Alessandro Scarlatti: Con eco d'amore Elizabeth Watts

• Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
• 1 Griselda: Figlio! Tiranno! O Dio! 02:16
• 2 Endimione e Cintia: Aria Se geloso è il mio core 03:01
• 3 Non so qual più m’ingombra: Aria Nacque, col Gran Messia 08:41
• 4 Eraclea: Aria A questo nuovo affanno 03:47
• 5 La Santissima Vergine del Rosario: Aria Mentr'io godo in dolce oblio 05:48
• 6 Correa Nel Seno Amato: Aria Ombre opache 05:23
• 7 Erminia: Recitativo Qui, dove al germogliar 03:22
• 8 Erminia: Aria Torbido, irato, e nero 05:01
• 9 Aria Con voce festiva 01:29
• 10 Mitridate Eupatore: Recitativo O vane speme! - Aria Cara tomba del mio diletto 06:24
• 11 Tigrane: Aria Sussurrando il venticello 06:46
• 12 Scipione nelle Spagne: Aria Ergiti, Amor, su i vanni 02:38
• 13 Mitridate Eupatore: Aria Esci omai 03:29
• 14 Mitridate Eupatore: Aria Dolce stimolo al tuo bel cor 05:18
• 15 Venere, Amore e Ragione: Aria D'amor l'accesa face 02:43
• 16 La Statira: Aria Io non son di quei campioni 02:05
• 17 A battaglia, pensieri: Sinfonia - Aria A battaglia, pensieri 03:46
• Total Runtime 01:11:57

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Master of the Aria. With a voice described as 'one of the most beautiful Britain has seen in a generation' (International Record Review), soprano Elizabeth Watts has established herself among the brightest talents performing today. In this selection of rarely heard Alessandro Scarlatti arias from his cantatas, serenatas and operas, she is joined by the acclaimed period instrument ensemble The English Concert led by Laurence Cummings.

„Watts has put together a cracker of a programme ... the aria Cara tomba is one of several hear-stoppingly beautiful moments on the disc. Watts, Cummings and the English Consort make an ideal partnership in what is one of the most thrilling albums of its kind I ve heard in recent years; I can t recommend this recording highly enough.“ (Adrian Horsewood, Early Music Today)

“this is exciting music, revealing an enormous range of colour and emotions through both scoring and vocal line. Watts grabs every opportunity with a voice of perfect weight, pliancy and line, offering a solid middle balanced with an exciting top.” (Opera Now)

Elizabeth Watts, toprano
Mark Bennett, trumpet
Huw Daniel, violin
The English Concert
Laurence Cummings, director

Elizabeth Watts
With a voice described by International Record Review as “one of the most beautiful Britain has produced in a generation” Elizabeth Watts is “now established as one of Britain’s leading sopranos” (The Guardian). Her debut recording of Schubert Lieder for SONY Red Seal, a Gramophone magazine’s ‘Editor’s Choice’, was hailed for its “milky timbre & interpretative maturity” (FT) “technical mastery” (Gramophone) and “radiant delivery” (BBC Music). She has also released a discs of Bach Cantatas for Harmonia Mundi and and a disc of Strauss Songs for Hyperion, both to critical acclaim. Other recent recordings include CPE Bach’s Magnificat (winning a Gramophone Award) and JS Bach’s St John Passion with Bach St Matthew Passion, Mahler Symphony No 4 . In 2015 her disc of Mozart arias with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra was both BBC Music Magazine CD of the month and Classic FM CD of the week. In addition Elizabeth has just released an exciting disc of rarely heard works by Alessandro Scarlatti, many of which are premiere recordings.

Elizabeth was a chorister at Norwich Cathedral and studied archaeology at Sheffield University, before attending the Royal College of Music. She was selected by YCAT in 2004, won the 2006 Kathleen Ferrier Prize, the 2007 Outstanding Young Artist Award at the Cannes “MIDEM Classique Awards” and gained international recognition at the 2007 BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition, winning the Rosenblatt Recital Song Prize. From 2005- 2007 she was a member of English National Opera’s Young Singers Programme, where she appeared as Papagena Die Zauberflöte, Barbarina Figaro, Music and Hope in Monteverdi L’Orfeo and in Purcell King Arthur. She currently is an Artist in Residence at the Southbank Centre, London and the recipient of a Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award.

A former BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist, Elizabeth is much in demand as a recitalist. She has given recitals at the UK’s leading venues, including Wigmore Hall, Bridgewater Hall, Purcell Room, Aldeburgh Festival and Cheltenham Festival. Further afield, Elizabeth has performed at prestigious venues and festivals such as the Hardanger Festival in Norway, with the Orquesta de Radio Televisión Española in Madrid, at the Bad Kissinger Summer Festival, at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris and at the Tonhalle, Zürich. Future plans include returning to the Concertgebouw Amsterdam and a number of appearances at Wigmore Hall, London with pianists Julius Drake and Roger Vignoles.

Other plans this season and beyond include Countess Le nozze di Figaro for Welsh National Opera; Marzelline Fidelio in a new production by Dimitri Tcherniakov at Theater an der Wien with Marc Minkowski for the 2016 Wiener Festwochen; Minerva Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria with Academy of Ancient Music; Vaughan Williams Symphony No 3 with the LSO and Sir Mark Elder and a European tour of Messiah including Lisbon and Barcelona.

Recent concerts have included The Last Night of the Proms in 2014, Mozart Requiem with the London Symphony Orchestra; Mass in C Minor with Akademie für Alte Musik and Daniel Reuss and with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and Olari Elts; Brahms Requiem with the LPO and Yannick Nezét-Séguin; Bach St Matthew and St John Passions (concert and recording) with the Academy of Ancient Music and Richard Egarr; Beethoven Symphony No 9 and Haydn Scena di Berenice with the SCO; Mahler Symphonies 2 and 4 and Strauss Lieder with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra; No 4 with the LSO and Michael Tilson Thomas and the Philharmonia Orchestra and Vladimir Ashkenazy; Vaughan Williams Sea Symphony with the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra and the BBC SSO and Kurtág Kafka Fragments for Soprano and Violin with the Hebrides Ensemble, as well as performances with Bachakademie Stuttgart and Hans-Christoph Rademan and with RIAS Kammerchor, Berlin and Ottavio Dantone and Handel L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato with the Mark Morris Dance Group at Teatro Real, Madrid.

Operatic appearances have included Zerlina Don Giovanni and Marzelline Fidelio for the Royal Opera, Covent Garden; Susanna Le Nozze di Figaro for Santa Fe Opera and Welsh National Opera, for whom Elizabeth has also sung Pamina Die Zauberflöte and Fiordiligi Così fan tutte and for Glyndebourne on Tour, Almirena in Handel Rinaldo.

Elizabeth was made an honorary Doctor of Music by Sheffield University in 2013.

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