In the delivery of Warner’s latest vocal recitals, much more than the very mixed Eden of a quivering Joyce DiDonato and accompanied by a rickety orchestra, we were delighted by the Mozart recital of the tonic soprano Elsa Dreisig — admittedly a little “drunken” due to a sound recording that was too close — and, above everything, by the first recital of the radiant tenor Pene Pati, native of the Samoan Islands. This disc comes shortly after the Boulevard of the Italians by Benjamin Bernheim, and aura voice of Samoan has nothing to envy to the French star. The expression is warm, the style exquisite (air “Ah! Arise, sun!”), the detailed accompaniment of Emmanuel Villaume arouses constant interest and, unlike the Dreisig recital, the microphones are at the perfect distance. A program that mixes French (Gounod, Rossini, Massenet, Meyerbeer) and Italian (Rigoletto, elixir of love, Roberto Devereux) serves as a perfectly highlighted luminous stamp for a very nice discovery.
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