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Nuits Blanches - Karina Gauvin
ACD2 2791 (ATMA Classique, CD)
NEW RELEASE
Tracks: 14
Booklet pages: 40
© 2020 Disques ATMA Inc
Main country of recording: CA
Country of manufacture: CA
Reviewer: Giuseppe Pennisi
Review of Nuits Blanches - Karina Gauvin published on 24 May 2020
Listen: Gluck: Le perfide Renaud me fuit (Armide) (track 7, 0:37-1:28)
Karina Gauvin, soprano
Pacific Baroque Orchestra
Alexander Weimann, fortepiano, conductor
Dimitri Stepanovitch Bortnianski (1751-1825):
1 Air d'Elvire: 'Ne me parlez point' (Le Faucon, 1786)
Domenico Dall'Oglio (circa 1700-1764):
2 Allegro (first movement of Sinfonia Cossaca)
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787):
Armide (1777)
3 Récitatif et air: 'Enfin, il est en ma puissance'
4 Air: 'Ah! si la liberté'
5 Récitatif: 'Oh ciel, quelle horrible menace'
6 Gratioso (menuet)
7 Air: 'Le perfide Renaud me fuit'
Dimitri Stepanovitch Bortnianski:
8 Overture (Le Faucon, 1786)
Alcide (1778)
9 Aria: 'Mi sorprende'
10 Récitatif: 'In qual mar'
11 Aria: 'Dei clementi'
Evstignei Ipatievitch Fomine (1761-1800):
12 Ouverture (Les Cochers au relais, 1787)
Maxime Sozontovitch Berezovski (1745-1777):
Demofoonte (1773)
13 Aria de Demofoonte: 'Mentre il cor'
14 Aria de Timante: 'Misero pargoletto'
Recorded in October 2019 at Église Saint-Augustin, Mirabel, Quebec, Canada