Nathalie Stutzmann's Contralto is one of those albums where everything seems to go wrong until you realize that it's actually going very right. Conducting an ensemble and singing with it at the same time is just not done because it's well-nigh impossible, but Stutzmann makes her Orfeo 55 ensemble into an extension of herself. Stutzmann's interpretations are personal, which is not supposed to be part of the early music ethos, though she seems to put something of herself into every aria. With readings as subjective as this, ...
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Nathalie Stutzmann's Contralto is one of those albums where everything seems to go wrong until you realize that it's actually going very right. Conducting an ensemble and singing with it at the same time is just not done because it's well-nigh impossible, but Stutzmann makes her Orfeo 55 ensemble into an extension of herself. Stutzmann's interpretations are personal, which is not supposed to be part of the early music ethos, though she seems to put something of herself into every aria. With readings as subjective as this, an artist should choose familiar repertory. However, Stutzmann includes several world premieres (check out the rather stark "Caro addio," from Bononcini's Griselda), and there's not a chestnut in the bunch. On a vocal recital, the audience, one is assured, wants to hear the singer, and Stutzmann departs from the vocal program with a large amount of instrumental music. In a word, Stutzmann is extreme, and it works because that's Baroque opera, and the larger-than-life heroines here...
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