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Popular though they are, the choice of items and their sequence in this recital are refreshingly unhackneyed, more than just a hit list of vocal display items...Persson's is, as always, a voice... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2015 More…

Release Date: 1st Jun 2015
Catalogue No: BIS2112
Label: BIS
Length: 66 minutes

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Excerpt, Donizetti: Don Pasquale

Work length5:33

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Miah Persson (soprano)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Harding
Recorded: 31 March - 4 April 2014
Recording Venue: Berwald Hall, Stockholm, Sweden

Quel guardo il cavaliere - So anch'io la virtù magica

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Excerpt, Gounod: Faust

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Miah Persson (soprano)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Harding
Recorded: 31 March - 4 April 2014
Recording Venue: Berwald Hall, Stockholm, Sweden

O Dieu! Que de bijoux! - Ah! Je ris de me voir si belle

Track length4:44

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Excerpt, Bellini: I Capuleti e I Montecchi

Work length8:51

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Miah Persson (soprano)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Harding
Recorded: 31 March - 4 April 2014
Recording Venue: Berwald Hall, Stockholm, Sweden

Eccomi in lieta vesta - Oh! Quante volte

Track length8:51

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Excerpt, Gounod: Roméo et Juliette

Work length3:40

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Miah Persson (soprano)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Harding
Recorded: 31 March - 4 April 2014
Recording Venue: Berwald Hall, Stockholm, Sweden

Ah! Je veux vivre

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Excerpt, Bizet: Carmen

Work length9:10

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Miah Persson (soprano)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Harding
Recorded: 31 March - 4 April 2014
Recording Venue: Berwald Hall, Stockholm, Sweden

C'est des contrebandiers le refuge ordinaire - Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante

Track length6:25

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Interlude Before Act III

Track length2:45

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Excerpt, Delibes: Lakmé

Work length6:28

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Miah Persson (soprano), Katarina Karnéus (mezzo-soprano)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Harding
Recorded: 31 March - 4 April 2014
Recording Venue: Berwald Hall, Stockholm, Sweden

Viens, Mallika - Sous le dôme épais

Track length6:28

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Excerpt, Puccini: La Bohème

Work length2:36

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Miah Persson (soprano)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Harding
Recorded: 31 March - 4 April 2014
Recording Venue: Berwald Hall, Stockholm, Sweden

Quando m'en vo'

Track length2:36

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Excerpt, Meyerbeer: Dinorah

Work length4:56

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Miah Persson (soprano)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Harding
Recorded: 31 March - 4 April 2014
Recording Venue: Berwald Hall, Stockholm, Sweden

Ombre légère (Sung in French)

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Excerpt, Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann

Work length3:55

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Miah Persson (soprano), Katarina Karnéus (mezzo-soprano)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Harding
Recorded: 31 March - 4 April 2014
Recording Venue: Berwald Hall, Stockholm, Sweden

Belle nuit, ô nuit d'amour

Track length3:55

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Excerpt, Messager: Madame Chrysanthème

Work length4:40

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Miah Persson (soprano)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Harding
Recorded: 31 March - 4 April 2014
Recording Venue: Berwald Hall, Stockholm, Sweden

Le jour sous le soleil béni

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Excerpt, Verdi: La Traviata

Work length8:45

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Miah Persson (soprano), Andrew Staples (tenor)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Harding
Recorded: 31 March - 4 April 2014
Recording Venue: Berwald Hall, Stockholm, Sweden

È strano, è strano! - Sempre libera

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Excerpt, Puccini: Gianni Schicchi

Work length2:51

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Miah Persson (soprano)
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Harding
Recorded: 31 March - 4 April 2014
Recording Venue: Berwald Hall, Stockholm, Sweden

O mio babbino caro

Track length2:51

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On her latest recording for BIS Miah Persson ventures into the fields of bel canto, opéra lyrique and verismo in the company of Daniel Harding and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. The range of characters is wide, from a teenage Juliet, eager to live life to the full in Gounod’s Je veux vivre, to Verdi’s Violetta, a courtesan at the height of her powers, who in her scene and aria È strano tries to convince herself that her freedom is more valuable than love. The programme includes some of the emotional high points in the opera literature (Bellini’s Oh! quante volte, Puccini’s O mio babbino caro), as well as light relief (Norina’s cavatina So anch’io la virtù magica) and moments of pure, unadulterated beauty, such as the Flower Duet from Lakmé and Offenbach’s Barcarolle. In the two latter pieces, Miah Persson is joined by her Swedish colleague, the mezzo-soprano Katarina Karnéus, while the tenor Andrew Staples makes a cameo appearance in Sempre libera, as Alfredo, singing of his love for Violetta below her window.

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August 2015

Popular though they are, the choice of items and their sequence in this recital are refreshingly unhackneyed, more than just a hit list of vocal display items...Persson's is, as always, a voice that makes you want to follow a musical and dramatic story, one that genuinely talks character and emotion to the listener. She is no brainless automatic canary...Recommended.

October 2015

The lightness and grace of her instrument is revealed in Norina’s entrata in Don Pasquale, in which her switch from dreamy romanticism in the first section to pragmatism in the second is perfectly realized. Charm, innocence and accuracy mark her Jewel Song, whose accompaniment shares with all the others here the considerable strengths of the Swedish orchestra as well as the positives of Daniel Harding’s scrupulous musicianship.

7th June 2015

much of the programme delights: Persson charms with Juliette’s Waltz Song and Dinorah’s Shadow aria, and gives us Giulietta’s solo (Bellini), preceded by its rarely recorded accompanied recit with horn solo. The famous duets — Delibes and Offenbach, with Katarina Karneus — are gorgeous.

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