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OZartsreview |
| Australia's online independent specialist music review journal | |
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OZartsreview |
| Australia's online independent specialist music review journal | |
2001 |
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| Cecilia & Bryn Reviewed by Neville Cohn |
CECILIA BARTOLI (soprano),
BRYN TERFEL (baritone) & MYUNG-WHUN CHUNG (conductor) DECCA 458 928-2 |
| Bryn Terfel and Cecilia Bartoli have remarkable, indeed lustrous and well deserved, careers in a solo capacity. On DECCA, they bring their formidable - and delightful - talents to bear on duets by Mozart, Rossini and Donizetti. It's a compendium of vocal marvels, singing of such finesse and beauty as to be almost beyond criticism in the conventional sense. Each produces the sort of feel-good, wrap-around vocal sound that is as rare as it is wonderful. And as a duo, the two are frankly sensational, a glorious union of timbres. And it comes across strongly that they ENJOY what they are doing and are as one in their intepretative purpose; there is for much of the time an exultant quality about their singing - and it communicates strongly. If you take pleasure from listening to first rate singers at the height of their powers, this is the CD for you. Myung-Whun Chung does sterling work presiding over the Orchestra dell'Accademia Mazionale di Santa Cecilia. Seemingly inspired by such astonishing vocal artistry, they deliver first rate accompaniments. | |
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