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Cecilia Bartoli|Farinelli

Farinelli

Cecilia Bartoli, Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini

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She had to dare. Cecilia Bartoli appears on this album cover nude, androgynous, in a full beard and with hair down to her shoulders, delving deeper into the legend surrounding Farinelli, already explored with questionable sensationalism in the world of cinema and replaced with more correct historical precision in Patrick Barbier's brilliant book dedicated to the famous Neapolitan castrato.
The now-lost voice of castratos made eager crowds go wild at the time, the singers carrying a certain mythical aura around them, attributed to the confusion of their gender, bathed in an ambiguous eroticism. These music lovers have not however disappeared: they're the ones rushing to hear the Italian singer's vocal prowess both in concert and on disc.
For this opus dedicated to Farinelli, Cecilia Bartoli has chosen well-known melodies from the repertoire of the famous singer, varying her vocal fireworks she is so renowned for with some more dramatic, introspective tunes. Cecilia Bartoli conjures up Porpora, Hasse, Giacomelli, Caldara and Riccardo Broschi, Farinelli's own brother in a thrilling spectacle which aims, if not to uncover a hypothetical voice of the past, to replicate the chills it could produce thanks to her passion and dedication to the art. © François Hudry/Qobuz

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Polifemo / Act 2 (Nicola Porpora)

1
Nell' attendere mio bene (Ed. Sanderson)
00:05:11

Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo-Soprano - Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini, Conductor - Nicola Porpora, Composer - Paolo Antonio Rolli, Author - James Sanderson, Contributor, Work Editor - Arend Prohmann, Producer - Philip Siney, Recording Engineer

℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited

La festa d'Imeneo (Nicola Porpora)

2
Vaghi amori, grazie amate (Ed. Sanderson)
00:09:20

Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo-Soprano - Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini, Conductor - Nicola Porpora, Composer - Paolo Antonio Rolli, Author - James Sanderson, Contributor, Work Editor - Arend Prohmann, Producer - Philip Siney, Recording Engineer

℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited

Marc'Antonio e Cleopatra (Part. I) (Johann Adolf Hasse)

3
Morte col fiero aspetto (Ed. Wiesend)
00:03:37

Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo-Soprano - Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini, Conductor - Johann Adolph Hasse, Composer - Francesco Ricciardi, Author - Reinhard Wiesend, Contributor, Work Editor - Arend Prohmann, Producer - Philip Siney, Recording Engineer

℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited

Polifemo (Nicola Porpora)

4
Lontan dal solo e caro… Lusingato dalla speme (Ed. Sanderson)
00:08:17

Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo-Soprano - Il Giardino Armonico (Pier Luigi Fabretti, Oboe) - Giovanni Antonini, Conductor - Paolo Antonio Rolli, Author - James Sanderson, Contributor, Work Editor - Arend Prohmann, Producer - Philip Siney, Recording Engineer

℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited

Merope (Riccardo Broschi)

5
Chi non sente al mio dolore
00:08:00

Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo-Soprano - Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini, Conductor - Riccardo Broschi, Composer - Apostolo Zeno, Author - Arend Prohmann, Producer - Philip Siney, Recording Engineer

℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited

Semiramide regina dell'Assiria (Nicola Porpora)

6
Come nave in ria tempesta
00:05:03

Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo-Soprano - Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini, Conductor - Nicola Porpora, Composer - Apostolo Zeno, Author - Arend Prohmann, Producer - Philip Siney, Recording Engineer

℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited

Adriano In Siria (Geminiano Giacomelli)

7
Mancare o Dio mi sento
00:09:36

Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo-Soprano - Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini, Conductor - Geminiano Giacomelli, Composer - Pietro Metastasio, Author - Arend Prohmann, Producer - Philip Siney, Recording Engineer

℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited

Merope / Act 2 (Riccardo Broschi)

8
Si, traditor tu sei
00:06:03

Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo-Soprano - Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini, Conductor - Riccardo Broschi, Composer - Apostolo Zeno, Author - Arend Prohmann, Producer - Philip Siney, Recording Engineer

℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited

La Morte d'Abel (Antonio Caldara)

9
Questi al cor finora ignoti
00:05:03

Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo-Soprano - Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini, Conductor - Antonio Caldara, Composer - Pietro Metastasio, Author - Arend Prohmann, Producer - Philip Siney, Recording Engineer

℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited

Marc'Antonio e Cleopatra (Part. II) (Johann Adolf Hasse)

10
Signor, la tua speranza… A Dio trono, impero a Dio (Ed. Wiesend)
00:05:53

Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo-Soprano - Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini, Conductor - Johann Adolph Hasse, Composer - Francesco Ricciardi, Author - Reinhard Wiesend, Contributor, Work Editor - Arend Prohmann, Producer - Philip Siney, Recording Engineer

℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited

Polifemo / Act 3 (Nicola Porpora)

11
Alto Giove (Ed. Sanderson)
00:09:22

Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo-Soprano - Il Giardino Armonico (Pier Luigi Fabretti, Oboe) - Giovanni Antonini, Conductor - Paolo Antonio Rolli, Author - James Sanderson, Contributor, Work Editor - Arend Prohmann, Producer - Philip Siney, Recording Engineer

℗ 2019 Decca Music Group Limited

Album review

She had to dare. Cecilia Bartoli appears on this album cover nude, androgynous, in a full beard and with hair down to her shoulders, delving deeper into the legend surrounding Farinelli, already explored with questionable sensationalism in the world of cinema and replaced with more correct historical precision in Patrick Barbier's brilliant book dedicated to the famous Neapolitan castrato.
The now-lost voice of castratos made eager crowds go wild at the time, the singers carrying a certain mythical aura around them, attributed to the confusion of their gender, bathed in an ambiguous eroticism. These music lovers have not however disappeared: they're the ones rushing to hear the Italian singer's vocal prowess both in concert and on disc.
For this opus dedicated to Farinelli, Cecilia Bartoli has chosen well-known melodies from the repertoire of the famous singer, varying her vocal fireworks she is so renowned for with some more dramatic, introspective tunes. Cecilia Bartoli conjures up Porpora, Hasse, Giacomelli, Caldara and Riccardo Broschi, Farinelli's own brother in a thrilling spectacle which aims, if not to uncover a hypothetical voice of the past, to replicate the chills it could produce thanks to her passion and dedication to the art. © François Hudry/Qobuz

Details of original recording : Recording Locations : Le Rosey Concert Hall, Rolle, Switzerland, January 2017 - Dorothea Porsche Saal, Odeïon, Salzburg, Austria, August 2019

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