Magdalena Kozena - Enchantment

Magdalena Kozena's voice is a wonder to listen to: her control, tone and range of colours are a real pleasure to enjoy, and her communication with the listener draws the listener in immediately. This disc is a selection chosen ostensibly by Kozena herself and which brings together a broad range of composers: Bach to Britten would be a fair description. The bias is towards the baroque, certainly the first of the two discs consists largely of early music, and even the second disc, which features Shostakovitch, Britten and Dvorak, still contains a substantial chunk of catgut and low pitch (by this I mean the instruments, and not the voice). (Amazon)

Together with Magdalena you will listen to orchestras guided by the such as Marc Minkowski, Reinhard Goebel, Charles Mackerras and many others…

tracklist:

Gounod, Charles : Cinq Mars
Nuit resplendissante
Bizet, Georges : Carmen
Les tringles des sistres tintaient "Gypsy Song"
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : Le nozze di Figaro, K 492
Voi che sapete che cosa è amor
Handel, George Frideric : Giulio Cesare, HWV 17
Che sento? oh Dio!
Se pietà di me non senti
Piangerò la sorte mia
Da tempeste il legno infranto
Rameau, Jean-Philippe : Dardanus
L'Amour, le seul Amour
Allez, jeune guerrier
Conti, Francesco B. : Languet Anima Mea
O vulnera, vita coelestis
Bach, Johann Sebastian : Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust, BWV 170
Bach, Johann Sebastian : Saint Matthew Passion, BWV 244
no 47, Erbarme dich
Handel, George Frideric : Tra le fiamme, HWV 170
Voli per l'aria chi può volare
Tra le fiamme
Bach, Johann Christoph : Ach, dass ich Wassers genug hätte
Bach, Johann Sebastian : Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd!, BWV 208 "Hunt Cantata"
Schafe können sicher weiden
Bach, Johann Sebastian : Freue dich, erlöste Schar, BWV 30
Kommt, ihr angefochtnen Sünder
Handel, George Frideric : Dixit Dominus, HWV 232
De torrente
Myslivecek, Josef : L'olimpiade
Che non mi disse un dil
Gluck, Christoph W. : Paride ed Elena
Quegli occhi belli
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus : La clemenza di Tito, K 621
Deh, per questo istante solo
Massenet, Jules : Cléopâtre
J'ai versé le poison
Respighi, Ottorino : Il tramonto
Shostakovich, Dmitri : Satires (5), Op. 109
no 3, The descendants
Britten, Benjamin : A Charm of Lullabies, Op. 41
no 2, Highland balou
Leos Janácek (1854 - 1928) : Moravian folk poetry in Song
no 17, For Whom the Flower
no 5, Lover's Likeness
no 19, Light Feather
no 16, Steadiness
no 1, Love
no 38, Parting
no 18, My Lover's Horses
Antonín Dvorák (1841 - 1904) : In folk tone, Op. 73/B 146
no 1, Good night, my darling
no 2, When a maiden was a-mowing