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Bel Canto Spectacular | 
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| Artist: Juan Diego Florez
Creators: Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, Gioachino Rossini, Daniel Oren, Orquesta De Valencia, Mariusz Kwiecien, Daniela Barcellona, Anna Netrebko, Patrizia Ciofi
Label: Decca
Category: Music
Buy New: $30.63
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 129908
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 028947803157
EAN: 0028947803157
ASIN: B0014QNGA0
Release Date: January 13, 2009 (In 40 Days)
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| • | Amici mei, che allegro giorno! | | • | Fini...me lassa!...Vieni fra queste braccia | | • | La maitresse du roi?...Ange si pur | | • | Venti scudi? | | • | Una furtiva lagrima | | • | Linda! Linda!...Da quel di che t'incontrai | | • | Linda! Si ritiro...Se tanto in ira agl'uomini | | • | Di che son reo?...D'alma celeste | | • | Partir degg'io...T'amo qual s'ama un angelo | | • | Ah, vieni, nel tuo sangue vendichero le offese |
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Product Description
The King of the High Ds returns with an all-new album of bel canto arias and duets. Juan Diego Florez once again proves why he is THE tenor in demand around the world for the operas of Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini. In fact, he even broke the 70 year-old taboo against encores at La Scala in Donizetti s La Fille du Regiment, effortlessly tossing off 18 high Cs in a row (twice as many as other tenors)!
For this special album, Florez is joined by an all-star roster of his friends, including Anna Netrebko, Placido Domingo, Mariusz Kwiecien, Patrizia Ciofi and Daniela Barcellona. Rarely have so many talents come together on one all-new recording.
Also available is a special deluxe limited edition package that includes the CD and a DVD of interviews, performance clips, a picture gallery and more!
Album Description
For the past decade the Peruvian tenor has earned ecstatic critical and public response internationally for a technical prowess and an authoritative style that must surely equal what the public would have heard from the greatest tenors more than 150 years ago. Florez's exhilarating vocalism, matched by a magnetic stage presence, has prompted major opera companies to revive many rare works especially for him. • A celebration of THE Belcanto tenor of our times • The King of high Ds demonstrates yet again that he is THE Belcanto singer of his generation • JDF recently broke the 70-year old taboo at the Scala of repeating an aria as an encore (Feb Fille) • This "Florez and Friends" programme of bel canto excerpts gives further proof of Florez's supremacy in this repertoire. For Florez, the disc is "really a treat because you have some of the finest artists of today — and I'm not talking about me! The opportunity to hear them all in one CD is wonderful. I'm proud that I'm singing here with great singers, great colleagues — great friends." Guests artists - Anna Netrebko (soprano) Patrizia Ciofi (soprano) Daniela Barcellona (mezzo-soprano) Mariusz Kwiecien (baritone) Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana Francesc Perales (Chorus Master) Fernando Piqueras (baritone) Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana Daniel Oren (conductor)
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| Customer Reviews:
 FLOREZ HITS ANOTHER HOME RUN August 30, 2008
L. Mitnick (Chicago, Illinois United States)
The previous reviewer alluded to a bonus DVD accompanying this recital. I can't comment on it because it is not included in the particular edition I received upon delivery by Amazon. What I have is the recital itself, which, I suppose, is quite sufficient. It's a real stunner. To my ear, Florez' voice sounds even brighter and sunnier when he sings the "Fille" aria in Italian. The vowels are opened wider, and the voice itself seems to ingratiate itself even more vividly than it does in French. The "Puritani" duet is very, very well done, with Anna Netrebko singing a beautiful Elvira. We we get here is the traditional duet, which does not include the extra music included by Pavarotti and Sutherland on their complete London recording. The "L'Elisir d'Amore" aria "Una Furtiva Lagrima" is spun out like silk, with some new variations I've never encountered before. In fact, all the Donizetti selections are as well done as you are ever likely to hear them, with the duet from "Linda di Chamounix" (with the noted European soprano Patrizia Ciofi) proving that there's a lot more good music in this particular opera than merely the one showpiece soprano aria (made famous by Beverly Sills on her very first recording after she reached international attention). The bonus track contains the two-tenor duet, where Florez is partnered with Placido Domingo no less. Domingo, of course takes the lower line, which is appropriate at this time in his fabulous career (his continued vocal health continues to amaze me - I mean, at age 67, to sing this well, is a miracle), and he makes a grand account of it. Florez, of course, sails through this music like a race horse at the flick of a whip. I am a tremendous admirer of Mr. Florez, and I freely admit that I find him astounding. Unlike the previous reviewer, I do not hear any opaqueness or
hints of strain in his top notes. While I enjoy and repeatedly play the "Arias for Rubini" album of Florez, I do agree with the previous reviewer that this recital is more enjoyable. For anyone who wants to hear truly great singing of a repertoire long known for it's vocal difficulties, you can't go wrong with this. The music just bursts from this beautiful Decca release.
 Another winner from Florez July 8, 2008
Ralph Moore (Bishop's Stortford, UK)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
If anything, this recital shows Florez to be in even better voice than in his last album "Voce d'Italia: Arias for Rubini" (see my review). Despite the beauty of Florez' singing there, a few top notes showed signs of strain; here, the voice is more easily produced, sweeter and more characterful than ever before. For me, the plum item is his newly minted account off that old warhorse "Una furtive lagrima"; he sings with power and delicacy, managing some heart-stopping diminuendi and maintaining seamless legato. The Italian version of Florez' calling card aria with the nine high C's is as thrilling as ever and the more interesting for being less frequently heard. The choice of repertoire is judicious: a preponderance of Donizetti but a very varied selection of his arias, then two excerpts from Rossini and one by Bellini ; five are solo arias and the other five are each with a different "guest artist". I cannot, in all honesty, say that I am as impressed by any of those five other singers as I am by Florez himself; Netrebko sounds very like Freni at the beginning of her "Puritani" duet but the voice lacks the older artist's delicacy and nuance - fine singer though she is. The Polish baritone Kwiecien and Patrizia Ciofi are both fine, if nothing special; Ciofi's attractively smoky, slightly breathy voice combines well with Florez in the romantic duet from "Linda di Chamonix", and Kwiecien sings ably but ordinarily, with a rather lumpen sound and a wide vibrato. I positively disliked Daniella Barcellona's rather clumsy, laboured singing as the Marchesa Melibea in the duet from "Il Viaggio a Reims" - her voice really does not match his. Placido Domingo, in the "bonus aria" from Rossini's "Otello" proves that, despite a little straining, his voice is a miracle of preservation. Perhaps inviting distinguished guest artists is a confirmation of Florez' standing in the operatic world today and perhaps Decca wished to avoid the charge of monotony which a whole disc of one beautiful, but intense tenor voice can provoke, but the fact remains that the raison d'etre of this recital is Florez himself, and the solo items are the best things on this CD.
The bonus DVD has a not very interesting talk by Florez about bel canto in general, his fellow singers, and the specific repertoire he has chosen to sing on this disc, then two excerpts from RAI and Zurich productions - the former being, of course, THAT aria - this time in French, the second being, rather disappointingly, only the recitative before the big romantic aria "Cerchero lontana terra", not the aria itself. However, rather confusingly, the cover states that we are to have the aria, too -but it doesn't feature on my copy! (I would be interested to know if other purchasers' DVD's have the same flaw - or maybe it's just my copy. I don't think so, as the aria is not mentioned on the menu.) The trailers for the DVD's are quite good for giving a flavour of their quality, giving quite extended snippets, but it's the recital I wanted, not the extra fripperies.
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