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Giacomo Puccini - Madama Butterfly - Anna Moffo
Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924) Anna Moffo, Cesare Valletti Rosalind Elias, Renato Cesari, Fernando Corena, Mario Carlin Roma Orchestra and Chorus dir. Erich Leinsdorf RCA Opera Series (1988) 4145-2-RG 2 CD Stereo ADD Recorded July 1957 in the Roma Opera House Flac&cue; cover, inlays, booklet&disc scans Reviews "Though scarcely a 'classic' account of Madame Butterfly, this recording deserves issue on CD on account of its three central performances. Neither Moffo, Valletti nor Cesari have big voices, but all three make virtues of necessities and demonstrate how much of Puccini's language is accessible to a light voice, lightly used. The beefy tenore robusto who sings Pinkerton's Act 1 solos "Dovunque al mondo" and "Amore o grillo" with arrogantly ringing tone has already undermined the drama: obviously the man is a male chauvinist bull in a china-shop. Ringing tone is […]
2017-01-30 20:24:00
Stéphane Degout (photo: Julien Benhamou)Stéphane Degout at the Wigmore Hall, London, in Poulenc and Ravel with Cédric Tiberghien, joined by Matteo Cesari (flute) and Alexis Descharmes (cello) for Saariaho. Thanks to rain and traffic chaos, the house wasn't sold out, as it should have been, but those who attended were there because they can recognize genuine quality. We were well rewarded - excellent programme, delivered with idiomatic stylishness. Poulenc and Apollinaire featured, starting with the much loved early songs from Le bestiare (1919) where serious thoughts are disguised beneath playful images. These songs are funny, but also wistful. "Est-ce que la mort vous oublié, poissons de la mélancholie? " So much for the image of the golden carp, cavorting in unthinking bliss. Apollinaire's elegant insouciance acts like armour plating, protecting the soul from the cruelty of the world. The door to the hotel in Montparnasse (1945) is decorated […]
2016-10-18 05:09:00
You find specialists even in the standard repertoire, but you also have generalists who are at home in an ample display of different schools. However, you do need specialisation if your line of work is Medieval or Renaissance Music, or the Baroque. And that applies naturally to contemporary music, for its language isn´t of easy access, as it used to be in another periods. Listeners understood readily Bach or Mozart, they don´t Boulez or Berio. The CETC (the Colón Center for Experimentation) annually does a small cycle called Integrals, focussed on one composer´s production for an instrument, and usually there are three concerts within a small lapse. This year we were offered Sciarrino´s creations for flute, played by Matteo Cesari; Tristan Murail´s piano music, by […]
2016-03-10 15:00:34
Castaway
[…] a role she sang rarely and after this production in Buenos Aires she performed it just once more—a run under Claudio Abbado (a frequent collaborator) of the Jean-Pierre Ponnelle production which opened the 1973-74 season at La Scala. Rossini: L’Italiana in Algeri Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires Broadcast 21 July 1970 Teresa Berganza: Isabella Valeria Mariconda: Elvira Tota de Igarzabel: Zulma Renzo Casellato: Lindoro Wladimiro Ganzarolli: Mustafa Renato Cesari: Taddeo Ricardo Catena: Haly Francesco Molinari-Pradelli: Conductor “Trove Thursday” offerings can be downloaded via the audio-player on their page. Just click on the icon of a square with an arrow pointing downward and the resulting mp3 file will appear in your download directory. Italiana, last week’s Giuramento and all previous “Trove Thursday” fare remain available from iTunes or via any RSS reader. Photo: José Luis
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