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Arias for Luigi Marchesi : the great castrato of the Napoleonic era


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Diapason

2015 novembre

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Didier van Moere

2015 novembre


BBC music magazine

2015 December

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Berta Joncus

2015 December

"Vurdering: BBC music opera choice" - "There is perhaps no singer better able to meet this challenge than Swedish mezzo-soprano Ann Hallenberg: her rich timbre, the evenness of her register and the precision of her intonation evoke Marchesi's vocal qualities convincingly. She delivers cadenzas and diminutions with careless ease".


The gramophone

2015 October

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David Vickers

2015 October

"The musicologist Stefano Aresi and his intrepid ensemble ... turn their microscope on the Milanese castrato Luigi Marchesini (1775-1829) ... Ann Hallenberg's powers of supple precision, melodic sweetness, flawless coloratura and expressive pathos are on compelling form".