'Lamenti'

Emmanuelle Haïm/Natalie Dessay/Patrizia Ciofi/Véronique Gens/Joyce DiDonato/Philippe Jaroussky/Marie-Nicole Lemieux/Topi Lehtipuu/Rolando Villazon/Laurent Naouri/Le Concert d`Astrée/Christopher Purves | Format: MP3 Download

Product Details

• Original Release Date: September 15, 2008
• Release Date: September 15, 2008
• Label: EMI Classics
• Copyright: (C) 2008 EMI Records Ltd./Virgin Classics
• Total Length: 1:04:18
• Genres:
• ASIN: B001I3ZT86
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #61,376 Paid in MP3 Albums (See Top 100 Paid in MP3 Albums)

Customer Reviews

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Quite a mixed bag.., March 18, 2009

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Stephen Jackson "Classical vocalist and Voice... (Texas, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lamenti (Audio CD)

This album is well engineered from an acoustic standpoint, and there are some outstanding moments. However, like several of the other reviewers, I was puzzled over some of the choices. Certainly Gens, Jaroussky and a few others sing well in this style and acquit themselves admirably of the demands. There are however other tracks that are simply mortifying from a stylistic viewpoint. That said, some of the non-baroque singers do a fantastic job of interpreting the pieces with fire, interest, and passion that is often lacking from purists. While I cannot advocate this recording as an outstanding example of vocal style in the baroque, there are some excellent voices and interesting choices. Additionally, it sounds at times as if cathedral level reverb was added to some tracks and not others. Perhaps there were multiple recording spaces used? It is imminently distracting in the Lamento Della Ninfa.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Where do we take music, Where music takes us, March 4, 2011

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fCh "fCh" (GMT-5, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lamenti (Audio CD)

What am I doing here to comment after Abel "AMY" and Giordano Bruno, two reviewers whose output I regard highly?

Perhaps to give the generic music-listener a chance to hear a mix of baroque and bell-canto. So, unless you are looking for some clearly defined style, whatever that means, and are open to musical innovation, give this CD a try!

This production has top quality for the voices and recording, with the orchestration so right as accompaniment.

5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars An assortment that lacks central attraction., February 18, 2009

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Abel "AMY" (Hong Kong) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lamenti (Audio CD)

It is difficult to go through the entire album. The listener gets lost somewhere after the 3rd or 4th track.
The singings are generally quite fine, though immediately you'd recognise that not all the illustrious big names are baroque experts.
The worst part is that the central theme is not immediately evident - it is too broad, too generalised for the well-trained ears of the conoisseur listeners. For the relative newbies, the choices are puzzling, since not all the singers manages to sing in authentic baroque style.