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Arias for Farinelli. (Briefly Noted).(Sound Recording Review)
Arias for Farinelli. Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin; Vivica Genaux/Rene Jacobs. Harmonia Mundi HMC 901778, 2002.
Popular interest in baroque music written for castrati hit a brief peak in 1994 with the release of the hit film Farinelli, a dramatized biography of the great eighteenth-century castrato singer Carlo Broschi (better known by his stage name, Farinelli). Because the practice of castrating children for aesthetic purposes has thankfully been discontinued, and because women's voices are noticeably different from those of male castrati, the makers of the film were faced with a dilemma, one which they met by means of technology, synthetically fusing the voices of acclaimed countertenor Derek Lee Ragins and soprano Ewa Godlewska to approximate the complex sonority of a castrato's voice. The result was interesting but not universally praised, and for those who care more about sheer sensual beauty and less about perfect recreation of historical sounds, this collection of arias ...
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...Information: 203-327-7111. _ K.S. ___ Classical: VIVICA GENAUX "Arias for Farinelli: Akademie Fur Alte Musik Berlin, Rene Jacobs, conducting." (Harmonia Mundi, 4 stars) When the Alaska-born mezzo soprano Vivica Genaux made...
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...Information: 203-327-7111. _ K.S. ___ Classical: VIVICA GENAUX "Arias for Farinelli: Akademie Fur Alte Musik Berlin, Rene Jacobs, conducting." (Harmonia Mundi, 4 stars) When the Alaska-born mezzo soprano Vivica Genaux made...
