Presto Recording of the Week
19th November 2021

Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano), Kammerorchester Basel, Muhai Tang

Beethoven: Ah! Perfido, Op. 65
Mozart: Ch'io mi scordi di te?... Non temer, amato bene, K505
Myslivecek: Se mai senti (from La Clemenza di Tito)
Mozart: Ah, lo previdi... Ah, t'invola agl'occhi miei, K272
Mozart: Bella mia fiamma, addio... Resta, oh cara, K528
Mozart: L'amerò, sarò costante (from Il re pastore)
Haydn: Berenice, che fai? (Scena di Berenice), Hob XXIVa:10

During the pandemic, Cecilia paused her busy schedule and took time to go back through her archives. She is now releasing this never-before-heard album ‘Unreleased’, a celebration of the most famous concert arias from Mozart, Beethoven & Haydn. Recorded with the Kammerorchester Basel conducted by Muhai Tang, and featuring Maxim Vengerov as solo violin on track 6.

"Although the album runs to just sixty minutes, it’s a pretty intense listen (even fully paid-up Bartoli acolytes may prefer to consume it across several sittings rather than gulping it down whole), but I’m so glad that these recordings have belatedly seen the light of day – they show the Roman mezzo at the very top of her considerable game." - Katherine Cooper, Presto Classical, 19th November 2021.