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Among living performers, the Three Tenors, singer Andrea Bocelli, Levine with his many Metropolitan Opera productions and the vivacious soprano Cecilia Bartoli are just a few of the leading DVD sellers. Cases in point: Levine's two-disc version of Tristan and Isoldewith the Met, featuring tenor Ben Heppner and soprano Jane Eaglen, on Deutsche Grammophon ($39.98), and Cecilia Bartoli Sings Mozart and Haydn, a two-disc set with the Concentus Musicus Wien conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, on BBC/Opus Arte...
...Bartoli thinks she knows one of the secrets behind the rise of DVDS. "This is a language young people understand," she says. "It's the language of technology, of being in front of a screen." For this reason among many others, she says, "I think it's the future." Increasingly, it's also the present. --Reported by Lina Lofaro
Respecting the integrity and historical circumstances of the early music she promotes, Bartoli has collaborated extensively with several outstanding period instrument orchestras, like the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, whose aim is to adhere as closely as possible to the musical conditions in which early music was originally conceived and performed...
...playfulness and effusive passion for the music Bartoli projected through the hall was palpable. Her interpretations were sensitive and delicately layered—negotiating the perfect balance between sharply sculpted eloquence and opulent bravura...
Perhaps the most thrilling moments of her performance were her displays of extraordinarily executed coloratura in her various diminutions where a number of short notes propel ascending or descending progressions in steps or leaps. Bartoli revels in her mastery of such decorative devices and florid ornamentation as complex scales, arpeggios, trills, gruppetti, and elegantly graduated crescendos. Bartoli is a virtuoso of fioritura. Emerging undetected out of silence, her voice creeps and swells into the warm apex of an exquisitely delivered cresendo—the audience melts under the radiance of her sonic glow...