Philippe Jaroussky, Ensemble Artaserse - Benedetto Ferrari: Musiche Varie (2003)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 312 Mb | Total time: 64:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ambroisie | AMB9932D | Recorded: 2002
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 312 Mb | Total time: 64:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ambroisie | AMB9932D | Recorded: 2002
Is it possible that a recorded performance could be too much of a good thing? Well, such an assessment probably would be unfair to a singer as gifted and in command of such astonishing technical skills as countertenor Philippe Jaroussky, so impressively exhibited on this surprising and thoroughly mesmerizing CD. While you may not have heard of this French singer, he's part of a relatively new group of performers–calling themselves Ensemble Artaserse–who have recently joined to explore their mutual interests in "early 17th-century Italian music". These songs by Benedetto Ferrari provide the perfect medium for Jaroussky's art–and it's quite formidable in both purity of tone and subtlety of expression as well as the near-inhuman technical feats he brandishes as naturally as breathing.