Special offer. Handel: Messiah
Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal, Cor de Cambra Del Palau de La Musica Catalana, Franco Fagioli (conductor)
each voice-section seems to have its own confidently worn, open-throated colouring, providing some of the most uplifting moments. Fagioli’s conducting produces few outright surprises but he...
Special offer. Handel: Messiah
Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal, Cor de Cambra Del Palau de La Musica Catalana, Franco Fagioli (conductor)
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each voice-section seems to have its own confidently worn, open-throated colouring, providing some of the most uplifting moments. Fagioli’s conducting produces few outright surprises but he...
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When one of the most illustrious sopranists of our time becomes a conductor, he chooses nothing less than Messiah! Franco Fagioli paints a fresco of Handel's masterpiece with a Latin exaltation, drawing this great English Baroque oratorio in the colours of the Mediterranean, together with the famous Barcelona choir and their Caravaggesque chiaroscuro, which gives the work a shimmer of moire. The Orchestre de l'Opera Royal provides the backdrop for the splendours revealed by the soloists, who take us on a journey of joy and sorrow through the life and Passion of Christ: "Behold, I tell you a Mystery..."
Contents and tracklist
- Pablo Bemsch (soloist), Alex Rosen (soloist), Margherita Maria Sala (soloist), Marie Lys (soloist)
- Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal, Cor de Cambra del Palau de la Musica Catalana
- Franco Fagioli
- Margherita Maria Sala (soloist), Pablo Bemsch (soloist), Marie Lys (soloist), Alex Rosen (soloist)
- Cor de Cambra del Palau de la Musica Catalana, Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal
- Franco Fagioli
- Marie Lys (soloist), Alex Rosen (soloist), Margherita Maria Sala (soloist), Pablo Bemsch (soloist)
- Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal, Cor de Cambra del Palau de la Musica Catalana
- Franco Fagioli
Awards and reviews
December 2023
each voice-section seems to have its own confidently worn, open-throated colouring, providing some of the most uplifting moments. Fagioli’s conducting produces few outright surprises but he is generally alert to the music’s possibilities.