Elena Cecchi Fedi: Euridice, e dove sei?, Pergolesi (Orfeo)

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736)

'Orfeo' ('Nel chiuso centro')
Cantata for soprano, strings & basso continuo

Euridice, e dove sei?
Chi m'ascolta, chi m'addita,
dov'è il sol degl'occhi miei?
Chi farà che torni in vita?
Chi al mio cor la renderà?

Cor mio, mia vita,
chi m'ascolta, chi m'addita,
Euridice dov'è, dov'è?

Preda fu d'ingiusta morte.
Io dirò se tra voi resta
l'adorata mia consorte,
che pietà più non si desta,
che giustizia più non v' ha.

Stereo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywj-6cOX3T8&fmt=18

Conductor: Peter van Heyghen
Les Muffatti

Live recording (2007)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• pergolesi
• orfeo
• cecchi
• fedi
• heyghen
• aria
• cantata
• soprano

[divasperanza]

...Her voice is good, but what happened to her at 1'06'', etc.?

[Thrax1982]

I can't say that I hear anything unusual there

but then again I don't have an ear for such details.

[divasperanza]

Really?! (C'est pas vrai!)

But yes, musicality is more important than details (even if it depends on degree!)... a robot may play more correctly, but that's not beautiful. Each one's talent matters.

I'd like to know why you choose one or not! Simply like or not?

[Thrax1982]

What I use to choose?

Well, I'm mostly interested in music not the singing. When it comes to singing the most

important thing is good dramatic interpretation (and diction), secondly comes the beauty of voice and the technical perfection lies in the third place.

Here it's 5+ in the 2 first categories and any technical imperfection lies beneath my level of detection.

[silviaeeh]

I like it very very much,and anyway it's LIVE

[divasperanza]

Thank you for your assistance! :)

[sirobattaglin]

the voice just gets a bit 'tight' for a moment...nothing too major. It slips back a moment- but she does a very good job, really!

[jovi1715]

brava Elena!

[divasperanza]

Thank you for telling about your rule!!! (Happy at having found myself on the same wavelength! In this point of view, I agree with Sergeygn's comment about a French countertenor in You Tube. The latter has good voice, though...)

Please, I don't say that she's not perfect in singing technique. Only I realized that her small weak point in THIS performance appears at some descending keys, and wondered why. (Ah, qu'elle ne lise pas cette phrase! Mais je dis qu'elle a du talent!)

[divasperanza]

Beautiful and glittering voice! Fedi appears for the first time in my list. How did you know about her??

She's good, but personally, I'd like to hear Orfeo sung by male soprano or countertenors! "Che faro senza Euridice" !!

Curious that the Japanese myths have the same story, but the end resembles rather Orfeo's parody...