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Verdi Galante CD
 Inessa GALANTE (soprano)
“ARIAS FROM VERDI’S LATE OPERAS”
CARMINA BALTICA is a new private Latvian-Swedish recording company. General producer Gunnar Ljungdhal (Sweden) and executive manager Inna Davidova (Latvia) established the company to promote records of the Baltic musicians and foreign ones, who work actively with the Baltic concert agencies and opera theatres.
As the first singer to record CARMINA BALTICA has chosen Inessa Galante. The disc was released in cooperation with CAMPION RECORDS (UK). Since 1989 Inessa Galante has been its star, having 9 CDs under the CAMPION RECORDS label (she was also awarded Gold, then Platinum discs for the continuing sales of her CD Debut, released in 1995).
This CD was recorded in January 2003 at Riga Recording Studio Latvia with the participation of Latvian National Symphony Orchestra and Choir of the Stockholm School Riga, conductor Terje Mikkelsen (Norway). Engineer Kârlis Pinnis.
The disc got the GRAMOPHONE editor choice (October, 2003).
...Verdi’s heroines in these later operatic works need to express emotions varying from introspective remembrance and yearning, through prayer, to love and desperation. Such demands on a soprano require her to have a rich palette of vocal colours, secure technique with long breathed phrases, sufficient heft to either soar above or even ‘ride’ the orchestra whilst conveying the character and feelings of the role and the drama within the work. I labour these points because these are the vocal attributes exhibited by Galante on this disc. Since that ‘Debut’ album the middle of her voice has lowered, albeit with a slight loosening, to give a rich nut-brown center without loss of top or vocal security above the stave. The heft previously held in reserve is here used to good effect, together with interpretative maturity. The aforesaid qualities, make for a truly outstanding disc. Robert J Farr (UK)
…The Latvian soprano Inessa Galante has a splendid voice, warm and rich and ringingly secure in fortes. She can also float soft pianos, and these have just a touch of flutter, which is at the moment quite attractive. Christopher Howell (UK)
Un ballo in Maschera,‘ Ma dall’ arido stelo divulsa’. ‘Morro, ma prima in grazia’
La forza del destino, ‘La Vergine degli angeli’. ‘Pace, pace mio Dio’
Aida, ‘Ritorna vincitor’. ‘O patria mia’
Don Carlo, ‘Tu che le vanitá’
Otello, ‘Piangea cantando’..‘Salce, salce’ (Willow Song) ‘Ave Maria’
Falstaff,‘ Sul fil d’un soffio etesio’
Requiem, ‘Libera me’
CAMPION RRCD 1349
[72.52min]
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