Cecilia Bartoli – The Salieri Album 2003[DST SACD ISO 百度云]

专辑简介：
Don’t get me wrong, Bartoli is a great singer and we enjoyed her Gluck and Vivaldi albums (Vivaldi now on DVD-A), but IMO in this one she’s gone completely mad with her vocal euphoria. Things about her singing that annoyed me a bit on her two previous discs are overblown here to maximum. To my ears she sounds neurotic and hysteric, there is no subtlety. Every note has a different attack, timbre and colour and her legato is annoyingly wobbly. As impressive as it might sound at first, after a while, frankly, it becomes tiring. Her singing is highly dramatic, but in exactly the same way on each and every track.
I know it’s a blasphemy to say anything like that to this opera goddess when it seems that she can’t do anything wrong. It’s a question of taste, and as much as we enjoyed her early Rossini, Handel and Mozart, we can’t stand what she’s become.
It’s not all bad news, her coloratura is sparkling as ever, her pitch is rock solid and her diction is, well, proper Italian. It’s the wobbles and roller-coaster vocal dynamic treatment of every sustained note that’s over the top. Very detailed recording underlines that, the orchestra sounds a bit rough, but that seems to be the style for all her solo recordings.
The Salieri’s music is a different matter all together. One can finally hear that we don’t celebrate Mozart as we do for no reason. It’s cute, it has its witty moments, it is very entertaining, but it is not divine. If we take Bartoli’s word for granted that she picked the best of what’s available, I’m not sure I want to listen any of this operas complete. Gramophone was raving praise about the musical content and the performer alike, calling Bartoli ‘the ultimate crossover artist’. They seem to be gone over their heads as well – if the idea of crossover is to introduce classical music to a wider audiences, any Mozart ‘greatest hits’ disc will do much better job.
If you’re up to your neck in classical music and looking around for something different (or should I say bizarre), yes, go for it, but then you won’t need us to tell you so. But if you’re unsure where to spend your limited annual classical music budget, do yourself a favour and please look elsewhere. Big star and bizarre repertoire look good on the sleeve, but doesn’t necessary fulfil the expectations.
曲目列表：
1. La Secchia rapita, opera: Son qual lacera tartana
2. La scuola de’ gelosi, opera: Or ei con Ernestina … Ah sia gi
3. La Fiera di Venezia, opera: Vi sono sposa e amante
4. Palmira, Regina di Persia, opera: Voi lusingate invano … Misera abbandonata
5. La cifra, opera: E voi da buon marito … Non vo’ gia che vi suonino
6. La cifra, opera: Alfin son sola … Sola e mesta
7. Il Ricco d’un giorno, opera: Dopo pranzo addormentata
8. La Secchia rapita, opera: No: non vacillerà … Sulle mie tempie
9. Palmira, Regina di Persia, opera: Lungi da me sen vada… Contro un’alma sventurata
10. La finta scema, opera: Se lo dovessi vendere
11. Il Ricco d’un giorno, opera: Eccomi più che mai … Amor, pietoso Amore
12. La Grotta di Trofinio, opera: La Ra La
13. Armida, opera: E non degg’io seguirla! … Lungi da te … Forse, chi sa veranno … Vieni a me sull’ali d’oro