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Cecilia Bartoli - If You Love Me (Se tu m'ami ), 18th-Century Italian Songs |  | Artists: Alessandro Scarlatti, Antonio Caldara, Antonio Lotti, Antonio Cesti, Giovanni Paisiello, Anonymous, Benedetto Marcello, Giuseppe Giordani, Giulio Caccini, Alessandro Parisotti, Pietro Francesco Cavalli, Antonio Vivaldi, Giacomo Carissimi, Cecilia Bartoli, György Fischer
Label: Decca
Category: Music
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Rating:  37 reviews
Sales Rank: 3253
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.8 x 0.4
MPN: 436267
UPC: 028943626729
EAN: 0028943626729
ASIN: B00000420F
Release Date: October 13, 1992
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| Tracks:
| • | L'honestà negli amori, opera: Già il sole dal Gange | | • | La donna ancora è fedele, opera (with intermezzo 'Filandra e Selvino'): Son tutto duolo | | • | La donna ancora è fedele, opera (with intermezzo 'Filandra e Selvino'): Se Florindo è fedele | | • | Il Pompeo, opera: O cessate di piagarmi | | • | Work(s): Spesso vibra per suo gioco | | • | Caro mio ben, for voice & piano (or orchestra) | | • | Arminio, opera: Pur dicesti, o bocca bella | | • | Intorno all'idol mio (soprano aria from opera 'Orontea') | | • | La Molinara, opera: Nel cor più non mi sento | | • | Nina, o sia La pazza per amore, opera: Il mio ben quando ve | | • | O Leggiadri Occhi Belli | | • | Il mio bel foco (Quella Fiamma che m'accende), for cantata for soprano, 2 violins, 2 oboes & continuo, SF. 142 (spurious) | | • | Selve amiche | | • | La Costanza in amor, opera: Sebben, crudele | | • | Tu ch' hai le penne, amore, for voice & continuo | | • | Se tu m' ami | | • | Zingari in Fiera, opera: Act 1, Chi vuol la zingarella | | • | Le Nuove Musiche (22), collection of arias and madrigals for voice & continuo: Amarilli | | • | Delizie Contente | | • | Vittoria, mio core (Amante sciolto d'amore), cantata for soprano & continuo | | • | Ottone in Villa, opera in 3 acts, RV 729: Sposa son disprezzata, aria |
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The 17th-century Italian art song repertory traditionally reserved for novice singers is given new life via Bartoli's artistry. With impeccable diction and evocative phrasing, she captures every innuendo of these simple, but passionate, pieces. No two repetitive phrases are alike; she chisels every line into a landscape of interpretive magnificence. Scarlatti's simple "O Cessate di Piagarmi" becomes a testament of innocent pain and plaintiveness. Giordano's "Caro Mio Ben" is transformed into a tender cry for love. All embellishments are imaginative and well executed. Accompaniment by György Fischer is equally appealing, sensitive and precise. Every singer questing for the art of singing should study these. --Barbara Eisner Bayer
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Kudos to Bartoli & Fischer for great disc of hard to find bel canto songs! February 21, 2009
Atypical (Winston-Salem, NC, USA)
It just isn't that easy to find Paisello. Scarlatti isn't as widely recorded as he deserves to be, and Bartoli and Fischer have made some other fine selections, too! Don't be concerned that this is a piano and voice recording, Gyorgy Fischer makes his pianoforte do all of the work the instrument is designed to do. Sometimes it sounds almost like a harpsichord -- I looked to see if one was listed and if it was there, I couldn't find it. At other times, Fischer uses the full range of the pianoforte.
I'm going to look for recordings by him with piano and orchestra.
Fischer's accompaniment is soft and limpid where it should be, leaving room for all the tonal qualities of Bartoli's voice to come through, and strong and vivid when it's the piano's turn.
Bartoli sings these selections with feeling, and with a precision that keeps them from going over the top. (If someone has seen a recording of her at the end of one performance of Cenerentola where she sang well and didn't let her energy die, but also was not, for some reason, able to control her performance as well as usual, don't worry: her voice is beautifully produced throughout and never rushed. Even the best of us have the occasional off day.) This recording represents some of the best work I've heard from Bartoli. She uses some gorgeous trills, runs and arpeggios, but neither does her ornamentation get in the way of the songs.
Near the end of "Arminio, opera: Pur dicesti, o bocca bella" she puts in, for example, a gorgeous trill, but with a controlled dimenuendo I found very impressive indeed.
Ladies and gentlemen, THIS is bel canto!
The disk comes with a nice Italian - English translation of each song. (The translations do not repeat every line of text every time she sings it, but her diction is very clear here, and I don't think that loses anything.)
 From the simple to the sublime January 24, 2008
John A. Di Battista (Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Cecilia Bartoli may not be the finest mezzo-soprano extant but few would doubt her exceptional artistry and professionalism. In "Se tu m'ami", she transforms simple, even primitive, melodies into beautiful, dare I say, rapturous arias, in the finest bel canto tradition. I now understand why Paisiello was a favourite of Buonaparte and why I should now acknowledge Vivaldi for his considerable versatility and creativity. The disc now occupies a top shelf in my CD rack. Bravissimo Cecilia.
Awe inspiring November 20, 2007
Frank J. Wassermann (Cincinnati, OH USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Even for the non opera afficianado, these beautiful songs, rendered with exquisite style and grace and meticulous accompaniment,make for enthralling listening. I listen to this album more than any other I have ever owned. I simply never get tired of the songs. It is a true collection that builds one on the other. It becomes totally engrossing placing the listener in a world all its own.
Bartoli masterclass in early italian songs August 24, 2007
G. Clark
This disc is a perfect example for young singers studying from the 24 or 26 Italian Songs and Arias and the like. Cecilia Bartoli posesses a beautiful voice.
useful April 10, 2007
Furio (Genova - Italy)
4 out of 9 found this review helpful
I feel like recommending this compilation to neophites wanting to listen to some old arias to learn if they like this genre and to singing students:
Ms Bartoli's voice is not beautiful, nor perfect when heard live, but her technique sounds perfectly good on record. Here and there her voice gets harsh, flat, losing brilliance and warmth, but most of the time one can concentrate on the accurate rendering of these old and beautiful arias.
She wisely decided to follow the letter of Parisotti's score, therefore meeting the need of all singing students of having a reference for their study. The agility is outstanding but pronunciation and expression, as well as the perfect gusto in presenting the phrases, are what make this compilation worthwhile. Not a word goes wasted or neglected but her being Italian and her sensitivity manage to avoid overkill.
One could wish she would publish compilations of single authors of the xvi and xvii centuries, edited according to philological criteria or else other compilations of the dated but still useful Parisotti edition.
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