Davies / Arcangelo / Cohen: Arias for Guadagni

Iestyn Davies: Arias for Guadagni - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Arias for Guadagni

Artist:

Iestyn Davies

Label:

Hyperion

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

034571179247

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2012-06-12

Number of Discs:

1

British countertenor Iestyn Davies is one of the fastest rising stars on the concert and opera circuit. Following his highly acclaimed recording of Porpora cantatas, he returns for a second solo album with Hyperion, a selection of arias written for Gaetano Guadagni. Italian-born Guadagni was the first 'modern' castrato, famed all over Europe for the lyric purity of his voice and his powerful, naturalistic acting style. Not only did he enjoy a close artistic relationship with Handel, who nurtured Guadagni's voice to fit the alto roles in his English oratorios, but he effectively created the role of Orpheus in Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, an opera he thoroughly made his own. Here, Iestyn Davies is joined again by the renowned period-instrument band Arcangelo, directed by Jonathan Cohen.

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