Track Listing
1. La corona: Quel chiaro rio
2. La clemenza di Tito: Tremo fra' dubbi miei
3. La clemenza di Tito: Ah taci, barbaro...Come potesti, oh Dio
4. La clemenza di Tito: Se mai senti spirarti sul volto
5. Il Parnaso confuso: Di questa cetra in seno
6. Ezio: Misera, dove son!...Ah! non son io che parlo
7. La Semiramide riconosciuta: Ciascun siegua il suo stile... Maggior follia
8. Antigono: Berenice, che fai?...Perchè, se tanti siete
| Details | | Playing Time: | 68 min. | | Distributor: | Universal Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | DDD |
Album Notes
This selection won the 2001 Grammy Award for "Best Classical Vocal Performance."
This selection is also available as a Super Audio CD.
Cecilia Bartoli has well documented her interest and proficiency in the Baroque vocal repertoire with brilliant recordings of works by Handel, Pergolesi, Scarlatti, and Vivaldi. In the manner of her acclaimed disc of rare opera arias by Vivaldi, she continues her exploration of the period and dedicates this album to the little-known operatic works from the early career of Christoph Willibald Gluck. In fact, with the expert support of Bernhard Forck and the Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin, Bartoli includes six world premiere recordings on DREAMS & FABLES, offering valuable insight into Gluck's work prior to his move toward reform French opera.
Bartoli approaches these compositions with her customary fearlessness, dispatching the roulades and elaborate figurations with ease and grace. Never one to content herself with high-flying musical acrobatics, she follows the composer's aesthetic credo and displays great emotional range and intensity in conveying the dramatic power of the words of the poet Pietro Metastasio as well as the music to which they're set. DREAMS & FABLES is yet another tour de force for the superstar mezzo-soprano who deserves much praise for drawing attention to the neglected corners of the vocal repertory.
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