New Album: Fra l’ombre e gl’orrori. Argentinian opera bass Nahuel Di Pierro joins Ensemble Diderot for its debut orchestral recording, bringing the baroque operatic bass voice out of the shadows and into the light through 100 years of orchestral opera history.
NAHUEL DI PIERRO | ENSEMBLE DIDEROT | JOHANNES PRAMSOHLER
Album title: Fra l’ombre e gl’orrori (tra: Among the shadows and the horrors)
Monteverdi • Cavalli • Sartorio • Ziani • Giannettini • Bononcini • Scarlatti • Vivaldi • Handel
Release date: 15 NOV 2024
EAN: 3760341112103 / Audax Records: ADX 11210
Fathers, gods, philosophers, emperors, sorcerers, villains … the bass voice is typically used on the opera stage to convey nobility and authority of both good and evil. Whilst bass roles in opera are often not the most celebrated, they are often the most pivotal in any opera story with the voice’s depth, power and softness illuminating the stage and storylines.
Celebrating 100 years of baroque opera bass, Nahuel Di Pierro interprets the great arias from Seneca’s death (Monteverdi: L’incoronazione di Poppea) to Polyphemus (Handel’s Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, which also lends part of it’s text to the title of this album) as well as a few world premieres along the way, it wouldn’t Ensemble Diderot if the program didn’t also include some spectacular new discoveries!
Ever pioneering, this is Ensemble Diderot’s debut recording in its expanded orchestral form and its first foray into recording opera. The project and programme is devised by Johannes Pramsohler, Ensemble Diderot’s founder and charismatic Director, and the ensemble’s harpsichordist Philippe Grisvard.
This is the next recording after winning an International Classical Music Award and Ensemble Diderot’s latest album Berlin Harpsichord Concertos received high praise including a double 5* review from BBC Music Magazine who wrote “an absorbingly interesting album, stylishly played and with a lively feeling for subtle nuance”, Gramophone declared “These fine performances are surely everything the composers could have asked for” whilst The Scotsman also proclaimed the album was full of “stylish performances”.
Fra l’ombre e gl’orrori will be released physically and digitally on 15th November, on the award-winning Audax label.
