Release Date: 28 October 2012
Label: Bis / BIS Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7318599919621
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Coloratura
Description
Anu Komsi, Finland's 'coloratura assoluta', here presents a wide-ranging programme, from mad scenes and rage arias from 18th- and 19th-century operas, to Alyabyev's ever-soaring Nightingale and the silvery tinkling of Lakmé's Bell Song. Komsi also performs later examples of coloratura, including Glière's glittering Concerto for coloratura and orchestra, and La Machine de l'être by the composer John Zorn - a work which she premiered in New York City in 2011. The disc closes with a thoroughly idiomatic performance of Sibelius' Luonnotar, with its text from the Finnish national epos Kalevala. Throughout the programme, Anu Komsi is supported by the Lahti Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sakari Oramo.
Tracklisting
Ruby Hughes; Jonas Nordberg; Mime Yamahiro Brinkmann
Anne Sofie von Otter; Salon Orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin; Adam Benzwi
Alina Ibragimova; Cedric Tiberghien
Malin Bystrom, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra; Thomas Sondergard
Masaaki Suzuki
Franz Halasz
CLARE HAMMOND
Chelys Consort Of Viols
Signe Asmussen; Jakob Davidsens Kammerat Orkester
Shira Patchornik; CHAARTS Chamber Artists; David Castro-Balbi
Jack Hancher
Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra; Sir Simon Rattle
Yorck Kronenberg; Christoph Seybold
Wendy Stern; Kathleen Nester; Amanda Harberg; Katie Lueng
Wang Huandong/Orchestra Filarmonica della Calabria/Filippo Arlia
Vivum Singers; Francesca Massey; Tom Winpenny
