With its 2010 album Arie per tenore, Naïve offers the 47th installment in its gargantuan Vivaldi Project, Tesori del Piemonte. Like most of the vocal recitals in the series, it is heavily weighted with virtuosic arias. The tenor voice was often sidelined in early 18th century Italian opera in favor of the flasher and more agile castrati, but Vivaldi championed some of the most talented Venetian tenors of his time and created roles for them that were hardly less demanding than what he wrote for castrati and women's voices. ...
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With its 2010 album Arie per tenore, Naïve offers the 47th installment in its gargantuan Vivaldi Project, Tesori del Piemonte. Like most of the vocal recitals in the series, it is heavily weighted with virtuosic arias. The tenor voice was often sidelined in early 18th century Italian opera in favor of the flasher and more agile castrati, but Vivaldi championed some of the most talented Venetian tenors of his time and created roles for them that were hardly less demanding than what he wrote for castrati and women's voices. Finnish tenor Topi Lehtipuu has a substantial voice, virile and heroic, with full, colorful tone. He's also a fine actor, and the variety of roles represented here are wonderfully differentiated. His is not naturally a coloratura voice, so the more virtuosic music with very fast passagework doesn't always fall as easily for him as for some of the women and countertenors featured in this series. His negotiation of the composer's extreme requirements does not always sound effortless, so...
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