Ren?e Fleming: Bel Canto
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Composer: Vincenzo BelliniOrchestra: Renee Fleming
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2002-08-27
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
- Bellini/La sonnambula: "Ah!..se una volta sola"
- Bellini/La sonnambula: "Ah!..non credea mirarti"
- Bellini/La sonnambula: "Ah! non giunge uman pensiero"
- Donizetti/Maria Padilla: "Abbracciami"
- Donizetti/Maria Padilla: "Il piu tenero suon d'arpa morende"
- Donizetti/Maria Padilla: "Ah! non sai qual prestigio si cela"
- Rossini/Semiramide: Introduzione
- Rossini/Semiramide: "Bel raggio lusinghier"
- Rossini/Semiramide: "Dolce pensiero di quell'istante"
- Bellini/Il pirata: Introduzione
- Bellini/Il pirata: "Ah! s'io potessi dissipar le nubi"
- Bellini/Il pirata: "Col sorriso d'innocenza"
- Bellini/Il pirata: "Oh sole! ti vela di tenebre oscure"
- Rossini/Armida: "D'Amor al dolce impero"
- Rossini/Armida: "Gli augei tra fronde e fronde"
- Rossini/Armida: "La fresca eta sen fugge"
- Rossini/Armida: "Ah! si, godete amanti"
- Donizetti/Lucrezia Borgia:"M'odi, ah m'odi, io non t'imploro"
- Donizetti/Lucrezia Borgia: "Figlio!...Figlio!...Ola, qualcuno!"
- Donizetti/Lucrezia Borgia: "Era desso il figlio mio"
Music reviews of Ren?e Fleming: Bel Canto
Music Review: Glorious voice!! Brilliant recording!! STUPENDOUS!!
Rating: 5 Stars
Miss Fleming is in my opinion probably one of the greatest singers presently! Yes, I know that some people will not like the dark, creamy, almost sultry and sensuous voice! May God forbid!! But this is one of my most valuable possessions and best spent money ever!! Luckily I have transfered this onto my ipod and have since listened to it more than a fifty times!
Her interpretation of belcanto is different, but staggeringly beautiful!! After all that is what the cd is all about.
I keep on hearing her soulfull yearning of Amina, in the first scene of "Una volta sola" allows me to wonder with her aimless as she portrays the heartache so touchingly beautifull! Then she climbs, to my favourite, the "Ah! non giunge", man, brilliant.(You can compare this with which ever recording!) It's brilliant!
The extracts of Semiramide and Armida are surreal!
If you want to own one of the best recordings and greatest voices, go out and buy this!!
Miss Fleming, this is utterly beautifull!
Description of Ren?e Fleming: Bel Canto
Bel Canto is Shrink Wrapped as a Strictly Limited Edition, with a Bonus Disc of Four Unreleased Tracks of Popular Favorites By: Bach, Handel, Mozart and DebussySurely Ren?e Fleming's soprano must be one of the most beautiful voices before the public today. Though renowned for her interpretations of Mozart, Strauss, and Verdi, as well as for her commitment to contemporary music, she says that the bel canto repertoire has always been central to her career. On this recording, which features scenes and arias from operas by Bellini, Donizetti, and Rossini, she proves that she has achieved total, effortless technical mastery of the uniquely difficult vocal writing characteristic of the style. Every note is perfectly placed. Her runs, including scales over a huge range in both directions, are as clear and evenly paced as a chain of exquisite pearls. Her leaps always land in the center of the pitch. Her intonation is flawless.
Fleming also displays her emotional affinity for the drama, pathos, and lyricism of the music and her ability to identify with her larger-than-life heroines. Chosen from familiar and unfamiliar operas, the music is beguilingly beautiful, ranging from peacefully pastoral to darkly menacing. However, some listeners may feel that Fleming's tendency to overinflect, overphrase, make long pauses, and put swells on long notes, especially in the slow arias, undercuts the music's simplicity and the directness of her expressive communication. The performances are based on the latest scholarly research into the "bel canto" style regarding historically correct ornamentation (only in repeats) and the problems of balancing textual fidelity with imaginative freedom. The Orchestra of St. Luke's gives splendid support, with outstanding solos, especially from the winds. --Edith Eisler
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