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The German soprano Anna Prohaska joins Alpha Classics for several recording projects. Her first recital brings together two superb African queens – Dido and Cleopatra – and follows them all over Europe during the first century of opera, from the 1640s to 1740. A firework display of arias, virtuosic and tragic by turns, written by the leading personalities of Baroque music (Cavalli, Handel, Purcell, Hasse) and composers still awaiting rediscovery suchas Sartorio, Graupner and the Venetian Castrovillari. For this programme built like a tragedy around the queens of Egypt and Carthage, whom she interprets with the passion and fervour that have made her reputation, Anna Prohaska is accompanied by one of today’s finest Baroque ensembles, Il Giardino Armonico; under the inspired guidance of their director Giovanni Antonini (who is also a dazzling recorder soloist in some of the arias), they keep us on the edge of our seats from start to finish.
A top star in Germany, Anna Prohaska also sings on the world’s leading operatic stages, from La Scala to Covent Garden by way of Aix-en-Provence and Salzburg.
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Reviews
Recital Category - Nomination
Gramophone Music Awards 2017
"...The performances by Prohaska are clear and precise. Her bell-like tones are perfectly suited to this wide range of emotions, raging fitfully when anger or arrogance is called for but introspective when the emotions are more downcast, The accompaniment by Il Giardino Armonico is crisp and clean, with excellent tempos and a finely tuned sense of ensemble. In short, this is one great disc that fits the two heroines well, showing their multiple personal sides as recreated by the various composers of the time."
Bertil van Boer - Fanfare - March/April 2017
Winner of Best Baroque Vocal Recording of the Year
ICMA Awards 2017
***** (Exceptional Album)
Giovanni Vitali - Musica magazine (Italy) - November 2016/December 2017
**** (Excellent Disc) *** (Good Sound)
Jérémie Bigorie - Classica magazine (France) - October 2016
"... Prohaska's voice is at its most striking in its upper registers, where her tone has an appealing lustre and her coloratura flows with wonderful liquidity... Antonini contributes some exquisite flute and record obbligatos, and the orchestral playing has great fluency and charm throughout..."
Tim Ashley - Gramophone magazine - October 2016
Performance **** Recording *****
"... fascinating and often bewitching disc."
Anna Picard - BBC Music magazine - November 2016
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