Cielo e Mar

Rolando Villazon - Cielo e Mar

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Artist: Rolando Villazon
Brand: VILLAZON,ROLANDO
Performer: Rolando Villazon
Composer: Ponchielli
Composer: Mercadante
Composer: Gomes
Composer: Boito
Composer: Donizetti
Composer: Verdi
Composer: Cilea
Composer: Pietri.
Conductor: Daniele Callegar
Orchestra: Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano Giuseppe Verdi
Performer: Gianluca Alfano
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-04-22
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Product features:
  • VILLAZON ROLANDO CIELO E MAR
Soundtracks:
  1. "Cielo e mar!" (La Gioconda: Enzo) - Amilcare Ponchielli
  2. "La dolcissima effigie" (Adriana Lecouvreur: Maurizio) - Francesco Cilèa
  3. "La Dea di tutti i cor! Bella adorata incognita" (Il Giuramento) - Saverio Mercadante
  4. "Dai campi, dai prati" (Mefistofele: Faust) - Arrigo Boito
  5. "Il conosco il giardino" (Maristella: Giovanni) - Giuseppe Pietri
  6. "Intenditi con Dio!" (Fosca: Paolo) - Antônio Carlos Gomes
  7. "O inferno! Sento avvampar nell'anima" (Simon Boccanegra: Gabriele) - Giuseppe Verdi
  8. "Veleno �¨ l'aura ch'io respiro!" (Poliuto: Poliuto) - Gaetano Donizetti
  9. "Compita �¨ omai Fu celeste" (Il Giuramento) - Saverio Mercadante
  10. L'anima ho stanca (Adriana Lecouvreur: Maurizio) - Francesco Cilèa
  11. "Il padre! Tenda natal" (Il Figliuol prodigo: Azaele) - Amilcare Ponchielli
  12. "Giunto sul passo estremo" (Mefistofele: Faust) - Arrigo Boito
  13. "Oh! fede negar potessi Quando le sere, al placido" (Luisa Miller: Rodolfo) - Giuseppe Verdi
  14. "L'ara, o l'avello apprestami" (Luisa Miller: Rodolfo / Walter / coro) - Giuseppe Verdi

Music reviews of Cielo e Mar

Music Review: Villazon Give His All -- Sometimes Too Much
Rating: 4 Stars

This is an exciting disk, sung with passionate conviction by one of the finest tenors in the world today. But speaking as a committed Villazón fan, I have to admit that it has its flaws and does not show this highly gifted artist at his very best. The repertoire Rolando has selected here does indeed contain "buried treasures" -- such as the exquisitely beautiful aria"La dea di tutti i cor" from Mercadante's "Il Giuramento" and the superbly moving "Tenda natal" from Ponchielli's unknown "The Prodigal Son." And then there's that perfect example of an ardent Italian lovesong "Io conosco un giardino" from Pietri's "Maristella," which Villazón sings absolutely gorgeously (this is the one you won't be able to get out of your head!). But too many of the arias here, including the title song from "La Gioconda," force Rolando to go well beyond his best lyric fach into spinto territory that presses his lovely instrument to its limit. His sound, though thrillingly intense and masculine, then starts to sound pressured and strained. This CD also was recorded just a few months before he collapsed with a general physical breakdown, and giving as much as he does here, you can cetainly understand why. Fortunately, he seemed to be in remarkably strong voice at these recording sessions, and he sails through the brutally difficult aria from Donizetti's "Poliuto" like a champion, capping it with a fabulous, long sustained high C. But the best numbers are those in which he can relax and sing more lyrically, such as the two arias from Cilea's "Adriana Lecouvreur" and from Boito's "Mefistofele" -- all nobly and expressively done. Verdi's well-known "Quando le sere al placido" is also wonderfully sung with the superb legato phrasing for which Villazón is renowned.

I give this four stars, but with hopes that he'll return to more lyrical repertoire -- as he seems now to be doing -- in the future. So buy this CD for the interesting rep and to hear Rolando flying excitingly on the edge of the possible. But his first three solo CDs for Virgin plus his Monteverdi disk display the beauty of his voice far more effectively.
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Description of Cielo e Mar

Exuberant and charismatic, Rolando Villazón is the tenor of today. Here he releases his first solo album on Deutsche Grammophon. The soaring title track from Ponchielli s La Gioconda inspired Villazón to become a singer. Here it is the starting point for an intriguing album which moves far beyond the usual greatest tenor hits . Less familiar masterpieces by Boito, Cilea and Verdi feature alongside little-known Donizetti arias and rarities by Gomes, Mercadante and Pietri. The album is Villazón s personal homage to his illustrious predecessors in the lyric-dramatic repertoire great tenors such as Bergonzi, Caruso and Domingo.
Cielo e mar offers something special for connoisseurs of opera, Villazón s many fans and mainstream listeners who will be gripped by the beauty of both his voice and the music

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