Cecilia Bartoli - Una Voce Poco Fa (Maria Malibran's ornaments)

Originally recorded for her album "Maria" tribute to the great diva of the 19th century, Maria Malibran, but never published simply for lack of space on the CD. This recording is now available in Bartoli's new compilation album "Sospiri" out now.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• gioachino
• rossini
• maria
• malibran
• mezzo
• soprano
• contralto
• coloratura
• bel
• canto
• sospiri
• cecilia
• bartoli

[pedrofribeiro]

Nice rendition, amazing ornaments, but a horrible technique.

[primohomme]

@pedrofribeiro

I disagree. It's true her voice is small to medium size, but her breathe support and breathe control, register coordination, intonation, musicianship, resonance, etc...are quite incredible.

Some may dislike her subdivision of notes during the coloratura as if using glottal click, but it's truly NOT a glottal sound, if we talk about glottal coloratura that would be Cristina Deutekom.

[miCeciliaBartoli]

SUBLIME CECILIA!!!!!!! <3 <3 <3

[wijacosm]

Never ever I've heard this area singing like this.

It's a miracle. Cecilia is not human.

Wim, a dutch fan!!!!

[Tsunade3Sannin]

i kinda like the ending. the io soon docile part though is sung so saccharine sweet that i can't handle it though.

[oliviasmulyan]

@timboleo yes!

[timboleo]

She's such a hottie. She can give me vibrato any day.

[NaterSkates]

@pedrofribeiro Agree. To hear a singer with less legate coloratura who doesn't glotally attack, there is Vivica Genaux, and she has a faster voice than this singer using a more appropriate technique.

[danielbillingsley74]

This is worth it just to hear the last few notes. Cheeky and brilliant! And to anyone out there poo-pooing her talent or technique - when you have made debuts at all the major opera houses and have a tenth the recording and recital career she has - then you can open your pieholes.

[voizovrsn]

@primohomme Yes, her technique is magnificent and she brings new life to this favorite. Let anyone who can do it better, step up to the plate.

[xweryt]

I think we will be quite a group to go clobber the conductor... Is the wierd tempo also "a la Malibran"? I can't imagine that Bartoli would have agreed to this in collaboration with the conductor.

[tenor185]

@Dogaradodia Ditto.

[Dogaradodia]

I'll clobber the conductor.

[pedrofribeiro]

@pedrofribeiro [here] wich is one of the main charactheristics of glottal attack. When she sings complicated runs, one can easily hear her "pointy" notes, the same edge is clearly audible in her trills.

Another coup-de-glotte singers are: Horne, Gencer and Caballe.

Glottal-attack is a very poor technique, invented in the baroque era, to help the students with slow voices to be able to sing coloratura passages. It was re-discovered in the 19th century, and it's highly avoided and criticised.