Aleksandra Kurzak - Bel Raggio: Rossini Arias
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Aleksandra Kurzak - Bel Raggio: Rossini Arias
Aleksandra Kurzak (soprano), Artur Ruciński (bass-baritone) / Sinfonia Varsovia, Warsaw Chamber Choir, Pier Giorgio Morandi
[ Decca Music Group / CD ]
Release Date: Monday 3 June 2013
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For her second album, Bel raggio, Aleksandra Kurzak focuses on the bel canto classics of Rossini; offering a beguiling mix of the virtuosic, the lyrical, and the comic. Joining her are Sinfonia Varsovia and Pier Giorgio Morandi.
"graceful, finished phrasing and an apparently effortless coloratura technique...Without over-egging the pudding, Kurzak acts vividly for a 'blind' audience, alive to verbal nuance and using coloratura not merely as a vote-catching circus trick, but to enhance character." Gramophone
"Kurzak has a technique which dazzles just as vividly as her engaging stage presence and, from its initial spin, this disc left me in a blissful state of uncritical delight...Kurzak draws great drama and meaning from the texts...Simply outstanding." International Record Review
"She sparkles in the duet with Figaro from the Barber, Dunque io son, and Fiorilla's big scena from Turco, but sounds pushed by the high drama of the soprano arias in L'assedio di Corinto, Sigismondo and Tancredi." Sunday Times
Tracks:
Semiramide / Act 1
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
"Bel raggio lusinghier"
William Tell / Act 2
"S'allontanano alfin!....Selva opaca, deserta brughiera"
Tancredi - Ed. Philip Gossett / Act 2
"Gran Dio! Deh, tu proteggi il mio prode campion... Giusto Dio che umile adoro"
Matilde di Shabran - Critical Edition by Jürgen Selk / Act 2
"Ami alfine? E chi non ama?...Tace la tromba altera"
Le siège de Corinthe / Act 3
"L'ora fatal s'appressa...Giusto ciel"
Il barbiere di Siviglia / Act 1
"Dunque io son... tu non m'inganni?"
Sigismondo - Edited Paolo Pinamonti
"O tranquillo soggiorno...Ogetto amabile"
Elisabetta, Regina d'Inghilterra - Ed. V. Borghetti / Act 1
"Sento un'interna voce"
Il Turco in Italia - Critical Edition: Margaret Bent / Act 2
"I vostri cenci vi mando... Squallida veste, e bruna… Caro padre, madre amata"
