This is the first release of Russian soprano Julia Lezhneva on the major Decca label, and it is illustrative of the growing importance of Baroque vocal repertory that a young singer looking to broaden her renown would choose not only Baroque music, not only period performance, but the unusual repertory of the solo motet at that. These were virtuoso pieces, very operatic, that had sacred rather than secular texts. The tradition was rounded off in the late 18th century by the young Mozart's Exsultate, Jubilate, K. 165, and ...
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This is the first release of Russian soprano Julia Lezhneva on the major Decca label, and it is illustrative of the growing importance of Baroque vocal repertory that a young singer looking to broaden her renown would choose not only Baroque music, not only period performance, but the unusual repertory of the solo motet at that. These were virtuoso pieces, very operatic, that had sacred rather than secular texts. The tradition was rounded off in the late 18th century by the young Mozart's Exsultate, Jubilate, K. 165, and Lezhneva gives a fresh performance of that well-worn work. Her voice is unusual, with an oboe-like texture that's quite agile when the going gets rough. The Mozart and the little-known and sort of pastoral-spiritual In coelo stelle clare of Haydn's teacher Nicola Porpora. This piece fits Lezhneva's voice beautifully, and it is sufficiently unusual to recommend the album all by itself. In the High Baroque motets by Handel and Vivaldi that open the program, the news is less consistently...
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