A rapidly rising star on today’s opera scene, Sonya Yoncheva appears in
this album alongside ‘Lyric Artist of the Year’ winner Karine Deshayes
in a masterwork of the sacred music repertoire; Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater. Yoncheva has performed on various stages worldwide, most recently
in France where she astonished the audience with her performance in
both Verdi's La Traviata & Tchaikovsky's Iolanta, and in Montpellier
where she sang at the Radio France International Music Festival. ""Her
voice is gorgeous to listen to. It is always used with penetrating
intelligence and supple musicality."" (The Times) This recording also
features the Ensemble Amarillis on period instruments. Founded in 1994,
the Ensemble Amarillis is one of Europe’s most original Baroque
ensembles. “The Ensemble Amarillis responds with mercurial temperaments,
from sublimely intimate to brazenly flamboyant. (BBC Music Magazine).
“Sonya Yoncheva brings to her lines a fragile sensitivity that
astonished me, given the power of her voice…the Ensemble Amarillis plays
with great charm. To accompany Pergolesi it has dug up little-known
chamber works by Francesco Mancini and Francesco Durante. Héloïse
Gaillard, a recorder star in her own right, leads fizzy fioritura in the
Mancini as boldly as she does strict counterpoint in the Durante” (BBC Music Magazine, February 2017)
“Mancini’s Sonata in G minor, really a recorder concerto in all but
name, is played with sensitive shaping and agility by Héloïse Gaillard,
and Durante’s Concerto grosso in F minor shows Ensemble Amarillis on
compelling form” (Gramophone Magazine, January 2017)
“Deshayes may have vibrato rather wider than standard
period-instrument issue but her ornaments and sense of style are
impeccable. Yoncheva, a rising star at Covent Garden and elsewhere, is
even more impressive. Her honeyed soprano timbre is beautifully tuned
and focused.” (The Times, 18th November 2016)
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