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John Steane

‘An excellent recital highlighting Diana Montague’s admirable voice and technique... Reviewing Diana Montague’s first volume in this series, Alan Blyth pronounced it “undoubtedly one of my CDs of the year”. About her second I can certainly say that the rest of the year will have to come up with something pretty good if it is not be one of mine... Among the “supporting” singers, Orla Boylan and Alan Opie deserve special mention – the Cosi fan tutte trio here is surely one of the best versions on record.'

6 January 2009

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Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro
1 Cherubino's Aria 'Is it pain, is it pleasure that fills me'
Mozart's The Clemency of Titus
2 Sextus's Aria 'Send me, but, my beloved'
Gluck's Iphigenia in Tauris
3 Priestess's Chorus & Iphigenia's Aria 'Farewell, beloved homeland' - 'No hope remains in my affliction'
with Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
4 Iphigenia's Aria 'I implore thee and tremble'
Handel's Alcina
5 Ruggiero's Aria 'Verdant pastures, leafy woodlands'
Handel's Atalanta
6 Meleagro's Aria 'Noble forests, sombre and shady'
with Alastair Young, harpsichord & Susanne Beer, cello
Mozart's Così fan tutte
7 Fiordiligi, Dorabella & Don Alfonso's Trio 'Blow gently, you breezes'
with Orla Boylan, soprano & Alan Opie, baritone
8 Dorabella's Recitative & Aria 'Ah! Leave me now' - 'Torture and agony'
9 Dorabella & Fiordiligi's Duet 'I will take the handsome, dark one' with Orla Boylan soprano
Mozart: Concert Arias
10 'Banished, rejected, God save me!'
11 'Who knows what feeling'

 

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Mozart's Così fan tutte
12 Guglielmo & Dorabellas's Duet 'My heart here I give you' with Alan Opie, baritone
Heuberger's The Opera Ball
13 Henri & Hortense's Duet 'This is the clock' - 'In a cosy chambre séparée' with Helen Williams, soprano
Borodin's Prince Igor
14 Song of the Polovtsian Maiden 'Tender flower, starved of water' with Geoffrey Mitchell Choir
Johann Strauss II Die Fledermaus
15 Orlofsky's Aria ' Three score and ten'
Gounod's Faust
16 Siébel's Romance 'When happy days' with The Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by David Parry
Lehár'sThe Merry Widow
17 Valencienne & Camille's Duet 'Calm down, my friend!' - 'Just as the sun awakens' with Bruce Ford, tenor
Stölzel (formerly attrib. J.S. Bach)
18 'If you are near' with Alastair Young, harpsichord & Susanne Beer, cello
London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Walter Weller

Recorded in: Blackheath Halls, London 3-10 February 2002; & 27-31 July 1988 (track 16)
Producer - Brian Couzens Sound Engineer - Ralph Couzens Assistants - Christopher Brooke, Michael Common & Richard Smoker (track 16)

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