Cecilia Bartoli: St Petersburg

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Bartoli's voice is wearing well, and she been recorded with sensitivity. Some of her faster passagework sounds a little rough around the edges, even fierce, but her technical skills are still... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 13th Oct 2014
Catalogue No: 4786767
Label: Decca
Length: 77 minutes

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13th October 2014
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Francesco Araja: La forza dell’amore e dell’odio

Work length7:18

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Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano)
I Barocchisti
Diego Fasolis
Recorded: 2014-04
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo, Lugano

"Vado a morir"

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Excerpt, Raupach: Altsesta

Work length19:33

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Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano)
I Barocchisti
Diego Fasolis
Recorded: 2014-04
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo, Lugano

"Razverzi pyos gortani, laya"

Track length6:56

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"Idu na smert"

Track length12:37

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Excerpt, Raupach: Siroe, re di Persia

Work length6:28

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Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano)
I Barocchisti
Diego Fasolis
Recorded: 2014-04
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo, Lugano

"O placido il mare"

Track length6:28

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Domenico Dall'Oglio, Luiggi Madonis: Prologue To "La Clemenza di Tito"

Work length4:31

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Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano)
I Barocchisti
Diego Fasolis
Recorded: 2014-04
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo, Lugano

“De miei Figli”

Track length4:31

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Excerpt, Manfredini, V: Carlo Magno

Work length6:52

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Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano)
I Barocchisti
Diego Fasolis
Recorded: 2014-04
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo, Lugano

"Fra' lacci tu mi credi"

Track length6:52

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Francesco Araja: Seleuco

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Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano)
I Barocchisti
Diego Fasolis
Recorded: 2014-04
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo, Lugano

"Pastor che a notte ombrosa"

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Excerpt, Raupach: Altsesta

Work length2:20

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I Barocchisti
Diego Fasolis
Recorded: 2014-04
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo, Lugano

March

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Excerpt, Manfredini, V: Carlo Magno

Work length9:13

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Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano)
I Barocchisti
Diego Fasolis
Recorded: 2014-04
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo, Lugano

"Non turbar que’ vagi rai"

Track length9:13

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Excerpt, Cimarosa: La vergine del sole

Work length8:10

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Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano)
I Barocchisti
Diego Fasolis
Recorded: 2014-04
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo, Lugano

"Agitata in tante pene"

Track length8:10

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Excerpt, Manfredini, V: Carlo Magno

Work length3:13

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Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano)
I Barocchisti, Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera
Diego Fasolis
Recorded: 2014-04
Recording Venue: Auditorio Stelio Molo, Lugano

"A noi vivi donna eccelsa"

Track length3:13

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Recording of the Week, Cecilia Bartoli sings music from 18th-century Russia

13th October 2014

Chris listens to superstar mezzo Cecilia's latest disc, exploring music written for the court of St Petersburg in the Eighteenth Century.

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Cecilia Bartoli returns with a majestic new album of world premiere recordings, hidden treasures of the Mariinsky.

For the very first time Bartoli explores the Baroque musical treasures of Tsarist Russia with music from the court of three 18th century Tsaristas: Anna, Elizabeth and Catherine the Great.

Music written by Italian and German composers working for the Russian court, this album sheds new light on an incredible and momentous time for Russia, shaping its politics and culture towards the enlightened West.

Mostly sung in Italian, the album also offers the first opportunity to hear Bartoli sing in Russian.

The music has been intricately researched by Bartoli herself, unlocking the archives of St Petersburg’s Mariinsky Library to uncover music lost for over 200 years.

Reunites Bartoli with Baroque specialists Diego Fasolis & I Barocchisti.

St Petersburg lives up to all the expectations one might have for a new Cecilia Bartoli solo album.

It is a perfect showcase for the countless qualities of this fantastic and unique artist, and a world of hidden baroque discoveries from the Mariinsky Archive in St Petersburg, each track a world premiere recording.

Reviews

Christmas 2014

Bartoli's voice is wearing well, and she been recorded with sensitivity. Some of her faster passagework sounds a little rough around the edges, even fierce, but her technical skills are still remarkable, and in the best items her bel canto skills and refinements continue to impress.

11th October 2014

The music includes some cherishable finds and I Barocchisti under Diego Fasolis make ebullient companions. Bartoli herself is starting to sound stretched (the high register is almost semi-detached these days), but she remains agile, passionate, 100% committed.

November 2014

Anyone expecting...a diet of thin, phoned-in Neapolitan fare will be in for a surprise. There is rich music here, and dramatic too...Bartoli, as ever, is in complete technical command of this music, which in places is as challenging as you'll find at this period...The playing of I Barocchisti...is brilliant, surging, ardent.

9th October 2014

Bartoli hurls herself into these lost artefacts of the Russian baroque with every drop of her usual flair and a little more vibrato than before. There’s nothing pale-faced either about the musicians of Diego Fasolis’s group I Barocchisti; when her coloratura flights fuse with their racing strings it’s as if you’re spinning helplessly into a vortex.

Opera Now

Cecilia does it again! This is a really fascinating and delightful disc...played with brilliance and fire by Diego Fasolis and I Barocchisti and sung with undiminished style and (mostly) beauty.

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