Sonya Yoncheva - Rebirth (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

In recent years, Sonya Yoncheva, who is celebrated worldwide for her fantastic voice, has inspired with important roles such as Norma, Violetta in La Traviata, Elisabetta in Don Carlo or Tosca at the most important opera houses in the world. She is currently considered the best violetta (traviata), but her repertoire is broad.

She started her singing career with Baroque music, and at the Salzburg Festival in 2018 she successfully returned to her Baroque, even early Baroque roots with the Poppea from Monteverdi's masterpiece. In 2020 she had great success with a Baroque program, which is the basis for her new album. On" Rebirth", her fourth solo album for Sony Classical, Sonya Yoncheva spans a wide, fascinating arc over several centuries - from some of the most haunting arias of 17th-century Italian opera to the most dramatic arias of modern Italian opera. The music of the 20th century, Baroque music from Spain and English songs by Dowland and Gibbons from this period to folk songs and music by Abba. Sonya Yoncheva confesses, " Certain musical styles have remained surprisingly close to us in 500 years, combining their emotional radiance with great simplicity. I want to highlight this timeless quality, the feeling of unlimited freedom. It is like a call to rebirth, to renewal, which the world desperately needs." Programmatically performs "Rebirth" from the beginning of the Opera from Italy, with music by Monteverdi (from Poppea), Francesco Cavalli (from the Opera Xerse), his student Barbara Strozzi and his heirs Alessandro Stradella to England, to John Dowland (Come Again, Sweet Love) and Orlando Gibbons (The Silver Swan), as well as English composer of Italian descent, Alfonso Ferrabosco the Younger, whose father brought the Italian Madrigal art to England. Also from Baroque Spain of the 17th century. At the beginning of the 20th century, "Rebirth" features rarely heard music - by Santiago de Murcia, Thomás de Torrejon y Velazco and José Marin.

Yoncheva cleverly combines Baroque music with a Bulgarian folk song, an instrumental piece by the Spaniard Simon Diaz (1928-2014) and an aria from a modern Spanish opera (El Prometeo by Leonadro Garcia Alarcon, born 1976). For the end of the album, Yoncheva chose the Abba song Like an Angel Passing through my Room, which she finds thematically related to the motet Hear Me, O God by Alfonso Ferrabosco. Sonya Yoncheva is accompanied on her successful musical journey through the centuries by the Cappella Mediterranea under the direction of Leonardo Garcia Alarcon

TRACKLIST


1. Sonya Yoncheva, Cappella Mediterranea & Leonardo García Alarcón – Queste lagrime e sospiri (05:01)
2. Cappella Mediterranea & Leonardo García Alarcón – O rosetta, che rosetta, SV 237 (02:29)
3. Sonya Yoncheva, Cappella Mediterranea & Leonardo García Alarcón – E te pur vero … Luci mie, voi che miraste (04:52)
4. Sonya Yoncheva, Cappella Mediterranea & Leonardo García Alarcón – The Silver Swan (02:25)
5. Cappella Mediterranea & Leonardo García Alarcón – Voglio di vita uscir, SV 337: Voglio di vita uscir (03:20)
6. Sonya Yoncheva, Cappella Mediterranea & Leonardo García Alarcón – Voglio di vita uscir, SV 337: S'apre la tomba (03:24)
7. Sonya Yoncheva, Cappella Mediterranea & Leonardo García Alarcón – Ojos, pues me desdeñáis (02:55)
8. Sonya Yoncheva, Cappella Mediterranea & Leonardo García Alarcón – Y a tus plantas Nisea (From "El Prometeo: Air de Minerva") (03:16)
9. Cappella Mediterranea & Leonardo García Alarcón – Pasaje del olvido (02:14)
10. Sonya Yoncheva, Cappella Mediterranea & Leonardo García Alarcón – Zableyalo mi agance (06:01)
11. Cappella Mediterranea & Leonardo García Alarcón – L'Egisto: Sinfonia della notte (02:43)
12. Sonya Yoncheva, Cappella Mediterranea & Leonardo García Alarcón – Oblivion soave (03:47)
13. Sonya Yoncheva, Cappella Mediterranea & Leonardo García Alarcón – L'Eraclito amoroso (05:08)
14. Cappella Mediterranea & Leonardo García Alarcón – Tarantela española (02:54)
15. Sonya Yoncheva, Cappella Mediterranea & Leonardo García Alarcón – Hear me, O God (04:17)
16. Sonya Yoncheva, Cappella Mediterranea & Leonardo García Alarcón – Come Again, Sweet Love Doth Now Invite (03:30)
17. Sonya Yoncheva, Cappella Mediterranea & Leonardo García Alarcón – No hay que decirle el primor (02:46)
18. Sonya Yoncheva, Cappella Mediterranea & Leonardo García Alarcón – Like an Angel Passing Through My Room (06:20)




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