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Nicola Porpora, Nicola Breda, Angelo Manzotti
Nicola Porpora: Arie d'Opera
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (10) - Disc #1
1. Adelaide, opera: Nobil onda
2. Mitridate, opera: Colomba sventurata
3. Poro, opera: Destrier che all'armi usato
4. Arianna in Nasso, opera: Miera che farò
5. Polifemo, opera: Dolci fresche aurette
6. Polifemo, opera: Nell'attendere il mio bene
7. Polifemo, opera: Alto Giove
8. Polifemo, opera: Senti il fato
9. Mitridate, opera: Cessa Roma, superba ed altera
10. Festa d'Imeneo, opera: Vaghi amori

Gioachino Rossini, as an old man, expressed regret over the lost art of castrato singing, an art form that was by then obsolete both stylistically and culturally. Angelo Manzotti is dedicated to the repertoire of Nicola Po... more »

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All Artists: Nicola Porpora, Nicola Breda, Angelo Manzotti, I Musici della Concordia
Title: Nicola Porpora: Arie d'Opera
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Tactus Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2009
Re-Release Date: 7/14/2009
Album Type: Import
Genre: Classical
Styles: Opera & Classical Vocal, Chamber Music, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830)
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 8007194104417

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Good music-Bad recording

Randall | Houston, TX | 08/28/2009

(2 out of 5 stars)

"If you like Porpora as I do one might get excited at first glance. Porpora opera arias with original instruments. Everything is lost in this horribly engineered recording. The church in which it was recorded allows no forgiveness in reverb. All fast passage orchestral work is lost in mush (not a musical term I know). The same goes for the fioriture in the vocal part. Everything sounds like it was recorded in the Astrodome. Or for an analogy, imagine someone playing a Bach fugue on a modern piano and holding down the damper pedal for the complete fugue, played senza sordini.

The vocalist isn't exactly first rate either. Pitch is often iffy. Unless you must have this, find something else of Porpora's."