Giacomelli
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Arias from each role might as well have been tailor-made for Hallenberg’s pinpoint virtuosity and lyricism, communicative use of language, idiomatic embellishment, intelligently sculpted phrasing... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2017, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2017, Editor's Choice
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2018, Finalist - Opera
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Record Review, 8th July 2017, Recording of the Week
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Gramophone Awards, 2018, Shortlisted - Recital
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[Bartoli] darts from note to note with admirable precision in Porpora’s ‘Nell’attendere il mio bene’, with octave leaps and drops into the chest register. If Farinelli delighted in adagio arias,... —
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Diapason d’Or, December 2019, Nouveauté
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Female Singer of the Year
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2020, Nominee - Conductor of the Year
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Grammy Awards, 63rd Awards (2021), Nominee - Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Farinelli - A Portrait
Live in Bergen
Ann Hallenberg (mezzo-soprano)
Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
Hallenberg is a force of nature, in stark contrast to the synthetic singing of the film, for which sound engineers fuse a mezzo with a male alto voice. Hallenberg’s voice is unmistakably her... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2017, Opera Choice
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Opera, February 2017, Recording of the Month
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Coming soon. Joyce DiDonato: Drama Queens
Royal Arias from the 17th and 18th Centuries
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo-soprano)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
DiDonato and Alan Curtis...have unearthed some Baroque rarities. Instead of Handel's Berenice, we have Orlandini's Berenice, whose 'Da torbida procella' is an ideal fit for DiDonato's spitfire... —
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Opera, January 2013, Recording of the Month
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Hallenberg, her mellow yet incisive tone perfectly ‘centred’, has you gasping in admiration at her mingled virtuosity and expressive power...Beyond the virtuoso fireworks, Farinelli was famed... —
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Opera, December 2019, Disc of the Month
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Pe’s voice is strong and clear-toned. He shows agility in the long runs…and his decorations of the vocal line are bravely inventive. He projects the tender aspects of Caesar’s character well,... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2018
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The Crown: Heroic Arias For Senesino
Randall Scotting (countertenor), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Laurence Cummings
Offstage something of a tyrant, on it Senesino was a complex artist, reshaping from one aria to the next the valiant-leader characters in which he excelled. Scotting builds on this legacy by... —
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New. KALEIDOSCOPE: Music from a Thousand Years
Elmira Darvarova, violin, Howard Wall, horn, violin featuring Howard Wall
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'Mancare, oh Dio, mi sento', from Giacomelli's setting of Adriano in Siria (1733) is both the finest aria on the CD an also much the most developed. It is an aria also admirably suited to the... —
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