Even some of the discoverers and champions of Domenico Scarlatti's works disparaged his vocal music. It is true that the works on this album lack the monumental quality of Bach and Handel, but if taken for what they are, they require only a careful and committed performance to make them shine. That is what they receive here from the ensemble Le Caravansérail and its director, Bernard Cuiller. The album contains not only a Stabat Mater setting but also a sampling of secular choral and vocal works. There are many attractive ...
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Even some of the discoverers and champions of Domenico Scarlatti's works disparaged his vocal music. It is true that the works on this album lack the monumental quality of Bach and Handel, but if taken for what they are, they require only a careful and committed performance to make them shine. That is what they receive here from the ensemble Le Caravansérail and its director, Bernard Cuiller. The album contains not only a Stabat Mater setting but also a sampling of secular choral and vocal works. There are many attractive features in the performances that bespeak close study of the music and its distinctiveness. Cuiller favors slow tempos that bring out the daring splashes of dissonance in the Stabat Mater. His choral ensemble, with eight singers, is a bit underpowered, but he nevertheless forges a lush sound that is appropriate to the sumptuous surroundings of Scarlatti's powerful employers. The soloists are extraordinary; soprano Emmanuelle de Negri deploys a sharp edge with only slight vibrato in...
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