Riccardo Chailly, Orchestra e Coro Filarmonico della Scala - Gioacchino Rossini: The Cantatas, Vol.1 (1998)
Riccardo Chailly, Orchestra e Coro Filarmonico della Scala - Gioacchino Rossini: The Cantatas, Vol.1 (1998)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue) ~ 278 Mb | Total time: 67:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | 458 843-2 | Recorded: 1997
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue) ~ 278 Mb | Total time: 67:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | 458 843-2 | Recorded: 1997
Recorded a year or so after Devia's impressive recital performance of La morte di Didone at Pesaro festival (available by Bongiovanni label), this first Rossini cantatas recital offers more insight in a composer whom we mostly associate with comic operas. And who is better qualified to conduct Rossini works than Chailly.
Rossini's vocal writing in these pieces sounds more or less the same as in his complete operas and one could think these actually are scenes from operas but they're not. Devia is as great as in Pesaro and her voice is well captured by Decca's engineers. She uses a few different ornamentations which makes listening to the scena a new experience. In the cantata for Pio, the fine Pertusi, Kelly and Piccoli join in and with the help of the chorus, the result is sparkling.
Performer:
Mariella Devia (Didone, La Speranza)
Paul Austin Kelly (L'Amor pubblico)
Michele Pertusi (Il Genio cristiano)
Francesco Piccoli (Corifeo)
Orchestra e Coro Filarmonico della Scala
Riccardo Chailly, conductor
Tracklist:
Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
La morte di Didone
01. Misera, sventurata!
02. Tutto è orror
03. Se dal ciel pietà non trovo
04. Fuggi, regina, figgi!
05. Ingiustissimi dei
06. Per tutto l'orrore
Cantata in onore del sommo Pontefice Pio IX
07. Sinfonia
08. Qual voce d'incognito
09. O sì gran tempo lacrimata schiera
10. La sua possente voce
11. Quai da sì buon principio fausti presagi!
12. Al sol, che sia bontade
13. Non sa che sia bontade
14. Sacra cima, un dì superba
15. Ah sì, d'amor
16. Sul provido Naviglio
Riccardo Chailly, Orchestra e Coro Filarmonico della Scala - Gioacchino Rossini: The Cantatas, Vol.1 (1998)
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