Maria Luigia Borsi - Italian Soprano Arias
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GIACOMO PUCCINI / ALFREDO CATALANI / GIUSEPPE VERDI / OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Maria Luigia Borsi - Italian Soprano Arias
Maria Luigia Borsi (soprano), London Symphony Orchestra, Yves Abel
[ Naxos / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 10 March 2014
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Appearing here in her début solo album, Italian lyric soprano Maria Luigia Borsi has been acclaimed for her 'grace, beauty, animation and variety' (The Sunday Times). Her Willow Song from Verdi's Otello has been described as 'gorgeously sung' (Opera News) and her rôle in Puccini's Turandot as demonstrating 'extraordinary communicative skills' (Opera Magazine). This programme includes some of the most moving and dramatic arias from Italian opera, including the tragic heartbreak of Madama Butterfly and the shimmering beauty of Catalani's Ebben? Ne andrò lontana from La Wally..
"Maria Borsi's gorgeous debut solo album from Naxos is outstanding in every respect. In the comprehensive half dozen Puccini arias Borsi reveals faultless artistry. One can hardly say better. This is as near to as good as it gets....
With the LSO accompanying Borsi, her home audiences could scarcely ask for more." Music & Vision
"It is welcome to have…a collection of Italian soprano arias as attractive as this delightful disc. …here is a young, sweet-toned lyric soprano able to float pianissimos in the highest register to ravishing effect. The performance that Borsi gives is not just ravishingly beautiful but has a dramatic intensity… It is luxury casting to have the LSO crisply conducted by Yves Abel." Gramophone
"The young Italian soprano sets out her stall on this (largely) operatic recital disc. The first item is unusual-Respighi's Shelley setting of 1914…It's a lush, melancholic piece, to which Maria Luigia Borsi's clean, fresh and fleshy lyric soprano proves well suited, while her sense of intimacy also works well here. Borsi is well-schooled and undeniably promising, her lovely tone at its most fragrant…in the atmospheric aria from Catalani's La Wally." BBC Music
Tracks:
Respighi: Il Tramonto, P. 101 15:07
Puccini: Madama Butterfly, Act Ii: Un Bel Di, Vedremo 5:25
Verdi: Otello, Act IV: Era Piu Calmo? … Mia Madre Aveva Una Povera Ancella, Ave Maria 16:53
Puccini: Turandot, Act I: Signore, Ascolta! 2:55
Puccini: La Boheme, Act III: Donde Lieta Usci 3:16
Puccini: Suor Angelica: Senza Mamma 4:45
Puccini: La Rondine, Act I: Chi Il Bel Sogno Di Doretta 3:32
Catalani: La Wally, Act I: Ebben? Ne Andro Lontana 4:00
Puccini: Gianni Schicchi: O Mio Babbino Caro 2:45
