Ewa Podles - Ewa Podles - Handel Arias from Rinaldo & Orlando
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Artist: Ewa PodlesComposer: George Frideric Handel
Conductor: Constantine Orbelian
Orchestra: Moscow Chamber Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-01-16
Music Label: Delos Records
Soundtracks:
- Rinaldo, opera, HWV 7: Venti turbini
- Rinaldo, opera, HWV 7: Cara sposa
- Rinaldo, opera, HWV 7: Abbruggio, avvampo e fremo
- Rinaldo, opera, HWV 7: � un incendio frà due venti
- Rinaldo, opera, HWV 7: Ogni indugio d'un amante
- Rinaldo, opera, HWV 7: Or la tromba
- Rinaldo, opera, HWV 7: Tale stupor m'occupa
- Rinaldo, opera, HWV 7: Cor ingrato
- Rinaldo, opera, HWV 7: Il Tricerbero umiliato
- Orlando, opera, HWV 31: Fammi combattere
- Orlando, opera, HWV 31: Ã? questa la mercede
- Orlando, opera, HWV 31: Cielo! Se tu il consenti
- Orlando, opera, HWV 31: Imagini funeste...
- Orlando, opera, HWV 31: Non fu già men forte Alcide
- Orlando, opera, HWV 31: Già lo stringo
- Orlando, opera, HWV 31: Ah Stigie larve!...
- Orlando, opera, HWV 31: Già latra Cerbero...
- Orlando, opera, HWV 31: Vaghe pupille
Music reviews of Ewa Podles - Handel Arias from Rinaldo & Orlando
Music Review: I am contralto, hear me roar!
Rating: 4 Stars
This disc of arias from two of Handel's finest operas is a good introduction to Ewa Podles, heir apparant to the Marilyn Horne throne. It highlights both her strengths and weaknesses.
On the plus side: a formidable coloratura technique, good breath control, comfort above the staff, and no thin/pinched notes.
On the minus side: a voice that is rather soft-grained (which makes her sound plush in Rossini, but doesn't really do Handel justice), occasional pitch problems, a lack of incisiveness, and lack of mellifluousness in some of the slower passages (especially in the Orlando arias).
In the CD booklet, Podles is qouted as desiring a "flesh and blood" interpretation of these arias. For sure, these are not simpering, fussy renditions. However, her choice of delivery and ornamentation sometimes runs afoul. In the opening aria, the well-known Venti, Turbini from Rinaldo, Podles attacks the coloratura runs that give countertenor David Daniels so much trouble (all he can do is bluster through them.) Unfortunately, she ends the aria by leaping ackwardly into a rather ugly-sounding low note that is held "in alt" for a several seconds.
Ogni Indugio suffers a similar fate. For all that she lavishes it with wonderful phrasing, pacing, and emotion, she ruins it with another ugly low note that sounds like it was sung by an orc from Lord of the Rings.
Fans of Handel will warm to Podles' bravura, or not. If you like knock-your-socks-off delivery from a powerhouse contralto, you will relish Il Tricerbero Umiliato, from Rinaldo, as well as Cielo, Se Tu Il Consenti, from Orlando. Especially the latter, which is as tempestous as you can possibly imagine. However, if you fancy something more restrained and conventional, well, pick your favorite countertenor.
As for Orbelien's conducting, you will also warm to it, or not. This isn't finely-nuanced playing on period instruments. However, he conducts with lots of heart, and the orchestra is never anemic-sounding.
Despite the occasional laspse in technique or taste, I really recommend this collection of arias to all lovers of baroque opera.
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