Paolo Arrivabeni, Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia - Gioacchino Rossini: Ivanhoé (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 414 Mb | Total time: 44:51+55:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Dynamic | CDS 397/1-2 | Recorded: 2001
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 414 Mb | Total time: 44:51+55:11 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Dynamic | CDS 397/1-2 | Recorded: 2001
For the last two decades or so the works of the composer from Pesaro have no longer revealed very many mysteries to the historian and the opera lover, for even Rossini’s rarer works are now regularly performed. A few operas, however, still remained in the archives, among them Ivanhoé, a famous pastiche conceived by Rossini in collaboration with Pacini, his Parisian publisher. Its revival allows us to fill in a chapter of the history of music which had remained incomplete and above all to get to know the work with which Rossini introduced himself to Parisian audiences, before offering them Le Siège de Corinthe. The composer from Pesaro, indeed, had too great a sense of publicity to feed the critics’ curiosity, lightheartedly, a new opera.