On Bongiovanni's Domenico Cimarosa: Coeli Voces, conductor Francesco Quattrocchi continues surveying the output of Cimarosa, as he did within the context of Cimarosa's contemporaries in his excellent release Sinfonie Avanti l'Opera, with the Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese. Here Quattrocchi is joined by soloists and the Schola Cantorum San Sisto in a selection of Cimarosa's sacred works, which in stylistic terms fall halfway between the sacred choral/orchestral music of Franz Joseph Haydn and the opera stages that proved ...
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On Bongiovanni's Domenico Cimarosa: Coeli Voces, conductor Francesco Quattrocchi continues surveying the output of Cimarosa, as he did within the context of Cimarosa's contemporaries in his excellent release Sinfonie Avanti l'Opera, with the Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese. Here Quattrocchi is joined by soloists and the Schola Cantorum San Sisto in a selection of Cimarosa's sacred works, which in stylistic terms fall halfway between the sacred choral/orchestral music of Franz Joseph Haydn and the opera stages that proved Cimarosa's main stomping grounds. It's interesting and good music, although the vocal soloists are uneven; alto Antonio Giovannini has a sturdy voice, but it's a shade flat for much of the motet Antra, ubi quaestus Echo and ultimately sounds a little dull over the course of the work's 11 minutes. At the other end of the spectrum is soprano Alessia de Amicis, who has the rarely combined capabilities of singing very high notes very loudly; it is not the prettiest tone quality, and in one...
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