Released: 10 November 2017
Reference: AP165
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Credits
Recorded by Little Tribeca at the Hôtel de L’Industrie in Paris in February 2017.
Artistic direction: Florent Ollivier
Sound engineering: Florent Ollivier assisted by Charles-Alexandre Englebert and Arthur Delzescaux
Editing and mixing: Florent Ollivier
Executive production: Little Tribeca and Opera Fuoco
Awards
Released: 10 November 2017
Reference: AP165
Berenice, che fai ?
Performers
- Léa Desandre
- Natalie Pérez
- Chantal Santon Jeffery
- Opéra Fuoco
- David Stern
Composers
- Antonio Mazzoni
- Franz-Joseph Haydn
- Johann Adolf Hasse
- Johann Christian Bach
- Mariana Martinez
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Description
Berenice, que fai… Or frantic Berenice. Metastasio’s heroin, facing a dilemma of love versus duty, inspired the great operatic composers such as Hasse, Haydn, Mozart such as one of their female peers, still unknown today, Marianna Martinez, contemporary and even neighboring some of them.
To interpret this colorful character, three singers and an orchestra: the mezzo Léa Desandre, rewarded at the Victoires de la Musique in 2017, the sopranos Natalie Perez and Chantal Santon-Jeffery, and the impetuous conductor David Stern at the head of his period instruments-ensemble, Opera Fuoco.
True actors, these musicians restore the theatrical dimension of these scores without sacrificing the sensitive and fragile aspect of the character. An emotional complexity, between exhilarating madness and more tragic pages, that we find in Hasse’s Sinfonia, from his opera Antigono and of which Opera Fuoco gives us a full version of panache.
In the press
Tracklist
Franz-Joseph Haydn · Scena di Berenice, Hob.XXIVa:10
1. Berenice, che fai recitativo
2. Non partir bell’idol mio aria
Johann Christian Bach · Catone in Utica
3. Confusa, smarrita (III, 2) aria
Mariana Martinez · Scena di Berenice
4. Berenice, che fai recitativo
5. Non partir bell’idol mio aria
Antonio Mazzoni · Antigono · Natalie Pérez
6. Berenice, che fai recitativo
7. Non partir bell’idol mio aria
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · A Berenice, K.70/61c· Chantal Santon-Jeffery
8. A Berenice recitativo
9. Sol nascente aria
Johann Adolf Hasse · Antigono
Sinfonia
10. Allegro di molto
11. Andantino
12. Allegro di molto
Scena di Berenice
13. Berenice, che fai recitativo
14. Non partir bell’idol mio aria
