Composers: Cavalli, Boretti, Bononcini, Scarlatti, Handel, Orlandini, Predieri, Matteis, Conti, Hasse Compositions: Arias Performers: Jakub Józef Orliński ct, Il Pomo d’Oro, Maxim Emelyanychev Catalogue Number: Warner Erato 9029542338

Not yet 30, Polish-born countertenor Jakub Józef Orliński returns with Facce d’Amore (Faces of Love), the follow-up and companion volume to his widely acclaimed debut solo album, Anima Sacra. Yet if, again in the company of researcher Yannis François and period instrument band Il Pomo d’Oro under Maxim Emelyanychev, Orliński has here turned from sacred to profane love, Eros and Agape bind the two, making them all but indistinguishable…