Santo: Sacred Songs

Juan Diego Florez - Santo: Sacred Songs

Santo: Sacred Songs
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Artist: Juan Diego Florez
Conductor: Michele Mariotti
Orchestra: Teatro Comunale Di Bologna
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); Spanish (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2010-10-25
Music Label: Decca
Product features:
  • FLOREZ JUAN DIEGO SANTO - SACRED SONGS
Soundtracks:
  1. Plaudite, Sonat Tuba for tenor, trumpet & ensemble: Alleluia
  2. Panis angelicus for tenor, organ, harp, cello & bass
  3. Cantique de Noël for voice & orchestra ('Minuit, Chrétiens,' 'O Holy Night')
  4. Mass for soloists, chorus & orchestra in A minor: Qui sedes
  5. Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: Comfort ye... Every valley
  6. Petite messe solennelle, for soloists, 2 pianos, harmonium & choir: Domine Deus
  7. Ellens Gesang III ('Ave Maria'), song for voice & piano, D. 839 (Op. 52/6)
  8. Messa di Gloria, for soloists, chorus & orchestra: Qui tollis
  9. Die Schöpfung (The Creation), oratorio, H. 21/2: Mit Würd' und Hoheit angetan
  10. Misa Criolla, for tenor, piano, chorus & orchestra: Kyrie
  11. Messa di Gloria, for soloists, chorus & orchestra: Gratias agimus tibi
  12. O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste fideles)
  13. Santo, for tenor & orchestra

Music reviews of Santo: Sacred Songs

Music Review: Feliz Navidad
Rating: 5 Stars

The gifted Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez is the bel canto tenor of the hour and it is a great treat to have this album of sacred songs focusing on the Christmas season now available. This generous album is far more exciting than the usual Christmas album in that it contains music from a wide spectrum of composers and periods. Flórez is in perfect voice for this recital, and is in excellent collaboration with conductor and friend Michele Mariotti and the Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna.

He opens with the little known 'Alleluja' - in duet with trumpeter Ulrich Stephan Breddermann - by Johann Joseph Fux, and includes the 'Qui sedes' form Bellini's A Minor Mass, three Rossini pieces, an aria from Handel's Messiah, favorite carols of the season (Adam's 'Cantique de Noël', Schubert's 'Ave Maria', Franck's 'Panis angelicus', 'Adeste fidelis') and concludes the recording with a work he composed and orchestrated called 'Santo' - a light and interesting work that plays with Latin rhythms. His clarion voice sails with apparent endless supply of breath and he adapts the color of his voice for each of the different styles of songs he has programmed. It is a beautiful recital form a gifted artist with a gorgeous voice. Highly recommended! Grady Harp, October 10
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Description of Santo: Sacred Songs

Today's leading bel canto tenor, and one of the world's biggest opera stars, celebrates this Christmas season with a very personal choice of sacred arias and songs, including favorites such as O Come All Ye Faithful, Panis Angelicus, Ave Maria and O Holy Night.

As well as the glorious coloratura for which he is celebrated, the album also reveals the more intimate side of Juan Diego Flórez, in new interpretations of much-loved tenor classics for the festive season. These popular hits take their place alongside less familiar treasures including the "Qui sedes" from Bellini's Mass in A minor and the virtuosic "Alleluia" from Fux's Plaudite, sonat tuba - which call for the thrilling virtuosity that have made Juan Diego Flórez a star in the world's greatest opera houses.

A highlight of the program is the title track Santo - composed by Juan Diego Flórez himself - and infused with the musical colors and rhythms of his Latin American roots. "My father was a folk-singer and I grew up with Peruvian music. My hobby is to compose and orchestrate, and the melody came to me very easily. The hard part is then to find the right instrumental colors and write for all the instruments and the chorus. But it's fun."

Conductor Michele Mariotti of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna was a natural choice for the recording. A native of Pesaro, he studied at the town's Conservatorio Rossini, and the album includes three pieces by the composer with whom Juan Diego Flórez is most closely associated. "The Teatro Comunale orchestra are very good and really understand this repertoire", says Flórez. "Michele Mariotti is a friend of mine and a wonderful conductor. He's only thirty and he's incredible."

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