La Musique au Temps des Castrats (Music from the age of Castratos)

Vocal music in the XVIII century belonged to castratos. Their voice were so unique and irreplaceable, they didnt have rivals, they knew they were the best (I mean the big names such as, Farinelli, Carestini, Senesiano, Guadagni, etc). Now we have countertenors as a proxy for their voice, but still we dont know how close to the original castrato voice are, because the voice of a countertenor is just an imitation, while castratos developed their voice in the phisiological way, so, making their voice more pure.

The cd is a jewel, since it containes works sung by acclaimed countertenors that Im sure their names will be written in history music books like James Bowman, Dominique Visse and Gérard Lesne. Not sure about  Derek Ree Ragin, but he will be remmembered because he and the soprano Ewa Mallas-Godlewska made the voice for Farinelly in the 1994 film "Farinelli". The last aria "Son qual Nave" of Ricardo Broschi, brother of Farinelli's (Carlo Broschi) comes from the film where their voices were electronically mixed.

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Le Temps Des Castrats

Continuing with the great ara of the castrati in the age of enlightenment I share this cd even though some arias dont sound very good because the recordings are old, but talking about countertenors one doesnt miss Alfre Deller or James Bowman.

EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 310 MB | Scans

MP3 320 Kbps | 168 MB | Scans

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Jaroussky - Carestini (The Story of a Castrato)

Many of the castrato arias with we have pleasure nowadays, were written in fact spatially for those super stars at that time. This cd contains one pasticcio of arias composed for Carestini (Farinelli's main rival) by the some of the most renown composers of that time. The era of the castrati have finished and no one really know how it was the voice of such singers even though exist  a recording dated from 1902 of Alessandro Moreschi the last castrato, but I cant rely on the quality of the registration because sounds like a rat crying, so, better enjoy the natural countertenors and thrust in their approach to a real castrato voice.

EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 324 MB | Scans

MP3 320 Kbps | 162 MB | Scans

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