Description
Sony Classical: Simone Kermes - Love - Classical Vocal CD
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Product Details:
- Product Type: Audio CD
- Label: Sony Classical
- Artist: Simone Kermes (soprano)
- Ensemble: La Magnifica Comunità
- Musical Director / Violin: Enrico Casazza
- Genre: Classical / Baroque Vocal
- Release Year: 2016
- UPC: 088875113824
- Condition: Brand New, Factory Sealed
Product Features
- Format: 1 CD
- Tracks: 17
- Repertoire: Baroque arias and songs, 17th century
- Composers: Monteverdi, Merula, Strozzi, Purcell, Dowland, and others
- Language: Italian, French, Spanish, English
- Packaging: Standard jewel case, shrink-wrapped
- Manufactured: In the EU
Overview
Simone Kermes has built her reputation on Baroque repertoire that most sopranos sidestep - the raw, emotionally bruising music of the 17th century. On Love, she assembles seventeen pieces all circling the same obsession: desire, loss, jealousy, and the kind of longing that ends badly.
The program is smartly constructed. Kermes opens with Monteverdi's "Lamento della ninfa" and closes with Purcell's Dido's Lament - bookends that bracket nearly a century of Baroque heartbreak. In between, she moves through lesser-known gems by Barbara Strozzi, Tarquinio Merula, and John Dowland alongside French airs by Antoine Boësset and Michel Lambert. The variety keeps the disc alive from start to finish.
La Magnifica Comunità, led from the violin by Enrico Casazza, plays with the kind of rhythmic elasticity and tonal warmth that suits Kermes perfectly. The ensemble never overwhelms - it breathes with her.
The voice itself is extraordinary. Agile, full-colored, and never cautious, Kermes brings a theatrical immediacy to every piece. This is Baroque singing with conviction, not museum reverence.
Released by Sony Classical in 2016, this disc belongs in any serious collection of Baroque vocal music.
Interesting Facts
- Simone Kermes was born in Leipzig in 1968 and studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, specializing in early music.
- La Magnifica Comunità is an Italian Baroque ensemble founded and led by violinist Enrico Casazza, praised for its historical performance practice and expressive playing.
- Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677), whose "Che si può fare?" appears on this disc, published more secular vocal music than any other composer - male or female - in 17th-century Venice.
- John Dowland (1563-1626) was one of the most famous lutenists and songwriters in Elizabethan England; his melancholic songs were bestsellers across Europe in their day.
- Henry Purcell's "Dido's Lament" from Dido and Aeneas (1689) is widely considered one of the finest arias in the entire Baroque repertoire.
- Tarquinio Merula (1595-1665) was an organist and composer at the Cathedral of Cremona whose sensuous vocal style was considered bold even by 17th-century standards.
- Sony Classical has been recording the world's leading classical artists for over a century, and its catalog includes many of the definitive Baroque vocal recordings of the modern era.
Track Listing
- Claudio Monteverdi - Lamento della ninfa: Amor, amor
- Tarquinio Merula - Folle è ben che si crede
- Antoine Boësset - Récit de Mnémosyne: Quelles beautés, ô mortels
- Luis de Briceño - Ay amor loco
- Barbara Strozzi - Che si può fare?
- Michel Lambert - Sombres déserts
- Henry Purcell - If love's a sweet passion
- Francesco Manelli - Grida l'alma a tutt'ore
- Antoine Boësset - Frescos ayres del prado
- Tarquinio Merula - Chi vuol ch'io m'innamori
- Giovanni Legrenzi - Chi mi tolse alle sfere! ... Lumi, potete piangere
- John Eccles - I burn, I burn
- Antonio Cesti - Disserratevi, abissi
- John Eccles - Restless in thoughts
- John Dowland - Now, O now I needs must part
- Antonio Cesti - Più bella maestà ... Dormi, dormi, ben mio
- Henry Purcell - Dido's Lament: Thy hand, Belinda ... When I am laid in earth
Publishers
Produced by Sony Music Entertainment. Distributed by Sony Music Entertainment International GmbH, Gütersloh, Germany. LC 06868. Made in the EU. © & ℗ 2016 Sony Music Entertainment.
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