Graun: Opera Arias – Julia Lezhneva

Disque audacieux dans lequel la voix luxuriante de la soprano russe dévoile l’œuvre peu connue du compositeur baroque Carl Heinrich Graun. Nombreux airs enregistrés en première mondiale.

Dit is een gedurfde CD waarop de weelderige stem van de Russische sopraan het œuvre ontsluit van de minder gekende barokke componist Carl Heinrich Graun. Veel aria’s krijgen hier hun wereldpremière.

   in Opera Now (Jun, 2017)
Long-forgotten music crops up all the time these days: if you spend time in a library, you may well be seated next to an opera singer foraging for lost gems (or so they hope). Soprano Julia Lezhneva spent time in a Berlin library trawling for works by Carl Heinrich Graun, who was Kappelmeister to Frederick the Great for almost 20 years in the mid-18th century. She then took a selection into the recording studio for us to judge whether she has in fact unearthed a series of masterpieces. I suspect not entirely, though the disc does offer much pleasure. The arias, all in Italian, are somewhat formulaic and reek of technique …