Browse: Sonia Prina (contralto)
This page lists all recordings performed by Sonia Prina.
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Vivaldi, Bononcini, Scarlatti, Legrenzi: Dolce Pupillo Sonia Prina (contralto), Luan Goes, Les Furiosi Galantes
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Handel: Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno, HWV46a RecommendedNatalie Dessay (Bellezza), Ann Hallenberg (Piacere), Sonia Prina (Disinganno), Pavol Breslik (Tempo)
Le Concert d’Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm
Beauty's final aria (sung by Natalie Dessay) is unconventionally slow and intensely moving, accompanied by obbligato violin possibly intended for Corelli who may have led the first performance.... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, May 2007, Disc of the month
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2008, Opera Award Winner
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It’s a disc full of fast-flying vocal runs, jagged leaps and show-off turns of phrase, also moments of reflection and starkly simple declamation prefiguring the mature Gluck. The period band... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2017, Opera Choice
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Opera, September 2017, Recording of the Month
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Handel: Rodelinda
Simone Kermes (Rodelinda), Marijana Mijanovic (Bertarido), Sonia Prina (Eduige), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (Unolfo), Steve Davislim (Grimoaldo), Vito Priante (Garibaldo)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
Of available recordings this set has the edge, for its greater dramatic urgency and richer characterisation. — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, September 2005, Editor's Choice
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Handel: Alcina
RecommendedJoyce DiDonato (Alcina), Maite Beaumont (Ruggiero), Karina Gauvin (Morgana), Sonia Prina (Bradamante), Kobie Van Rensburg (Oronte), Laura Cherici (Oberto), Vito Priante (Melisso)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
…mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato brings firebrand fioritura (vocal embellishment), impeccably naturalistic recitative and an inimitable everywoman pathos to the soprano title-role. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2009, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, May 2016, Also Recommended
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Monteverdi: L'Orfeo Ian Bostridge, Natalie Dessay, Patrizia Ciofi, Alice Coote, Sonia Prina, Mario Luperi, Véronique Gens, Lorenzo Regazzo, Christopher Maltman, Paul Agnew, Pascal Bertin, Richard Burkhard, Carolyn Sampson
Concert d'Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm
Haïm's terrific dramatic pace enables normally rather static moments to sparkle with purpose and intensity. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2004, Editor's Choice
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Gluck: Ezio RecommendedOriginal Prague version (1750)
Sonia Prina (Ezio), Max Emanuel Cencic (Valentiniano), Ann Hallenberg (Fulvia), Topi Lehtipuu (Massimo), Julian Pregardien (Varo), Mayuko Karasava (Onorio)
Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis
What it reveals may surprise listeners. Though couched in the classic opera seria mode of the time...it shows that, like Handel [Gluck] could imbue the traditional form with drama...the succession... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th September 2011
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Vivaldi: Dorilla in Tempe
RecommendedRomina Basso (Dorilla), Serena Malfi (Elmiro), Marina de Liso (Nomio), Lucia Cirillo (Filindo), Sonia Prina (Eudamia), Christian Senn (Admeto)
I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis
Fasolis and I Barocchisti deliver a ripe and zesty performance…In this new account there is dramatic tautness to recitatives…Elmiro’s energetic Neapolitan-style arias by Hasse and Leo are sung... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd December 2017
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Handel: Lucio Cornelio Silla, HWV10
Sonia Prina (Silla), Martina Belli (Claudio), Sunhae Im (Metella), Vivica Genaux (Lepido), Roberta Invernizzi (Flavia), Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli (Celia), Luca Tittoto (Il Dio)
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi
Genaux navigates tricky coloratura splendidly as Lepido, whose lover Flavia is sung eloquently by Roberta Invernizzi … Listeners might enjoy Biondi’s sheen of vitality. — More…
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