Donizetti Songs Vol.4 Marie-Nicole Lemieux

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This item will be released February 21, 2025.

The prolific and versatile Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti, one of the central figures of Italian bel canto opera, also wrote around 200 songs. Volume 4 features songs in French for mezzo-soprano performed by Marie-Nicole Lemieux and pianist Giulio Zappa. Most of these songs are rarely performed and some, until recently, completely unknown. Curated by musicologist Roger Parker and under the leadership of Opera Rara’s Artistic Director Carlo Rizzi, Opera Rara presents the complete solo songs in a series of eight recital albums.

The project makes a powerful case for Donizetti as a key figure in 19th-century song repertoire, and for the importance of the Italian school in a field long dominated by German and French composers.

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  1. “Bei labbri che Amore formò” Buy Track 0:32
  2. “Occhio nero incendiator” ** Available from 7 February 2025** Buy Track 0:32
  3. “Del colle in sul pendio” Buy Track 0:32
  4. “Sospiri, aneliti, che m’opprimete” Buy Track 0:32
  5. La Folle de S.te Hélène “Ils disent tous que je suis folle” Buy Track 0:32
  6. “Ti sento, sospiri” Buy Track 0:32
  7. “Tengo ’no ’nnamorato” Buy Track 0:32
  8. “Se tu non vedi” Buy Track 0:32
  9. “Quel nome se ascolto” Buy Track 0:32
  10. La trovatella “Sovra il campo della vita” Buy Track 0:32
  11. La Fiancée du timbalier “Monseigneur le duc de Bretagne” Buy Track 0:32
  12. “Ah! rammenta, o bella Irene” Buy Track 0:32
  13. “Che cangi tempra” Buy Track 0:32
  14. La Novice “Quand je vis que j’étais trahie” With Edward Batting, Harmonium Buy Track 0:32
  15. L’Étrangère “Quand du jour paraît la lumière” Buy Track 0:32
  16. “Sull’onda cheta e bruna” Buy Track 0:32
  17. La fuga di Tisbe “Alto silenzio ingombra” Buy Track 0:32
  18. “Luna e stelle della notte” Buy Track 0:32
  19. La Prière à S.te Catherine “Aux filles que l’ennui chagrine” Buy Track 0:32
  20. Les Lendemains “Philis plus avare que tendre” Buy Track 0:32
  21. Pas d’autre amour que toi “Ah! si tu voulais, toi que j’aime” ** Available from 24 January 2025** Buy Track 0:32

Description

One of Opera Rara’s most ambitious projects in its fifty-year history is to record the complete solo songs of Gaetano Donizetti.

A handful of these songs has been long known and often heard in recitals; many more are listed in specialist catalogues but very rarely if ever performed; others still have been thought lost or are completely unknown. Recent research connected with this project, undertaken by Roger Parker in collaboration with Ian Schofield, has made clear that, in total, Donizetti wrote some 200 solo songs over the course of his thirty-year career. Making modern editions of this vast corpus has been an arduous task: sources for the songs are dispersed in European libraries and beyond, the composer’s autograph scores often having been casually given away at the time of composition (typically as a present from the composer to the dedicatee). But in their totality these compositions make a powerful case for Donizetti as a key figure in nineteenth-century domestic music-making: someone whose achievements in this area deserve to be better known; a body of work that, single-handedly, makes a powerful argument for the importance of the Italian “school” in a field long dominated by German and French composers.

Cast

Marie-Nicole Lemieux, mezzo-soprano
Giulio Zappa, piano
Edward Batting, harmonium (track 14)

Tracklist

[1] “Bei labbri che Amore formò” (1:44)

[2] “Occhio nero incendiator” (2:56)

[3] “Del colle in sul pendio” (2:55)

[4] “Sospiri, aneliti, che m’opprimete” (1:50)

[5] La Folle de S.te Hélène “Ils disent tous que je suis folle” (10:09)

[6] “Ti sento, sospiri” (2:16)

[7] “Tengo ’no ’nnamorato” (2:21)

[8] “Se tu non vedi” (1:54)

[9] “Quel nome se ascolto” (2:12)

[10] La trovatella “Sovra il campo della vita” (1:15)

[11] La Fiancée du timbalier “Monseigneur le duc de Bretagne” (1:51)

[12] “Ah! rammenta, o bella Irene” (5:02)

[13] “Che cangi tempra” (1:42)

[14] La Novice “Quand je vis que j’étais trahie”(with Edward Batting, harmonium) (6:03)

[15] L’Étrangère “Quand du jour paraît la lumière” (4:46)

[16] “Sull’onda cheta e bruna” (2:42)

[17] La fuga di Tisbe “Alto silenzio ingombra” 8:54 47

[18] “Luna e stelle della notte” 1:35 50

[19] La Prière à S.te Catherine “Aux filles que l’ennui chagrine” (3:14)

[20] Les Lendemains “Philis plus avare que tendre” (1:35)

[21] Pas d’autre amour que toi “Ah! si tu voulais, toi que j’aime” (4:04)

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