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11. Separada Sin Paga, No. 2

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Average customer rating: Only one diva, only Bartoli. Amazing disc Beautiful Music, but vocally unmusical. Not to my taste Exciting, moving, beautiful, energetic, heart-felt, fantastic...

Cecilia Bartoli ~ Opera Proibita (Handel · Scarlatti · Caldara) / Les Musiciens du Louvre · Minkowski Cecilia Bartoli , George Frideric Handel , Alessandro Scarlatti , Antonio Caldara , Marc Minkowski , and Les Musiciens du Louvre Manufacturer: Decca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Caldara, Antonio | ( C ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Handel | Handel, George Frideric | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Alessandro Scarlatti | Scarlatti, Alessandro | ( S ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Bartoli, Cecilia | ( B ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music All Works Featuring Bartoli | Bartoli, Cecilia | A to B | Featured Performers, A-Z | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Cantatas | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Cantatas | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Oratorios | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music The Decca Records Store | Specialty Stores | Music More Titles at Least 20% Off | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music All Classical Music Blowout | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Caldara, Antonio | ( C ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Handel, George Frideric | ( H ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Scarlatti, Alessandro | ( S ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Bartoli, Cecilia | ( B ) | Performers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Similar Items: Sacred Songs Cecilia Bartoli - If You Love Me (Se tu m'ami ), 18th-Century Italian Songs Vivaldi: Bajazet [Includes Bonus DVD] Cecilia Bartoli - The Vivaldi Album / Il Giardino Armonico Lamento ASIN: B000A6T1HC Release Date: 2005-09-13

Tracks:

1. All'arme si accesi guerrieri (Aria dell Pace)
2. Mentre io godo (Aria della Speranza)
3. Un pensiero nemico di pace
4. Vanne pentita a piangere
5. Sparga il senso lascivo veleno
6. Caldo Sangue
7. Come nembo che fugge col vento
8. Ecco negl'orti tuoi...Che dolce simpatica
9. Qui resta...L'alta Roma
10. Lascia la spina cogli la rosa
11. Ahi qual cordoglio...Doppio affetto
12. Si piangete pupille dolente
13. Ahi quanto cieca...Come foco allo splendore
14. Disserratevi oh porte d'Averno
15. Notte funesta...Ferma l'ali

Amazon.com

Cecilia Bartoli's new CD features a collection of music that could not be heard in her native Rome at the start of the 18th century due to Papal censorship. Theaters, the Church felt, were places of evil and corruption and operas led people to immorality. But some music-loving senior members of the priesthood asked composers to write oratorios and cantatas--indeed, operas without staging, essentially--for their own private entertainment. Call it what you will, the music is sensational--by turns virtuosic, gentle, and playful--and always expressive: just right, it seems, for Cecilia Bartoli's temperament. The opening aria on the CD, a call for peace in the name of Jesus, is, in fact, a dazzling martial air with trumpets blaring and the voice going through an amazing array of coloratura fireworks. It shows Bartoli at her most aggressive. The listener is practically hurled back from the speakers when she begins, with rapid-fire runs and trills and cascades of notes, all perfectly in place. Showy arias are offset by several tender ones ("Lascia la spina" from Handel's Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno returns in the composer's Rinaldo, four years later, as the now-famous "Lascia ch'io pianga"), and Bartoli exhibits again, her many, many levels of pianissimo and sensitive phrasing. Marc Minkowski and his Musiciens are just right for this repertoire and back Bartoli up superbly. This is a fascinating project, rivetingly performed and presented. --Robert Levine

Album Description

Limited Australian pressing. An extraordinary album of dramatic arias written in Rome at a time when opera performance was forbidden by the Church, and female singers were forbidden from singing in public. Decca. 2005.

Customer Reviews:

Only one diva, only Bartoli........2007-06-19

Just like Farinelli was the opera phenomenon of his time, fast-forward to the 21st century, Bartoli gives once again this music of the Italian settecento a breath of new life in all its splendor and glory.

In Opera Proibita, Bartoli's repertoire not only reflects on her as a consummate vocal artist but also as the ultimate scholar. Rarely an opera singer would dig this dip and go that far to unearth great scores from total obscurity. Even more uncommonly a singer would take the challenge of singing these arias without the risk of ridiculing herself, but to the contrary establishing a new record and precedent.

Her execution of the Handel arias is truly astonishing in coloratura and melismas probably not heard for three hundred years when only the best castrati commanded the virtuosity to tackle these arias. Also surprising and refreshing was to hear works by Handel that show his wild side.

Bartoli brings this album to a high climax with the arias from Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno. This is really her realm and true medium. Her vocal runs in "Un pensiero nemico di face" sound like a first violin, and as if this was not difficult enough she ornaments the da capo melismas in tempo from allegro to presto molto vivace, and transitions into a note crescendo with great ease and certainty. Wonderful!

Amazing disc.......2007-03-03

This disc has all the elements needed for an amazing disc. The conductor, orchestra, and music are all top notch. Bartoli's singing is amazing. I find this album energizing and a testament to how exciting baroque music can be. However, if you don't like Bartoli's voice in previous recordings, you probably won't change your opinion because of this disc.

Beautiful Music, but vocally unmusical........2007-02-09

I owned over a dozen of Bartoli solo albums, plus other operatic albums of hers. From the early days of 'Arias Antique' I got impressed by her beautiful singing and her outstanding technique.
Alas, starting from her Vivaldi Album, I do not find her singing that beautiful any more. True, the songs picked there are technically very challenging, used to be sung by male castrato singers. The songs picked here are even more difficult.
BUT - is singing just about technique?
There are some songs in the Vivaldi Album that have the vocal musical lines broken in places. Here in Opera Proibita, almost every song has this problem, even the slow ones of Caldara. Compare her singing in the earlier part of her career, her early Mozart operas, I could not help but wonder if Ms. Bartoli has taken the correct turn in her career: her forced high notes, though squarely hit, do not sound at all pleasing; her runs and trills, though taken accurately at great tempi, is no longer truly musical. Compare her singing with the other two great baroque mezzo-sopranos Bernarda Fink and the tragically short-lived late Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, you would understand what I mean.

With the latest turn in Ms. Bartoli's singing, I am being forced to admit that this is a singer of great technical brilliance and enormous fame, but not at all pleasing to the ear.

Not to my taste.......2006-11-05

Cecilia Bartoli has her fans, no doubt, as the other reviews on this site demonstrate, people who love her warmth of tone and her impassioned interpretations. These vocal qualities may suit the performance conventions of the nineteenth-century repertoire; however in this anthology of eighteenth century sacred arias the result is an unhappy imbalance. The problem is, in my opinion, one of clashing calls for attention, whose affect is to distract the listener from attention to the music itself. True, the god of the counter-reformation was to be worshipped ecstatically. And true, also, that I am an anti-romantic listener, who grew up with those early music performances which valued detached purity of tone. This was vaunted as the ideal means of interpretation of the rediscovered seventeenth and eighteenth-century repertoire (it protested too much its rightness, and alienated people- but I like it). However to return to the subject at hand- I find Bartoli's readings of these crypto-erotic arias overblown and self-indulgent. I guess that this sort of coloratura always offered a chance for a bit of ego to be let loose, even in church- however when the performance goes so far as to insist on attention to itself rather than deflecting attention to the music, I stop enjoying the music. This recording does not find the balance between the big romantic personality and eighteenth-century performance conventions, which, after 30 or 40 years of self-critique, have some authority. I disliked it very much. I am a great admirer of Mark Minkowski's opera interpretations, which I think find a perfect balance between these opposing impulses of warm and cool- a binary we can trace throughout aesthetics and through the ages. Here there's an overbalance in favour of warm (hot, in fact), which the performers might argue is just the sort of vivification that Baroque performance needs. Not for me. I gave it to a friend (she's still a friend).

Exciting, moving, beautiful, energetic, heart-felt, fantastic..........2006-09-02

What more can I add?

Cecilia Bartoli just "does it" for me almost every time. She is just fantastic in my books. I love her dearly. She can give one an adrenalin rush with her bravura singing and then break one's heart with her pathos.

This is a superb collection of Baroque arias from "almost" operas! ;-))
I also liked the cheeky and none-too-subtle references to La Dolce Vita on
cover and the images inside the disc. Nice to see an opera singer with a playful sense of humour!

I am listening to this disc as I write this review and all I can say is that I love this disc and it is clearly one of the best Signorina Bartoli has released, although I like all of her recordings. Listen to track 12 and you will buy this disc.

More, please!

PS: How about DECCA getting Cecilia Bartoli and Andreas Scholl together for a musical project? I'd love to see two of my favourite singers together on the one disc.
PSPS: If you like Opera Proibita, buy Andreas Scholl's Arcadia and Arias for Senesino, too!

Average customer rating:

Primavera en Nueva York Martirio Manufacturer: Sony International ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Latin Pop | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Latin Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music Similar Items: Acoplados Mucho Corazon Spain Again Flor de Piel Spirit of the Moment ASIN: B000NVL9HY Release Date: 2007-04-17

Tracks:

1. Ese Sentimiento Que Se Llama Amor
2. No Puedo Callar
3. Primera Iluvia
4. Que Importa?
5. No Pidas Imposibles
6. Si Te Contara
7. Tengo
8. Son Cosas Que Pasan
9. Y Entonces
10. Alma Libre
11. Mi Ayer
12. Me Faltabas T

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Flor de Piel Martirio Manufacturer: Sunny Side ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music Flamenco | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Latin Pop | Latin Music | Styles | Music Tango | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Latin Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Mucho Corazon Acoplados Primavera en Nueva York Primavera en Nueva York Acoplados ASIN: B0000E32WM Release Date: 2003-11-04

Tracks:

1. Jurame
2. Si Me Pudieras Querer
3. En Esta Tarde Gris
4. Una Semana Sin Ti
5. Alma Mia
6. Hacia Donde?
7. Volver
8. No Te Importe Saber
9. Lo Que Tenia Que Ser
10. Uno
11. Quisiera Amarte Menos
12. Las Simples Consas

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It's hard to put a finger on the mercurial muse of Spanish chanteuse Martirio and guitarist/producer Raúl Rodríguez on Flor de Piel, her second domestic effort for Sunnyside. Much like they did on her exceptional debut, Mucho Corazon, the two (and their crew of backing musicians) make musical ports of call to Spanish and Portuguese cities throughout Europe and the America and bring a bouquet of influences onboard. Thus flamenco gracefully mixes with son, fado with bolero, café music of the city with traditional music of the provinces. Martirio navigates these shifting waters with grace, using her husky voice and Rodríguez's guitar work as the unifying force within the music. Highlights include the clever jazzy styling on "Alma Mía," the stripped-down and plaintive closer "Las Simples Cosas," and the fiery flamenco "Si Me Pudieras Querer." While the field of well-turned-out torch singers is a crowded one, here's a singer that deserves some time in the spotlight. --Tad Hendrickson

Average customer rating: Intoxicating Can't get enough of it!

Mucho Corazon Martirio Manufacturer: Sunny Side ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Latin Pop | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Latin Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Flor de Piel Acoplados Acoplados Primavera en Nueva York Primavera en Nueva York ASIN: B00009QGAB Release Date: 2003-06-17

Tracks:

1. Las Palmeras
2. Mucho Corazon
3. Temes/Por Que Ahora
4. Verdad Amarga
5. Maria La Portuguesa
6. Insensatez
7. Naranjo El flor
8. Porque Vas A Venir
9. Manana De Carnaval
10. Maria Magdalena

Customer Reviews:

Intoxicating.......2006-11-28

This album is just that, intoxicating. It has a hypnotic effect that takes you from cover to cover. I hope she keeps making this kind of music. Is a meztizo mix of Flamenco, Jazz, and Afro-Cuban rythms, that makes love to your senses. The more you listen to it, the more you want to listen to it. Brava.

Can't get enough of it!.......2003-07-03

What a gentle and tasteful fusion of flamenco and jazz! Pure joy.

Average customer rating: The lost "angel" MARTIRIO- "PRIMAVERA EN NUEVA YORK"

Primavera en Nueva York Martirio Manufacturer: Sonybmg ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music Mexico | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Flor de Piel Acoplados Mucho Corazon Paz AB Aeterno ASIN: B000K98FT4 Release Date: 2006-10-30

Tracks:

1. Ese Sentimiento Que Se Llama Amor
2. No Puedo Callar
3. Primera Iluvia
4. Que Importa?
5. No Pidas Imposibles
6. Si Te Contara
7. Tengo
8. Son Cosas Que Pasan
9. Y Entonces
10. Alma Libre
11. Mi Ayer
12. Me Faltabas T

Customer Reviews:

The lost "angel".......2007-04-13

Having followed Martirio's career very closely in the last years because she's a very special performer, and for that I must confess beforehand that I gravitate toward her, this time however I think that she got herself in "camisa de 11 varas" (she bit more that she could chew).
These tracks are really extraordinary songs that haven't been tarnished by the years, decades actually, since they were written, and it is my humble opinion that something clipped the wings of Martirio's "angel" in this work.
Maybe the songs were too much for her, or too Cuban for her... or it could be that I had heard them before to other extraordinary singers: Elena Burke (Primera lluvia, Tengo, Me faltabas tu, No pidas imposibles), Lucy Fabery (Primera lluvia), the composer Ela O'Farrill and Pacho Alonso (Cosas que pasan), and the comparison was unavoidable... and negative to Martirio.
I listened over and over again the cd trying to find out why she sang mezza voce in most songs to the point that I almost couldn't hear her. I tried hard to find something good to say about her singing. But she stereotyped the songs by singing softly almost in every track, and she didn't milk the lyrics to their full potential. No drama here, no poetry whatsoever.
To me the cd was big let down maybe because I moved heaven and earth to get it even before Amazon and local stores had it. It came out in Spain the day after I left Madrid.
I do celebrate the initiative of the producers -and urge others to follow the example- in bringing into the light these beautiful and oh-so-well-made songs.

MARTIRIO- "PRIMAVERA EN NUEVA YORK".......2007-03-27

Female flamenco-bolero-balada singer "Martirio" visited New York City for the
recording sessions included in this album. In it are old Cuban and Latin classic bolero favorites such as "Ese Sentimiento Que Se Llama Amor" and "Me Faltabas Tu" composed by Jose Antonio Mendez, "Que Me Importa" by Mario Fernandez Porta, "Alma Libre" by Juan Bruno Tarraza, etc. The romantic-jazz musical ensemble is virtually unbeatable with luminaries like Paquito D'Rivera, this time playing the clarinet, Kenny Drew,Jr. on piano, George Mraz on bass, Dafnis Prieto on timpanis,Claudio Roditi,fliscorn, Edgardo Miranda,guitar and Houston Person on sax. These recent N.Y.C. sessions were done in May of 2006 and I think this is how the producers arrived at the title of this great CD, "Martirio"- "Primavera en Nueva York", which translates, "Martirio"- "Spring in New York". A great performance and a great album, which is presently pricey, but worth it in my opinion. Don't miss this one.

Average customer rating: you have to hear Martirio.

Acoplados Martirio , and Chano Dominguez Manufacturer: Sunny Side ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Flamenco | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Tango | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Latin Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Mucho Corazon Flor de Piel Primavera en Nueva York Primavera en Nueva York Spain Again ASIN: B000ION6TA Release Date: 2006-10-24

Tracks:

1. El Aguita Del Querer
2. Locura De Mi Querer
3. No Me Digas Que No
4. Torre De Arena
5. Te Lo Juro Yo
6. Me Embrujaste
7. La Bien Paga
8. Compuesta Y Sin Novio
9. Ojos Verdes
10. Yo Soy Esa
11. Dicen
12. Nana Vidalita De Filigranas

Customer Reviews:

you have to hear Martirio........2007-03-09

If you haven't heard Martirio you're in for a treat!

Average customer rating: Martirio canta así

Estoy Mala Martirio Manufacturer: Nuevo ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Spain | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General | International | Styles | Music Flamenco | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00000AOUU Release Date: 1996-10-31

Tracks:

1. Separada Sin Paga, No. 1
2. Separada Sin Paga, No. 2
3. Yo Soy Esa
4. Meteme Goles
5. Romance de la Rosa
6. Madurito Interesante
7. Estoy Mala
8. Soy Virgen
9. Noche Es "Guy"

Album Details

Spanish Singer Maribel Quinones (A.k.a. Martirio), the Sometime Compay Segundo Collaborator, Originally Issued this Recording in 1986. This is the '93 Re-release; Produced by Kiko Veneno for the Nuevos Medios Label.

Customer Reviews:

Martirio canta así.......2001-03-09

Mezcla increible de flamenco y blues en una voz que perfecta.

An incredible blend of flamenco and blues in a perfect voice.

Average customer rating:

He Visto Color Por Sevillanas Martirio Manufacturer: Bmg Int'l ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Continental Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music Flamenco | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music Tango | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Latin Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music Latin Music | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Mucho Corazon Acoplados Flor de Piel ASIN: B00009Y2JJ Release Date: 2004-12-07

Tracks:

1. Comecome
2. Huevo Con Papas
3. Y Ami Quim Me Cuida
4. Homenaje
5. He Visto Color
6. Mil Calorias
7. Te No Te Escapes
8. Te lo Digo de Verdad
9. Look at the Boys
10. Reirme y a Descansar

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1 CILANTRO Y COMINO 2 BULERIA DEL GARRAF 3 PERSIA 4 PROCESION 5 CANTIGA DE ALFONSO X'EL SABIO' 6 NFS INCLUYENDO ATARDECER EN BAGDAD 7 TANGOS DEL FUEGO 8 NEW SOLEA 9 ULTIMO MODELO 10 NEFERTITI 11 PLAZA DE TETUAN

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La Bola de LA Vida del Amor Martirio Manufacturer: Karonte ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | Latin Music | Styles | Music International | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B00009Y2JI Release Date: 2003-05-15

Tracks:

1. Echo De Menos
2. Reo
3. Tierra De Fuego
4. Entrar A Matar
5. Salve Madre
6. Plaza De La Luna
7. Una Roca En El Mar
8. Tierra Y Luna
9. Ojos Verdes

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