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Tempesta
NICOLA PORPORA
1.
Carlo il calvo, HelN 38
6:44
Solo: Blandine Staskiewicz Soloist
Conductor: Alexis Kossenko Conductor
ANTONIO VIVALDI
2.
Andromeda liberata, RV Anh. 117
9:24
Solo: Blandine Staskiewicz Soloist
Solo: Zefira Valova Soloist
Conductor: Alexis Kossenko Conductor
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Agrippina, HWV 6
3.
Sinfonia
3:27
4.
Pensieri voi mi tormentate
4:35
Solo: Blandine Staskiewicz Soloist
Solo: Gilles Vanssons Soloist
Conductor: Alexis Kossenko Conductor
GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI
5.
Adriano in Siria, P. 140
6:57
Solo: Blandine Staskiewicz Soloist
Conductor: Alexis Kossenko Conductor
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
6.
Radamisto, HWV 12
2:43
Solo: Blandine Staskiewicz Soloist
Conductor: Alexis Kossenko Conductor
7.
Alessandro, HWV 21
5:57
Solo: Blandine Staskiewicz Soloist
Conductor: Alexis Kossenko Conductor
8.
Serse, HWV 40
3:56
Solo: Blandine Staskiewicz Soloist
Conductor: Alexis Kossenko Conductor
ANTONIO VIVALDI
9.
La verità in cimento, RV 739
4:03
Solo: Blandine Staskiewicz Soloist
Solo: Alexis Kossenko Soloist
10.
Griselda, RV 718
5:46
Solo: Blandine Staskiewicz Soloist
Conductor: Alexis Kossenko Conductor
L'olimpiade, RV 725, Sinfonia
11.
I. Allegro
2:07
12.
II. Andante
2:26
Solo: Les Ambassadeurs Orchestra
Conductor: Alexis Kossenko Conductor
13.
L'Olimpiade, RV 725
6:33
Solo: Blandine Staskiewicz Soloist
Conductor: Alexis Kossenko Conductor
Orchestra: Les Ambassadeurs Orchestra
Notes
With Tempesta, her first recital disc, mezzo-soprano Blandine Staskiewicz has chosen to venture into the emotional storms and calms beloved of Baroque composers – notably Vivaldi and Handel – which provided their operatic arias with that intense charge that captivates listeners still. As befits one raised on the tranquil – yet at times tempestuous – Belle-Île-en-Mer, lying off the Brittany coast, Staskiewicz is able to portray a fabulous array of moods to match her vocal beauty.
If the Neapolitans Nicola Porpora and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi are each represented on this disc by a single burst of concentrated dramatic feeling, it is to the fiery and tempestuous music of Vivaldi and the more psychological and interiorized offerings of Handel that Blandine Staskiewicz directs her attention in these arie di tempesta. Staskiewicz’s control of the depths and heights of the soul are matched by the instrumental accompaniment from Les Ambassadeurs and its director Alexis Kossenko.
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Reviews
" Alexis Kossenko and his orchestra Les Ambassadeurs offering superb value as always. ’Spesso di nubi cinto’ from Porpora’s Carlo il Calvo launches proceedings thrillingly, with imaginative orchestral phrasing allied to Staskiewicz’s impressively precise and limpidly shaped coloratura, and there’s more virtuoso volatility in ’Torbido in volto’ from Pergolesi’s Adriano in Siria the nuance vibrancy from Staskiewicz and Les Ambassadeurs in the tempestuous ’Sian navi all’onde algenti’ from Vivaldi’s Olimpiade is irresistable.
David Vickers - Gramophone magazine - July 2015
**** (Recommended)
Sophie Roughol - Diapason magazine (France) - May 2015
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