Until Lea DeSandre

One of the greatest...

Exactly

For me its Bartoli and Tatiana Troyanos!

gerard barbier : Cecilia is at her very best in the encores! She has the audience on her side and then she can go out on a limp and risk putting that teaspoonfull more emotion and heart into it. Something a studio recording can never quite do.She can really do Händel justice as the great composer he really, really was. As a music professor at quizshow once said - there is so much wonderfull music in Händel that is nowhere near appreciated and played enough. Cecilia is generally very good, but in the encores she really moves away from the rest - that is if you want art. She really can make a receptive audience laugh and cry - and never forget. The really great thing about Cecilia is her constant search for new repertoire and looking in dusty archieves reading music like few can as she has her ton of experience and talent to search out that one ditty that really has merit - from a composer that otherwise is rightfully forgotten. Looking over the material she can see: "Oh! I can do something with that!" In an encore, she can also bring out the best music of the ensemble - and make them play better, than they really can! Sometimes there is a full blown false note; but that is a small thing compared to what we get, when they pull it off. She can pull an ensemble on dress tail. A very great artist and musician.

I totally agree, she really brings it to life.

Fagioli's version makes justice as well! :)

Tatiana Troyanos!

Bartoli is a force of nature.

Да , такъв глас изчиства Душата, пространството и Вселената!! Най-великата мецосопрано клоратура на Земята днес!!!

I agree with you, my friend.

SHE IS FANTASTIC.THE BEST . CONGRATULATIONS FOREVER.(Los Ángeles Chile south america).

@@noeraulgarciasaldivar7917 That was really a rather stupid comment. Tantamount to trolling.

@@noeraulgarciasaldivar7917 Oh dear. That went completely over your little head didn't it. The point you missed is that you know nothing at all about Daniel Schechter or the number of versions he may have listened to, but you still saw fit to make a smug and condescending comment. Like I said, just trolling.

Four thngs to say in response to your observation Mr Schechter: Firstly, yes, she perfectly captures the pathos of the piece, the lower register suffused with spine-tingling gorgeousness particularly. But, secondly, she deprived us of the recit... grrrrrr! Thirdly, I could have shot her for that verbal faffing around immediately preceding the performance, which, unforgivably, spoilt it for me. There's such a thing as platform protocol. (Can you imagine Janet Baker chuntering to her public prior to singing? Absolutely not. She not only sounds like a singer but, importantly, looks like a singer too, both 'ingredients' intact.) The split-second you appear you need to be completely focused on what you're about to do save obviously for briefly acknowledging the audience. I wonder she didn't blow kisses and invite everyone round to her place for tea. An OTT comment on my part? Not guilty. Fourthly, to return to her rendition: deeply, deeply felt and movingly expressed, the raw emotions suitably naked to both eye and ear, but I invite you to watch and listen to Phillipe Jaroussky in the piece. He inhabits the recit and aria >from the very moment he arrives on site as it were

Lorraine Hunt R.I.P.

Het is een van de mooiste Aria's die ik tot nog toe gehoord heb. Alleen geef ik de voorkeur aan Anne Sophie van Otter. Sarah Connely heb ik ooit ook mogen horen, ook in het concertgebouw. Fenomenaal

she sang it again! yesterday evening in Brussels!

A Dío grazie!!!

Tobias Commissaris The whole opera is recorded w her as a bearded Ariodante from Salzburg 2017... was on 3SAT.de tonight! I couldn’t get it bec I live in France. So, I am on here listening to her every sung utterance to get a feel of it. My German friend’s were in Sublimeville!

Thanks God that life always has a Diva so music is alive during the course of history.....💗🎶

Già! Nonostante l'orchestrazione...

...direzione. Entschuldigung.

harry bixler La Scintilla ZÜRICH ..... the old touring version

Malu Mestrinho m

You don't have to suffer. One of the best performances is done by Anne Sophie van Otter. Director Minkowski

Look at Franco Fagioli version! It's the best!

Lea Desandre shouldn't be overlooked either.