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Catalan soprano Núria Rial is a specialist in Renaissance and Baroque music, particularly in the works of Monteverdi and Handel, and she is well-versed in European art songs. She attended the Municipal Conservatory of Barcelona, where she earned diplomas in voice and piano, and advanced to the City of Basel Music Academy, where she studied with Kurt Widmer and received the solo vocalist diploma.

Nuria Rial "has a timbre that is almost addictive" and "beguilingly beautiful", so the critics judge her voice. No wonder that the Catalan-born singer was awarded the Echo Klassik Newcomer of the Year award in 2009. On her new CD she has sung Handel's wonderful "German Arias", settings of sensitive poems of the romanticism of a Hamburg poet, Barthold Brockes. Nuria Rial, together with the Austrian Baroque Orchestra under the baton of the Michael Oman's direction the right, light, graceful and rapturous tone. The CD is complemented by a rarely heard chamber music version of Handel's famous fireworks music with the Austrian Baroque Company.