Virgin Classics' two-disc SACD collection of arias, scenes, and songs from Natalie Dessay's complete opera recordings and recital CDs is notable for its variety and contains some rarities, such as excerpts from Meyerbeer's Le pardon de Ploërmel and Offenbach's Robinson Crusoë, as well as standard repertoire. The first disc is devoted to French opera and operetta (if you count Lucie de Lammermoor as French). The second disc includes music by Mozart (arias for both Pamina and the Queen of the Night), Handel, Richard Strauss, ...
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Virgin Classics' two-disc SACD collection of arias, scenes, and songs from Natalie Dessay's complete opera recordings and recital CDs is notable for its variety and contains some rarities, such as excerpts from Meyerbeer's Le pardon de Ploërmel and Offenbach's Robinson Crusoë, as well as standard repertoire. The first disc is devoted to French opera and operetta (if you count Lucie de Lammermoor as French). The second disc includes music by Mozart (arias for both Pamina and the Queen of the Night), Handel, Richard Strauss, Stravinsky, Thelonius Monk, and Leonard Bernstein, among others. Dessay's light and silvery coloratura is remarkably secure throughout her range and is especially brilliant in the stratospheric reaches, an attribute that makes her "Bell Song" from Lakmé and Olympia's song from Les Contes d'Hoffmann truly spectacular. Her performance of Pamina's "Ach! Ich fühl's," is deeply emotional and is as persuasive as the Queen of the Night's "Der Hölle Rache." The limpidity of the Handel aria...
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