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Endless Pleasure: Handel & Mozart [Import]

Ruth Ann Swenson (Artist), Mackerras (Artist), Orch Enlightenment (Artist) | Format: Audio CD
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

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1. Semele: Endless Pleasure
2. Semele: Myself I Shall Adore
3. Semele: O Sleep, Why Dost Thou Leave Me
4. Giulio Cesare: V'addoro, Pupille, Saette D'amore
5. Giulio Cesare: Se Pieta Di Me Non Senti
6. Giulio Cesare: Da Tempeste Il Legno Infranto
7. Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail: Recit: Welcher Wechsel Herrscht In Meiner Seele
8. Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail: Aria: Traurigkeit
9. Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail: Martern Aller Arten
10. Misera dove son, K. 369: Recit: misera, dove son!
11. Misera dove son, K. 369: Aria: Ah! non son io che parlo
12. Lucio Silla: Recit: In un istante oh come s'accrebbe il mio timor!
13. Lucio Silla: Aria: Parto, m'affretto

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Beautiful voice! Aug 11 2001
Format:Audio CD
I am a big fan of Ruth Ann and this CD is wonderful. Her interpretations of these arias are executed well. The arias from Semele are refreshing. However, a better Semele can be found in Kathleen Battle. Her Mozart's are my favorites on this album. The last aria, "Parto, m'afretto", is sung beautifully with some amazing fireworks. Brava Ruth Ann!
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A bland misfire from a good singer and conductor Nov 4 1999
Format:Audio CD
Ruth Ann Swenson is a highly accomplished and enjoyable singer, but not an all-purpose one. Her rich, full tone, accurate coloratura, easy high notes and beautiful trill work wonderfully in "Rigoletto" and in "La Sonnambula," for example; she seems dramatically committed and engaged in those roles, too. Here, she seems detached, clueless and stylistically at sea -- neither her tone nor her phrasing conveys the luscious sensuousness of Semele's arias, and her Mozart is similarly bland and uncomprehending. It's surprising that Charles Mackerras, usually a superb and enlivening conductor of both these composers' music, could not stimulate or lead her to something better.
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Excellent recording Oct 28 1999
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Format:Audio CD
I own every recording that Swenson has ever done. (which isn't any kind of unusual feat, she is terribly under-recorded) This one shows off her ease with the challenges of Handel and Mozart. "Myself I Shall Adore" is sung with an amusing sense of playful vanity--not to mention the accuracy and sheer beauty of her fioratura and trills. Swenson moves her voice with quicksilver speed. Every note is articulated. I love the intimate way she caresses Handel's intoxicatingly lovely, "V'adoro pupille." Caesar would have been utterly charmed. My favorite item on the disc is her "Parto m'affretto." It's filled with a true heroine's pathos and seamless coloratura. Her staccatti are spectacular. A very passionate and gorgeous performance that will bring you endless pleasure.
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