Lamento: Romina Basso

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The declamatory idiom requires an actor as much as a singer, and Romina Basso certainly fits the bill. She weeps, sighs, rages and pleads, wringing high drama from these emotive texts - a veritable... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2014, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 30th Jun 2014
Catalogue No: V5390
Label: Naive
Length: 64 minutes

Rossi, Luigi: Toccata seconda arpeggiata - Lamento della Regina de Svezia

Work length13:32

$3.00

$3.85

Romina Basso (mezzo-soprano)
Latinitas Nostra
Recorded: February 2010
Recording Venue: Cultural Centre Philadelphia, Athens, Greece

Carissimi: Lamento in morte di Maria Stuarda

Work length11:28

$3.00

$3.85

Romina Basso (mezzo-soprano)
Latinitas Nostra
Recorded: February 2010
Recording Venue: Cultural Centre Philadelphia, Athens, Greece

Strozzi: Diporti di Euterpe Op. 7

Work length12:38

$3.00

$3.85

Romina Basso (mezzo-soprano)
Latinitas Nostra
Recorded: February 2010
Recording Venue: Cultural Centre Philadelphia, Athens, Greece

Diporti di Euterpe, Op. 7: Lagrime mie

Track length12:38

$3.00

$3.85

Monteverdi: Capriccio di Durezze - Lamento d'Arianna

Work length11:23

$3.00

$3.85

Romina Basso (mezzo-soprano)
Latinitas Nostra
Recorded: February 2010
Recording Venue: Cultural Centre Philadelphia, Athens, Greece

Provenzale: Squarciato appena havea

Work length15:32

$4.00

$5.15

Romina Basso (mezzo-soprano)
Latinitas Nostra
Recorded: February 2010
Recording Venue: Cultural Centre Philadelphia, Athens, Greece

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This is the first solo recital recording of mezzo soprano Romina Basso, yet currently one of the most busy and outstanding baroque specialists. Recorded in Athens with the Greek musicians of the Latinitas Notra ensemble and led by Markellos Chryssicos, this striking record offers incandescent and special performances of Italian baroque masterpieces that feature among the most heart-rending, including: Monteverdi’s 'Lamento d’Arianna', Rossi’s 'Lamento della regina di Svezia' and Strozzi’s 'Lagrime mie'.

Romina Basso studied with Peter Maag, Regina Resnik, Rockwell Blake and Claudio Desderi, specialising in Baroque repertory and Rossini. She won prizes at national and international competitions including Plácido Domingo’s Operalia. She regularly collaborates with orchestras and ensembles such as Accademia Bizantina, Concerto Italiano, Il Complesso Barocco, Cappella della Pietà de’ Turchini, Le Concert des Nations, Europa Galante, Ensemble 415, Ensemble Matheus, Les Arts Florissants, Les Musiciens du Louvre, The King’s Consort, Modo Antiquo, the Ricercar Consort, the OAE, the Accademia of Santa Cecilia Orchestra and the Venice Baroque Orchestra. Romina Basso’s discography (on several different labels) includes Galuppi’s 'L’Olimpiade' (DVD); sacred music by Jommelli and Galuppi; Scarlatti’s 'Carlo, re d’Alemagna'; Handel’s ‘Carmelite Vespers’, Italian cantatas, 'Tolomeo' and 'Berenice'; Vivaldi’s 'Montezuma', 'Ercole sul Termodonte', and 'Oracolo in Messenia'. For Naïve, she has recorded Vivaldi’s 'Atenaide', 'Armida', 'Orlando furioso' (DVD), 'Orlando' 1714, 'Catone in Utica', and ‘New Discoveries’, the pasticcio 'L’Olimpiade' and Handel’s 'Giulio Cesare'.

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September 2014

The declamatory idiom requires an actor as much as a singer, and Romina Basso certainly fits the bill. She weeps, sighs, rages and pleads, wringing high drama from these emotive texts - a veritable Maria Callas of Baroque music.

December 2014

Basso sings with emotional virtuosity in an intensely plangent performance [of the Strozzi].

February 2015

This repertoire is irresistible

26th June 2014

Among the greatest of all baroque interpreters, Basso is breathtakingly expressive and persuasive...Exceptional.

Lamento: Romina Basso

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