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Il dolce Tormento

Il dolce tormento

Tondut by Eliane, vocals,

Jose dos Santos, guitar

Leda atomica, December 17, 2010

Known as talented decorator and costume designer for theater, Eliane Tondut beginning to be recognized as a talented singer and curiosity. Expanding his repertoire, it takes us today, in several languages well controlled, the early Baroque music from the early seventeenth century ^e songs of the Sephardic tradition, with incursions into the fado and Brazilian spikes.

The voice is well modulated, fleshy, full-bodied severe, acute easy, well conducted, it allows finer shades of vibrant color and sound and well finished.

It begins and will end his recital with a sensitive poetic, beautiful melodies by Sephardim, the penetrating charm and nostalgia of this ancient Castilian (except music) lovingly preserved by the Jews expelled from Spain (their Sepharad) in 1492. Treasury immemorial, among which one was even able to find, right in the twentieth century ^e , beautiful ballads (narrative poems octosyllabic assonance regularly to peers) who were lost in the Peninsula, the masculine romance language reflected a misunderstanding wrongly even in discs, merges with a romance. We listen with pleasure, after the delicate La rosa enfloreze ... the famous and melancholy Adio, querida only dream ... that some source of "Adio del passato" from Traviata , though probably much later. What is most touching is that this "Adio " Sephardic omits the s of the correct "adiós" English for the Jews of Spain felt it as a plural, anathema to a strict monotheism.

From this, we will be rewarded Eliane's charming "Se dolce è il tormento ..." Scherzi of musical Monteverdi with decreases very sensitive to strophic times and then the haunting lullaby of Arnalta of the Incoronazione di Poppea . Caccini, a contemporary of the latter is equally well served with "Tu che penne, Amore ...". Another type of baroque singing later, more formal and virtuoso aria Mentre io godo in dolce Oblio Alessandro Scarlatti allows the singer to demonstrate agility in a beautiful vocalizations and guitarist create a seductive halo harmonic voice.

Portugal, Brazil, other musical journeys where we have followed with pleasure the two interpreters for one can not forget the guitar shows and if ductile Jose dos Santos who performed brilliantly accompaniments of these songs so diverse: the remarkable embroidery Baroque arias, personal fantasies in others. A moment of pure passion and fun.