Pumeza: Arias

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Matshikiza’s fresh, even, iridescent tone is ideally weighted for Puccini’s Mimi and Liù…Rusalka’s Song to the Moon is glorious…[and she delivers] a gravely beautiful ‘When I am laid in earth’. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2016, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 6th May 2016
Catalogue No: 4788964
Label: Decca
Length: 52 minutes

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Puccini: La Bohème: Act 1

Work length4:39

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Pumeza Matshikiza (soprano)
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra
Tobias Ringborg
Recorded: 2015-06-09
Recording Venue: Musikhuset, Aarhus

"Sì. Mi chiamano Mimì"

Track length4:39

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Catalani: La Wally / Act 1

Work length3:37

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Pumeza Matshikiza (soprano)
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra
Tobias Ringborg
Recorded: 2015-06-09
Recording Venue: Musikhuset, Aarhus

"Ebben? Ne andrò lontana"

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Excerpt, Puccini: Suor Angelica

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Pumeza Matshikiza (soprano)
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra
Tobias Ringborg
Recorded: 2015-06-09
Recording Venue: Musikhuset, Aarhus

"Senza mamma, o bimbo, tu sei morto"

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Dvořák: Rusalka, Op.114, B. 203 / Act 1

Work length5:41

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Pumeza Matshikiza (soprano)
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra
Tobias Ringborg
Recorded: 2015-06-09
Recording Venue: Musikhuset, Aarhus

Song to the Moon

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Puccini: Turandot / Act 3

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Pumeza Matshikiza (soprano)
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra
Tobias Ringborg
Recorded: 2015-06-09
Recording Venue: Musikhuset, Aarhus

"Tu che di gel sei cinta"

Track length2:49

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Excerpt, Ravel: L'heure Espagnole

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Pumeza Matshikiza (soprano)
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra
Tobias Ringborg
Recorded: 2015-06-09
Recording Venue: Musikhuset, Aarhus

"Oh! la pitoyable aventure!"

Track length2:45

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Yradier: La Paloma

Work length3:32

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Pumeza Matshikiza (soprano)
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra
Tobias Ringborg
Recorded: 2015-06-09
Recording Venue: Musikhuset, Aarhus

Excerpt, Montsalvatge: Canciones negras (5)

Work length1:52

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Pumeza Matshikiza (soprano)
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra
Tobias Ringborg
Recorded: 2015-06-09
Recording Venue: Musikhuset, Aarhus

Punto de habanera

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Tosti: Si tu le voulais

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Pumeza Matshikiza (soprano)
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra
Tobias Ringborg
Recorded: 2015-06-09
Recording Venue: Musikhuset, Aarhus

Fauré: Après un rêve, Op. 7 No. 1

Work length3:16

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Pumeza Matshikiza (soprano)
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra
Tobias Ringborg
Recorded: 2015-06-09
Recording Venue: Musikhuset, Aarhus

Hahn, R: A Chloris

Work length2:56

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Pumeza Matshikiza (soprano)
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra
Tobias Ringborg
Recorded: 2015-06-09
Recording Venue: Musikhuset, Aarhus

Sarti: Lungi dal caro bene (from Le gelosie villane)

Work length3:24

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Pumeza Matshikiza (soprano)
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra
Tobias Ringborg
Recorded: 2015-06-09
Recording Venue: Musikhuset, Aarhus

Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K.492 / Act 3

Work length4:09

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Pumeza Matshikiza (soprano)
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra
Tobias Ringborg
Recorded: 2015-06-09
Recording Venue: Musikhuset, Aarhus

"Giunse alfin il momento"

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"Deh vieni non tardar"

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Excerpt, Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice

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Pumeza Matshikiza (soprano)
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra
Tobias Ringborg
Recorded: 2015-06-09
Recording Venue: Musikhuset, Aarhus

"Che fiero momento"

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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z.626 / Act 3

Work length3:50

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Pumeza Matshikiza (soprano)
Aarhus Symphony Orchestra
Tobias Ringborg
Recorded: 2015-06-09
Recording Venue: Musikhuset, Aarhus

When I Am Laid In Earth

Track length3:50

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Pumeza’s second album ARIAS is a collection of many of the great opera roles in which Pumeza has blossomed: Mimì in La Boheme; Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro; Liù in Turandot; Dido in Dido & Aeneas; Concepcion in L’heure espagnole together with such operatic greatest hits as ‘The Song to the Moon’ from Rusalka and ‘Ebben, ne andro lontano’ from La Wally.

The album also features new arrangements of art songs such as Faure’s ‘Après un rêve’ and Reynaldo Hahn’s A Chloris as well as a Rosa Ponselle favourite, Tosti’s ‘Si tu le voulais’

Also included are arrangements of Sarti’s famous aria ‘Lungi del caro bene’ made by DECCA for Renata Tebaldi in the 1970s and recorded here for the first time since then and an arrangement of the classic song ‘La Paloma’ originally made for Victoria de los Angeles.

Reviews

September 2016

Matshikiza’s fresh, even, iridescent tone is ideally weighted for Puccini’s Mimi and Liù…Rusalka’s Song to the Moon is glorious…[and she delivers] a gravely beautiful ‘When I am laid in earth’.

June 2016

You would have to be a wally not to be moved by [Matshikiza's] Wally, whose ‘Ebben?...Ne andro lontana’ is delivered with simplicity and sincerity (listen to the wistful frailty of ‘O della madre mia casa gioconda’). Here, her natural ardour, the coppery sheen to her voice and its slightly covered top notes all come off well.

September 2016

Rusalka’s Song to the Moon suits her lyric soprano nicely, though she finds a particular richness of tone lower down to offset her higher register. Her Italian is crisp everywhere in Susanna’s ‘Deh vieni non tardar’ but she attacks the recitative with particular relish. Her instrument sounds well throughout the wide range needed for Euridice’s ‘Che fiero momento’ from Gluck’s opera and she closes the disc with conviction, seeking out the emotional heart of Dido’s Lament.

8th May 2016

The verismo arias — Mimi’s entrance number; Ebben? Ne andro lontana, from La Wally; Suor Angelica’s Senza mamma — reveal one of the most luscious sounds we’ve heard from a young soprano in years, and she sings words!

15th May 2016

[Matshikiza] has versatility, range and huge personality. Her voice is rich without heaviness, capable of teasing lightness and flexibility, as the selection here demonstrates.

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