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Hommage à Vivaldi

Antonio Vivaldi

Reviews (4)

Presto classical

d. 2. Sep. 2018

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Katherine Cooper

d. 2. Sep. 2018

"Editor's choices - August 2018: Nearly a decade on from her last Vivaldi album, Pyrotechnics, the Alaskan mezzo sounds as fresh and flexible as ever, and her singing's disarmingly free from the mannerisms that other interpreters have developed in this repertoire over the intervening ten years: the voice remains beautifully even throughout its wide range (albeit with a bit of extra bite lower down), and the coloratura remarkably clean and unaspirated".

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Diapason

2018 décembre

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Sophie Roughol

2018 décembre

BBC music magazine

2018 November

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Berta Joncus

2018 November

"Genaux brings a fascinating swagger to the solo motets. Her chest voice has a baritone richness; in higher registers, she can sound virginal or diva-ish. Zooming through scalar passages and leaping around registers, she turns doggerel Latin into moving statements ... Urged on by Dubrovsky, the Bach Consort Wien bustles through this score [Kyrie and Credo]; the Wienerkammer Chor match their vigour ... This performance would make Vivaldi proud".

The gramophone

2018 Awards

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Lindsay Kemp

2018 Awards

"Vivica Genaux, as we have learned to expect, rides them [two of the motets] with the faultless virtuosity of an expert surfer - a scintillating listen. She is perhaps less at home in Nisi Dominus ... The Mass movements are less familiar ... and their allure is further dulled by some rather pallid singing by the Wiener Kammerchor ... The playing of the Bach Consort Wien under Rubén Dubrovsky, however, is tidy, deep-toned and perky".