Special offer. Vinci: Artaserse
Philippe Jaroussky (Artaserse), Max Emanuel Cencic (Mandane), Daniel Behle (Artabano), Franco Fagioli (Arbace), Valer Barna-Sabadus (Semira), Yuiry Mynenko (Megabise), Coro delle Radiotelevisione svizzera, Lugano, Concerto Koln, Diego Fasolis
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th November 2012
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2013, Recording of the Month
Jaroussky is agile and artless in the title role...Cencic (Mandane) offers both eloquent and virtuoso singing...Fagioli makes a compelling Arbace, flitting effortlessly from flamboyant vocal...
Special offer. Vinci: Artaserse
Philippe Jaroussky (Artaserse), Max Emanuel Cencic (Mandane), Daniel Behle (Artabano), Franco Fagioli (Arbace), Valer Barna-Sabadus (Semira), Yuiry Mynenko (Megabise), Coro delle Radiotelevisione svizzera, Lugano, Concerto Koln, Diego Fasolis
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th November 2012
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2013, Recording of the Month
Jaroussky is agile and artless in the title role...Cencic (Mandane) offers both eloquent and virtuoso singing...Fagioli makes a compelling Arbace, flitting effortlessly from flamboyant vocal...
About
A key work of baroque opera. No less than five brilliant countertenors – including Max Emanuel Cencic and Philippe Jaroussky – join conductor Diego Fasolis and Concerto Köln for Artaserse by Leonardo Vinci (1690-1730). In early 18th century Italy, the Neapolitan-born composer was one of the brightest stars in opera, and Artaserse is considered his masterpiece.
Contents and tracklist
- Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Franco Fagioli (countertenor), Valer Barna-Sabadus (countertenor), Max Emmanuel Cencic (lead vocals), Daniel Behle (tenor), Max Emanuel Cenčić (countertenor), Yuriy Mynenko (countertenor), Max Emanuel Cenčić (commentary vocals), Daniel Behle (countertenor)
- I Barocchisti, Concerto Köln, Coro della Radiotelevisione svizzera, Lugano
- Diego Fasolis
- Recorded: 2012-01-01
- Recording Venue: Deutschlandfunk Kammermusikaal, Köln 21-28 September 2011
"Qual vittima si svena!" (Artaserse, Megabise) - "Dove, principe, dove?" (Semira, Artaserse)
Track length1:56
"Ah Mandane... Artserse" (Artaserse, Mandane) - "Signore. Amico. lo di te cerco" (Artabano, Artaserse, Mandane)
Track length1:46
"E innocente dovrai tanti oltraggi soffrir" (Arbace, Megabise, Semira, Mandane, Artabano)
Track length1:02
"I tuoi deboli affetti" (Artabano, Megabise) - "Figlia, e questi il tuo sposo" (Artabano, Semira)
Track length2:29
"Mio re, chiedono a gara" (Megabise, Artaserse) - "Artaserse pieta" (Semira, Mandane, Artaserse)
Track length2:43
"Al riparo signor" (Semira, Artaserse, Artabano) - Ferma o germano (Mandance, Artaserse)
Track length1:20
Spotlight on this release
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Rare baroque vocal delights
12th Nov 2012
Philippe Jaroussky and Max Cencic lead an all-male cast (featuring no fewer than five countertenors!) in the world premiere recording of Leonardo Vinci’s Artaserse, and Christophe Rousset & Company make a splendid case for Antoine Dauvergen’s Hercule mourant.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week12th November 2012
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Gramophone MagazineJanuary 2013Recording of the Month
Christmas 2012
Jaroussky is agile and artless in the title role...Cencic (Mandane) offers both eloquent and virtuoso singing...Fagioli makes a compelling Arbace, flitting effortlessly from flamboyant vocal fireworks to liquid bel canto. Undoubtedly, this cast is fine and the vigorous orchestral playing is discerningly shaped by Fasolis.
Vigorously rhythmic and highly dramatic, the opera has extraordinary energy, and some beautiful moments. This recording brings this all out, partly through the cracking tempi set by Diego Fasolis, partly through Concerto Köln's effervescent, historically informed performance, and partly through the sheer energy of the cast
January 2013
The prison scene that begins Act 3 indicates that Vinci was one of the finest opera composers of his age...The entire cast produces exceptionally good singing. Cencic and Jaroussky give a masterclass of dramatic countertenor singing, and Valer Barna-Sabadus and Yuriy Mynenko...are not far behind...The lone tenor Daniel Behle brings the treasonous Artabano vividly to life.
[Jaroussky] is a superb singer, brilliant, powerful, technically perfect and so beautiful of tone...[Fagioli's] Arbace is tremendous with breathtaking virtuosity...[Behle] surprises with a tone that is powerful and baritonal...this is one of the best baroque opera recordings I have heard. Don’t miss it!
15th November 2012
Vinci’s score is a revelation: there’s something so very distinctive about his raw, red-blooded sound-palette, and he has such imaginative ways with Metastasio’s famous metaphors...[Cencic] sings the king’s sister, Mandane, with blazing theatricality...[Fagioli] makes his mark here, fully exploiting the pathos and the virtuosic demands of the writing.
15th November 2012
the singing is epoch-making, above all from Fagioli, who seems to redefine the capabilities of the countertenor voice and take it beguilingly into territories new. Listen to him, and be seduced.
8th December 2021
I was hooked...The range, lyrical invention and virtuosic demands of [Vinci]'s last stage masterpiece Artaserse — relating dark machinations in ancient Persia — are incredible. And this Concerto Köln performance, with Philippe Jaroussky first among falsetto equals, fizzes with energy.
Early Music Today *****
The music in the ‘galant’ Neapolitan style is irresistibly attractive...The singing is almost uniformly first-rate. Max Emanuel Cencic seems to have been the prime mover behind the project but it is Franco Fagioli, in the role of Arbace who has some of the most beguiling music...All is directed with vigour and panache by Diego Fasolis.
