Porque existe otro querer Marina Viotti & Gabriel Bianco

• Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924): 3 songs, Op. 7:
• 1 Fauré: 3 songs, Op. 7: I. Après un rêve (Arr. for Mezzo-Soprano & Guitar by Gabriel Bianco) 02:55
• 3 Songs, Op. 18:
• 2 Fauré: 3 Songs, Op. 18: III. Automne (Arr. for Mezzo-Soprano & Guitar by Gabriel Bianco) 03:16
• 2 Songs , Op. 27:
• 3 Fauré: 2 Songs , Op. 27: I. Chanson d'amour (Arr. for Mezzo-Soprano & Guitar by Gabriel Bianco) 02:12
• 3 Songs, Op. 23:
• 4 Fauré: 3 Songs, Op. 23: I. Les Berceaux (Arr. for Mezzo-Soprano & Guitar by Gabriel Bianco) 02:52
• Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912): Nuit d'Espagne (Arr. for Mezzo-Soprano & Guitar by Gabriel Bianco):
• 5 Massenet: Nuit d'Espagne (Arr. for Mezzo-Soprano & Guitar by Gabriel Bianco) 03:57
• Isolina Carrillo (1907 - 1996): Dos gardenias (Arr. for Mezzo-Soprano, Guitar & Alto Saxophone by Gabriel Bianco):
• 6 Carrillo: Dos gardenias (Arr. for Mezzo-Soprano, Guitar & Alto Saxophone by Gabriel Bianco) 04:10
• Federico Moreno Torroba (1891 - 1982): Madroños:
• 7 Torroba: Madroños 03:07
• Carlos Eleta Almarán (1918 - 2013): Historia de un amor (Arr. for Mezzo-Soprano & Guitar by Gabriel Bianco):
• 8 Almarán: Historia de un amor (Arr. for Mezzo-Soprano & Guitar by Gabriel Bianco) 03:26
• Léo Ferré (1916 - 1993): La Vie d'artiste (Arr. for Mezzo-Soprano & Guitar by Gabriel Bianco):
• 9 Ferré: La Vie d'artiste (Arr. for Mezzo-Soprano & Guitar by Gabriel Bianco) 02:58
• Erik Satie (1866 - 1925): 6 Gnossiennes:
• 10 Satie: 6 Gnossiennes: I. Lent (Arr. for Guitar by Roland Dyens) 03:22
• Manuel de Falla (1876 - 1946): Siete canciones populares españolas (Arr. for Mezzo-Soprano & Guitar by Gabriel Bianco):
• 11 Falla: Siete canciones populares españolas (Arr. for Mezzo-Soprano & Guitar by Gabriel Bianco): I. El paño moruno 01:15
• 12 Falla: Siete canciones populares españolas (Arr. for Mezzo-Soprano & Guitar by Gabriel Bianco): II. Seguidilla murciana 01:33
• 13 Falla: Siete canciones populares españolas (Arr. for Mezzo-Soprano & Guitar by Gabriel Bianco): III. Asturiana 02:48
• 14 Falla: Siete canciones populares españolas (Arr. for Mezzo-Soprano & Guitar by Gabriel Bianco): IV. Jota 03:00
• 15 Falla: Siete canciones populares españolas (Arr. for Mezzo-Soprano & Guitar by Gabriel Bianco): V. Nana 03:03
• 16 Falla: Siete canciones populares españolas (Arr. for Mezzo-Soprano & Guitar by Gabriel Bianco): VI. Canción 01:24
• 17 Falla: Siete canciones populares españolas (Arr. for Mezzo-Soprano & Guitar by Gabriel Bianco): VII. Polo 01:38
• Inès Halimi (b. 1993): Quiero:
• 18 Halimi: Quiero 02:48
• Jules Massenet: Élégie (Arr. for Mezzo-Soprano, Guitar & Cello by Gabriel Bianco):
• 19 Massenet: Élégie (Arr. for Mezzo-Soprano, Guitar & Cello by Gabriel Bianco) 03:07
• Gérard Jouannest (1933 - 2018), Jacques Brel (1929 - 1978): La chanson des vieux amants (Arr. for Mezzo-Soprano & Guitar by Gabriel Bianco):
• 20 Jouannest, Brel: La chanson des vieux amants (Arr. for Mezzo-Soprano & Guitar by Gabriel Bianco) 04:39
• Gioachino Rossini (1792 - 1868): La danza (Arr. for Mezzo-Soprano & Guitar by Gabriel Bianco):
• 21 Rossini: La danza (Arr. for Mezzo-Soprano & Guitar by Gabriel Bianco) 03:08
• Pauline Viardot (1821 - 1910): Die Sterne, VWV 1059 (Arr. for Mezzo-Soprano, Guitar & Cello by Gabriel Bianco):
• 22 Viardot: Die Sterne, VWV 1059 (Arr. for Mezzo-Soprano, Guitar & Cello by Gabriel Bianco) 03:51
• Total Runtime 01:04:29

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Marina Viotti’s first solo recital, ‘Porque existe otro querer’ (Because there’s another lover), combines French and Hispanic romances in an exploration of the chromatic kaleidoscope of love’s feelings.

Marina Viotti is familiar with crossover, and here, once again with the guitarist Gabriel Bianco, she performs new arrangements of pieces by Fauré, Falla, Massenet, Isolina Carrillo and Jacques Brel.

These songs, so different in tone, style and aesthetic, share the same instrumental colour and find coherence in unexpected relationships, and they emerge as so many variations on the theme of love.

Her voice, beautifully mellow in songs to texts by Léo Ferré, Armand Silvestre and Sully Prudhomme, also brings out the fire of Manuel de Falla’s Siete Canciones and the languid sensuality of Dos Gardenias. Marina Viotti’s flamboyancy, together with Gabriel Bianco’s fine sense of colour, exploring all the nuances of light and shade, is magic indeed.

Marina Viotti, mezzo-soprano
Gabriel Bianco, guitar
Leonard Disselhorst, cello
Gerry Lopez, saxophone

Marina Viotti
“A real personality, an artist through and through” (Nuances magazine).

In April 2019 Marina Viotti was awarded the “Best Young Singer of the year” at the prestigious International Opera Awards in London. She also won the 3rd prize at the “Concours de Genève” in 2016, and the International Belcanto Prize at the Rossini Festival in Wildbad in 2015.

After studying flute, Marina Viotti first experimented with jazz, gospel and heavy metal. She got a master’s degree in philosophy and literature, before she began her vocal training with Heidi Brunner in Vienna and continued at the Lausanne University of Music in the class of Brigitte Balleys. She completed her studies with a diploma as a soloist and studied Belcanto with Raul Gimenez and Alessandra Rossi.

Marina Viotti’s first steps on the operatic stage after her studies took her to the Lausanne Opera, the Lucerne Theatre and, as part of the young ensemble, to the Grand Théâtre de Genève. She made her debut as Isabella (L’italiana in Algeri) at the Rossini Festival in Bad Wildbad in 2015.

Since then, she sang roles roles like Olga (Onegin) and Bradamante (Alcina) in Opera du Rhin, Elisabetta (Maria Stuarda) and Isabella in Lucerne, Rosina (Barbiere) at the Bolshoi and in Dresden, Melibea (Viaggio a Reims) in Valencia and at the Liceu, where she also debuted Nicklausse/Muse (Hoffman Tales) last season. In 2021-22, she made her debut as Dorabella (Cosi) in a new production at the Staatsoper Berlin under the direction of Barenboim, and will sing her first Cherubino (Nozze) there later this season. Marina will also come back to la Scala, this time singing Maddalena (Rigoletto), a role she sang already in Zürich and Münich Staatsoper. Further debuts include Orlovsky (Fledermaus) in Firenze Maggio Musicale, Arsace (Semiramide) in Lausanne, and Alceste (title role) in Roma.

Marina Viotti is a sought-after concert singer. Her concert repertoire includes among others: Mozart C Messe, The Seven last Words of our Saviour (Haydn), Beethoven’s Mass in D Major and Symphony No. 9, Kindertotenlieder (Mahler), Der Rose Pilgerfahrt (Schumann), La petite messe solennelle (Rossini), Verdi’s Requiem, El amor Brujo (De Falla), Le Poème de l’amour et de la mer (Chausson), under the baton of maestro Corboz, maestro Dudamel, or maestro De Billy, to name but a few.

Moreover, Marina Viotti is regularly invited to festivals all over the world, to present her very uniquerecital/shows such as “Love has no borders” (voice, piano, sax and contrebasse), “Porque existe otro querer” (duo voice/guitar) or “About last night”(cabaret).

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