Dreams (Gounod, Donizetti, Bellini)

Pretty Yende - Giacomo Sagripanti

Released on 27/10/2017 by Sony Classical
Main artists: Pretty Yende
Genre: Operafragmenten

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Soprano Pretty Yende made a big splash with her debut album, A Journey, which musically reenacted her path from small-town South Africa to Europe's major operatic stages. On that album she had both star quality and rough spots, and it was a matter of some interest to learn whether she was just a novelty or a major new voice. As it happens, Yende's second album, Dreams, does not answer the question. There is still the fact that Yende is one of those performers who just transmit; even in the chilly language of digital ones and zeroes, she has charisma. And in Italian bel canto repertoire she's clearly progressing. In both the more ornate Donizetti excerpts from Lucia di Lammermoor (sample "Ohimè! Sorge il tremendo fantasma" to hear Yende's control in quiet passages in the stratosphere) and in the more melodic Bellini, Yende delivers very fetching sounds. In the French music the news is not so good; Yende can't live up to the striking opening gesture in "Ah! je veux vivire" from Gounod's Roméo et Juliette, and her voice shows strain here. Still, most of the music sounds great, and the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano "Giuseppe Verdi" under Giacomo Sagripanti has an ideally subdued way of accompanying her. The indications are at this point that the way to deal with Yende is to play to her considerable strengths. Just before this album's release, Yende pulled out of a Rome production of Fra Diavolo for unspecified artistic reasons. One hopes that vocal problems were not involved.

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Dreams (Gounod, Donizetti, Bellini)

Pretty Yende

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Roméo et Juliette (Charles Gounod)

Act I : Ah ! Je veux vivre

00:03:35

Pretty Yende, Main Artist, Soprano - Charles Gounod, Composer - Giacomo Sagripanti, Conductor - Orchestra Sinfonica Di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Associated Performer - Jules Barbier, Librettist - Michel Carré, Librettist - Jakob Händel, Mastering Engineer, Producer - Giancarlo Pierozzi, Recording Engineer

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Lucia di Lammermoor (Gaetano Donizetti)

Act III : Eccola ! Oh, giusto cielo !... Il dolce suono

00:03:10

Pretty Yende, Main Artist, Soprano - Gaetano Donizetti, Composer - Giacomo Sagripanti, Conductor - Orchestra Sinfonica Di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Associated Performer - Coro Sinfonico di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Associated Performer - Carlo Lepore - Salvadore Cammarano, Librettist - Jakob Händel, Mastering Engineer, Producer - Giancarlo Pierozzi, Recording Engineer

(P) 2017 Sony Music Entertainment

Act III : Ohimè ! Sorge il tremendo fantasma... Ardon gli incensi

00:08:43

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Act III : S'avanza Enrico !