Love Simone Kermes

• 1 Lamento della ninfa: Amor, amor 04:22
• 2 Folle è ben che si crede 02:59
• 3 Quelles beautés, ô mortels (Récit de Mnémosyne) 02:32
• 4 Ay amor loco 03:09
• 5 Che si può fare? 04:23
• 6 Sombres déserts 03:13
• 7 If Love's a Sweet Passion 02:08
• 8 Grida l'alma a tutt' ore 02:31
• 9 Frescos ayres del prado 04:37
• 10 Chi vuol ch'io m'innamori 02:22
• 11 Chi mi tolse alle sfere! ... Lumi potete piangere 03:32
• 12 I Burn, I Burn 03:22
• 13 Disserratevi abissi 04:58
• 14 Restless in Thoughts 07:44
• 15 Now, O Now I Needs Must Part 05:07
• 16 Piu bella maestà ... Dormi, dormi ben mio 03:39
• 17 Thy Hand Belinda ... When I Am Laid in Earth (Dido's Lament) 04:36
• Total Runtime 01:05:14

Info for Love

A collection of beautiful baroque and renaissance love songs that reflect the versatility of love – passionate, dramatic and addictive by the most popular composers of this time, from Monteverdi, Purcell, Cesti to Merula and Dowland.

Love is Simone Kermes’ most intimate and personal album yet.

The arrangement, cast of instruments, and recording set up is as such that the “pop song” quality, the contemporary and eternal spirit, the immediacy of these compositions is revealed. All sung with the unique legato, pure, and silver quality that makes Simone Kermes’ voice so special.

Simone Kermes is a dramatic coloratura soprano and multi-award winner. For her solo albums she has received a number of international awards, such as the annual award of the Deutsche Schallplattenkritik, the Echo Klassik award for 2011 Female Singer of the Year, the Diapason d`Or, Midem Award, Choc Le Monde de la Musique and Gramophone magazine’s Recording of the Month. In April 2013 she received one of Russia’s highest cultural awards, the Golden Mask, for her performances as Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Così fan tutte at the Tchaikovsky State Academic Theatre in Perm.

Opera performances have taken her as Konstanze, the Queen of the Night, Fiordiligi, Donna Anna, Giunia, Rosalinde, Lucia, Gilda, Ann Truelove, Alcina and Laodice, among other roles, to New York, Paris, Lisbon, Copenhagen, Moscow, Beijing and German state opera houses.

Simone Kermes, soprano
La Magnifica Comunità
Enrico Casazza, conductor

Simone Kermes
studied under Professor Helga Forner at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy University of Music and Theatre in Leipzig, her home town. She completed her studies and two additional courses of study with distinction. She is the holder of many prizes awarded at international singing competitions.

Opera performances have taken her as Konstanze, the Queen of the Night, Fiordiligi, Donna Anna, Giunia, Rosalinde, Lucia, Gilda, Ann Truelove, Alcina and Laodice, among other roles, to New York, Paris, Lisbon, Copenhagen, Moscow, Beijing and German state opera houses. She has given solo concerts and lieder evenings all over Europe, as well as in the USA, Australia, the Sultanate of Oman, China, Russia, Mexico and Japan.

In addition to many radio and television productions, she has recorded numerous CDs. For her solo albums she has received a number of international awards, such as the annual award of the Deutsche Schallplattenkritik, the Diapason d`Or, Midem Award, Choc Le Monde de la Musique and Gramophone magazine’s Recording of the Month. For her album entitled Colori d`amore she was the winner of the Echo Klassik in the highest category, Female Singer of the Year, in 2011. In 2012 the Munich Abendzeitung awarded Simone Kermes its Star of the Year Award, and in April 2013 she received one of Russia’s highest cultural awards, the Golden Mask, for her performances as Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Così fan tutte at the Tchaikovsky State Academic Theatre in Perm.

Simone Kermes received the Echo Klassik 2014 award for the opera of the year.

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