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BBC Symphony Orchestra, David Parry - Donizetti: Caterina Cornaro (2013) CD-Rip

BBC Symphony Orchestra, David Parry - Donizetti: Caterina Cornaro (2013) CD-Rip
  • Title: Donizetti: Caterina Cornaro
  • Year Of Release: 2013
  • Label: Opera Rara
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: FLAC (image+.cue,log,scans)
  • Total Time: 01:56:15
  • Total Size: 545 Mb
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Tracklist:

CD 1:
01. Preludio 1:32
02. Salve, o beati, al giubilo 1:51
03. Tu l’amor mio, tu l’iride 4:55
04. Dell’empia Cipro il popolo 3:49
05. Parta pur, ma vendicato sarà 2:14
06. Or che l’astro in mar si cela 1:25
07. Torna all’ospite tetto 2:16
08. Vieni o tu, che ognora io chiamo 3:04
09. Deh! vieni, t’affretta 3:14
10. Ahi – qui ancor, padre mio? 4:29
11. Spera in me, della tua vita 4:37
12. Va, crudel; maledetto quel giorno 3:01
13. Sei bella, o Cipro! 3:28
14. Credi che dorma, o incauto 1:16
15. Lasciami, o cavalier 0:58
16. Da che sposa Caterina 3:45
17. Core, e pugnale! 3:27
18. Mano a’ pugnali! 2:43
19. Parla, ardisci: io son quel desso 1:14
20. Vedi, io piango! 3:14
21. Che qui non batte un core ingrato 2:21
22. Sì, dall’ardir degl’empi/Dunque tu vuoi dividere 2:41

CD 2:
23. Gemmata il serto 4:12
24. Guarda, s’avanza il Re 1:41
25. Ah! non turbarti a questi accenti 3:01
26. O Re! Strozzi? 2:33
27. Da quel dì che lacerato 3:52
28. De me fosti ognor compianto, fratel mio 3:57
29. Parti 1:39
30. Indietro! Io, vil carnefice 2:49
31. Olà! Gran re, la collera vendicatrice è tarda 0:58
32. Va, fellon; di questa terra 2:23
33. Misera patria! 1:54
34. Io trar non voglio campi ed onori 2:26
35. Guerra! Guerra! 0:59
36. Morte, morte! Fur troppi gl’insulti 3:04
37. Oh ciel! che tumulto! 1:30
38. Dolorosa incertezza! 1:18
39. Pietà, Signor 3:08
40. Vittoria! Vittoria! 1:29
41. Orsù... della vittoria 2:32
42. Non più affanni 3:32
43. Vittoria! Vittoria! 2:34
44. Piangi, sì piangi, o misera 2:51

Performers:
Caterina Cornaro - Carmen Giannattasio
Andrea Cornaro, Caterinals father - Graeme Broadbent
Gerardo, a young Frenchman (in the prologue bethrothed to Caterina - Colin Lee
Lusignano, King of Cyprus - Troy Cook
Mocenigo, a counsellor of the Dieci in Venice and Venetian ambassador in Cyprus - Vuyani Mlinde
Strozzi, a leaderof mercenary cut-throats - Loïc Félix
A Knight of the King - Loïc Félix
Matilde, Caterinals confdante - Sophie Bevan

Knights, Ladies, Gondoliers, Populace, Soldiers, Cut-throat ruffians, Guards

BBC Singers
Renato Balsadonna, chorus director
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Stephen Bryant, leader
David Parry, conductor

Caterina Cornaro was written in the extremely productive last period of Donizetti's life (between Don Pasquale and Linda di Chamounix) and was the last of his operas to be premiered in the composer’s lifetime. Like every other work of this period, it is intensely original, in this case being unusually dark in both subject matter and general musical tone.

This is the only opera of Donizetti’s later period not to have had a quality modern recording. Conductor David Parry says: “The opera requires a prima donna with a wonderful voice, extraordinary technique and exceptional histrionic ability, which we have in Carmen Giannattasio: the role could actually have been written for her.

The story is resonant and believable, a woman forced into a political marriage with a king she does not love, but who turns out to be noble and good, so that she feels that she cannot abandon him, and who is assassinated at the instigation of a bitter enemy, leaving her to rule on her own. This calls up from Donizetti one of his most deeply felt, atmospheric and dramatically truthful scores. It is concise and hard-hitting, and I simply cannot understand why the opera is not in the repertoire; it is badly in need of a proper studio-recording.”

The 2CD set is accompanied by a complete libretto with an English translation alongside an article and synopsis by the eminent 19th-century musical scholar, Jeremy Commons.


BBC Symphony Orchestra, David Parry - Donizetti: Caterina Cornaro (2013) CD-Rip





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