony Classical / CD ]

Release Date: Monday 20 March 2017

Sony Classical present Italian duets and arias with baroque stars Nuria Rial and Valer Sabadus. The Spanish soprano Nuria Rial and the countertenor Valer Sabadus are both stars of the booming baroque music scene. Nuria Rial is a bright soprano with her "addictive timbre" and Valer Sabadus's velvety "dramatic, crystal clear and lyric voice" (Süddeutsche Zeitung) are for the first time united in one recording. With the excellent Kammerorchester Basel they send the listener on a voyage of discovery to Italy, to lesser known music by Alessandro Scarlatti, Giovanni Paolo Colonna, Giovanni Gabrieli, Antonio Lotti, Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Bernardo Pasquini and Antonio Caldara. The arias and duets are mainly from oratorios, which have already fascinated many listeners.

"Her voice is pristine, gracious, featherweight; she shapes her lines with an understated finesse that sounds as natural as the wind...The duos sound sumptuous, a gorgeous vocal blend, but for the most part the singers treat the material as non-declamatory and reflective rather than dramatic." The Guardian

"a bold and beautifully researched showcase for a repertoire badly in need of a champion...[Rial's] vocal agility and purity are as striking as ever here...Sabadus's smoky, rounded countertenor makes an effective foil for Rial's bright soprano, bringing depth and colour to the blend, while retaining his own tonal identity." Gramophone Editor's Choice March 2017

Tracks:

Bononcini, G B:
La conversione di Maddalena: Cor imbelle a due nemici

Caldara:
La frode della castita: Si pensi alla vendetta
Santa Francesca romana: E ristoro a un cor che pena

Colonna:
Salomone amante: Partite dolori
Salomone amante: Su l'arco d'amore

Gabrielli:
Sigismondo, re di Borgogna: Aure voi de' miei sospiri

Lotti:
L'umilta coronata in Esther: Sempre fido, sempre grato

Pasquini, B:
Sant'Agnese: Vaga rosa

Porpora:
Il Gedeone: Quasi locuste che intorno
Il martirio di San Giovanni Nepomuceno: Della fragile mia vita
Il verbo in carne: Lascia ch'io veda almeno

Scarlatti, A:
San Casimiro, re di Polonia: Al serto le rose

Torelli:
Concerto grosso in C minor for violin Op. 8 No. 8

Salomone amante: Partite dolori (Duetto)