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Today’s leading bel canto tenor, and one of the world's biggest opera stars, celebrates this Christmas season with a very personal choice of sacred arias and songs, including favourites such as "Panis Angelicus", "Ave Maria" and "O Holy Night".
As well as the the glorious coloratura for which he is celebrated, the album also reveals the more intimate side of Juan Diego Flórez, in new interpretations of much-loved tenor classics for the festive season. These popular hits take their place alongside less familiar treasures including the "Qui sedes" from Bellini’s Mass in A minor and the virtuosic "Alleluia" from Fux’s Plaudite, sonat tuba – which call for the thrilling virtuosity that have made Juan Diego Flórez a star in the world's greatest opera houses. A highlight of the programme is the title track "Santo" – composed by Juan Diego Flórez himself – and infused with the musical colours and rhythms of his Latin American roots. "My father was a folk-singer and I grew up with Peruvian music. My hobby is to compose and orchestrate, and the melody came to me very easily. The hard part is then to find the right instrumental colours and write for all the instruments and the chorus. But it's fun."
As well as the the glorious coloratura for which he is celebrated, the album also reveals the more intimate side of Juan Diego Flórez, in new interpretations of much-loved tenor classics for the festive season. These popular hits take their place alongside less familiar treasures including the "Qui sedes" from Bellini’s Mass in A minor and the virtuosic "Alleluia" from Fux’s Plaudite, sonat tuba – which call for the thrilling virtuosity that have made Juan Diego Flórez a star in the world's greatest opera houses. A highlight of the programme is the title track "Santo" – composed by Juan Diego Flórez himself – and infused with the musical colours and rhythms of his Latin American roots. "My father was a folk-singer and I grew up with Peruvian music. My hobby is to compose and orchestrate, and the melody came to me very easily. The hard part is then to find the right instrumental colours and write for all the instruments and the chorus. But it's fun."
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Juan Diego Flórez has produced a delightful album of sacred music which demonstrates a widening of his already extensive repertoire.
The album includes old favourites like Franck's Panis Angelicus, the Schubert Ave Maria and Adam's Cantique de Noel (O holy night). All these are performed with sensitivity and due reverence, but perhaps more interesting are the Rossini items. The Domine Deus from the Petite Messe Solonelle is well known but the two arias from the Messa di Gloria are less familiar. All three are treated with the Peruvian's usual panache, with some fearsome leaps negotiated with appropriate agility and accuracy. One small cavil: I should like to hear the occasional quiet high note from this amazing voice.
The collection also includes an aria from Haydn's Die Schöpfung (The Creation). Mit Würd' und Hoheit (In native worth) is given with greater delicacy than is usual from this singer and although German is not a comfortable language for him the aria comes across very well. We are also given an exciting version of Adeste fideles in three different languages and the tenor himself sings David Willcock's descant in the last verse. There is also a fine rendition of the Kyrie from Ramirez' Misa criolla. The final item on this generous album is composed by Flórez himself and is not the sentimental ballad that one might have expected. Flórez is a capable composer, the melody is memorable and the rhythms syncopated and catchy - a worthy inclusion.
I have saved until last, however, the item which is for me both the most surprising and the most encouraging. He sings Comfort ye my people and Ev'ry Valley shall be exalted from Handel's Messiah. His English is almost faultless and the two items, so well-known to English listeners, are performed with great sensitivity to the words. Needless to say, the rapid runs in Ev'ry Valley are executed with absolute accuracy and yet made to seem entirely natural, and the overall effect is to fill this listener with the conviction that this highly talented tenor could look with profit at the Handelian repertoire.
This is a disc well worth purchasing and need not be limited to Yuletide listening. Flórez is admirably supported by the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna under the highly intelligent direction of the young Michele Mariotti.
The album includes old favourites like Franck's Panis Angelicus, the Schubert Ave Maria and Adam's Cantique de Noel (O holy night). All these are performed with sensitivity and due reverence, but perhaps more interesting are the Rossini items. The Domine Deus from the Petite Messe Solonelle is well known but the two arias from the Messa di Gloria are less familiar. All three are treated with the Peruvian's usual panache, with some fearsome leaps negotiated with appropriate agility and accuracy. One small cavil: I should like to hear the occasional quiet high note from this amazing voice.
The collection also includes an aria from Haydn's Die Schöpfung (The Creation). Mit Würd' und Hoheit (In native worth) is given with greater delicacy than is usual from this singer and although German is not a comfortable language for him the aria comes across very well. We are also given an exciting version of Adeste fideles in three different languages and the tenor himself sings David Willcock's descant in the last verse. There is also a fine rendition of the Kyrie from Ramirez' Misa criolla. The final item on this generous album is composed by Flórez himself and is not the sentimental ballad that one might have expected. Flórez is a capable composer, the melody is memorable and the rhythms syncopated and catchy - a worthy inclusion.
I have saved until last, however, the item which is for me both the most surprising and the most encouraging. He sings Comfort ye my people and Ev'ry Valley shall be exalted from Handel's Messiah. His English is almost faultless and the two items, so well-known to English listeners, are performed with great sensitivity to the words. Needless to say, the rapid runs in Ev'ry Valley are executed with absolute accuracy and yet made to seem entirely natural, and the overall effect is to fill this listener with the conviction that this highly talented tenor could look with profit at the Handelian repertoire.
This is a disc well worth purchasing and need not be limited to Yuletide listening. Flórez is admirably supported by the Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna under the highly intelligent direction of the young Michele Mariotti.
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Juan Diego Florez is a pleasure to listen to and to behold. His voice is very pleasing, more velvety than Pavarotti's. His delivery is more modern than, say, that of Carreras, who tends to overdo it. Florez' voice is warm and disciplined at the same time. He sings all of the sacred classics beautifully. I still think that Carreras has sung the definitive version of the Kyrie of Ramirez, but I prefer Florez' delivery of any other song any day. Then there is his own piece Santo, which is a choral song that Florez composed himself, with Peruvian sounds and rhythms. It is a perfect little gem and I hope that we'll hear more from Florez in that way. Highly recommended.
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Santo This is another stunning CD from the Peruvian tenor with the most precise delivery of any modern tenor. Now in his late thirties, Florez's voice retains its effortless youthfulness and this miscellany of sacred arias is a refreshing extension of his range. The tempo adopted by the Italian conductor is not always to my taste and I was not bowled over by the singer's own composition "Santo", but it is an interesting innovation. In the same vein, his excursion into Handel's Messiah with his rendition of "Comfort ye my people" captures the essence of the best English performances of the work.
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Florez!
Florez enough said, brilliant.
Pity not available before Christmas bearing in mind two festive tracks.
The self written track no doubt with a little help from his dad!
Pity not available before Christmas bearing in mind two festive tracks.
The self written track no doubt with a little help from his dad!
Published 3 months ago by R. F. Honeywill
excellent price and delivery and ho yes excellent singer...
what a voice, beautiful, full, light, heavy, high, low, good looks, he has it all.....lovely selection and he also writes beautiful romantic style music....
Published 17 months ago by M. Denis
Great music and voice!
It is a beautiful touch of Juan Diego Florez's magic and his last song "Santo" is absolutely magnificent combining Quechua and Spanish words and music
Published 17 months ago by Pedro
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