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Max Cencic, Yuri Minienko, Valer Sabadus, Xavier Sabata, Vince Yi, Armonia Atenea, George Petrou – The 5 Countertenors (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:45 minutes | 1,16 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.
‘The 5 Countertenors’ draws together five of the world’s most renowned countertenors, who bring the rich world of baroque opera to life.
Described in their heyday as “beyond all creatures upon earth.” (William Congreve, 1700), countertenors are once again firmly established on concert platforms, opera stages, the covers of music magazines – and the subjects of heated on-line debate and of fan-pages on social media.
These world-class performers showcase the expressive variety of this unique genre. This album also celebrates the individuality of each singer’s voice and in turn the art of the countertenor. The countertenors are accompanied by the brilliant, ECHO-Klassik winning baroque group, Armonia Atenea, under George Petrou.
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Nuria Rial, Valer Sabadus – Sacred Duets (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:00:30 minutes | 1,07 GB | Genre: Classical
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Sony Classical present Italian duets and arias with baroque stars Nuria Rial and Valer Sabadus. The Spanish soprano Nuria Rial and the countertenor Valer Sabadus are both stars of the booming baroque music scene. Nuria Rial is a bright soprano with her “addictive timbre“ and Valer Sabadus’s velvety “dramatic, crystal clear and lyric voice” (Süddeutsche Zeitung) are for the first time united in one recording. With the excellent Kammerorchester Basel they send the listener on a voyage of discovery to Italy, to lesser known music by Alessandro Scarlatti, Giovanni Paolo Colonna, Giovanni Gabrieli, Antonio Lotti, Giovanni Battista Bononcini, Bernardo Pasquini and Antonio Caldara. The arias and duets are mainly from oratorios, which have already fascinated many listeners.
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Juan Sancho, Franco Fagioli, Max Cencic, Valer Sabadus, Martin Mitterrutzner, Vince Yi, Il Pomo d’Oro, Riccardo Minasi – Vinci, Leonardo: Catone in Utica (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 03:53:56 minutes | 4,25 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.
World premiere recording of an opera by a Neapolitan master fast gaining a first-rate modern reputation. Max Emanuel Cencic gathers around him an intoxicating mix of stratospheric countertenors, a top tenor, and an orchestra who sizzle with excitement for a performance of an opera that will appeal to all fans of Baroque music’s unsung heroes.
As March’s ‘Five Countertenors’ album showcased, the age of the countertenor is here. Max Emanuel Cencic has gathered around him, once again, a superb cast to bring Vinci’s “Catone In Utica” to vivid life.
“Vinci is the Lully of Italy: true, simple, natural, expressive”- for generations Leonardo Vinci was just another obscure Baroque composer: this first-rate recording will lift the veil from this forgotten genius of Italian opera, and from the mysterious all-male world of the 18th-century Roman stage.
With a libretto by Metastasio, Vinci’s opera was unveiled in Rome in 1728 with an all-male cast (women having been banned from the stage by the Pope): countertenors took the three heroic male roles as well as the female parts.
As well as Cencic (Arbace), the other superb countertenors are Franco Fagioli (Cesare), Valer Sabadus (Marzia), and Vince Yi (Emilia). Tenor Juan Sancho takes the title role (Catone) in this stage work about Julius Caesar’s defeat of the Republican forces led by Marcus Portius Cato in 46BC, and Riccardo Minasi, who enjoys a considerable reputation for his recordings of Baroque repertoire, conducts.
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Valer Sabadus – Le belle immagini (2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:14:16 minutes | 776 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical
Born in Romania, Valer Barna-Sabadus is a German counter tenor. After taking up the violin and the piano in his youth, Sabadus began voice studies when he was 17. He attended the University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich, where he studied with Gabriele Fuchs. He appeared with the Baroque ensemble Capella Incognita in 2007, performing in Handel’s Rinaldo, and followed that with roles in Bernabei’s Diana Amante at the Barocknacht Olching, and Purcell’s The Fairy Queen with the Chamber Orchestra of Lower Bavaria. Sabadus has also sung in concert, appearing in performances of Orff’s Carmina Burana and Helmschrott’s Omnia. Sabadus has sung music by Dowland, Pergolesi, Caldara, Gluck, Hasse, and Mozart, and recorded for Oehms Classics and Sony Classical.
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Valer Sabadus – Caro gemello – Farinelli and Metastasio (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:11:47 minutes | 1,36 GB | Genre: Classical
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With “Caro Gemello” – their first joint album – countertenor Valer Sabadus and Concerto Köln celebrate the friendship between the castrato Farinelli and librettist Pietro Metastasio The castrato Farinelli and librettist Metastasio were two of the most outstanding musical figures of the 18th century. What few people know is that they shared a strong friendship all their lives. In the correspondence they carried on for many years, they always began each letter with “caro gemello” (“Dear twin brother”) – a sign of their close artistic relationship. This relationship is commemorated by the internationally celebrated countertenor Valer Sabadus and Early Music specialists Concerto Koln in their latest release, “Caro Gemello”. The award-winning musicians recorded technically brilliant as well as lyric operatic arias by Italian Baroque composers such as Nicola Conforto and Antonio Caldara and the German Johann Adolf Hasse. Among the works in which Farinelli performed so superbly and for which Metastasio supplied the libretto are vocal works by Farinelli’s teacher Nicola Porpora. One of the highlights from the operas by Porpora is an aria from the serenata Angelica e Medoro, which marked the beginning of the friendship between Farinelli and Metastasio. As an up-and-coming librettist, Metastasio was commissioned to provide the text for this work in 1720. The 15-year-old Farinelli celebrated his stage debut in the role of the shepherd Tirsi in this work. After this successful start, it was not long before the two became the greatest librettist and singer of their generation. Although Farinelli stopped singing on stage at the age of 32 in order to work for the Spanish court as a theater manager, a flourishing operatic scene evolved in Madrid, allowing Farinelli to collaborate closely with his friend Metastasio. Countertenor Valer Sabadus and Concerto Koln also call this Spanish period to mind with excerpts from two operas by Nicola Conforto: Ezio and La Nitetti, which were composed on the initiative of Farinelli. In 1782 a 15-year friendship finally came to an end. In that year Carlo Broschi alias Farinelli and Metastasio died shortly after each other. Just before his death, the librettist wrote in a letter: “Oh! How much more I would like to share! (…) I hug you, enchanting Carlucciello (little Carlo), and I, your ever identical twin, assure you of my brotherly tenderness.”
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Valer Sabadus – Caldara (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:11 minutes | 1,25 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sony Classical
One of today’s most beautiful voices in classical music presents a varied selection of irresistibly beautiful and fascinating arias by the Venetian composer Antonio Caldara including 6 world premiere recordings.
Valer Sabadus is one of opera’s most exciting artists and praised by critics and audiences alike internationally for the beauty of his voice (“light as silk” – Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung; ‘he impresses with his rich, sensuous countertenor’ – Gramophone) and his outstanding technical skills.
His first recording for Sony Classical Germany „Le belle immagini“ with arias by Christoph Willibald Gluck will be awarded the prestigious ECHO Klassik Award for best aria recital (opera) in 2015.
On his new album he presents an intriguing selection of arias from operas, oratorios and cantatas by the Venetian composer Antonio Caldara including 6 world premiere recordings
Antonio Caldara (1670-1736) was one of the most famous musicians of his day. Within his vocal works he showcased the exceptional talents of his singers and the solo virtuosity of his instrumentalists, while also demonstrating an extraordinary wealth of musical ideas
Valer Sabadus is accompanied by the baroque music ensemble nuovo aspetto
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Valer Sabadus – Bach & Telemann: Arias (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:03 minutes | 1,23 GB | Genre: Classical
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Valer Sabadus belongs to the most successful countertenors in the Baroque music scene. He has been awarded several prestigious prizes for his recordings, including the ECHO Klassik 2012 and 2015. For his new album, Valer teamed with the renowned Ensemble Kammerorchester Basel under the direction of violinist Julia Schröder and chose arias by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) and arias from the less known operas by Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767). The concerts with this program received great critical acclaim – “Sabadus looked for arias that would perfectly suit his unique and touching voice and his velvety tone (…) violinist Julia Schröder enters into an inspired dialogue with Sabadus’ voice, which has a crystal clear high register and virtuoso coloratura.” (Südkurier) The album includes arias from Bach’s cantatas “Ich habe genug”, “Vergnügte Ruh beliebte Seelenlust” and “Lasst uns sorgen, lasst uns wachen”, the aria “Et exsultavit spiritus meus” from Magnificat in D Major and the aria “Laudamus te” from the Mass in B Minor. Valer also picked arias from less known Singspiels by Telemann, “Miriways” and “Sieg der Schönheit”, and an aria from Telemann’s opera “Flavius Bertaridus”. The album includes an instrumental piece by Bach, the famous Violin Concerto in E Major.
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Valer Sabadus, Spark – Closer to Paradise (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 55:01 minutes | 605 MBGenre: Classical
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On their new album “Closer to Paradise” Spark, the Classical Band, form a unique partnership with the internationally acclaimed countertenor Valer Sabadus to produce, in musical form, a feeling of longing, that wonderful, painful yet bitter-sweet emotional state ’twixt melancholy and happiness. The spectrum of works ranges from the classical masters such as Antonio Vivaldi, Robert Schumann, Gabriel Fauré, Erik Satie and Kurt Weill through to French chansonnier Leo Ferré, Italian cantautore Lucio Dalla, American singer-songwriter Barry Manilow, British synth-rock-group Depeche Mode and the German cult band Rammstein. Rounded off with some compositions by the Spark musicians themselves, the pieces blend into an aural study of emotions, the fruit of an exciting musical collaboration and a consistently thrilling recording project.
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