Classic Vienna: Mozart, Gluck, Haydn | Sony 88985441842

Classic Vienna: Mozart, Gluck, Haydn

Label: Sony

Cat No: 88985441842

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 30th June 2017

Contents

Artists

Lena Belinka (mezzo-soprano)
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Andrea Sanguineti

Works

Gluck, Christoph Willibald

Armide
» Overture
Orfeo ed Euridice (Orpheus and Eurydice)
» Che puro ciel, che chiaro sol (Act 2)
Paride ed Elena
» O del mio dolce ardor (Act 1)

Haydn, Franz Joseph

Acide e Galatea, Hob.XXVIII:1
» Overture
L'isola disabitata (The Desert Island), Hob.XXVIII:9
» Se non piange un' infelice
Scena di Berenice, Hob.XXIVa:10

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Ch'io mi scordi di te ...Non temer, amato bene, K505
Cosi fan tutte, K588
» Overture
Idomeneo, Re di Creta, K366
» Il padre adorato
La clemenza di Tito, K621
» Parto, ma tu ben mio (Act 1)

Artists

Lena Belinka (mezzo-soprano)
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Andrea Sanguineti

About

For her second album, “Classic Vienna”, Lena Belkina has recorded the most famous representatives of Viennese Classicism, Mozart (1756–1791), Haydn (1732–1809) and Gluck (1714–1787), with the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Andrea Sanguinetti. Her Mozart selections include the aria “Parto, ma tu ben mio” from La clemenza di Tito, “Il padre adorato” from Idomeneo and the concert aria Ch'io mi scordi di te?. She sings Gluck’s arias “Che puro ciel” from Orfeo ed Euridice and “Oh, del mio dolce ardor” from Paride ed Elena as well as Haydn’s aria “Se non piange un’ infelice” from L’isola disabitata and his Scena di Berenice. The programme is rounded off with the overtures from Mozart’s Così fan tutte, Gluck’s Armide and Haydn’s Acide e Galatea.

Lena Belkina grew up on the Crimean peninsula & studied singing at the famous Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Kiev and at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy College in Leipzig. At the age of 21 she became an ensemble member of the Leipzig Opera House and then of the Vienna State Opera. In the meantime, she has become an international artist, whose shimmering voice, with a touch of Slavic melancholy, inspires audiences across the globe. Mezzo-soprano Lena Belkina’s first album garnered high praise: “She sings Desdemona’s ‘Willow Song’ from Rossini’s Otello with lyrical intensity... Nacqui all’affanno e al pianto” from La Cenerentola is sharp-witted and brilliant”, opined Das Opernglas, while WAZ (Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung) wrote: “The coloratura is splendidly placed whether she’s mobilizing Tudor fury (in Anna Bolena), questioning her heart in the Barber of Seville or letting the soul of ‘Tanti affetti’ (La donna del lago) overflow with elegant beauty.”

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