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ALPHA765
Originally recorded in January 2022
Classical
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Handel is one of Sandrine Piau’s cult composers, and everyone has vivid memories of her magnificent Alcina on DVD (ALPHA715): ‘Where once I portrayed light-hearted, pirouetting heroines, this new album offers a portrait of powerful, often wounded women. (...) Queens, sorceresses, sirens... we were attracted by the musical and emotional intensity of the hopes, disappointments and sufferings of these women, not forgetting the malice or cruelty that they also know how to deploy’, continues Jérôme Correas, the soprano’s longstanding musical partner and conductor of Les Paladins. With Almirena, Cleopatra and Alcina, Handel explores all the facets of these defeated heroines, whose boldly delineated characters live once more in Sandrine Piau’s passionate interpretation.
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Nominee in the Vocal category
“…Her [Piau] singing is pretty faultless, with her soprano buoyant and lively, sailing easily through the runs and triplets that come her way, as well as moulding a pliant and expressive line… Alongside the arias are three movements from the Concerti Grossi and an overture, allowing Jérôme Correas and Les Paladins to display their sonorous abilities to the full.” ****½
Opera Choice
Performance ***** Recording *****
“In this dazzling album, Sandrine Piau crowns her legacy as a Baroque prima donna… Piau chose her numbers to probe the feelings of what she calls ‘powerful, often wounded women’, whose ability to enchant – musically, erotically, rhetorically – is their downfall. Her facility for conveying steeliness and vulnerability within the same aria is striking…”
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