Ora divina - (Il) Salotto, Vol 9
Drawing room delights from Opera Rara’s salon set
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Composer or Director: Michael William Balfe, Fabio Campana, Edoardo Vera, Giovanni Battista Rubini, Julius Benedict, Jacques Offenbach, Antonio Giuglini, (Giuseppe) Saverio (Raffaele) Mercadante, Angelo Mariani, Gaetano Donizetti, Lord (John Fane) Burghersh, Caroline Unger, Luigi Carlini
Genre:
Vocal
Label: Opera Rara
Magazine Review Date: 4/2007
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 70
Mastering:
Stereo
DDD
Catalogue Number: ORR239
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Ad un fiume |
Angelo Mariani, Composer
Angelo Mariani, Composer Bruce Ford, Tenor David Harper, Piano |
'Si fiero dolore' |
Lord (John Fane) Burghersh, Composer
Bruce Ford, Tenor David Harper, Piano Diana Montague, Mezzo soprano Lord (John Fane) Burghersh, Composer Majella Cullagh, Soprano Mark Stone, Baritone |
'Claire de lune' |
Fabio Campana, Composer
David Harper, Piano Elisabeth Vidal, Soprano Fabio Campana, Composer |
'La tradita' |
Edoardo Vera, Composer
David Harper, Piano Diana Montague, Mezzo soprano Edoardo Vera, Composer |
'Ah, che nel dirti addio' |
(Giuseppe) Saverio (Raffaele) Mercadante, Composer
(Giuseppe) Saverio (Raffaele) Mercadante, Composer Barry Banks, Tenor David Harper, Piano Diana Montague, Mezzo soprano Majella Cullagh, Soprano Roland Wood, Bass |
(The) Blighted flower |
Michael William Balfe, Composer
Bruce Ford, Tenor David Harper, Piano Michael William Balfe, Composer |
'Le ombre' |
Edoardo Vera, Composer
David Harper, Piano Diana Montague, Mezzo soprano Edoardo Vera, Composer Majella Cullagh, Soprano Mark Stone, Baritone |
'Mescetimi il vin' |
Edoardo Vera, Composer
Barry Banks, Tenor David Harper, Piano Edoardo Vera, Composer |
'L étoile' |
Jacques Offenbach, Composer
David Harper, Piano Elisabeth Vidal, Soprano Jacques Offenbach, Composer Susie Beer, Cello |
'Cresci arboscel felice' |
Luigi Carlini, Composer
David Harper, Piano Diana Montague, Mezzo soprano Luigi Carlini, Composer Roland Wood, Bass Sine Bundgaard, Soprano |
'Presso qel rio che piange' |
Julius Benedict, Composer
David Harper, Piano Julius Benedict, Composer Paul Austin Kelly, Tenor |
'Il Passato' |
Antonio Giuglini, Composer
Antonio Giuglini, Composer David Harper, Piano Majella Cullagh, Soprano Sine Bundgaard, Soprano |
'La rose' |
Gaetano Donizetti, Composer
David Harper, Piano Elisabeth Vidal, Soprano Gaetano Donizetti, Composer |
'Ora divina' |
Fabio Campana, Composer
David Harper, Piano Diana Montague, Mezzo soprano Fabio Campana, Composer Paul Austin Kelly, Tenor |
(L') Addio (Mes adieux à Naples) |
Caroline Unger, Composer
Caroline Unger, Composer David Harper, Piano Majella Cullagh, Soprano |
'La Partenza' |
Angelo Mariani, Composer
Angelo Mariani, Composer Bruce Ford, Tenor David Harper, Piano |
Author: John Steane
Songs by Angelo Mariani, sung by Bruce Ford, open and close the recital. He is remembered nowadays, if at all, as a friend of Verdi and as the conductor who introduced Italy to Wagner. And the first of these songs, Ad un fiume, is beautiful: a melancholy tune, written at a point somewhere between Bellini and Tosti, and sung with every refinement of the lyric art. Other solos are more insipid: Edoardo Vera’s La tradita is sung with sturdy tone and appropriate expressiveness by Diana Montague, but others, by Donizetti and Campana, are given with relaxed tone and a super-abundance of high-note floaters by Elizabeth Vidal, eau sucrée for the well appointed chambre de malade.
There are several rather charming duettinos and, best of all, a canon-quartet by Lord Burghersh, minister plenipotentiary at Florence, composer of six operas and four books of canonic partsongs such as this. Sung by Majella Cullagh, Diana Montague, Bruce Ford and Mark Stone, it is both expressive and elegantly turned, the singers seeing themselves individually as equable parts of a well balanced whole and giving no sense, as starry Italians might do, of a competition for prominence.
In any case, there to see fair play, are David Harper, presiding at a piano of appropriate date and tone, and Patric Schmid still alive and producing. Transcriptions are the work of Ian Schofield, and Patrick O’Connor has written excellent notes for the booklet.
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