Cecilia Bartoli ~ Opera Proibita (Handel ? Scarlatti ? Caldara) / Les Musiciens du Louvre ? Minkowski
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Composer: George Frideric HandelComposer: Alessandro Scarlatti
Composer: Antonio Caldara
Conductor: Marc Minkowski
Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre
Performer: Cecilia Bartoli
Performer: Jory Vinikour
Performer: Patrick Beaugiraud
Performer: Sebastien d'Herin
Performer: Yasunori Imamura
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-09-13
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
- All'arme si accesi guerrieri (Aria dell Pace)
- Mentre io godo (Aria della Speranza)
- Un pensiero nemico di pace
- Vanne pentita a piangere
- Sparga il senso lascivo veleno
- Caldo Sangue
- Come nembo che fugge col vento
- Ecco negl'orti tuoi...Che dolce simpatica
- Qui resta...L'alta Roma
- Lascia la spina cogli la rosa
- Ahi qual cordoglio...Doppio affetto
- Si piangete pupille dolente
- Ahi quanto cieca...Come foco allo splendore
- Disserratevi oh porte d'Averno
- Notte funesta...Ferma l'ali
Music reviews of Cecilia Bartoli ~ Opera Proibita (Handel ? Scarlatti ? Caldara) / Les Musiciens du Louvre ? Minkowski
Music Review: Spicy and Sweet!
Rating: 5 Stars
One can't help but be impressed with the agility in Bartoli's voice. Vocal fireworks! And yet the "Mentre io godo...", "Caldo sangue" and "Lascia la spina..." are so sweet and calming. I consider this CD a must have!
Description of Cecilia Bartoli ~ Opera Proibita (Handel ? Scarlatti ? Caldara) / Les Musiciens du Louvre ? Minkowski
Limited Australian pressing. An extraordinary album of dramatic arias written in Rome at a time when opera performance was forbidden by the Church, and female singers were forbidden from singing in public. Decca. 2005.Cecilia Bartoli's new CD features a collection of music that could not be heard in her native Rome at the start of the 18th century due to Papal censorship. Theaters, the Church felt, were places of evil and corruption and operas led people to immorality. But some music-loving senior members of the priesthood asked composers to write oratorios and cantatas--indeed, operas without staging, essentially--for their own private entertainment. Call it what you will, the music is sensational--by turns virtuosic, gentle, and playful--and always expressive: just right, it seems, for Cecilia Bartoli's temperament. The opening aria on the CD, a call for peace in the name of Jesus, is, in fact, a dazzling martial air with trumpets blaring and the voice going through an amazing array of coloratura fireworks. It shows Bartoli at her most aggressive. The listener is practically hurled back from the speakers when she begins, with rapid-fire runs and trills and cascades of notes, all perfectly in place. Showy arias are offset by several tender ones ("Lascia la spina" from Handel's Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno returns in the composer's Rinaldo, four years later, as the now-famous "Lascia ch'io pianga"), and Bartoli exhibits again, her many, many levels of pianissimo and sensitive phrasing. Marc Minkowski and his Musiciens are just right for this repertoire and back Bartoli up superbly. This is a fascinating project, rivetingly performed and presented. --Robert Levine
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