Cecilia Bartoli - Farinelli (2019) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

"Celebrating over three decades on the Decca Classics label, mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli releases a brand new album commemorating the life and career of the most famous opera singer of the eighteenth century: the castrato Farinelli. The record includes arias by Farinelli’s older brother Riccardo Broschi, and his teacher and mentor Nicola Porpora. It also features a new recording of ‘Alto Giove’ from Porpora’s Polifemo. Cecilia performs with the period ensemble Il Giardino Armonico and its conductor Giovanni Antonini, with whom she first collaborated on her Grammy award-winning Vivaldi album, and again on Sacrificium, her first castrati album from 2009 which also won the Grammy for Best Classical Vocal Performance. This new album focusses on the baroque audiences’ love of anti-realism and the fetishisation of “hermaphroditic” voices during this period, and this celebration of gender fluidity and its associated power dynamics has been brought to the fore for 21st century audiences by Bartoli for this new release."

Tracklist:
01. Nell' attendere mio bene (Ed. Sanderson)
02. Vaghi amori, grazie amate (Ed. Sanderson)
03. Morte col fiero aspetto (Ed. Wiesend)
04. Lontan dal solo e caro… Lusingato dalla speme (Ed. Sanderson)
05. Chi non sente al mio dolore
06. Come nave in ria tempesta
07. Mancare o Dio mi sento
08. Si, traditor tu sei
09. Questi al cor finora ignoti
10. Signor, la tua speranza… A Dio trono, impero a Dio (Ed. Wiesend)
11. Alto Giove (Ed. Sanderson)

Personnel:
Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano
Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini, conductor