Cecilia Bartoli: Mission (2012) [Blu-ray]

Autumn 2012 marks the release of Mission, a sensational new album from the world’s best-selling classical artist, Cecilia Bartoli, and a project with international politics, religious conflict, diplomatic secrecy, spying and sensational music at its heart.

The album showcases the music of a little-known Italian composer and will include solo arias of various moods and styles, several duets, solo numbers with chorus - all sung in Italian - and instrumental interludes that create an organic transition from one piece to the next and an arc that reaches from the beginning to the end of the album.

Such was the appeal of the project that longtime Bartoli admirer and global best-selling author Donna Leon decided to write a mystery novel - Jewels of Paradise - to accompany Cecilia’s album, which uses the mystery surrounding the composer’s story as the centre of its plot. Jewels of Paradise will be released simultaneously with Cecilia Bartoli’s album in English (UK and USA), German, French, Dutch, Spanish and Catalan.

Among the distinguished names appearing on Mission is star French counter-tenor Philippe Jaroussky who features in a first-time collaboration with Cecilia on a selection of duets, alongside the Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera, the period orchestra I Barocchisti from Lugano, Switzerland, and conductor Diego Fasolis.

A cinematographic vision of the album directed by Olivier Simonnet and filmed in the historic Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors) and in the gardens of the Chateau de Versailles

Треклист:
Schiere invitte, non tardate (from Alarico il Baltha)
Ogni core può sperar (from Servio Tullio)
Ove son? Chi m'aita? In mezzo all'ombre...Dal mio petto (from Niobe)
Più non v'ascondo (from Tassilone)
Amami, e vederai (from Niobe)
T'abbraccio, mia Diva...Ti stringo, mio Nume (from Niobe)
Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)
Mie fide schiere, all'armi!...Suoni, tuoni, il suolo scuota (from I trionfi del fato)
Sposa, mancar mi sento...Deh non far colle tue lagrime (from Tassilone)
Non prendo consiglio (from La superbia d'Alessandro)
Si, si, riposa, o caro...Palpitanti sfere belle (from Alarico il Baltha)
Notte amica al cieco Dio (from La libertà contenta)
Combatton quest'alma (from I trionfi del fato)
Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)
A facile vittoria (from Tassilone)
Tra le guerre e le vittorie (from La superbia d'Alessandro)
Foschi crepuscoli (from La libertà contenta)
Dell'alma stanca a raddolcir le tempre...Sfere amiche, or date al labbro (from Niobe)
La cerasta più terribile (from La lotta d'Hercole con Acheloo)
Serena, o mio bel sole...Mia fiamma/Mio ardore (from Niobe)
Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)
Dal tuo labbro amor m'invita (from Tassilone)
Deh stancati, o sorte (from La libertà contenta)
Svenati, struggiti, combatti, suda (from La libertà contenta)
Padre, s'è colpa in lui (from Tassilone)
Timori, ruine (from Le rivali concordi)
Morirò fra strazi e scempi (from Henrico Leone)
Non si parli che di fede (from Marco Aurelio)