Magdalena Kožená, La Cetra Barockorchester Basel & Andrea Marcon

Andrea Marcon conducts La Cetra Barockorchester

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Artist: Magdalena Kožená, La Cetra Barockorchester Basel & Andrea Marcon - Soloist: Magdalena Kožená - Conductor: Andrea Marcon - Composer: Marco Uccellini, Claudio Monteverdi & Tarquinio Merula - Orchestra: La Cetra Barockorchester Basel
Verbier Festival, Switzerland | 74 min | 2018 | TV-G

Andrea Marcon conducts La Cetra Barockorchester

Andrea Marcon conducts the La Cetra Barockorchester of Basel, accompanied by mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená at the 25th anniversary edition of the Swiss Verbier Festival in 2018. Kožená’s musical range seems expandable to infinity: whether adopting Cole Porter or Duparc, Mahler or Martinu, her mezzo-soprano voice works wonders. However, within the richness of her career, baroque music remains a favourite repertoire, as proven once more by this recital in the Church of Verbier filmed in the summer of 2018. It demonstrates a remarkable simplicity: alternation of vocal and short sparkling instrumental works. The programme illustrates “blindness in love”, a theme which is best embodied by the magnificent Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda. Magdalena Kožená here changes the Church into a theater hall: on a sleekly decorated stage, with a moving naivety, the singer seizes a few accessories to improvise the narrative and the medieval legend is revived by her hallucinated expression. An extremely beautiful moment.

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