Cherubini: Cantatas
Maïlys de Villoutreys, Ursula Eittinger & Andreas Karasiak, Maïlys de Villoutrey (soprano), Nicolas Boulanger (Cabanis), Francois Eckert (Le Marck), Ursula Eittinger (Circé), Andreas Karasiak (tenor)
Kölner Academie, Michael Alexander Willens
These four austerely impressive cantatas are rare and valuable repertoire, powerfully sung...This disc could make converts.
Cherubini: Cantatas
Maïlys de Villoutreys, Ursula Eittinger & Andreas Karasiak, Maïlys de Villoutrey (soprano), Nicolas Boulanger (Cabanis), Francois Eckert (Le Marck), Ursula Eittinger (Circé), Andreas Karasiak (tenor)
Kölner Academie, Michael Alexander Willens
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These four austerely impressive cantatas are rare and valuable repertoire, powerfully sung...This disc could make converts.
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CPO presents unknown Cherubini cantatas. Cherubini never fails to give the sorrow, rage and pain of his subjects a truly personal dimension.
Contents and tracklist
- Ursula Eittinger (alto)
- Kölner Akademie
- Michael Alexander Willens
- Recorded: September 2012
- Recording Venue: Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Germany
- Nicolas Boulanger (narrator), Francois Eckert (narrator)
- Recorded: September 2012
- Recording Venue: Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Germany
- Ursula Eittinger (alto)
- Kölner Akademie
- Michael Alexander Willens
- Recorded: September 2012
- Recording Venue: Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Germany
- Ursula Eittinger (alto)
- Kölner Akademie
- Michael Alexander Willens
- Recorded: September 2012
- Recording Venue: Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Germany
Awards and reviews
January 2014
These four austerely impressive cantatas are rare and valuable repertoire, powerfully sung...This disc could make converts.
March 2014
Maïlys de Villoutrey's limpid singing conveys Clytemnestra's softer side serenely...and in the cantata's climax characterises her as a vulnerable victim of the Gods; the Kolner Akademie adroitly juggle the contrasting textures and moods of Cherubini's score.
