Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, George Frideric Handel, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Leonardo Vinci, Antonio Vivaldi
Performer: Hélène Brunet
Orchestra: L’Harmonie des Ssaisons
Conductor: Eric Milnes
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: ATMA
Catalogue: ACD22808
Release: 2020
Size: 269 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Handel: Scipione, HWV 20
01. Scoglio d’immota fronte
Vivaldi: La fede tradita e vendicata, RV 712
02. Sin nel placido soggiorno
Vinci: L’Elpidia
03. D’alme luce
04. Pupillette vezzosette
Vivaldi: Juditha triumphans 2e partie, RV 644
05. Jam non procul ab axe
06. Armatae face, et anguibus
Vivaldi: Nulla in Mundo Pax Sincera, RV 630
07. Nulla in Mundo Pax Sincera
Bach: Cantate BWV 74 Wer mich liebet, der wird mein Wort halten
08. Komm, mein Herze steht dir offen
Bach: Cantate BWV 208 Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd
09. Schafe können sicher weiden
Bach: Cantate BWV 82a Ich habe genug
10. Ich habe genug
Mozart: Mitridate, Re di Ponto, K.87
11. Act II: Lungi da te mio bene
Mozart: Exsultate, Jubilate, K.165
12. Alleluja
13. Mozart: Solfeggio no 2 en fa majeur
For her first solo album with ATMA Classique, the celebrated Canadian soprano Hélène Brunet has chosen baroque and classical arias that have always been part of her life and for which she feels a deep affinity. Under the direction of Eric Milnes, the period ensemble L’Harmonie des saisons accompanies her in this program featuring music by Bach Handel, Vivaldi, Mozart and Leonardo Vinci, whose two arias are recorded here as world premieres.
“I remember being completely enamored, at fifteen, with Vivaldi’s famous aria Nulla in mundo pax sincera, attempting head voice singing for the first time and discovering the peculiar lightheaded effects of this new vocal technique. Being able to record this sublime aria twenty years later is a dream come true”, says Hélène Brunet.
Hélène Brunetis hailed by the critics as “a singer of tremendous quality” with “a voice of perfect beauty and sincere expression”. Recognized for her interpretations of Bach, Handel, and Mozart, her repertoire extends from Baroque to the music of the 20th and 21st century. She sings at the Tage Alter Musik Regensburg, with the American Bach Soloists in San Francisco, the American Classical Orchestra at Lincoln Center in New York City, and with the Orchestre Métropolitain under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who says, “Hélène Brunet is the embodiment of class, refinement, and purity”.