2016

Rieu André: Falling in love 2016 [CD]

Vangelis: Rosetta 2016 [Digipack / CD]

Frang Vilde: Britten/Korngold violin concertos [CD]

Johannsson Johann: Orphée 2016 [Digipack / CD]

Allmänna Sången: Femina moderna 2016 [SACD Hybrid]

Love plays a significant part in most operas, but all too often it is frustrated, or entangled with deception, humiliation and betrayal. With her new disc Camilla Tilling presents a near-comprehensive catalogue of the emotions that the vagaries of love can raise in the breast of an operatic heroine. And these emotions are universal and timeless, afflicting servants and countesses, Grecian princesses, a sorceress from Damascus and a young lady of 18th-century Naples alike. Gluck's Armide glories in having Renaud in her power - until she realizes that her feelings makes it impossible to destroy him as she had planned. Newly raised from the dead, his Euridice is defenceless against the strong emotions of the living, and beset by doubts when Orpheus refuses to acknowledge her on their way back to earth. In the bravura aria Come scoglio, Mozart's Fiordiligi proclaims her steadfast love for Guglielmo, but in the following act of the opera she regretfully admits to having been enamoured by another. And from The Marriage of Figaro we hear Susanna inviting the loved one to a nocturnal rendez-vous ('Deh vieni, non tardar') as well as her mistress, the Countess, wondering in 'Dove sono' what happened to the loving marriage she once had. With a soprano typically described as 'radiant', 'vernal' or 'silvery', Camilla Tilling has performed several of the roles featured here at venues such as Opéra National de Paris, Covent Garden, Salzburg Mozarteum and Drottningholm Slottsteater. On this recording she partnered by Philipp von Steinaecker and his Musica Saeculorum, whose period instruments bring out all the sweetness, pain and regret that Gluck and Mozart magically worked into their scores.

Digipack.<br/><br/>På albumet "Sverige" hör vi en delvis ny Malena, det är mindre opera och mer visa när hon tillsammans med landets främsta musiker ger sin uppdaterade version av den svenska musiktraditionen, till exempel "Den blomstertid nu kommer, "Barndomshemmet" och "En vänlig grönskas rika dräkt". Hon gästas av bland andra Sarah Dawn Finer, Nils Landgren, Sara Isaksson och Tomas Andersson Wij. Albumet är producerat av Jesper Nordenström. <br/><br/>"Det finns en nationalism som inte klär sig i flaggor och stora ord. En bred och inkluderande nationalism där alla människor får plats och som grundar sig på de värderingar som gjort Sverige till det land det är idag: jämlikhet, solidaritet, öppenhet och medmänsklighet. De värderingarna är Sverige för mig. Ett empatiskt Sverige. Ett Sverige som jag älskar. Och det här albumet är mitt sätt att försöka förmedla den kärleken." <br/>Malena Ernman