MIGUEL ULLA

Countertenor Miguel Ulla has dedicated his latest album to his Galician homeland. This follows a precedent set last year with the release of Galician Lullabies, an exquisite selection of traditional lullabies and other childhood-related pieces, seasoned with instrumental tracks for the theorbo.​

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Radio Nacional de España reviews the latest in Early Music, highlighting new works by Agustín Álvarez (Corrette) and Alejandro Marías (Abel). The program places special emphasis on the Baroque period with the release of 'Vedendo Amor' (HR Recordings), an album where countertenor Miguel Ulla, alongside Fernando Reyes, performs Handel's Italian cantatas composed between 1707 and 1709.​

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“When meeting Miguel Ulla Berdullas, a young musician from A Coruña whose passion for Baroque music and for one of the most fascinating vocal registers of this period, that of the countertenor, led him to devote himself to singing, an overwhelming passion for what he does is revealed without disguise.”​

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“Miguel Ulla, an outstanding Galician countertenor, delights us with a delicious disc of Handel’s secular cantatas. Although there is an innumerable catalogue of fine recordings of this repertoire, the truth is that few singers dare to offer such a minimalist version of these works, consisting solely of a voice accompanied by plucked strings, theorbo, archlute and Baroque guitar used alternately.”​

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“Miguel Ulla has acknowledged that when he is able to choose repertoire, he allows himself to be guided by the emotion it produces in him, and this has probably led him to the Italian works of Handel that fill the tracks of the album. At just over twenty years of age, the Prussian musician arrived in Italy from Hamburg, according to some of his biographers such as Romain Rolland, invited by the Florentine prince Giovanni Gastone de Medici.”​

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​“The countertenor Miguel Ulla releases digitally three of the Sei Cantate Spirituale by Leonardo Leo, a Neapolitan opera composer with an attractive body of work that has been heard far less than it deserves, recorded here for the first time.”​

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“Ex Lumen is a selection of works that suggest to Miguel Ulla different aspects of the night. Thus, we find associations with the dream world in the arias by Bach and Gasparini, as well as the solitude and vulnerability to which the nocturnal hours subject us through Couperin’s music for Holy Week.”​

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“Although he began recording last year, his discography already amounts to four titles, two released in 2024 and two more within the short span of the current year. One of them, devoted to the Neapolitan composer Leonardo Leo, has drawn particular attention from specialised media by presenting a series of spiritual cantatas that had never before been recorded.”​

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“The Spanish countertenor Miguel Ulla talks to us about his new album, in which he performs six spiritual cantatas by Leonardo Leo.”​

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“In this new episode of El Café Vienés, we explore the fascinating world of the modern countertenor together with Miguel Ulla, a young Galician singer who is beginning to stand out on today’s stages. We address what it means to be a countertenor in the twenty-first century, how this vocal register has evolved from the Baroque castrati to become a pillar of contemporary opera, and the challenges and opportunities faced by an artist in this exceptional tessitura.”​

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“The pieces performed on this disc by Miguel Ulla belong to the manuscript held at the Royal Music Library under the shelfmark GB-Lbl, Add. 14112, which includes six cantatas labelled as ‘spiritual’. As Antonio Dell’Olio explains in ‘Se ‘l tutto è un’ombra e di vil terra un fango’. Giudizio e pentimento nelle cantate spirituali a voce sola di Leonardo Leo, 2024, the spiritual cantata is an expression associated with a text inspired by a biblical or religious episode, or one that may be purely invented, but intended to provoke a form of spiritual reflection.”​

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“The countertenor Miguel Ulla digitally releases three of Leonardo Leo’s Sei Cantate Spirituale, by a Neapolitan opera composer whose attractive body of work has been heard far less than it deserves, recorded here for the first time.”​

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