Cecilia Bartoli Rossini Recital
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Composer or Director: Gioachino Rossini, Anonymous
Label: Decca
Magazine Review Date: 4/1991
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 71
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 430 518-2DH
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| (La) Pastorella |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo soprano Charles Spencer, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer |
| Beltà crudele |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo soprano Charles Spencer, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer |
| (Il) Trovatore |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo soprano Charles Spencer, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer |
| Péchés de vieillesse, Book 2, 'Album français', Movement: L'Orpheline du Tyrol (S) |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo soprano Charles Spencer, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer |
| Péchés de vieillesse, Book 1, 'Album per canto', Movement: La regata veneziana: |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo soprano Charles Spencer, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer |
| Mi lagnerò tacendo I |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo soprano Charles Spencer, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer |
| Pompadour, la grande coquette |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo soprano Charles Spencer, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer |
| Ariette à l'ancienne |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo soprano Charles Spencer, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer |
| Nizza |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo soprano Charles Spencer, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer |
| (L') Âme délaissée |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo soprano Charles Spencer, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer |
| Canzonetta spagnuola |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo soprano Charles Spencer, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer |
| Giovanna d'Arco |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo soprano Charles Spencer, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer |
| (La) Légende de Marguérite |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo soprano Charles Spencer, Piano |
Composer or Director: Gioachino Rossini, Anonymous
Label: Decca
Magazine Review Date: 4/1991
Media Format: Cassette
Media Runtime: 0
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: 430 518-4DH
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| (La) Pastorella |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo soprano Charles Spencer, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer |
| Beltà crudele |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo soprano Charles Spencer, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer |
| (Il) Trovatore |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo soprano Charles Spencer, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer |
| Péchés de vieillesse, Book 2, 'Album français', Movement: L'Orpheline du Tyrol (S) |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo soprano Charles Spencer, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer |
| Péchés de vieillesse, Book 1, 'Album per canto', Movement: La regata veneziana: |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo soprano Charles Spencer, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer |
| Mi lagnerò tacendo I |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo soprano Charles Spencer, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer |
| Pompadour, la grande coquette |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo soprano Charles Spencer, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer |
| Ariette à l'ancienne |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo soprano Charles Spencer, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer |
| Nizza |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo soprano Charles Spencer, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer |
| (L') Âme délaissée |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo soprano Charles Spencer, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer |
| Canzonetta spagnuola |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo soprano Charles Spencer, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer |
| Giovanna d'Arco |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo soprano Charles Spencer, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer |
| (La) Légende de Marguérite |
Anonymous, Composer
Anonymous, Composer Cecilia Bartoli, Mezzo soprano Charles Spencer, Piano |
Author: Richard Osborne
The most substantial—though not necessarily the principal—work in this collection is the dramatic scena Giovanna d'Arco, written by Rossini in 1832 at a time when the Joan of Arc subject had recently been a candidate with him for larger theatrical treatment. In the event, he confined himself to a short 17-minute scena during which Joan bids farewell to her homeland and her mother (subjects both close to the heart of the exiled and recently bereaved Rossini) and looks forward exultantly to the forthcoming confrontation with the English. As for the rest of the programme, it consists of songs written by Rossini— or in the case of La legende de Marguerite, anonymously arranged from part of his La Cenerentola—between 1818, when he was based in Naples, and the 1860s when he was enjoying an Indian summer of socializing and composition in Paris.
Philip Gossett's booklet note is entitled ''A Musical Soiree a la Rossini'', which rather tantalizingly raises the question of how best to present music from the huge mass of songs and piano pieces Rossini left, unsorted and unedited, after his death. It would certainly be good to discover a gramophone company re-creating (for the 1992 bicentenary of the great man's birth, perhaps) a real soiree programme—songs and arias, not all necessarily by Rossini, interspersed with small ensembles, and piano pieces: with music of real intensity sitting alongside the various spoofs and parodies with which Rossini liked to enliven his musical evenings. As it is, the kind of recital Decca now offers is relatively straightforward and also, given the nature of the material, a touch esoteric.
Some of the music is intensely attractive. There is the touching and reflective early Belta crudele and a song Rossini wrote in 1844 at the height of his illnesses and depressions,L'ame delaissee. A trio of Venetian dialect songs is particularly charming, the more so as Cecilia Bartoli sings them and characterizes them with the kind of dramatic flair and vocal allure with which the young Schwarzkopf would invariably deck the meanest flower of the vocal repertory. There is also a fascinating group of variant settings of a text Rossini returned to time and time again: Metastasio's Mi lagnero tacendo. The third of the five settings is an intriguing Spanish number and the fourth transcribes part of the ''Fac ut portem'' from the Stabat mater. I thought Bartoli a shade too hasty, and even a touch bland vocally, in the popular Canzonetta spagnuola. And fine as she is—a born Rossinian—she does not as yet have all Marilyn Horne's imagination and sheer dramatic daring as an interpreter of occasional Rossini. This shows, most obviously, in Giovanna d'Arco where I miss Horne's astonishing musical patience and emotional inwardness in what is the very heart of the work, Joan's farewell to her home, her woods, and her fields, ''O dolce mio loco nativo... addio''.
When Horne's recording finally appeared on CD in this country, CBS detached it from a programme of Rossini's finest songs and put it, instead, with a programme of ''alternative arias''. Still, it makes a fascinating disc, and theGiovanna d'Arco remains unsurpassed. But if that piece is not your primary concern, the Bartoli has charms of its own, plus decent sound and reliable accompaniments.'
Philip Gossett's booklet note is entitled ''A Musical Soiree a la Rossini'', which rather tantalizingly raises the question of how best to present music from the huge mass of songs and piano pieces Rossini left, unsorted and unedited, after his death. It would certainly be good to discover a gramophone company re-creating (for the 1992 bicentenary of the great man's birth, perhaps) a real soiree programme—songs and arias, not all necessarily by Rossini, interspersed with small ensembles, and piano pieces: with music of real intensity sitting alongside the various spoofs and parodies with which Rossini liked to enliven his musical evenings. As it is, the kind of recital Decca now offers is relatively straightforward and also, given the nature of the material, a touch esoteric.
Some of the music is intensely attractive. There is the touching and reflective early Belta crudele and a song Rossini wrote in 1844 at the height of his illnesses and depressions,
When Horne's recording finally appeared on CD in this country, CBS detached it from a programme of Rossini's finest songs and put it, instead, with a programme of ''alternative arias''. Still, it makes a fascinating disc, and the
Cecilia Bartoli Rossini Recital
Cecilia Bartoli Rossini Recital
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