Countertenors

Vivaldi : La stravaganza (12 concerti, Op. 4)

Allegro

Tempesta di mare

Chamber Concerto in D Major, RV 95 "La pastorella": II. Largo (Live at Fondation Singer-Polignac)

Chamber Concerto in G Minor, RV 107: III. Allegro (Live at Fondation Singer-Polignac)

Ensemble Inegal 
Prague Baroque Soloists
conductor Adam Viktora
Vivaldi in Bohemia 
Antonio Vivaldi - Salve Regina - Et Jesum benedictum - Gabriela Eibenova
world premiere recording of Magnificat RV 610b

Ensemble Inegal - Prague Baroque Soloists - Vivaldi in Bohemia - Salve Regina - Et Jesum benedictum

Stabat Mater - Vivaldi

Gelido in ogni vena - Farnace (A.Vivaldi)

Vivaldi: Orlando finto pazzo (Vivaldi Edition)
Antonio Vivaldi (Composer), Alessandro De Marchi (Conductor), Academia Montis Regalis (Orchestra), Antonio Abete (Performer), Gemma Bertagnolli (Performer), Marina Comparato (Performer), Sonia Prina (Performer), Manuela Custer (Performer), Martin Oro (Performer), Marianna Pizzolato (Performer) - Naive, 2004

Vivaldi  L'Orlando Finto Pazzo, Aria Bis (Act I, Scene 12)

This playlist is a preview of Vivaldi 6 Bassoon Concertos performed by Gustavo Núñez and Academy of St Martin in the Fields. This SACD album is to be released on February 2016. This album combines six bassoon concerti by Vivaldi, performed by Uruguayan bassoonist Gustavo Núñez, who holds the position of principal bassoonist with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and who is considered one of the best bassoonists of his generation. He is accompanied by the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, by many considered as one of the world’s most admired chamber orchestras.
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Vivaldi - Bassoon Concerto In B - Flat Major, RV 501  La Notte - Presto

Da Camera E Da Chiesa With You For 2000th Time

Psalom No. 112 A solis ortu usque ad occasum

Nunc Jubilare - Alleluia (Clarae Stelle - Vivaldi)

A. Vivaldi: RV96 - II. Largo

Philippe Jaroussky, Nicolas Takov

This recording is taken from a broadcast of Radio France, December 14, 2012, "La coupe du monde de Raymond Domenech."

To listen to the complete show: The free podcast is available on their site.

No infringement of copyright is intended.



Ombra mai fu - G. F. Händel, Serse

Orlando  Furioso - Antonio Vivaldi, RV728 
Libretto: Ludovico Ariosto

*Sol da te*
Ruggiero's aria

Sol da te mio dolce amore 
questo core 
avrà pace avrà conforto

Le tue vaghe luci belle
son le stelle 
onde Amor mi guida in porto.

Performance: 12.06.2004, Friedenskirche Sanssouci

From the broadcast of Classical Radio rbb on Feb 17, 2013. 
No infringement of copyright is intended.

"Sol da te" - Antonio Vivaldi - Philippe Jaroussky

Vivaldi “Concerto For Strings In D Minor, RV 129 ‘Madrigalesco’” (Budapest Strings, 1991)

Matteo EL KHODR
countertenor

Since he was a little boy, Matteo has always been attracted by things that weren't interesting for other boys of his age: theatre, drama, old black and white movies, old books of his grandparent's library, old discs of old Egyptian singers and divas, and classical music and opera.  Seeing this attraction to arts, his parents always backed him up. He was taught to play piano during years, and started imitating voices he was hearing: Carmen from Bizet, Violetta from La Traviata (Verdi), Leonora from La Forza del destino (Verdi), Il Barbier di Siviglia (Rossini), slept listening to Magnificat (Bach) and woke up on the Requiem (Mozart) and the Gloria (Vivaldi).
When he turned 17, he was singing with this same child voice, this same thin voice who was becoming more and more deep, round, mature. He didn't know it but he became a countertenor, a rare male voice, a heritage from the castrati voices from the 17th century in Italy!
Due to luck, coincidences, and fate, Matteo found himself at age 18 signing a huge contract with Universal Music France and moved there to learn music, to become an opera singer, to travel and sing on the biggest stages of Europe.
He released his first album "Matteo Haute-Contre", a "Thank You" album to all the inspirations who led him to fulfill his destiny: Bach, Bellini, Vivaldi, Purcell, Verdi...
After a big tour in Europe, singing for the Communauté Européene de Bruxelles, to the Queen of Belgium, to Vienna, Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Paris, London, Verona...and Lebanon (Festival de Beiteddine), and several masterclasses with Andreas Scholl, Robert Expert, Fabrice di Falco, Matteo entered the Ecole Normale Superieure de Musique in the class of Agnes Mellon, soprano of Les Arts Florissants (William Christie) and wife of Dominique Visse, famous french countertenor, in the department of the vocal perfection: baroque era and composers. 
In September 2011, Matteo integrated the Choeur de l'Orchestre de Paris (Solo Alto-countertenor) and is scheduled to perform in Salle Pleyel all year long: Gloria (Poulenc), Daphnis et Chloé (Ravel), Peer Gynt (Grieg) and solo masterpieces of oratorios: Semele (Haendel), Juditha Triumphans (Vivaldi) under the direction of the composers: Daniel Baremboim, Paavo Jarvi, James Colon, Ricardo Chailly.
In Christmas, he did the final concerts in two sacred festivals, the Festival of Saint-Chapelle in Paris and the Beirut Chants Festival of Sacred music.

In 2012 invited to sing in Munich's Gasteig Carl-Orff hall, and won the public price in the famous Concours International de Chant Baroque de Froville, then is Mandane in the production of Artaserse by Leonardo Vinci, with Philippe Jaroussky, Max Emanuel Cencic, Franco Fagioli under the direction of M.Diego Fasolis and Concerto Koln in l'Opera National de Lorraine (Nancy, France).
In 2014/2015 Matteo and les Folies Francoises with the collaboration of La Cité de la Musique and Salle Pleyel are recreating the first opera of Mozart: Apollo Und Hyacinthus.


Gelido in ogni vena - Farnace (A.Vivaldi)

Matteo Countertenor

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