Cecilia Bartoli - The Salieri Album
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 2003-09-30
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
- Questo guajo mancava...Son qual lacera tartana (La secchia rapita)
- Che dunque!...Or ei con Ernestina...Ah sia gia (La Scuola dei gelosi)
- Vi sono sposa e amante (La Fiera di Venezia)
- Voi Lusingate invano lo smarito cor mio...Misera abbandonata (Palmira, Regina di Persia)
- E void a buon marito...Non vo gla che vi suonino (La Cifra)
- Alfin son sola...Sola e mesta (La Cifra)
- Dopo pranzo addormentata (Il Ricco d'un glorno)
- No, non cacillera...Suelle mi temple (La secchia rapita)
- Lungi da me sen vada quella veste fatal...Dunque anche il cielo...Contro un'alma sventurata (Palmira, Regina di Persia)
- Se lo dovessi vendere (La Finta scema)
- Eccomi piu che mai...Amor pletoso Amore (Il Ricco d'un Glorno)
- La ra la (La Grotta di Trofonio)
- E non degg'io seguirla!...Forse chi sa...Vieni a me sull'ali d'oro (Armida)
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Free Music Review: Salieri was no Mozart.............
Hit: 5 Stars
... Wait. They made a pretty good movie on that theme some years back. BUT, Salieri was no schlock. He was a fine composer, and turned out a LOT of good music. Alas, he was no Mozart, and time forgot him until "Amadeus" got him a measure of fame with a new generation.
Cecilia Bartoli has made a career out of the unusual, and, here, she's outdone herself. The great mezzo of our day has given us a beautiful, well presented, album. The book alone is worth the price. When reviewing an opera recital, comparisons are the norm; forget it. All but two of the cuts are receiving their world premiere recording. As to what the great altos [and castrati] who sang Mozart's and Salieri's compositions would have done, we can only guess. Some historians think a girl is a poor substitute for the great castrati of the 18th. century, but I don't see any volunteers for a controlled study to find out.
If you want to hear a gorgeous voice sing music you've never heard before, this album is for you. Highly recommended.
Cecilia Bartoli - The Salieri Album Poster
Antonio Salieri is, unfortunately, best known as Mozart's great Viennese rival. Some of his work has appeared on recordings, and he was clearly an interesting composer of well-crafted, entertaining music. But now that a singer with the stature and prodigious gifts of Cecilia Bartoli has undertaken an entire CD of his opera arias, he may just become a quasi-household name. Here he proves himself a composer who wrote for virtuosos; Bartoli is nothing if not a vituoso. And, indeed, this CD opens with an impressive bang: An aria from La secchia rapita features a wild vocal line complete with wild coloratura, huge leaps, a range from low G to high D flat (Bartoli flirts more and more with the soprano range while using her chest register even more forcefully!), and vast dynamic changes accompanied by a full orchestra augmented with grand, martial trumpets. Other arias--one from Palmira, Regina di Persia, for example--are more introspective and are spun out with a graceful, seamless legato and seemingly endless pianissimo. Everything one loves about Bartoli is here: the intensity, absolute fluidity in execution, breath control, glorious trill, the ability to whisper or holler, and an identification with the character she's portraying which makes the situation credible and involving for the listener. At the same time, we can't overlook a tendency to overstatement and exaggeration and a breathiness to some of the delivery which can be an annoying mannerism. But where else can one get such excitement and commitment coupled with an irresistible charm in a singer so clearly at her peak? Most/all of the arias and operas here are virtually unknown; this CD whets our appetites for more Salieri. The accompaniments are as superbly thought-out and played as one would hope for--the wacky pizzicato strings and solo wind and brass lines in an aria from La Cifra, for instance, will delight. Bartoli fans and fans of great singing should not wait another moment before ordering this. --Robert LevineClassical Music CDs
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