Roberto Alagna, Aleksandra Kurzak – Puccini In Love (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:51 minutes | 1,13 GB | Genre: Classical
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“Puccini In Love” is the first album by the award winning operatic tenor superstar Roberto Alagna and his wife, soprano Aleksandra Kurzak. Together they are the golden couple of the opera world. The album features some of Puccini’s greatest love duets including Madama Butterfly, La Bohème, Manon Lescaut as well as lesser known duets including Il Tabarro and La Rondine. Puccini in Love showcases some of Puccini’s most emotional and passionate operatic work. Puccini’s command of melody is truly unique to his time and combined with his orchestration creates cinematic and passionate compositions. Roberto Alagna has transcended genre’s through his music—not only is he an opera superstar but he has crossed over into other genre’s of music making his work easily accessible to many types of audiences. Aleksandra and Roberto have performed at some of the greatest opera houses across the world including The Royal Opera House in London, The Metropolitan Opera and La Scala.
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Morphing Chamber Orchestra, Aleksandra Kurzak, Andreas Scholl, Roberto Alagna, Tomasz Wabnic – Arvo Pärt: Stabat Mater & Other Works (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:18:43 minutes | 1,40 GB | Genre: Classical
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Arvo Pärt is one of the greatest and most performed of living composers. Slow and meditative, often religious, reflecting his mystical experiences, Pärt’s works are unmistakeable. Here Morphing Chamber Orchestra, under its artistic director Tomasz Wabnic, performs some of the Estonian composer’s finest instrumental works, Fratres, Spiegel im Spiegel and Summa, together with one of his vocal masterpieces, the Stabat Mater, presented here in a new arrangement, sung by three of today’s greatest operatic voices, Roberto Alagna, Aleksandra Kurzak and Andreas Scholl. Several shorter pieces, marvels of poetry and purity, sung by Andreas Scholl, complete this programme.
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Aleksandra Kurzak, Yuuki Wong, Tomasz Wabnic, Morphing Chamber Orchestra – Mozart Concertante (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:12 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
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The Polish soprano Aleksandra Kurzak needs no introduction. After having dazzled the opera stage and the discographic world both in duets and solo, she has devoted the whole of her new recording to Mozart. From The Magic Flute to Zaide, Mitridate and La Clemenza di Tito, the soprano embraces with equal talent the most famous arias of the master of Salzburg… and the verve of her concert presence. Far from limiting herself to just the lyrical attractiveness, she reveals its depth and brilliance by exploring the richness of the dialogue between voice and instruments: the brilliant musicians of the Morphing Chamber Orchestra of Vienna and Aleksandra Kurzak answer to each other, imitate and seek out each other. With them the arias of Mozart become the setting for a theatrical performance that is intimate, droll, and incredibly lively, in which the instruments have their own role to play in the unfolding drama. As an echo to this is added the Sinfonia concertante, for violin, viola and orchestra, one of the composer’s masterpieces in the genre, featuring the international soloists Yuuki Wong and Tomasz Wabnic.
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Aleksandra Kurzak, Sinfonia Varsovia, Pier Giorgio Morandi – Bel Raggio – Rossini Arias (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:18 minutes | 1,24 GB | Genre: Classical
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Somewhat confusingly, three of Rossini’s heroines are named Matilde, and all are represented here. The earliest of them appears in Elisabetta, Regina d’Inghilterra (1815), the opera that opened Rossini’s Neapolitan period and a work just predating such popular scores as Barbiere and La Cenerentola. The name reappears as the heroine of Rossini’s operatic swansong, Guillaume Tell (1829), written for Paris in French but recorded here in its Italian version as Guglielmo Tell. “I’d love to sing it in the theatre. This is very mature music, showing the new direction that Rossini might have taken. But I must admit that when I’m preparing new roles I never worry too much about where they belong in a composer’s output. I concentrate hard on the technical side when working with my teacher, who also happens to be my mother” — the distinguished soprano Jolanta Żmurko — “but otherwise I need to keep things fresh and free for the interpretation to flow.”
The great showpiece “Bel raggio lusinghier” also puts the title role of Semiramide (1823) on Kurzak’s wish-list. “Because it was made famous by Joan Sutherland, I’ve followed her very beautiful ornamentation.” A rarely performed masterpiece on account of its challenges, its music is still much better known than Pamira’s aria from Le Siège de Corinthe (1826 — also heard here in an Italian version). And though Sigismondo (1814) has been described by the Rossini authority Richard Osborne as “arguably Rossini’s most unrevivable serious opera”, it is represented here for a good reason: the title character is the King of Poland. Kurzak includes an aria for Sigismondo’s wife Aldimira, the daughter of the King of Hungary, “to leave a small Polish mark on this recording”.
Even growing up around an opera house—thanks not only to her mother, but also because her father played French horn in the orchestra — Kurzak had few early opportunities to hear Rossini and has recollections from that time only really of L’italiana in Algeri. Yet despite there not being much of a Rossini tradition in Poland, she has earned her place alongside another Polish star, the contralto Ewa Podles ́, in the ranks of internationally acclaimed Rossinians. As she prepares new roles that may take her away from this composer, he will always occupy a unique place in her affections: “There is only one Rossini!” (John Allison)
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Aleksandra Kurzak – Desire (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:53 minutes | 1,10 GB | Genre: Classical
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“This is a dream come true.” It’s the new aspect of my career maybe even my new face as a singer. Im saying goodbye to most of the lighter repertoire Ive done for 20 years. When I started singing, it was indeed my dream to do this sort of repertoire, but I really did think of it as a dream and I never thought I would actually sing such an incredibly beautiful role as Elisabetta on stage. When I think of the arias on this album, I felt in the past that I would never sing them. I was taught that Im a coloratura soprano, and that doing characters such as the Queen of the Night ruled others out. But Ive been in love with these arias since I first heard opera, and its very touching for me that Im now allowed to sing this music. (Aleksandra Kurzak)
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