Bononcini reviews
Cieco Amor
Sergio Foresti (baritone); Abchordis Ensemble/Andrea Buccarella (Challenge Classics)
Royal Handel
Eva Zaïcik (mezzo-soprano); Le Consort (Alpha Classics)
Contralto (Nathalie Stutzmann)
Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto); Orfeo 55 (Erato)
Bononcini: Polifemo
João Fernandes, Bruno de Sá, et al; Ensemble 1700/Dorothee Oberlinger (DHM)
Facce d'amore
Jakub Józef Orliński (countertenor); Il Pomo d’oro/Maxim Emelyanychev (Erato)
Nathalie Stutzmann sings Baroque arias
This selection box of Baroque arias comes from the popular 19th-century anthology of Arie Antiche edited for voice and piano by Alessandro Parisotti and widely used by vocal students even today. For this recording, Stutzmann and Orfeo 55 have revived the original versions of the arias, interweaving them with contemporary instrumental works, to produce a colourful potpourri.