Gramophone
'Good taste, stylistic refinement and vocal agility in a vivacious programme of rareties.'
Rossini
Le comte Ory
Trio 'A la faveur...'
Il viaggio a Reims
Duetto of Melibea & Conte Libenskof
'D'alma celeste Dio'
Auber
La Muette di Portici
Scene & Air of Masaniello
'Ferme tes yeux'
Carafa
Gabriella di Vergi
Duetto of Raoul & Fayel
'Traditor! paventa: al campo!'
Donizetti
La Fille du Régiment
Romance of Tonio
'Pour me rapprocher...'
Il castello di Kenilworth
Scena e Quartetto
'Freme ondeggia irresoluto!'
Pacini
Alessandro nell'Indie
Terzetto 'riell d'una misera'
Adam
Le Postillon de Lonjumeau
Ronde of Chapelou
'Mes amis...'
Offenbach
Le Pont des Soupirs
Ariette of Malatromba
'Ah! qu'il était doux mon beau rêve!'
Gramophone
'Among the remarkable recent generation of virtuoso tenors, Matteuzzi has been widely admired, not least for the good taste and the stylistic refinement of his singing. This is evident from the first in the trio from
Le comte Ory
where phrases have a grace of tone and movement that momentarily call to mind the name of Tito Schipa.
Il viaggio a Reims
finds him achieving an agility over a wide vocal range... in passages of pure unforced lyricism he is most gratefully heard and the sighing
semi-diseur
style of Offenbach's ariette is enchanting.'
with
Elisabetta Scano, Enkelejda Shkosa, Bruce Ford,
Majella Cullagh, Roland Wood (PMF Scholar),
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Academy of St Martin in the Fields
and David Parry, conductor
