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musica Dei donum

The singing of Camille Allérat, Julie Roset and Ana Vieira Leite is impressive. This is technically demanding repertoire, which is not easy to perform, but they succeed with flying colours. It is essential that the many details in Luzzaschi's setting of the texts are realized to the full, and that is the case here. There is a strong contrast in content and mood between Io mi son giovinetta (I am a maiden and laugh and sing in the spring) and the ensuing Occhi del pianto mio (Eyes of my weeping, cause of my bitter and cruel torment, I beg you now, let me die), and in both cases the performers hit the nail on the head. An important tool of singers at the time was the messa di voce. That has not been overlooked by the singers on this disc. If you purchase this disc you certainly will not regret it and regularly return to it. This is an impressive revival of the art of the Concerto delle donne.

Mai 2024

Les trois sopranos de La Néréide montrent, quant à elles, une expertise impressionnante. Intervenant en imitation ou s’échangeant leur place dans la polyphonie, elles prennent l’auditoire dans les fils de leurs mélodies, les déesses marines (les Néréides) se transformant alors en sirènes enchanteresses. Les textes et les « affetti » s’y rapportant sont soigneusement interprétés et les voix s’étirent dans une émission droite mais néanmoins souple et délicate. Elles ornent leur chant dans une aisance remarquée et côtoient les cimes dans la pièce a cappella de Marenzio (Belle ne fe’ natura) dans un équilibre et une justesse impeccable.

5 Mai 2024

En el disco nos encontramos con tres excelsas sopranos con unas cualidades superlativas que poco deben tener que envidiar al concerto delle donne.Con unas ornamentaciones maravillosas y un canto perfectamente detallado con una técnica sublime, nos pintan de manera sensual el sonido de Luzzaschi, con sus pasajes ricamente floridos, y una hermosa conjunción de las voces que extraen todo el cromatismo, el dominio de los afectos, los contrastes de aceleraciones y retardos y el uso de las disonancias que contiene esta espléndida música. Cada una con sus matices, la carnalidad de Allérat, la resonancia de Roset y la excelencia de Vieira Leite, nos dan la mejor versión de estas obras.

14 Janvier 2024

It was an obvious choice for the three magically matched and precise voices of La Néréide, singers who met while studying at the conservatory in Geneva. Every moment of this issue is absolutely gorgeous in sound and thoroughly controlled (that is to say that the semiquavers are dead right but the faster embellishments get a bit averaged); and the lower notes of the unusually wide range are sometimes treated a touch gently.

3 November 2023

Of the same range, with characterized and complementary timbres, our three soloists regularly exchange parts and places. They play with complex ornamentations, translated with astonishing ease and naturalness. The precision of the attacks, the constant accuracy, the support and the modeling of the phrases give this rich polyphony a singular life. The emotion is there, whatever the character of the piece: each listener is suspended to the expression. Mutual listening, the source of a game where imitation is masterful, the freshness of the show, all the vocal qualities of the singers are a source of constant happiness. Freshness, purity of emission, lightness, colors, contrasts, fusion of timbres, harmony, happiness…

13 October 2023

The Dijon's audience covered praise on the instrumentalists and singers of this evening as well as in the company of Alfonso II d'Este and his close courtiers.

11 October 2023