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Latvian mezzo soprano Elina Garanca has a voice that's miraculously creamy yet smoky. The voice, by itself, can stand the comparison in this collection of mostly French Romantic arias. These are for the most part lesser-known numbers, and Garanca makes them her own musically; she picks pieces that optimize her range, with its impressive power in the top mezzo registers. In the pieces where it's sheer consistency and long-lasting energy that's called for, most of all the stops-out finale "Me voilà seule, enfin," from Gounod's La Reine de Saba (a rare work outside of France), Garanca is impressive indeed. At times in the more emotionally subtle pieces, such as "Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix," from Saint-Saëns Samson et Delila, she lacks the emotional involvement in the music that would keep her voice from seeming to be slightly too much of a good thing. Nor are she and the Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna well served by Deutsche Grammophon's engineers, who provide a colorless, washed-out sound. But there is no shortage of vocal aficionados for whom the voice itself is paramount, and they are definitely going to find a young singer to watch here: as she matures and the lower parts of her range take on new shades, the results could be spectacular.
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La Favorite / Act III (Gaetano Donizetti)
Gaetano Donizetti, Composer - Eugene Scribe, Author - Yves Abel, Conductor, MainArtist - Alphonse Royer, Author - Gustave Vaëz, Author - Elina Garanca, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer, Recording Producer - Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Orchestra, MainArtist - Stephan Flock, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dr. Alexander Buhr, Producer - Philip Krause, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Renaud Loranger, Producer, Associate Producer
℗ 2012 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Samson et Dalila, Op. 47, R. 288 / Act II (Camille Saint-Saëns)
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS, Composer - Yves Abel, Conductor, MainArtist - FERDINAND LEMAIRE, Author - Elina Garanca, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer, Recording Producer - Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Orchestra, MainArtist - Stephan Flock, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dr. Alexander Buhr, Producer - Philip Krause, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Renaud Loranger, Producer, Associate Producer
℗ 2012 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
The Maid Of Orléans / Act I (Pyotr Illitch Tchaïkovski)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer, Author - Friedrich Schiller, Author, Original Text Author - Yves Abel, Conductor, MainArtist - Elina Garanca, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer, Recording Producer - Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Orchestra, MainArtist - Stephan Flock, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dr. Alexander Buhr, Producer, Executive Producer - Philip Krause, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Vasily Zhukovsky, Translator - Renaud Loranger, Producer, Associate Producer
℗ 2012 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Sapho, CG 1 / Act III (Charles Gounod)
Charles Gounod, Composer - Yves Abel, Conductor, MainArtist - Elina Garanca, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer, Recording Producer - Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Orchestra, MainArtist - Stephan Flock, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dr. Alexander Buhr, Producer, Executive Producer - Philip Krause, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Renaud Loranger, Producer, Associate Producer - Guillaume Victor Emile Augier, Author
℗ 2012 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Faust (Charles Gounod)
Charles Gounod, Composer - Michel Carre, Author - Jules Barbier, Author - Yves Abel, Conductor, MainArtist - Elina Garanca, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer, Recording Producer - Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Orchestra, MainArtist - Stephan Flock, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dr. Alexander Buhr, Producer, Executive Producer - Philip Krause, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Renaud Loranger, Producer, Associate Producer
℗ 2012 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Giulietta e Romeo / Act II (Nicola Vaccai)
Felice Romani, Author - Yves Abel, Conductor, MainArtist - Elina Garanca, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer, Recording Producer - Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Orchestra, MainArtist - Nicola Vaccai, Composer - Stephan Flock, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dr. Alexander Buhr, Producer, Executive Producer - Philip Krause, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Renaud Loranger, Producer, Associate Producer
℗ 2012 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
La Damnation de Faust, Op. 24 / Part 4 (Hector Berlioz)
Hector Berlioz, ComposerLyricist - Yves Abel, Conductor, MainArtist - Elina Garanca, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Almire Gandonnière, Author - Sid McLauchlan, Producer, Recording Producer - Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Orchestra, MainArtist - GERARD DE NERVAL, Translator - Stephan Flock, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dr. Alexander Buhr, Producer, Executive Producer - Philip Krause, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Renaud Loranger, Producer, Associate Producer
℗ 2012 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Le Roi d'Ys / Act II (Édouard Lalo)
Edouard Lalo, Composer - Yves Abel, Conductor, MainArtist - Elina Garanca, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer, Recording Producer - Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Orchestra, MainArtist - Stephan Flock, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dr. Alexander Buhr, Producer, Executive Producer - Philip Krause, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Edouard Stanislas Viateur Blau, Author - Renaud Loranger, Producer, Associate Producer
℗ 2012 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
La Reine de Saba / Act III (Charles Gounod)
Charles Gounod, Composer - Michel Carre, Author - Jules Barbier, Author - Yves Abel, Conductor, MainArtist - Elina Garanca, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Sid McLauchlan, Producer, Recording Producer - Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Orchestra, MainArtist - Stephan Flock, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Dr. Alexander Buhr, Producer, Executive Producer - Philip Krause, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Renaud Loranger, Producer, Associate Producer
℗ 2012 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Album review
Latvian mezzo soprano Elina Garanca has a voice that's miraculously creamy yet smoky. The voice, by itself, can stand the comparison in this collection of mostly French Romantic arias. These are for the most part lesser-known numbers, and Garanca makes them her own musically; she picks pieces that optimize her range, with its impressive power in the top mezzo registers. In the pieces where it's sheer consistency and long-lasting energy that's called for, most of all the stops-out finale "Me voilà seule, enfin," from Gounod's La Reine de Saba (a rare work outside of France), Garanca is impressive indeed. At times in the more emotionally subtle pieces, such as "Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix," from Saint-Saëns Samson et Delila, she lacks the emotional involvement in the music that would keep her voice from seeming to be slightly too much of a good thing. Nor are she and the Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna well served by Deutsche Grammophon's engineers, who provide a colorless, washed-out sound. But there is no shortage of vocal aficionados for whom the voice itself is paramount, and they are definitely going to find a young singer to watch here: as she matures and the lower parts of her range take on new shades, the results could be spectacular.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 9 track(s)
- Total length: 01:00:37
- Main artists: Elina Garanca Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna Yves Abel
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
- Genre: Classical
© 2012 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin ℗ 2012 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
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