Cecilia Bartoli Live in Italy

Cecilia Bartoli's remarkable vocal qualities, technical control and musicianship are such that she is able to express the widest emotional range, from profound despair to extreme joy, and always reach the hearts of her audience. It was Bartoli's wish to perform in one of the great treasures of Italy's cultural heritage that led to her recital in the Teatro Olimpico, an occasion that highlighted the beauty of Palladio's architectural masterpiece and encouraged a suitably virtuosic display from the mezzo-soprano, the pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet and the early music ensemble Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca. - p. 7 of insert booklet.