- Audio CD (Jan 25 2011)
- SPARS Code: DDD
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: Import
- Label: Virgin Classics
- ASIN: B0043GN6XA
- In-Print Editions: Audio CD
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Philippe Jaroussky continues his rediscovery of long-forgotten arias for high male voice with this collection of music by Antonio Caldara, a contemporary of Bach, Handel and Vivaldi, who was the first composer to set many librettos by the great Metastasio and Zeno.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Intact Artistic Integrity ..., Dec 29 2010
By Customer Formerly Known as Giordano Bruno - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Opera Arias (Audio CD)
This is as artful a recital of Baroque opera arias as I've ever heard; the fact that most or possibly all of them were composed for castrati is totally incidental to the quality of the music and of the singing. I can't imagine what more could be expected of a performance, assuming you have any taste for Baroque opera. Philippe Jaroussky is a specialist in the 'Italian' vocal techniques needed for 17th and early 18th C operas. To desire him to sing 'trouser roles' from the operas of Mozart and later composers is an absurd idea. Jaroussky isn't the only male soprano in the world of 'Early Music' these days and countertenors are no longer a novelty, but Jaroussky's mastery of inflection and his adroit use of dynamics set him apart from most others. The common assertion that countertenors are "hooty" and less expressive than women singers of the same range simply doesn't apply to Jaroussky. He can do anything that the best women sopranos can do, yet there's a distinctive masculine timbre to his voice. On this CD, Jaroussky is as spectacular as always, and for once the assertive conducting of Emmanuelle Haim serves both the music and the singer well. Concerto Köln has never played more incisely and expressively. This is a five-star-plus CD, a thrilling recital that will bear up to many listenings.Antonio Caldara was just a little older than Handel, and followed the well-worn path through Rome, through the patronage of Cardinal Ruspoli, but then moved to Barcelona and finally Vienna as the great favorite of the Habsburg Charles. He wrote over 60 operas, none of which are available on DVD currently, so this CD is the closest you can get to his work. As an opera composer, judging by the arias here and by a few peeks at his scores, he was in no way inferior to Handel. The arias on this CD come from eleven of his operas, all in Italian, most of them with texts by the two most acclaimed librettists of the era, Apostolo Zeno and "Metastasio," whose works were still in fashion as late as Rossini. Full texts and translations are included. "L'Olimpiade" was also set by Vivaldi, Ifigenia in Aulide by Gluck, and La Clemenza di Tito by Mozart, with some revisions. The variety of affect among these arias is truly astonishing, from despair to rage to ecstasy to mockery, and Jaroussky captures all of them.
Would you like to end 2010 with a CD worthy of the whole decade? This is one. If 2011 affords us even just a few recordings this fine, it'll be a 'Happy New Year' indeed.
11 of 23 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Castrati - your names are written in heaven., Nov 25 2010
By A. F. S. Mui "Mui" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Caldara in Vienna (Audio CD)
This is yet ANOTHER Castrati disc.Okay, Cecilia Bartoli 'sacrificed' to this genre her vocal credentials. Other ardent counter-tenors or high sopranos flung themselves towards them. French 'wunderkind' counter-tenor (or male soprano?) Jaroussky prostrates his artistry for Caldara's castrati arias.
Needless to say, Philippe has the best voice of them all. This is an entirely beautiful album - beautiful singer, beautiful conductor (if I could still say so without being censored), and beautiful music.
The songs are really well done - this is Philippe Jaroussky!
I cannot help wondering when this 'castrati' frenzy, begun with Roussett's sound track in 'Farinelli - il Castro' some 16-17 years ago, will end? And if so, what is going to happen to these wonderful singers?
I wish Jaroussky makes more operatic recordings in this genre. He has todate only some sporadic DVD performances of renaissence operas. He COULD have been a Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro. I don't know. May be some how he should concentrate a bit more in 'usurping' those baroque trousser roles - like Alcina's Ruggiero, or Sesto in 'Giulio Cesare'.
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Philippe Jaroussky is in its own class, Feb 5 2011
By Leopoldo Uribe - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Opera Arias (Audio CD)
I did not even know what a countertenor was, but now I consider myself a true admirer of Phileppe Jaroussky
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