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Placido Domingo - My Christmas (2015)

Posted By: Pisulik
Placido Domingo - My Christmas (2015)

Placido Domingo - My Christmas (2015)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Tracks) +cue, log, artworks - 301 MB | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 162 MB | 00:46:31
Classical, Vocal, Christmas | Label: Sony Classical | Release Year: 2015

Placido Domingo's forays into lighter music are always satisfying, thanks to his genuine enthusiasm and charismatic presentation, along with the ever-handsome voice. Often it’s also because of his choice of duet partners from the international-pop-music world, with fresh sounds and phrasing that spark his musical interest, or instrumentalists that offer him a new palette of supporting timbres to play with. For his newest Christmas recital, Domingo presents a mixture of well-known carols and classic songs along with some rarities and a new composition by Plácido Domingo, Jr., who also lends his voice to a duet of “White Christmas.” The more straightforward renditions, with Domingo père’s essentially classical timbre and phrasing on display, are particularly satisfying. He takes high notes even if they aren’t particularly high like a tenor, with exciting thrust and amplitude. The best track is “Astro del cielo,” which allows Domingo access to a ringing sound and sensual legato. (It’s a Puccini solfège, set to Angelo Meli’s popular Italian lyrics for “Silent Night” by Puccini scholar Michael Kaye and conductor Eugene Kohn.) Mozart’s “Ave verum corpus,” with Domingo backed by a large chorus, is similarly attractive.

For the lovely, minor-key “Guardian Angels,” penned by Harpo Marx and made famous by Mario Lanza, Tony Award-winning Idina Menzel holds her own against Domingo’s full-throated singing, with her cultivated and clean sound and powerful presentation. Although he is gracious as can be, Domingo overshadows most of the other female partners, especially the German Helene Fischer, whose breathy and groaning voice adds little to “What Child is This?” New Zealand’s Hayley Westenra sounds sugary and whiny in “Loving Christmas,” a new song by Domingo, Jr., while Jackie Evancho is hopelessly overshadowed in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Pie Jesu.” Domingo offers a showcase to singers from the Los Angeles Opera’s Domingo–Colburn–Stein Young Artists Program, but with its clumsy modulations and comic octave displacements, the arrangement of “God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen” hovers between humor and camp. And even with its lovely solo trumpet and humming chorus, “It Came upon the Midnight Clear” just sounds awkward in Domingo’s heavily accented pronunciation.

TRACKLIST

01. Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (with Vincent Niclo)
02. Guardian Angels (with Idina Menzel)
03. Silent Night (with the Piano Guys)
04. What Child is This (with Helene Fischer)
05. God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (with The Voices of Los Angeles Opera)
06. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
07. Pie Jesu from Requiem (with Jackie Evancho)
08. Astro del Cielo
09. Loving Christmas with You (with Hayley Westenra)
10. It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
11. White Chrismas (with Placido Domingo Jr.)
12. Ave Verum Corpus, K618
13. Feliz Navidad (with Banda El Recodo)

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Placido Domingo / My Christmas

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