Philippe Jaroussky - Gluck: Orfeo Ed Euridice - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

David Gray is back doing what he does better than almost anyone, and fans of complex, serious, lyrical songcraft should rejoice. Dear Life may be the deepest, strangest, loveliest album this pioneering British singer-songwriter has ever delivered. Years in the making, it is an album of emotional crisis and resolution, mortality and faith, reality and illusion, love and heartbreak, magic, science, loss and acceptance. Dear Life is David Gray's 13th album. It's the result of Incha starburst of songwritingInch... it just seemed like the gods of songwriting were being kind. An album of emotional crisis and resolution, mortality and faith, reality and illusion, love and heartbreak, magic, science, loss and acceptance. While it is full of yearning and hope, there is an undercurrent of darkness, a tension between competing forces of hope and despair a cavalcade of emotions in what is his most lyrically-focused collection to-date.

La Storia Di Orfeo - Philippe Jaroussky - With Philippe Jaroussky's new album, Storia di Orfeo, the French countertenor realises a long-held dream to portray the mythic Orpheus - divine musician who ventures into the underworld to retrieve his beloved wife Eurydice from the clutches of death - in his many guises, an inspiration for the very first opera and beyond. InchThis project, which was inspired by three key 17th-century operas, was conceived as a kind of opera in miniature or as a cantata for two solo voices and chorus, and features just two characters Orpheus and Eurydice,Inch explains Jaroussky. InchThe three operas focus on different aspects of the story Sartorio and Rossi depict the happiness of the young lovers and the scene in which Eurydice is bitten by the snake; Monteverdi, on the other hand, concentrates more on Orpheus' search for Eurydice in the underworld, and the highpoint of his work is an aria that has remained without parallel in the history of opera the magical 'Possente spirto', which I have the temerity to perform here as a countertenor, for the first time on record.Inch He is joined by sublime soprano Emoke Baráth and period-instrument ensemble par excellence I Barocchisti with Diego Fasolis at the helm. A journey to the beginnings of opera, to the Italian Baroque, to the underworld and back.

Philippe Jaroussky - Opium Melodies Francaises [COMPACT DISCS] date 04/07/2009