Cecilia Bartoli, András Schiff - Italian Songs: Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, Haydn (1993)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 258 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 175 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: Decca | # 440 297-2 | Time: 01:07:59
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 258 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 175 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: Decca | # 440 297-2 | Time: 01:07:59
This was to be the end of the line for Italian word-setting by Viennese composers: once the confident sentiments that belonged to the poet Metastasio's opera seria felt the chill and threatening wind of Enlightenment and Revolution, their time was up. Even we, for the most part, prefer to remember the German-speaking Beethoven, Schubert and Haydn. So it is good to be reminded of their responses to the Italian muse (usually as part of their craft-learning student work) in this particularly well-cast recital. Central Europe, in the person of Andras Schiff meets Italy, in Cecilia Bartoli, to delightful, often revelatory effect.