Kaleidoscope
Fatma Said (soprano), Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Sascha Goetzel
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd September 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year & Solo Vocal
Said vaults effortlessly across stylistic boundaries, often via dazzling arrangements by her collaborator Tim Allhoff. And that Whitney Houston track? Even diehard sceptics will be moved by...
Kaleidoscope
Fatma Said (soprano), Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Sascha Goetzel
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 2nd September 2022
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Vocal Music
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2023, Nominated - Female Singer of the Year & Solo Vocal
Said vaults effortlessly across stylistic boundaries, often via dazzling arrangements by her collaborator Tim Allhoff. And that Whitney Houston track? Even diehard sceptics will be moved by...
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Spotlight on this release
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Fatma Said's Kaleidoscope
2nd Sep 2022
Featuring music by composers including Léhar, Gounod, Weill and Piazzolla, the Egyptian soprano's beguiling, wide-ranging invitation to the dance proves impossible to resist.
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Fatma Said on Kaleidoscope
25th Aug 2022
Ahead of the release of her eclectic dance-inspired album next Friday, the Egyptian soprano talks to Katherine about taking her first steps in ballroom as a hip-hop-loving teenager in Cairo, the parallels between Argentinian tango and classical singing, and two very different divas who inspired her programming...
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week2nd September 2022
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International Classical Music Awards2023Nominated - Vocal Music
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Presto Recordings of the YearWinner 2022
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Opus Klassik Awards2023Nominated - Female Singer of the Year & Solo Vocal
October 2022
Said vaults effortlessly across stylistic boundaries, often via dazzling arrangements by her collaborator Tim Allhoff. And that Whitney Houston track? Even diehard sceptics will be moved by this vulnerable rendition in a translucent arrangement.
October 2022
Concerns that all this might be too much for one voice are by and large dispelled by idiomatic performances that are often sharply characterised.
2nd September 2022
it’s evident that the singer’s love and affinity for all this music is grounded in real-life experience on the dance-floor: the rhythmic impetus and ebb and flow of each number is clearly born of something beyond the notes on the page, whether she’s elongating the phrases of a Viennese waltz to delicious effect or tapping into the raw energy of Piazzolla’s María de Buenos Aires.
25th September 2022
Purists may blench, but that’s their loss. Whether navigating I Could Have Danced All Night, Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette, Barcarolle from Les Contes d’Hoffman or Whitney Houston’s I Wanna Dance with Somebody, Said sounds to the manner born.
