Antonino Fogliani - Rossini: Stabat Mater (1832 Version) & Giovanna d'Arco (2016) [CD-Rip]

Rossini’s Stabat Mater is one of the staples of the sacred music repertoire but had a complicated history. He wrote it for performance in Madrid but, running short of time, enlisted the help of his friend Giovanni Tadolini. Rossini completed six pieces, Tadolini seven. Tadolini’s pieces now only exist as piano reductions but conductor Antonino Fogliani has orchestrated them to allow listeners to hear the original work for the first time since 1833. Marco Taralli’s 2009 orchestration of Giovanna d’Arco (Joan of Arc), a cantata for solo voice, is also heard on this first recording.

It has never been recorded or performed complete before. Previous performances used shortened or inauthentic elements. All choruses and all recitatives are included in their entirety.

The recording comes from performances given in the spa town of Bad Wildbad, to mark the tenth anniversary of ‘Rossini in Wildbad‘.

Of a previous Wildbad recording (Guillaume Tell, 8660363-66) Gramophone wrote: “Antonino Fogliani’s conducting is very fine. Each act is astutely paced and shaped, as indeed is the entire opera.

Antonino Fogliani made his celebrated debut at the Pesaro Rossini Opera Festival in 2001 with Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims, followed by various engagements in Pesaro and in leading opera houses, including La Fenice in Venice, the Teatro dell’Opera, Rome, the San Carlo in Naples and the Opera Comique in Paris, as well as the Bergamo Donizetti Festival. He made his debut at Rossini in Wildbad in 2004, leading to a series of further performances and recordings. He was appointed musical director of Rossini in Wildbad in 2011.