Anime Immortali (Immortal Souls)

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Anime Immortali (Immortal Souls)

Label Pentatone

Artists Franco Fagioli, Kammerorchester Basel, Daniel Bard

€29,99 EUR

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Counter Tenor Franco Fagioli makes his Pentatone debut with Anime Immortali (Immortal Souls), together with the Kammerorchester Basel conducted by Daniel Bard. The album explores the music that Mozart composed for castratos. Ranging from opera to sacred music and culminating in Exsultate, jubilate, the recorded works share a sublime and profound character, demonstrating Mozart’s strong connection to the castrato voice. With this album, Fagioli finally returns to the composer that inflamed his desire to become a musician during his youth. Special thanks to Freundeskreis Kammerorchester Basel & Clariant Foundation for the generous support of the album production. Immortal Souls is exclusively available in Stereo DSD 512, DSD 256, DSD 128, DSD 64 and DXD at NativeDSD. It is also available in Stereo FLAC 24/192 and FLAC 24/96. This is a Stereo DSD Exclusive, Not Available on SACD release. Franco Fagioli, Counter Tenor Kammerorchester Basel Daniel Bard, Concert Master

Tracklist

Total time: 47:10

1. La finta giardiniera, K. 196 - Se l'augellin sen fugge

04:19

2. Lucio Silla, K. 135 - Ah se a morir mi chiama

07:09

3. La Finta giardiniera, K. 196 - E giunge a questo segno

00:35

4. La Finta giardiniera, K. 196 - Va pure ad altri in braccio

03:15

5. Davide penitente, K. 469 - Lungi le cure ingrate

04:55

6. La clemenza di Tito, K. 621 - Parto, parto, ma tu, ben mio

06:45

7. La clemenza di Tito, K. 621 - Deh per questo istante solo

06:52

8. Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165 - 1. Exsultate, Jubilate

04:24

9. Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165 - 2. Fulget Amica Dies

00:44

10. Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165 - 3. Virginum Corona

05:42

11. Exsultate, jubilate, K. 165 - 4. Alleluja

02:30

Additional Information

Label

Pentatone

SKU

PTC5187044

Qualities

DSD 512, DXD 24 Bit, FLAC 192 kHz, FLAC 96 kHz, DSD 64, DSD 128, DSD 256

Channels

2ch Stereo

Artists

Franco Fagioli, Kammerorchester Basel, Daniel Bard

Composers

Mozart

Conductors

Daniel Bard

Genres

Classical

Original Recording Format

PCM 96 kHz

Instruments

Countertenor, Orchestra

Release Date

April 14, 2023

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Not Available on SACD

Reviews

Gramophone

Richard Wigmore

Fagioli’s lyrical singing, whether in the motet’s slow central aria or Sesto’s solos from La clemenza di Tito, has a luxurious, almost feminine sweetness that remains just the right side of indulgence. (...) Fagioli proves equally accomplished in the vertiginous leaps of Cecilio’s aria of tender farewell ‘Ah se a morir’. If his coloratura in Exsultate’s final ‘Alleluja’ can be aggressively driven, his flamboyant virtuosity is never in doubt.

Source: www.gramophone.co.uk

Positive Feedback

Rushton Paul

Here is an contemporary example of recordings still being made in PCM 96kHz in 2020 and released in 2023.

While not everyone may enjoy countertenors, these are wonderful arias from great Mozart operas and exquisite choral music. And Franco Fagioli is stellar. He sings with tremendously communicative phrasing and inflection, excellent clarity, and genuine emotional intensity.

The playing by Kammerorchester Basel is alert and lively, and the recording quality is very, very nice.

And when the music is from Mozart's Lucio Silla, La clemenza di Tito, Exsultate jubilate, among other works, how can you go wrong!?!

Source: positive-feedback.com

Anime Immortali (Immortal Souls)

Anime Immortali (Immortal Souls)

€29,99 EUR

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