Juan Diego Florez: Bel Canto Spectacular

Juan Diego Flórez, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana – Daniel Oren

Donizetti: La figlia del reggimento - Amici miei, che allegro giorno!
Bellini: I puritani - Finì… me lassa! … Vieni fra queste braccia
Donizetti: La Favorite - La maîtresse du roi? …Ange si pur; L’elisir d’amore - Venti scudi?, Una furtiva lagrima; Linda di Chamounix - Linda! Linda! … Da quel dì che t’incontrai; Linda! Si ritirò … Se tanto in ira agl’uomini
Rossini: Il viaggio a Reims - Di che son reo? … D’alma celeste
Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia - Partir degg’io ... T’amo qual s’ama un angelo
Rossini: Otello - Ah vieni, nel tuo sangue vendicherò le offese

Wholenote Discoveries - March 2009
Juan Diego Florez may be one of the most celebrated tenors of his generation, but with the great bulk his repertoire coming from the work of only three composers – Rossini, Donizetti and Bellini – it must be difficult for him to come up with new arias to record. So on the disc “Bel Canto Spectacular” sampling works from those same three composers we get to once again hear his nine high C’s in the famous aria from Donizetti’s Daughter of the Regiment – but this time in Italian instead of French. We also get five wonderful bel canto duets, which pair him with five fantastic singers, including Placido Domingo. With a balance of usual and the unusual repertoire, this makes a charming disc that, with the variety of singers, never gets monotonous. Seth Estrin

Price: $15.98