Nadine Balbeisi

PRESS COMMENTS & NEWS

March 2021

Nadine Balbeisi awarded a grant for a project on 17th Century Music from the Neustart Kultur - Deutscher Musikrat

November 2018
Cantar alla Viola CD nominated for International Classical Music Award!

January 2015
The french magazine Diapason has selected the CD Lamentarium as recommended outstanding CD of the month! Diapason d'Or January 2015:

"Lamentarium. Works by Rossi, Marazzoli, Pasqualini. Nadine Balbeisi, Theodora Baka, Atlante. Double discovery: a bouquet of exceptional Roman laments and two singers who bring out infinite nuances of pain and the sensual delight of tears."

"Balbeisi captured Rossi’s 'Lamento di Zaida,' witnessing her lover abducted, alternatively pleading and fiercely defiant to the gods, her voice glorious."  

Review from the Kansas City Star, Libby Hanssen

“Balbeisi shined with her excellent voice.”

Ingrid Lang, Oberhessische Presse Marburg

„Nadine Balbeisi has a voice of extraordinary purity, flawless in her intonation, perfectly balanced across her entire range and always singing with effortless composure. As the grief-stricken Mary Magdalene or as the angelic observer of the birth of Christ in Pasqualini’s lovely miniature, she is superbly sensitive.“ 

Marc Rochester Gramaphone

“…I was already a strong admirer of her from her work with the duo ensemble Cantar alla Viola. Her highly expressive and utterly pure voice is the perfect instrument for this repertory. Her performances on this disc are, in a word, ravishing.” 

Andrew O'Connor International Record Review

„One of the best recordings I have heard all year…The Pianto della Maddalena is a masterpiece, and it gets a highly impressive and often moving performance by Nadine Balbeisi, who brings out every nuance of the text.”   

Johan van Veen MusicWeb International

“The soft dark sound of the Fidel and Balbeisi’s effortlessly flowing natural voice with warm, shiny high notes and whispered pianos, felt their way through the mystical lines.” 

Astrid Schoene, Rheinische Post

"The gorgeous combination of voice and viola da gamba (an ancestor of both the guitar and the cello) was often heard in Europe during the Renaissance--but rarely since. Reviving that practice is Cantar alla Viola, featuring singer Nadine Balbeisi and viola da gamba player Fernando Marín. David Garland welcomes the duo to the WNYC studio to perform and talk about Spanish, Italian, and English music of the Renaissance, plus their unique take on Brazilian Bossa Nova."

WNYC Studio, David Garland

“This music is truly lovely, focused and - perhaps most noticeably - reflects many moods...Nadine Balbeisi and Fernando Marín obviously have a great deal invested in the music, its emotional impact, the purposeful tension between text and music, at which we can safely say Corkine was expert.” 

Mark Sealey, MusicWeb International

„The Second Booke of Songs and Ayres by Robert Jones, contemporary of Dowland, has the appropriate delicate and subtle ‚intricate Song’ for the performers. The singing is entirely in the prevailing taste of the period, for which the singer has the right feel. It requires affect, but in this particular combination only in small doses. Fernando Marin used performance technique advice from writings by Gannasi and Castiglione. He leads the bass line smoothly, like a second singer, and with as equally clean gestures, effortlessly creates the supportive harmonies. It is something for fine ears in romantic hours of early baroque. "

Reinhard Kriechbaum

” ... From the very first seconds of the CD "Blas de Castro" she knows how to grasp the listeners under her spell. Accompanied solely by Fernando Marín on the Vihuela de arco or the Lyra-viol, this CD becomes an unbelievably thrilling and intense listening experience. Presented on this disc is the complete polyphonic works by Juan Blas de Castro (c.1561-1631), a close friend of the Spanish poet Lope de Vega. I must give a heart-felt recommendation for anyone searching for an extraordinary CD with Spanish Renaissance works."

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