Track Listings (16) - Disc #1| All Artists: Nella Anfuso Title: Nella Anfuso Antonio Vivaldi Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: The Orchard Original Release Date: 1/1/2000 Re-Release Date: 10/17/2000 Genre: Classical Style: Opera & Classical Vocal Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 669910720523 |
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CD ReviewsAbsolutely horrible... Mr. R. J. Austen | London, UK | 04/28/2006 (1 out of 5 stars) "Maybe this just isn't my taste. But what a horrid voice! I've never heard the like before. She sings the music so slowly that the weaving virtuosic lines with twists and turns are completely lost to the listener. Why does she add incessant vibrato to every single semi-quaver? There is no feeling of musical line in the way she sings, instead she hits out every note as if with a hammer. I also find her cadenzas 'unusual' and do not make much musical sense. This for me is music that really does sound like the farmyard. I know I seem harsh, but as a musician I was surprised this was even recorded. It reminded of Joyce Grenfell. Maybe this is the Italian version. Even the orchestra play very blandly and are forced to pull back so that thie singer can fit in her melismatic runs. As a previous reviewer said, Patrizia Ciofi is a better choice or even Cecilia Bartoli who is a master at Vivaldi. Perhaps Im just not used to this style of singing, but Baroque melismas need to flow and move somewhere like elaborate ornaments not be spat out like a phuematic drill. I think she could sing big Romantic operatic material with flair but her voice really does not suit this music. Sorry, but not my cup of tea :(" Nella Anfuso nightingale Tomas Victoria | Spain | 04/17/2006 (5 out of 5 stars) "I have all CDs "Opus Anfuso". I love her song as contralto and soprano at the same time, I love her "pathetic song". Nella Anfuso demonstrates her most diverse aspects of her vocal art: the legato and knowledgeable use of rubato and fiorituras, the appoggiaturas, the pureness and "aereit?" of the acute notes, fantasy that creates long cadences that unravel in an extraordinary variety of textures, acute ascending and descending volatinas with perfect intonation. And the passion always: Vivaldi or Monteverdi or Porpora or Farinello or Caccini or Frottole (XV century) et cetera." Terrible! M. Montenegro | mexico | 12/03/2005 (1 out of 5 stars) "Nella Anfuso is presented as a musicologist and singer... well, as a singer she is one of the most terrible voices I have ever heard. stay away, thera are great recordings of this material, try Patrizia Ciofi motets cd. You will be very pleased."
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