- La partenza del crociato 'Al campo della gloria' Buy Track 0:32
- 'Ov’e la voce magica' Buy Track 0:32
- 'Il mio grido io getto ai venti' Buy Track 0:32
- 'J’aime trop pour etre heureux' Abigail Fenna (Viola) Buy Track 0:32
- Il pegno 'Questi capegli bruni' Buy Track 0:32
- Romance. Te dire adieu 'Tu pars, il faut te dire adieu' Buy Track 0:32
- L’amor funesto 'Piu che non ama un angelo' Hetty Snell (Cello) Buy Track 0:32
- Arietta. 'A pie del mesto salice' Buy Track 0:32
- 'O Cloe, delizia di questo core' Buy Track 0:32
- Auf dem Meere 'Ob die Sturme auch wuthen' Buy Track 0:32
- 'Odi d’un uom che muore' Buy Track 0:32
- 'Non v’e nume, non v’e fato' ** OUT 20 SEPT 2024** Daniel de-Fry (Harp) Buy Track 0:32
- 'Non sdegnar, vezzosa Irene' Buy Track 0:32
- 'Nici, ss’occhiuzzi, calali' Buy Track 0:32
- La partenza 'Taci, in van, mia cara Iole' Buy Track 0:32
- Le Dernier Chant du Troubadour 'A ce tilleul, muette et detendue' Buy Track 0:32
- Il crociato 'Colle piume sul cimiero' Buy Track 0:32
- Il trovatore in caricatura 'Era notte, e la campana' Buy Track 0:32
- 'Dio che col cenno moderi' Buy Track 0:32
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Donizetti Songs Vol.2 Nicola Alaimo
£10.00
1 disc set
Single Track Download
The prolific and versatile Italian composer Gaetano Donizetti, one of the central figures of Italian bel canto opera, also wrote around 200 songs. Volume 2 features songs for baritone performed by Nicola Alaimo and pianist and Opera Rara’s Artistic Director Carlo Rizzi. 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.
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
Nicola Alaimo, tenor
Carlo Rizzi, piano
Abigail Fenna, viola (track 4)
Hetty Snell, cello (track 7)
Daniel de-Fry, harp (track 12)
Tracklist
[1] La partenza del crociato ‘Al campo della gloria’ (2’43)
[2] ‘Ov’è la voce magica’ (2’22)
[3] Romanza. ‘Il mio grido io getto ai venti’ (2’46)
[4] J’aime trop pour être heureux ‘Dans un salon si quelqu’un vous regarde’ (Abigail Fenna, viola) (5’56)
[5] Il pegno ‘Questi capegli bruni’ (2’06)
[6] Romance. Te dire adieu ‘Tu pars, il faut te dire adieu’ (3’53)
[7] L’amor funesto ‘Più che non ama un angelo’ (Hetty Snell, cello) (5’41)
[8] Arietta. ‘A piè del mesto salice’ (3’05)
[9] ‘O Cloe, delizia di questo core’ (1’23)
[10] Auf dem Meere ‘Ob die Stürme auch wüthen’ (2’32)
[11] Amore e morte ‘Odi d’un uom che muore’ (2’29)
[12] ‘Non v’è nume, non v’è fato’ (Daniel de-Fry, harp) (5’27)
[13] ‘Non sdegnar, vezzosa Irene’ (1’48)
[14] ‘Nici, ss’occhiuzzi, calali’ (2’21)
[15] La partenza ‘Taci, in van, mia cara Iole’ (1’27)
[16] Le Dernier Chant du Troubadour ‘A ce tilleul, muette et détendue’ (2’45)
[17] Il crociato ‘Colle piume sul cimiero’ (2’31)
[18] Il trovatore in caricatura ‘Era notte, e la campana’ (4’38)
[19] ‘Dio che col cenno moderi’ (4’24)
[20] ‘Quando da te lontano’ (2’06)
[21] Un Baiser pour espoir ‘Je vais quitter tout ce que j’aime’ (3’34)
[22] ‘Nice s’io moro’ (2’49)
[23] ‘Si soffre una tiranna’ (1’25)
[24] Canto elegaico. ‘Non priego mai, né pianto’ (5’12)
[25] ‘Mentre dal caro lido’ (2’53)
[26] ‘Quanto mio ben t’adoro’ (2’34)
Press Reviews
In Volume 2, Alaimo is always acute to the sensitivities of the material… An auspicious start, then, that should introduce audiences to an endlessly attractive yet mostly forgotten world of 19th-century Italian song.
Limelight Editor's Choice
This is Donizetti the Romantic [in Vol. 2], glancing over the Alps to his northern-European contemporaries, and Alaimo coaxes every drop of Gothic drama from this music.
BBC Music Magazine
Alaimo is a highly engaged storyteller…
Gramophone
Nicola Alaimo, for his part, envelops his singing with the use of his rich mid-range, bringing the necessary character to the declamations and showing a notable sensitivity in modulating his delivery. Carlo Rizzi perfectly understands his role, accompanying with restraint so that the soloists can fully showcase Donizetti’s writing.
Scherzo
In the first track (Al campo della gloria) of the second disc of baritone songs, Nicola Alaimo sings with energetic verve, and in the second (Ov’è la voce magica), with lyrical cantilena… both recordings whet the appetite for the continuation of this cycle.
Opera Lounge