More By Artist: Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo)
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PORPORA / ROSSINI / BELLINI / DONIZETTI / MOZART / PACINI / etc
Cecilia Bartoli - Casta Diva Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 17/May/2024 ] Decca Classics has assembled some of Cecilia Bartoli's finest recordings, mixed with previously unreleased material, for a celebration of the operatic genre that has defined her career: bel canto. |
BEETHOVEN / MOZART / HAYDN
Cecilia Bartoli - Unreleased Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano), Kammerorchester Basel, Muhai Tang [ Decca / CD - released 17/Dec/2021 ] "..much of her more delicate singing combines beauty of tone with expressiveness...the orchestral accompaniments are beautifully managed under Muhai Tang." BBC Music |
VIVALDI / CAVALI / PROVENZALE / COUPERIN / RAMEAU / etc
Lea Desandre - Amazone Lea Desandre (mezzo) / Jupiter, Thomas Dunford, with Cecilia Bartoli & Véronique Gens [ Erato / CD - released 1/Oct/2021 ] "This is a stonkingly good album. It makes me wonder: what exactly are these enviously intelligent, inventive and generous musicians drinking?" Gramophone Award Finalist 2022 - Vocal & Ensemble |
ROSSINI / GLUCK / GOUNOD / SAINT-SAENS / MEYERBEER / BRAHMS
Varduhi Abrahamyan - Rhapsody Varduhi Abrahamyan (mezzo-soprano) / Les Musiciens du Prince-Monaco Gianluca Capuano, with Araik Bartikian (duduk) & Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo) [ Decca / CD - released 2/Apr/2021 ] Varduhi is a Franco-Armenian mezzo-soprano. She appeared with Cecilia Bartoli in Alcina. Her upcoming house debut at the Met Opera as the title role in Carmen. The album features a duet with Cecilia Bartoli. |
PORPORA / HANDEL / ALBINONI / STEFFANI / VINCI / VIVALDI
Cecilia Bartoli: Queen of Baroque Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), with Sol Gabetta (cello), June Anderson (soprano) & Philippe Jaroussky (counter-tenor) with various orchestras [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 27/Nov/2020 ] A collection of the very best of Bartoli's treasured recordings of musical delights and discoveries of the 17th and 18th century. Featuring two previously unreleased world premiere recordings of forgotten jewels. |
GARCIA / ROSSINI / ZINGARELLI
Contrabandista Javier Camarena (tenor) Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Les Musiciens du Prince, Gianluca Capuano [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 25/Jan/2020 ] "Ramiro's aria from Cenerentola demonstrates Camarena's extraordinary facility and easily accessed top register. The Count's 'Cessa di più resistere' reiterates his absolute command." Opera |
ARAIA / CALDARA / GRAUN / PORPORA / etc.
Cecilia Bartoli: Farinelli Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 6/Dec/2019 ] Renowned for portraying the music of the baroque like no one else, Cecilia Bartoli presents her new recording of arias famously performed by legendary castrato, Farinelli. |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Antonio Vivaldi Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo) / Ensemble Matheus, Jean-Christophe Spinosi [ Decca / CD - released 12/Dec/2018 ] Almost 20 years after her landmark Vivaldi album, Bartoli turns to the composer once again for her brand new solo recording. It is a glorious collection of Vivaldi arias, performed with French baroque orchestra Ensemble Matheus under Jean-Christophe... |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Antonio Vivaldi (LP) Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo) / Ensemble Matheus, Jean-Christophe Spinosi [ Decca / LP - released 12/Dec/2018 ] Almost 20 years after her landmark Vivaldi album, Bartoli turns to the composer once again for her brand new solo recording. It is a glorious collection of Vivaldi arias, performed with French baroque orchestra Ensemble Matheus under Jean-Christophe... |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cecilia Bartoli - Rossini: Arias Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / Konzertvereinigung Wiener, Giuseppe Patane [ Decca / CD - released 25/Jun/2018 ] Hard to believe, but Cecilia Bartoli was only 22 when she made this debut recording--and it is simply astonishing to hear such an assured technique, such a rich and rounded voice, and even more than that, such ease and confidence in someone so young. |
CALDARA / PORPORA / HANDEL / ALBINONI
Cecilia & Sol: Dolce Duello Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Sol Gabetta (cello) / Cappella Gabetta, Andres Gabetta [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 20/Dec/2017 ] "Gabetta's light touch is the ideal foil for Bartoli's expressive agility, whether the two of them are sparring in separate displays of virtuosity, weaving melancholy webs around each other, or hurtling along in parallel." Guardian |
ARAIA / CIMAROSA / MANFREDINI / RAUPACH
Cecilia Bartoli: St Petersburg Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis [ Decca Classics / CD - released 10/Oct/2014 ] "Bartoli hurls herself into these lost artefacts of the Russian baroque with every drop of her usual flair and a little more vibrato than before." (Gramophone Award Nomination 2015 - Recital) |
NICOLA PORPORA
Porpora: Farinelli Arias Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) / Venice Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon, with Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo) [ Erato / Warner Classics / CD - released 26/Aug/2014 ] "Jaroussky's rapid passagework in quick heroic arias is precise...but the outstanding moments are slow arias that could have been tailor-made for Jaroussky's sweetly graceful melodic singing." Gramophone Awards 2014 Shortlisted - Recital |
BIZET / DELIBES / VIARDOT / BERLIOZ / RAVEL
Chant D'amour: Melodies Francaises Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) Myung-Whun Chung (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 14/Jul/2014 ] "This is one of the most satisfying recitals by one of the great singers of our time. First-rate recording and sensitive accompaniment throughout." (Gramophone) |
ROSSINI / SCHUBERT / MOZART & OTHERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cecilia Bartoli - A Portrait Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo) [ Decca DVD / DVD - released 19/Apr/2014 ] The original documentary film on the early life of Cecilia Bartoli as well as a concert recording at the Savoy Hotel. Other performers featured include Lesley Schatzberger (basset clarinet), András Schiff (piano), and, Charles Spencer (piano) |
AGOSTINO STEFFANI
Mission Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis, with Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) [ Decca DVD / DVD - released 6/Dec/2012 ] G: - "Bartoli's plummy mezzo soars, smoulders and seduces, milking the music's vocal and expressive scope to dramatic effect. It's hard to resist her sparkling personality and infectious passion for this repertoire" (Five Stars BBC Music) |
AGOSTINO STEFFANI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Steffani: Mission (Blu-ray) Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis, with Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) [ Decca Classics Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 6/Dec/2012 ] "Bartoli's programming instincts are immaculate in terms of musical and emotional variety; she is compelling in pearly arioso and slow numbers, less so in bravura ones." Sunday Times, 14th October 2012 |
AGOSTINO STEFFANI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Steffani: Mission Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis, with Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) [ Decca / CD - released 4/Oct/2012 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST 2013: Vocal |
AGOSTINO STEFFANI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Steffani: Mission (Deluxe Hardcover Edition) Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis, with Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) [ Decca Classics / CD/Book - released 4/Oct/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) |
HANDEL / VIVALDI / CALDARA / MOZART / BELLINI / FAURE
Sospiri Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) with with Juan Diego Flórez, Bryn Terfel & Cinzia Maurizio [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 4/Oct/2010 ] Cecilia Bartoli is loved the world over for vocal fireworks and spectacular coloratura, but she is also adored for her spine-tingling pianissimi and her ability to shape endless, velvety phrases. |
