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The name of soprano Anna Prohaska may sound familiar to those who grew up on the budget-line classical albums sold in college bookstores and the like; her grandfather Felix Prohaska was a longtime Viennese opera conductor whose Bach recordings on Vanguard were staples of many collections. She has a rather metallic voice that she only rarely allows to bloom into vibrato, suiting her well to Baroque repertory and also to music of the 20th century. Here she takes on antiquity's two legendary African queens, Cleopatra of Egypt and Dido of Carthage. The program, as usual with this artist, is innovative and compelling. The listener may have been aware that both these women fascinated Baroque libretto writers, but this album offers new insights as to the extent, with little-known but entirely satisfactory arias by Christoph Graupner, Antonio Sartorio, Daniele da Castrovillari, and Johann Adolf Hasse alongside those by Handel and Purcell. Purcell's Dido and Aeneas frames the program, but some of these arias deal in emotional extremes that are unlike Purcell's elevated, tragic expressions. Prohaska is admirably equipped to handle these, and she seems to enter into the roles. Sample the Graupner sequence from Dido, Königin von Carthago, which changes from German in the recitative to Italian in the pair of fiery arias. Il Giardino Armonico under Giovanni Antonini has a restrained way of setting off Prohaska's very distinctive singing, but they're not the only accompanists: apparently in an attempt to give the arias the impact they would have had in their original performances, the musicians surround them with instrumental pieces and short improvisations. There is nothing wrong with this in principle, but the music seems unrelated at times; it's by composers unconnected to the operatic items, and it tends to break the mood. One expects the unexpected from Prohaska, however, and here, as elsewhere, that's generally all to the good.
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Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626 (Henry Purcell)
Anna Prohaska, Soprano - Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini, Conductor - Henry Purcell, Composer
2016 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2015 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Anna Prohaska, Soprano - Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini, Conductor - Henry Purcell, Composer
2016 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2015 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Dido, Königin von Karthago (Christophe Graupner)
Anna Prohaska, Soprano - Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini, Conductor - Christoph Graupner, Composer
2016 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2015 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Antonio Sartorio)
Anna Prohaska, Soprano - Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini, Conductor - Antonio Sartorio, Composer
2016 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2015 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
The Tempest (Matthew Locke)
Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini, Conductor - Matthew Locke, Composer
2016 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2015 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini, Conductor - Matthew Locke, Composer
2016 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2015 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
La Cleopatra (Daniele da Castrovillari)
Anna Prohaska, Soprano - Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini, Conductor - Daniele da Castrovillari, Composer
2016 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2015 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Antonio Sartorio)
Anna Prohaska, Soprano - Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini, Conductor - Antonio Sartorio, Composer
2016 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2015 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
The Tempest (Matthew Locke)
Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini, Conductor - Matthew Locke, Composer
2016 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2015 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
The Fairy Queen, Z. 629 (Henry Purcell)
Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini, Conductor - Henry Purcell, Composer
2016 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2015 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Dido, Königin von Karthago (Christophe Graupner)
Anna Prohaska, Soprano - Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini, Conductor - Christoph Graupner, Composer
2016 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2015 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Anna Prohaska, Soprano - Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini, Conductor - Christoph Graupner, Composer
2016 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2015 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Anna Prohaska, Soprano - Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini, Conductor - Christoph Graupner, Composer
2016 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2015 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17 (Georg Friedrich Händel)
Anna Prohaska, Soprano - Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini, Conductor - George Frideric Handel, Composer
2016 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2015 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Anna Prohaska, Soprano - Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini, Conductor - George Frideric Handel, Composer
2016 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2015 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Didone Abbandonata (Johann Adolf Hasse)
Anna Prohaska, Soprano - Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini, Conductor - Johann Adolf Hasse, Composer
2016 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2015 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Sonate concertate in stil moderno (Dario Castello)
Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini, Conductor - Dario Castello, Composer
2016 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2015 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Didone (Francesco Cavalli)
Anna Prohaska, Soprano - Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini, Conductor - Francesco Cavalli, Composer
2016 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2015 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Marc'Antonio e Cleopatra (Johann Adolf Hasse)
Anna Prohaska, Soprano - Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini, Conductor - Johann Adolf Hasse, Composer
2016 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2015 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Passacaille del seigneur Louigi (Luigi Rossi)
Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini, Conductor - Luigi Rossi, Composer
2016 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2015 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626 (Henry Purcell)
Anna Prohaska, Soprano - Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini, Conductor - Henry Purcell, Composer
2016 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2015 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Anna Prohaska, Soprano - Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini, Conductor - Henry Purcell, Composer
2016 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2015 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
Album review
The name of soprano Anna Prohaska may sound familiar to those who grew up on the budget-line classical albums sold in college bookstores and the like; her grandfather Felix Prohaska was a longtime Viennese opera conductor whose Bach recordings on Vanguard were staples of many collections. She has a rather metallic voice that she only rarely allows to bloom into vibrato, suiting her well to Baroque repertory and also to music of the 20th century. Here she takes on antiquity's two legendary African queens, Cleopatra of Egypt and Dido of Carthage. The program, as usual with this artist, is innovative and compelling. The listener may have been aware that both these women fascinated Baroque libretto writers, but this album offers new insights as to the extent, with little-known but entirely satisfactory arias by Christoph Graupner, Antonio Sartorio, Daniele da Castrovillari, and Johann Adolf Hasse alongside those by Handel and Purcell. Purcell's Dido and Aeneas frames the program, but some of these arias deal in emotional extremes that are unlike Purcell's elevated, tragic expressions. Prohaska is admirably equipped to handle these, and she seems to enter into the roles. Sample the Graupner sequence from Dido, Königin von Carthago, which changes from German in the recitative to Italian in the pair of fiery arias. Il Giardino Armonico under Giovanni Antonini has a restrained way of setting off Prohaska's very distinctive singing, but they're not the only accompanists: apparently in an attempt to give the arias the impact they would have had in their original performances, the musicians surround them with instrumental pieces and short improvisations. There is nothing wrong with this in principle, but the music seems unrelated at times; it's by composers unconnected to the operatic items, and it tends to break the mood. One expects the unexpected from Prohaska, however, and here, as elsewhere, that's generally all to the good.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 22 track(s)
- Total length: 01:09:57
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Anna Prohaska Il Giardino Armonico Giovanni Antonini
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Alpha Classics
- Genre: Classical Secular Vocal Music
2016 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France 2015 Alpha Classics / Outhere Music France
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