Biography cecilia bartoli sacrificium deluxe edition
This deluxe package is a hardback book (12 x 14 cm) including 2 CDs of music including 11 world-premiere recordings..
Cecilia Bartoli: Sacrificium
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"The age of the castratos was one of the most dazzling and remarkable in European music history.
Seldom has there ever been such a complete fusion of sensuousness and splendor, form and content, poetry and music, and, above all, such a perfection of vocal virtuosity, as was achieved in the glory days of the Baroque era.
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The legendary art of the castratos continues to exert its fascination even today, and despite the great human sacrifice it exacted, a new assessment of this extraordinary period is surely justified." - Cecilia Bartoli
Cecilia Bartoli uncovers the extraordinary and cruel world of the `Castrati' and sings the glorious music they inspired.
The all-new album consists almost entirely of world-premiere recordings of some of the most virtuosic music ever written for the human voice. The arias on the album are drawn from the works of Nicola Porpora (1686-1768), Antonio Caldara (c.
1670-1736), Francesco Araia (1709-17