Robert Crowe & Joachim Enders – The Romantic Castrato (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Robert Crowe & Joachim Enders – The Romantic Castrato (2020)
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Giovanni Battista Velluti (1780–1861) was one of the last of the larger-than-life castrati who had dominated operatic life in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Velluti, though, spent his career almost entirely in the Romantic era, singing the music of his day. His style of ornamentation attracted widespread admiration and set the standard for the prime donne who were emerging as the stars of their age in operas by such composers as Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti. Here the American male soprano Robert Crowe recreates Velluti’s extraordinary sound-world, in a recording that helps explain why such diverse luminaries as Stendhal, Mary Shelley and the Duke of Wellington admired Velluti as one of the most accomplished and inventive singers of his time.

Tracklist:
1. Robert Crowe & Joachim Enders – Carlo Magno (Excerpts Arr. for Voice & Piano): Sinfonia (01:29)
2. Robert Crowe & Joachim Enders – Carlo Magno (Excerpts Arr. for Voice & Piano): Ecco, o numi (02:26)
3. Robert Crowe & Joachim Enders – Carlo Magno (Excerpts Arr. for Voice & Piano): Ah quando cesserà (03:12)
4. Robert Crowe & Joachim Enders – Ciro in Babilonia (Arr. for Voice & Piano): T’abbracio, ti stringo (03:37)
5. Robert Crowe & Joachim Enders – L’amor timido (Excerpts Arr. for Voice & Piano): Sinfonia (00:40)
6. Robert Crowe & Joachim Enders – L’amor timido (Excerpts Arr. for Voice & Piano): Che vuoi mio cor? (01:25)
7. Robert Crowe & Joachim Enders – L’amor timido (Excerpts Arr. for Voice & Piano): T’intendo mio cor (03:59)
8. Robert Crowe & Joachim Enders – 6 Variations on “Nel cor piu non mi sento,” WoO 70 (05:05)
9. Robert Crowe & Joachim Enders – 8 Variations on “Nel cor più non mi sento”: Theme (01:48)
10. Robert Crowe & Joachim Enders – 8 Variations on “Nel cor più non mi sento”: Var. 1 (01:40)
11. Robert Crowe & Joachim Enders – 8 Variations on “Nel cor più non mi sento”: Var. 2 (01:51)
12. Robert Crowe & Joachim Enders – 8 Variations on “Nel cor più non mi sento”: Var. 3 (01:08)
13. Robert Crowe & Joachim Enders – 8 Variations on “Nel cor più non mi sento”: Var. 4 (01:39)
14. Robert Crowe & Joachim Enders – 8 Variations on “Nel cor più non mi sento”: Var. 5 (02:28)
15. Robert Crowe & Joachim Enders – 8 Variations on “Nel cor più non mi sento”: Var. 6 (02:27)
16. Robert Crowe & Joachim Enders – 8 Variations on “Nel cor più non mi sento”: Var. 7 (01:52)
17. Robert Crowe & Joachim Enders – 8 Variations on “Nel cor più non mi sento”: Var. 8 (02:18)
18. Robert Crowe & Joachim Enders – L’amor timido (Excerpts Arr. for Voice & Piano): Placido zeffiretto (07:32)
19. Robert Crowe & Joachim Enders – Tebaldo e Isolina (Excerpts Arr. for Voice & Piano): Sinfonia (01:33)
20. Robert Crowe & Joachim Enders – Tebaldo e Isolina (Excerpts Arr. for Voice & Piano): Notte tremenda (06:46)
21. Robert Crowe & Joachim Enders – Tebaldo e Isolina (Excerpts Arr. for Voice & Piano): Caro suono lusinghier (03:35)
22. Robert Crowe & Joachim Enders – Rondo Brillant on a Venetian Air (06:24)
23. Robert Crowe & Joachim Enders – Ah Can I Think of Days Gone By? (03:28)

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