In its ongoing series of albums devoted to Haydn's music written for the Esterháza Palace, performed by Manfred Huss leading the Haydn Sinfonietta Wein, BIS has released a selection consisting mostly of insertion arias the composer wrote for productions of operas by his contemporaries, such as Cimarosa, Anfossi, Salieri, Gassmann, Sarti, and Traetta. There are also several arias from Haydn's own operas, his setting of a Petrarch sonnet, and three selections, including a men's trio from La Circe, an opera pasticcio. The two ...
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In its ongoing series of albums devoted to Haydn's music written for the Esterháza Palace, performed by Manfred Huss leading the Haydn Sinfonietta Wein, BIS has released a selection consisting mostly of insertion arias the composer wrote for productions of operas by his contemporaries, such as Cimarosa, Anfossi, Salieri, Gassmann, Sarti, and Traetta. There are also several arias from Haydn's own operas, his setting of a Petrarch sonnet, and three selections, including a men's trio from La Circe, an opera pasticcio. The two featured soloists, soprano Miah Persson and tenor Bernard Richter turn in superb performances that do full justice to the composer's genius, mostly for comedy, but also in a truly scary aria for Orestes. Persson's voice is sweet with a gleaming purity, she sings with a formidably assured technique, and she brings a developed dramatic sensibility to each of the arias. Richter has an ideal instrument for the Classical repertoire: light and agile, but substantial and full, capable of...
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