Author: BARTOLI,CECILIA

Features:

• CHANT LOVE: M?LODIES FRAN?AISE MUSIC

Release Date: 04-09-1996

Details: Product description Song of love: French melodies Amazon.ca This disc demonstrates that Cecilia Bartoli is as much at home in the world of the salon recital as she is in the swoops and vocal acrobatics of the Rossini coloratura repertoire. Her voice is in fine form here--rich, resonant and full of surprising colours--but her talent for characterization is even finer. In Pauline Viardot's "Havanaise" for example, she perfectly captures the flirtatious, almost desperate pleadings of a Spanish sailor for a French girl to accompany him on his boat --and then switches easily to the more capricious and teasing reply of the girl in French . In a number by Ravel (sung in Yiddish and Hebrew) she brings a rather elliptical exchange between a father and his young son to life with exquisite tenderness, and yet finds another voice out of her repertoire to characterize the little boy. Her accompanist, Myung-Whun Chung, supports her perfectly and knows exactly when to let the piano take over a phrase, and when to leave it. Fans will be delighted --others will be converted. -- Warwick Thompson

UPC: 028945266725

EAN: 0028945266725

Languages: english

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: Used Good