Mirrors

Her impressive breath control so often draws us in to the continuity of the melodic lines (Handel’s ‘Se pietà’), and her vocal acrobatics are bright and dynamically flexible…this is a terrific... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2022, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 19th Nov 2021
Catalogue No: 0302017BC
Label: Berlin Classics
Length: 67 minutes

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Graun, C H: Tra le procelle assorto (from Cleopatra e Cesare)

Work length7:17

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Jeanine De Bique (soprano)
Concerto Köln
Luca Quintavalle

Handel: Che sento?...Se pietà di me non senti (from Giulio Cesare)

Work length9:52

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Jeanine De Bique (soprano)
Concerto Köln
Luca Quintavalle

Che sento? Oh Dio!

Track length1:10

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Se pietà di me non senti

Track length8:42

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Handel: L'alma mia fra le tempeste (from Agrippina)

Work length2:44

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Jeanine De Bique (soprano)
Concerto Köln
Luca Quintavalle

Telemann: Rimembranza crudel (from Germanicus)

Work length6:09

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Jeanine De Bique (soprano)
Concerto Köln
Luca Quintavalle

Excerpt, Handel: Partenope, HWV 27

Work length6:05

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Concerto Köln
Luca Quintavalle

Overture

Track length6:05

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Handel: Ritorna, caro e dolce mio tesoro (from Rodelinda)

Work length4:59

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Jeanine De Bique (soprano)
Concerto Köln
Luca Quintavalle

Graun, C H: L'empio rigor del fato (from Rodelinda)

Work length5:48

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Jeanine De Bique (soprano)
Concerto Köln
Luca Quintavalle

Handel: M'ai resa infelice (from Deidamia)

Work length3:59

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Jeanine De Bique (soprano)
Concerto Köln
Luca Quintavalle

Manna: Chi può dir che rea son io (from Achille in Sciro)

Work length6:40

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Jeanine De Bique (soprano)
Concerto Köln
Luca Quintavalle

Vinci, Leonardo: La Rosmira fedele (Partenope)

Work length3:34

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Concerto Köln
Luca Quintavalle

Sinfonia

Track length3:34

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Handel: Mi restano le lagrime (from Alcina)

Work length6:28

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Jeanine De Bique (soprano)
Concerto Köln
Luca Quintavalle

Broschi, R: Mi restano le lagrime (from L'isola d'Alcina)

Work length4:14

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Jeanine De Bique (soprano)
Concerto Köln
Luca Quintavalle

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Interview, Jeanine De Bique on Mirrors

14th December 2021

The Trinidadian soprano talks to Katherine about her debut solo recording, juxtaposing a series of Handel heroines against their counterparts in operas by Telemann, Manna, Broschi and Graun.

With rich texture and bold femininity, Jeanine De Bique releases her debut album “Mirrors” on October 22, 2021 on Berlin Classics! De Bique is accompanied by the renowned baroque orchestra Concerto Köln, with musical direction by Luca Quintavalle. The album focuses on baroque arias and includes three world premiere recordings composed by George Frideric Handel and his contemporaries Carl Heinrich Graun, Riccardo Broschi and Georg Philipp Telemann complete the program.

The female protagonists are central to the album’s title and concept. “Mirrors” is the profound intimacy of Handel arias explored and juxtaposed with unknown arias of the same characters from the music of his contemporaries. Yannis François, concept creator for the album explains: “The listeners can experience different reflections of the same character as if they were looking at themselves through a broken mirror.”

The arias tell of key moments in the psychological development of the protagonists, illuminate the diversity of the female experience and the relatable perspectives of their lives.

These characters who, despite strokes of fate, are ultimately rewarded for their tenacity, strength, forgiveness and love. Aroused with awe and compassion, De Bique recognizes the unique opportunity to celebrate the diversity of the female experience, using her multicultural background of Trinidad and Tobago. She identifies as a new voice, not only of these familiar characters, but also for women who are still trying to find spaces to free and reclaim their voices.

Mirrors explores human relationships in a musically rousing way, allowing the listener to feel exuberance, surprise and delight, discover new music and enjoy the familiar.

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March 2022

Her impressive breath control so often draws us in to the continuity of the melodic lines (Handel’s ‘Se pietà’), and her vocal acrobatics are bright and dynamically flexible…this is a terrific debut ably supported by some stylish instrumental playing.

February 2022

A wonderfully made programme that turns both its musicological mining and its high-powered performances to sheer pleasure.

March 2022

The voice itself really is of quite glorious quality, with a lustrous, slightly viscous liquidity that does not preclude extreme agility in bravura arias...make no mistake, this is a genuinely thrilling talent.

November 2021

De Bique exudes a sheer joy in singing that will take your breath away. Her ornamentation (particularly in Handel's 'L'alma mia fra le tempeste') is dazzling stuff, and she evidently relishes Graun's sometimes unpredictable flights of coloratura fancy.

9th December 2021

an enormously promising debut…The fast arias will strike you first: De Bique is dazzling, cartwheeling through all the notes with buoyant clarity, spurred on by Concerto Köln and its director Luca Quintavalle. But she makes beautiful work of the slow numbers too, spinning out long lines on a silvery thread of voice

3rd December 2021

the most immediately dazzling aspect of Jeanine De Bique’s singing is her articulation. No matter how fast the semi-quavers fly – and they’re frequent flyers in the baroque repertoire she's chosen – each note is crisply chiselled and secure. No smudging or fudging. The effect is electrifying, galvanising the music’s rhythms; enlivening the listener’s heartbeat, too…a roaring triumph for a singer of great and growing gifts.

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