New terra incognita in his new album, Cecilia convenes composers who presided over the birth of opera in St Petersburg around major sovereign of the eighteenth century. If Rastrelli had imported Italian architecture in St. Petersburg, and dictating the architectural future of the city, it is the same for the beginnings of opera in Russia immediately evoke another lagoon that of Vivaldi or Caldara, which in itself is not so surprising that other Venice of the North. The beginnings of opera in Saint Petersburg are Italian well before the birth of a national school and the singer offers us a variety of first recordings of arias of Italian and German composers Araia, Raupach, Dall'Oglio Manfredini or Cimarosa, demonstrating how it was wrong to let her sleep in libraries as rich and attractive partitions.
Cecilia and alternates elegiac tunes and virtuoso arias as a succession of small jewelry that will make you melt with pleasure even the most demanding music lovers. It tackles again this new recital as a cause to defend and selected the tunes of the most fascinating and brightest partitions she studied. (Ah concertants these tunes !!!) These are forgotten music crafted with skill and based on the same preciousness that the city that saw them born recalling the shimmering and gaudy facades of classical and Baroque palaces along the canals of the Neva.
These songs could not find more passionate and exciting performer Cecilia Bartoli. Stamp wonderful sweetness in the elegiac air, breathtaking technique in the virtuoso arias, fiery temperament capable of the most enchanting sweetness as the blackest fury, there are the usual qualities and exceptional Cecilia Bartoli that shares with the music lover happiness and enthusiasm of its dazzling discoveries.
Diego and I Barocchisti Fasolis weave an incomparable setting around the voice of Cecilia Bartoli as the great musician she is, shines in all its shining lights and thus highlighting the sumptuousness and delicacy of the instruments and soloists that the accompany.
As the flowers fade, like the stars whose brightness fades, we saw the star singers other off over time, even as Cecilia continues to dazzle us. The timbre of the singer has certainly matured but has not lost its beauty or its brilliance, property enhancing still over the years and we are still offering this recital once with an exceptional testimony of his art.
Cecilia thank you.
