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The Art of Cecilia Bartoli
Universal - #473380
rel. October 1, 2002

This CD is a kind of "Bartoli Retrospective" - bundled with a couple of nice surprises. It looks back at the young mezzo-soprano's meteoric career, spanning almost a decade-and-a-half, and gives the listener/fan a generous sampling of vocal treasures from her immensely popular recordings and sell-out performances.

Evident in the compilation is the singer's charisma - a composite of the colorful magic of her voice and her unique coloratura, her exquisite musicality, the natural warmth of her personality, and the contagious joie de vivre that infuses the practice of her art - indeed all the reasons that make her the most popular Italian (classical singer) of her generation. And there is no hiding Ms. Bartoli's passion for 18th century repertoire, of which she is among today's most avid and uncompromising champions: indeed, works by Handel (Rinaldo), Vivaldi (Dorilla in Tempe, Farnace, "Bajazet" from Il Tamerlano) , Gluck (Il Parnaso confuso, La clemenza di Tito), and Mozart (Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Die Zauberflöte) comprise 60% of the album, with bel canto making up the rest (Rossini: excerpts from La Cenerentola, Il barbiere di Siviglia, and Il Turco in Italia). As a bonus, the CD also contains previously unrecorded arias by Donizetti and Verdi, from works she has not performed on the operatic stage.

An album of this type is an invitation to the listener to explore and take delight in the music that makes Cecilia Bartoli tick. Given the singer's amazing ability to communicate with her audience, the first-time listener will no doubt ask for more, and this CD will have served its worthy purpose.

The music in background is from Rossini's La Cenerentola. It is her singing of the aria "Nacqui all'affanno...Non piu mesta" from which this clip is excerpted that first drew international attention to Ms. Bartoli.

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Scherzano sui tuo volto (Tr 2) from Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel performed with Daniel Daniels, countertenor and the Academy of Ancient Music - Christopher Hogwood, cond.

-from the album Rinaldo, Decca - #46708 		Dell'aura al sussurrar (Tr 3) from Dorilla in Tempe by Antonio Vivaldi, performed with the Arnold Schoenberg Chor

-from The Vivaldi Album, Decca - #466569 		Pa-Pa-Pa-Pa (Tr 12) from Die Zauberflöte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, performed with Bryn Terfel, bass-baritone and the Orchestra dell'Academia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Myung-Whun Chung, cond.

-from the album Cecilia & Bryn - Duets, Decca - #458928

An excerpt from one of the CD's "surprises" - from a never-before issued duet
The most popular Italian singer of her generation and the most popular Italian tenor of his generation
singing an aria from one of Giuseppe Verdi's most popular operas - Name that tune OR name that opera! And yes, name that tenor!
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