Franco Fagioli: Handel Arias
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Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Cat No: 4797541
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 12th January 2018
Contents
Artists
Franco Fagioli (countertenor)Il Pomo d’Oro
Conductor
Zefira ValovaArtists
Franco Fagioli (countertenor)Il Pomo d’Oro
Conductor
Zefira ValovaAbout
Handel is unavoidably linked to Franco’s career and he brings a unique approach to the composer in this studio recording.
Franco has gained critical acclaim for his round, sensual and velvet mezzo-soprano like voice, and he is known to sing with virtuosic coloratura and emotional intensity.
He performs fourteen arias whilst exploring the wide range of emotions and affetti musicali that are typical of Baroque operas and of Handel’s vocal music in particular.
This album is also a happy re-encounter of a winning team: Franco is joined by the famous orchestra Il Pomo d’Oro, a dynamic Baroque orchestra with whom Franco had worked with in the past.
Contents:
1. Agitato
2. Frondi tenere
3. Ombra mai fu
4. Crude Furie
5. Cara sposa
6. Venti, turbini
7. Se potessero
8. Sento brillar
9. Pompe vane
10. Dove sei
11. Se in fiorito
12. Scherza infida
13. Dopo notte
14. Ch’io parta
Reviews
With his latest disc, Franco Fagioli returns to Handel for the first time as a recitalist since that early effort, and this time the results are arrestingly, uncompromisingly thrilling. ... while the coloratura thrills here are predictably spectacular, it’s the other elements – the new-found care and weight of the slower arias, the range of vocal brushstrokes throughout, the dramatic conviction – that hold the attention. ... All wire and wood, Il Pomo d’Oro (directed from the violin by Zefira Valova) are a natural foil to Fagioli’s richly upholstered voice. Playing the straight man, they temper his instinctive indulgence with dry, quick musical repartee. It’s a seriously classy double-act, a partnership that elevates an outstanding disc to one of the finest Handel recitals in a while. Alexandra Coghlan
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