Duetti da Camera: Philippe Jaroussky & Max Emanuel Cencic

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What is startling in this recording is the power of initmacy, as entwining voices and instruments ensnare the listener...Jaroussky's sense of nuance is especially fine: he caresses words and... — BBC Music Magazine, January 2012, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 7th Nov 2011
Catalogue No: 0709432
Label: Erato
Length: 74 minutes

Bononcini, G B: Pietoso nume arcier

Work length7:40

$3.90

$5.10

Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Max Emanuel Cenčić (countertenor), Max Emmanuel Cencic (countertenor)
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie
Recorded: 2011-01-23
Recording Venue: 19,20,22,23 January 2011. Salle Colonne, Paris.

'Pietoso nume arcier'

Track length4:04

$1.30

$1.70

"Consolati Aldimira"

Track length1:10

$1.30

$1.70

"Se l'idolo che adoro"

Track length2:26

$1.30

$1.70

Mancini, F: Quanto mai saria più bello

Work length12:09

$3.90

$5.10

Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie
Recorded: 2011-01-23
Recording Venue: 19,20,22,23 January 2011. Salle Colonne, Paris.

"Quanto mai saria più bello"

Track length6:41

$1.30

$1.70

"Irene, che ne dici?"

Track length1:07

$1.30

$1.70

"La costanza nell'amore"

Track length4:21

$1.30

$1.70

Conti, F: Quando veggo un'usignolo

Work length8:26

$1.30

$1.70

Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Max Emanuel Cenčić (countertenor), Max Emmanuel Cencic (countertenor)
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie
Recorded: 2011-01-23
Recording Venue: 19,20,22,23 January 2011. Salle Colonne, Paris.

Bononcini, G B: Chi d'Amor tra le catene

Work length6:25

$2.60

$3.40

Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Max Emanuel Cenčić (countertenor), Max Emmanuel Cencic (countertenor)
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie
Recorded: 2011-01-23
Recording Venue: 19,20,22,23 January 2011. Salle Colonne, Paris.

"Chi d'amor"

Track length3:23

$1.30

$1.70

"Bella si ma crudel"

Track length3:02

$1.30

$1.70

Porpora: Ecco che il primo albore

Work length10:22

$6.50

$8.50

Max Emanuel Cenčić (countertenor), Max Emmanuel Cencic (countertenor)
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie
Recorded: 2011-01-23
Recording Venue: 19,20,22,23 January 2011. Salle Colonne, Paris.

Sinfonia

Track length1:31

$1.30

$1.70

"Ecco che il primo albore"

Track length0:40

$1.30

$1.70

"La pecorella contenta"

Track length4:39

$1.30

$1.70

"Pastor gentil"

Track length0:31

$1.30

$1.70

"Se andrà senza il Pastore"

Track length3:01

$1.30

$1.70

Bendetto Marcello: Chiaro e limpido fonte

Work length19:25

$10.40

$13.60

Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Max Emanuel Cenčić (countertenor), Max Emmanuel Cencic (countertenor)
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie
Recorded: 2011-01-23
Recording Venue: 19,20,22,23 January 2011. Salle Colonne, Paris.

"Chiaro, e limpido fonte"

Track length0:58

$1.30

$1.70

"Al partir della fronte serena"

Track length2:25

$1.30

$1.70

"Voi pur leggiere aurette"

Track length0:40

$1.30

$1.70

"Un solo respiro"

Track length3:32

$1.30

$1.70

"Mirtillo, a che si cerca"

Track length1:48

$1.30

$1.70

"Dunque voi cristalli erranti"

Track length5:06

$1.30

$1.70

"Mà, che pianger Mirtillo?"

Track length2:03

$1.30

$1.70

"La nobile luce"

Track length2:53

$1.30

$1.70

Marcello, B: Tirsi e Fileno: "Veggio Fille / Parlo a Clori"

Work length7:00

$1.30

$1.70

Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Max Emanuel Cenčić (countertenor)
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie
Recorded: 2011-01-23
Recording Venue: 19,20,22,23 January 2011. Salle Colonne, Paris.

Scarlatti, A: Scarlatti, A: "Nel cor del cor mio"

Work length2:40

$1.30

$1.70

Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Max Emanuel Cenčić (countertenor)
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie
Recorded: 2011-01-23
Recording Venue: 19,20,22,23 January 2011. Salle Colonne, Paris.

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Recording of the Week, Duetti da Camera: Philippe Jaroussky & Max Emanuel Cencic

21st November 2011

Two of today’s leading countertenors join forces with veteran baroque specialist William Christie for a programme of non-operatic secular duets by composers including Porpora, Mancini, Bononcini, Marcello, Conti, and Alessandro Scarlatti.

Two star countertenors, Philippe Jaroussky and Max Emanuel Cencic, join William Christie and Les Arts Florissants, for a programme of chamber-scale duets and arias by Italian composers of the early 18th century. As Jaroussky says, these are “duets of great beauty, where the two voices entwine in a way that is sometimes very sophisticated, but also very sensual.”

The contrasting and complementary talents of two star countertenors, Philippe Jaroussky and Max Emanuel Cencic, come to the fore in this programme of chamber-scale duets and arias by Italian composers of the early 18th century: Porpora, Mancini, Bononcini, Marcello, Conti and Alessandro Scarlatti. Two instrumental items by Corelli are also included in this richly filled programme, based on concerts presented by Jaroussky, Cencic and Les Arts Florissants under William Christie’s direction in France and Spain in early 2011.

Both countertenors are virtuosic performers, but Jaroussky is especially famed for the gracefulness of his vocalism, whether in brilliant castrato arias or his Virgin Classics album of belle époque song, Opium, while Cencic favours a more assertive and athletic style, which served him well in his breathtaking recital of Rossini arias for Virgin Classics.

Reviews

January 2012

What is startling in this recording is the power of initmacy, as entwining voices and instruments ensnare the listener...Jaroussky's sense of nuance is especially fine: he caresses words and gestures with a painterly delicacy...when singing with Jaroussky, Cencic allows their vocal timbres to blend gorgeously...Above all, the artists collectively adhere to the sine qua non of performing this repertory: seeming effortlessness.

January 2012

Each singer brings his own individual vocal and expresive qualities to the fore in a solo cantata: Jaroussky is sweetly beguiling in Francesco Mancini's 'Quanto mai saro piu bello'...whereas Cencic's theatrical talent for gutsier declamatory coloratura takes centre stage in Porpora's 'Ecco che il primo albore'. The intuitive duet-singing works charmingly, not least becuase the adaptable Cencic sings intimately and softly in order to match Jaroussky's gentler timbre.

February 2012

how well Cencic and Jaroussky work together...Their respective abilities in producing their tone and dispatching it through the intricate music are on a par with each other. The five instrumentalists...make attractive sounds, adding to the pleasure given by the singers.

12th January 2012

the contrast between the two is wonderfully exploited in the duets by Bononcini and the cantatas by Conti, Marcello and Alessandro Scarlatti, in which Cencic calibrates his naturally more powerful sound to balance the dimensions of Jaroussky's voice. Christie, it almost goes without saying, organises perfectly judged accompaniments

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