2017-06-26 featured press

The Guardian – Cecilia Bartoli/Philippe Jaroussky review – poise, virtuosity and vocal fireworks

2017-06-26, The Guardian, by Tim Ashley

‘I am Music,” Cecilia Bartoli sang at the start of this beautiful concert, in which she joined Philippe Jaroussky and the Ensemble Artaserse – the period band he co-founded in 2002 – for a recital of 17th-century Italian arias, duets and instrumental works. […]

Above all, their voices blended together wonderfully in the duets. The close harmony coloratura of Combatton Quest’alma, from Steffani’s I Trionfi del Fato and Zefiro Torna from Monteverdi’s Scherzi Musicali was exquisitely dexterous, and a sensual fervour characterised the closing scene from Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea, though the central section was fractionally too swift for my taste. […]

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