Olga Borodina - Arias | Gioachino Rossini, Giacomo Meyerbeer, ...

Olga Borodina - Arias | Gioachino Rossini, Giacomo Meyerbeer, ... | The Divine Olga!

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Olga Borodina - Arias

	Olga Borodina - Arias Gioachino Rossini, Giacomo Meyerbeer, ... Philips, 1997 average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Greatest Voice of our Time

This recording shows Borodina at her most marvelous - so far - and she IS marvelous. Her technique is superb, with a range of notes, volumes, timbres, even vibratos which she uses with amazing skill to bring her characters and every word they sing to life. Her empathy with the audience and with the roles she plays comes across even on this CD, so no one can doubt her great ability as an actress as well as her phenomenal voice which is rich, solid, and full. The instrument is well trained and conditioned and Borodina uses it more skillfully than most. What a great treasure this CD is!

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The Divine Olga!

This CD of arias sung by Olga Borodina is beautiful. Olga Borodina is one of the great voices of your time. She has a magnificent mezzo voice, rich, velvety, flexible with gorgeous high notes. No CD can do justice to an opera singer and this CD does not really do justice to Olga's great voice, however it is a sample. The best track is her singing of Berlioz' "D'amour l'ardente flamme" - this shows off her voice very well...deep emotion, expansive sound, flexibility and soaring high notes.
The least successful track is Purcell...Olga is not a Baroque singer!

There are many more CD of Olga Borodina to listen to and enjoy...so go ahead, buy one, and revel in the sound of a great mezzo.

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Tremendous singer--better than this disk suggests

Having seen her in live performance, I am perfectly willing to argue that Olga Borodina is one of the better singers of our times, perhaps the very best. Having listened to this recording, I am forced to admit that she could and should have been better. This is a recital from a very good mezzo, but Borodina should be more, much more, something extraordinary.

Four stars, nevertheless, for a rare and beautiful voice.

Freezer bag of Borodina goodies

The voice is wonderful: unbelievably smooth, rich, warm, with a particularly pure timbre. A very exceptional mezzo, and a joy to behold live: even though Borodina School of Acting often consists of not much more than standing there and looking busty and imperial, there is something smoldering going on- I have seen her recently on stage as Delilah and she was every bit as good as the hype has it. She can be surprisingly witty, too, especially in Rossini. Strangely then, how any drama or excitement or any particular distinction is missing from this collection. Delilah arias are beautiful, the runs in Rossini clean and pretty, Queen of Spades quite exciting actually; but the rest is ho-hum, expect for Dido, which is so overdone and bad, it's almost fun, and Handel, which is exceptionally deranged - as Baroque as double cheese burger with Russian dressing. However, even in these pieces, if you can ignore the heavy approach, the voice sounds great.
In other words, catch her live on stage, or at least on opera DVD if you can, but if she is not coming to a town near you any time soon, this CD will do as a basic introduction to the wonders of Borodina's voice.

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Truly disappointing

I bought this CD because I wasn't sure I would ever get to hear Borodina live, and had heard great things about her voice. Well, it IS a strong, solid, beautiful instrument handled with excellent technique - and, in this case, well recorded too. So what's the problem? Cold, impersonal, Mack-truck approach to performing - very little real connection or involvement at all, as far as I could sense. I agree with another reviewer that the Russian pieces come off by far the best and do give some pleasure. But I'll never listen to this CD again because I find that sort of mechanical singing repellent and boring - so I think I wasted my money.

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Tracks
La Cenerentola: 'Nacqui all' affanno' | Les Huguenots: 'Nobles siegneurs, salut' - 'Une dame noble et sage' | Dido And Aeneas: 'Thy Hand, Belinda' - 'When I'm Laid In Earth' | Serse: 'Frondi tenere' - 'Ombra mai fu' | Semiramide: 'Ah, quel giorno ognor rammento' | Samson Et Dialila: 'Printemps qui commence' | Samson Et Dialila: 'Samson, recherchant ma presence' - 'Amour! viens aider ma faiblesse' | Samson Et Dialila: 'Mon cour s'ouvre a ta voix' | La Damnation de Faust: D'amour l'ardente flamme | La Gioconda: 'Voce di donna o d'angelo' | The Maid Of Orleans: 'Da, chas nastal!' - 'Prostite v'i' | Pique Dame: 'Uzh polnoch' blizitsya'

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