Cecilia Bartoli - Tribute To Maria Malibran (2007)

Artist: Cecilia Bartoli
Title Of Album: Tribute To Maria Malibran
Year Of Release: 2007
Format: MP3
Quality: CBR 320 kbps
Total Size: 195 Mb

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Maria, Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano; Orchestra La Scintilla, Andrew Fischer, cond.; with Maxim Vengerov, vln solo; Celso Albelo, tenor; Luca Pisaroni, bass-baritone, and Internatiional Chamber Soloists, Jürg Hämmerli, dir.  Decca 000998902, © 2007

Cecilia Bartoli, the most popular Italian female singer of recent years, has issued another imaginative CD, this one devoted not to a single composer, as in her tributes to Salieri and Gluck, but to another singer, the 19th-century French diva Maria Malibran. The program consists of music Malibran sang during her career. Some of it is well known - "Casta Diva," for example, from Bellini's Norma - but much is not: arias by Pacini, Halèvy, Hummel; songs by Malibran's father, Manuel Garcìa; a scene by Mendelssohn; and two songs by Malibran herself.

It is a brilliant success. Like Malibran, Bartoli has a high, flexible mezzo-soprano and a lively personality, capable of strong declamation (in Pacini's aria from Irene, for example, which forecasts Norma) and the finest flourishes. Bartoli performs with the period instrument Orchestra La Scintilla, conducted by Adam Fischer. About half the pieces are recorded for the first time, and most are delightful.

Garcìa's "Yo que soy contrabandista," a hugely popular piece in its day, is thrilling, with castanets, guitar, and flamenco shouts and claps. And why hasn't anyone discovered before now Mendelssohn's grand 12-minute concert scene Infelice? "Casta Diva" is taken down a whole step, as it was by Malibran herself. Bartoli sings it, however, without a steady tempo or inward dark coloring. There is nothing she can't do technically, but she rarely allows herself to sing a melodic line simply.

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