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Aksel! Arias by Bach, Handel & Mozart
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Aksel! Arias by Bach, Handel & Mozart

Aksel Rykkvin

Label: Signum Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0635212043523
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Catalog number: SIGCD 435
Releasedate: 07-10-16
- Norwegian boy-soprano has a beautiful treble voice

- repertoire not usually performed by a boy treble (such as Mozart arias from the Magic Flute etc)

- crowdfunded project with media appeal in Norway, the singers home country 

Norwegian boy-soprano Aksel Rykkvin has quickly built a reputation as a rare talent, combining an intelligent musicality with a beautifully resonant treble voice. On his debut recording he is accompanied by The Orchestra of the Age on Enlightenment under Nigel Short (leader of award-winning chamber choir Tenebrae), in a selection of arias by JS Bach, Handel and Mozart. Many of the arias performed are considered too technically demanding for boy singers in the present day – in particular Mozart’s Exsultate Jubilate which was composed for the castrato Venunzio Rauzzini, and several of Bach’s Cantatas which were written at a time when singers often maintained their treble voices until the ages of 16 or 17.