Since you are interested in Colori d'Amore, here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: Die Schopfung [The Creation sung in German] Simone Kermes, Dorothee Mields, Steve Daviislim / Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble / Thomas Hengelbrock [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / 2 CD - released 30/May/2008 ] "Thomas Hengelbrock directs a clear and unfussy reading. He has an excellent grasp of each of the different elements of the score, which he communicates extremely well to his forces and thence to the listener." MusicWeb |
VIVALDI
Amor Profano: Vivaldi Opera Arias Simone Kermes (soprano) / Venice Baroque Orchestra / Andrea Marcon [ Archiv / CD - released 1/Mar/2008 ] "An object lesson in putting together a Baroque opera arias recital disc." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine May 2008) |
HANDEL
Rodelinda (first recording of complete opera) Simone Kermes / Marijana Mijanovic / Il Complesso Barocco / Alan Curtis [ Archiv / 3 CD - released 25/Jul/2005 ] 1001 Classical recordings to hear before you die (1700-1760) - "I find it difficult to imagine anyone doing greater justice to the role than Simone Kermes, who proves capable of descending to the depths of deepest pathos at one moment, while... |
VIVALDI (AND OTHERS)
Andromeda Liberata (Serenata Veneziana) Venice Baroque Orchestra / Andrea Marcon / Simone Kermes / Max Emanuel Cencic / Katerina Berenova [ Archiv / 2 CD - released 25/Jul/2006 ] World premiere recording of a "serenata veneziana" by a variety of mostly anonymous composers including Vivaldi. |
PURCELL
Dido & Aeneas (complete opera) Simone Kermes, Dimitris Tiliakos, Deborah York / New Siberlian Singers / Teodor Curentzis [ Alpha / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] "Currentzis reminds us that this is, first and foremost, an opera about desire, and offers us something at once sexier and more probingly tragic. MusicAeterna's playing doesn't have the OAE's refinement, but is infinitely warmer in sound and far more... |
HANDEL
La Maga Abbandonata Simone Kermes / Maite Beaumont / Il Complesso Barocco / Alan Curtis [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / Hybrid SACD - released 2/May/2007 ] The two singers on this disc are outstanding. Simone Kermes, familiar to Handel lovers from Peter Neumann's impressive German recordings of Saul and Belshazzar, and who has recorded the title-role in Curtis's Deidamia, is a clean and focussed soprano... |
HANDEL
La Diva: Arias for Cuzzoni Simone Kermes (soprano) / Lautten Compagney / Wolfgang Katschner (conductor) [ Berlin Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] This recording presents opera arias written for the brightest star soprano in Handel's London opera company, the Italian soprano Francesca Cuzzoni. These arias demonstrate the emotional and vocal range demanded by Handel's female characters,... |
PERGOLESI / PORPORA / HASSE / LEO / VINCI
Lava: Opera arias from 18th Century Naples Simone Kermes (soprano) / Le Musiche Nove, Claudio Osele [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Oct/2010 ] "Simone Kermes's… is…a fearless risk-taker of uncommon artistic range and technical prowess... all 12 of the disc's items are delightful." Five Stars BBC Music |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Amor Sacro - Vivaldi Sacred Motets Simone Kermes (soprano) / Venice Baroque Orchestra / Andrea Marcon [ Archiv / CD - released 20/Feb/2007 ] "Simone Kermes is an agile singer with a wide vocal range who is comfortably able to negotiate Vivaldi's virtuoso writing with technical panache and warmth. Highly rewarding." (Five Stars BBC Music |
HUMMEL
Der Durchzug durchs Rote Meer (The Passage through the Red Sea) Simone Kermes, Veronika Winter, Hans Joerg Mammel, Ekkehard Abele / Das Kleine Konzert / Hermann Max [ CPO / CD - released 8/Dec/2007 ] Austrian composer, pianist, and conductor. Hummel was a piano prodigy. Moving at age eight to Vienna, where his father was a conductor, he studied for two years with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. |