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Naxos has released recitals devoted to the little-known songs by Romantic opera composers Bellini and Donizetti and continues its series with this album featuring Giacomo Meyerbeer, whose French grand operas were once central to the repertoire, but have now for the most part faded into semi-obscurity. Meyerbeer was born in Berlin, achieved his first success with Rossinian operas in Italian, and established his legacy in Paris, so it is appropriate that the recital includes songs in Italian, French, and German. The songs are consistently graceful, charming, and lyrical, and are varied in tone. Soprano Sivan Rotem has the coloratura to easily handle these often operatically challenging songs, and she sings with thoughtful and effective attention to characterization, highlighting the emotional range of the music. Pianist Jonathan Zak offers strong and sensitive accompaniment. Naxos' sound is immediate and clean.
1. Le ricordanze
2. De miei giorni (Delire)
3. Il nascere e il fiorire d'una rosa
4. 6 canzonettes italiennes: No. 1. Sceglier fra mille un core
5. 6 canzonettes italiennes: No. 2. Da voi, da voi, cari lumi
6. 6 canzonettes italiennes: No. 3. Giura il nocchier
7. 6 canzonettes italiennes: No. 4. Bei labbri che amore
8. 6 canzonettes italiennes: No. 5. Se non ti moro allato
9. 6 canzonettes italiennes: No. 6. Basta dir ch'io sono amante
10. La dame invisible
11. Rachel a Nephtali
12. Ballade de la reine Marguerite de Valois
13. Sur le balcon
14. Le bapteme
15. La folle de St Joseph
16. Chant de mai
17. Nella
18. Komm, du schones Fischermadchen
19. Die Rose, die Lilie, die Taube
20. Hor ich das Liedchen klingen
21. Suleika
22. Mina
23. Luft von Morgen
24. Der Garten des Herzens
25. Scirocco
26. Fruhling im Versteck