Word: bartoliã
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...Bartoli??s operatic endeavors also contain a scholarly aspect. She has made concerted efforts during her career to champion marginalized composers and underrated works that are rarely performed for the public. Her impressive commitment to the popularization of early music is evident in her work to bring the compositions of figures such as Scarlatti, Paisiello, Caldara, Caccini, Vivaldi, Gluck, and Salieri to the attentions of contemporary concert-goers and music-lovers...
...Symphony Hall performance opened with two pieces by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741): Concerto in C major, RV #114, which was played by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenement alone, followed by Bartoli??s rendition of “Gelosia” from Ottone in Villa. The audience was immediately acquainted with the displays of stunning virtuosity and exacting skill that would characterize the evening’s concert...
Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787) was represented by his “Di questa cetra” from Il Parnasi confuso which exhibited Bartoli??s sublime command of mellifluous and seamless tonal transitions and passages that hovered and drifted weightlessly through her listeners, lingering hauntingly in the air. The latter half of the concert was comprised of eleven pieces by Antonio Salieri (1750-1825) drawn from La fiera di Venezia, Armida, La secchia rapita, La finta scema, La scuola de’ gelosi, Palmira, Regina di Persia, and La cifra...
...Bartoli??s voice is characterized by its singularly impressive capacity for technically demanding passages of showmanship. She possesses a precision and command over every subtle fluctuation and movement of her voice that is paralleled by none. At points, Bartoli??s voice would soar in an ethereal airiness that seemed to originate from the height of her temples or the upper reaches of the back of her skull...
...only drawback of the concert was that her distinctively small voice was not best served by the vast hollowness of Symphony Hall. But aside from the slightly inappropriate pairing of venue and performer, Bartoli??s concert was a privilege and a gift...
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