Alessandro Scarlatti: Con eco d'amore

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As her career has progressed, Watts hasn't lost the ability to get to the heart of an aria and peel back the layers…there's scintillating playing from The English Concert, including a dashing... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2015 More…

Release Date: 2nd Oct 2015
Catalogue No: HMU807574
Label: Harmonia Mundi
Length: 71 minutes

Gramophone Magazine

October 2015

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Scarlatti, A: Griselda: Figlio! Tiranno! O Dio!

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Scarlatti, A: Endimione e Cintia: Aria "Se geloso è il mio core"

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Scarlatti, A: Non so qual più m’ingombra: Aria "Nacque, col Gran Messia"

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Scarlatti, A: Eraclea: Aria "A questo nuovo affanno"

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Scarlatti, A: La Santissima Vergine del Rosario: Aria "Mentr'io godo in dolce oblio"

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Scarlatti, A: Correa Nel Seno Amato: Aria "Ombre opache"

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Scarlatti, A: Erminia: Recitativo "Qui, dove al germogliar"

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Scarlatti, A: Erminia: Aria "Torbido, irato, e nero"

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Scarlatti, A: Aria "Con voce festiva"

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Scarlatti, A: Mitridate Eupatore: Recitativo "O vane speme!" - Aria "Cara tomba del mio diletto"

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Scarlatti, A: Tigrane: Aria "Sussurrando il venticello"

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Scarlatti, A: Scipione nelle Spagne: Aria "Ergiti, Amor, su i vanni"

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Scarlatti, A: Mitridate Eupatore: Aria "Esci omai"

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Scarlatti, A: Mitridate Eupatore: Aria "Dolce stimolo al tuo bel cor"

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Scarlatti, A: Venere, Amore e Ragione: Aria "D'amor l'accesa face"

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Scarlatti, A: La Statira: Aria "Io non son di quei campioni"

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Scarlatti, A: A battaglia, pensieri: Sinfonia - Aria "A battaglia, pensieri"

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With a voice described as "one of the most beautiful Britain has seen in a generation" (IRR), Elizabeth Watts has established herself among the brightest talents performing today. After training as a chorister at Norwich Cathedral, Elizabeth went on to study archaeology at Sheffield University before attending the Royal College of Music in London.

Her many prizes include the 2006 Kathleen Ferrier Prize (UK), the 2007 Outstanding Young Artist Award at the Cannes MIDEM Classique Awards and the Rosenblatt Recital Song Prize at the 2007 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition. A former ‘BBC New Generation Artist’, she received a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award in 2011 and this recording is supported by the Trust. Her critically praised debut recording of Schubert Lieder was followed by an equally acclaimed disc of Bach Cantatas (harmonia mundi), a programme of Richard Strauss Lieder with Roger Vignoles, and a recording of Bach’s St Matthew Passion with the Academy of Ancient Music led by Richard Egarr.

In this selection of rarely heard Alessandro [rather than Domenico] Scarlatti arias from his cantatas, oratorios and operas, she is joined by the acclaimed period instrument ensemble The English Concert led by Laurence Cummings. Elizabeth is currently recording Couperin's 'Lecons de Tenebres' with Lucy Crowe and La Nuova Musica for harmonia mundi.

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December 2015

As her career has progressed, Watts hasn't lost the ability to get to the heart of an aria and peel back the layers…there's scintillating playing from The English Concert, including a dashing obbilgato solo by violinist Huw Daniel in 'Esci omai'.

CD Review 12th December 2015

it’s amazing, tightrope walking stuff there; the fact that she can control her vibrato and actually distinguish between a trill and that vibrato and some of those high notes; the sheer tone quality is astonishing, and the way she’s managing to blend with the trumpet; this is a contest without an obvious winner, and that’s very much in the recording’s favour.

October 2015

The music is fascinating, often revelatory, the playing of The English Concert first-rate (Laurence Cummings always has a precise ear for texture and colour), while the mingled grace, brilliance and expressive intensity of Watt’s singing could hardly be bettered.

11th October 2015

Here given new life with the invigorating English Concert, skittering firework displays alternate with soulful contemplation in a programme full of surprises.

8th October 2015

Golden-voiced soprano Elizabeth Watts has spent the past few years unearthing neglected arias by Alessandro Scarlatti...Watts just about gets away with the spectacular pyrotechnics but is most affecting when Scarlatti takes his foot off the accelerator.

Opera Now October 2015

this is exciting music, revealing an enormous range of colour and emotions through both scoring and vocal line. Watts grabs every opportunity with a voice of perfect weight, pliancy and line, offering a solid middle balanced with an exciting top.

26th December 2015

Watts and director Laurence Cummings give us a dazzling sequence of numbers. Her voice is thrilling at full pelt: brassy enough to make your windows rattle, but sensitive and seductive in the quieter moments. There’s some glorious, athletic trumpet playing from Mark Bennett, and the whole anthology fizzes with theatrical energy.

Classical Ear 22nd February 2016

Trumpeter Mark Bennett joins the singer occasionally, most effectively in the martial A battaglia, where soprano and brass battle it out for the virtuoso honours, while violinist Huw Daniel also vies for attention in an extended sequence from the serious opera Mitridate. But the album, of course, belongs to Watts, who receives nothing but the most sympathetic support from Laurence Cummings and The English Concert.

Alessandro Scarlatti: Con eco d'amore

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