Verdi: I due Foscari
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Genre: Classical Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 14-AUG-2007
Track Listing
Disc 1:
- I due Foscari, opera: Preludio
- I due Foscari, opera: Act 1. Coro. Silenzio
- I due Foscari, opera: Act 1. Scena. Qui ti rimani / Arioso. Brezza del suol natio
- I due Foscari, opera: Act 1. Cavatina. Dal più remoto esilio
- I due Foscari, opera: Act 1. Cabaletta. Odio solo, ed odio atroce
- I due Foscari, opera: Act 1. Scena. No... mi lasciate
- I due Foscari, opera: Act 1. Cavatina. Tu al cui sguardo omnipossente
- I due Foscari, opera: Act 1. Scena e Cabaletta. Che mi rechi?
- I due Foscari, opera: Act 1. Coro. Tacque il reo!
- I due Foscari, opera: Act 1. Scena. Eccomi solo alfine...
- I due Foscari, opera: Act 1. Romanza. O vecchio cor, che batti
- I due Foscari, opera: Act 1. Finale. Scena. L'illustre dama Foscari
- I due Foscari, opera: Act 1. Finale. Duetto. Tu pur lo sai
- I due Foscari, opera: Act 1. Finale. Duetto. Di sua innocenza dubiti?
Disc 2:
- I due Foscari, opera: Act 2. Preludio
- I due Foscari, opera: Act 2. Scena. Notte! perpetua notte
- I due Foscari, opera: Act 2. Preghiera. Non maledirmi, o prode
- I due Foscari, opera: Act 2. Scena. Ah, sposo mio!
- I due Foscari, opera: Act 2. Duetto. No, non morrai
- I due Foscari, opera: Act 2. Barcarola. Tutta è calma la laguna / Stretta. Speranza dolce ancora
- I due Foscari, opera: Act 2. Scena. Ah, padre!
- I due Foscari, opera: Act 2. Terzetto. Nel tuo paterno amplesso
- I due Foscari, opera: Act 2. Scena. Addio...
- I due Foscari, opera: Act 2. Quartetto. Ah sì, il tempo
- I due Foscari, opera: Act 2. Finale. Coro. Che più si tarda?
- I due Foscari, opera: Act 2. Finale. Scena. O patrizi...
- I due Foscari, opera: Act 2. Finale. Queste innocenti lagrime
- I due Foscari, opera: Act 3. Introduzione. Alla gioia!
- I due Foscari, opera: Act 3. Scena. Donna infelice
- I due Foscari, opera: Act 3. Aria. All'infelice veglio
- I due Foscari, opera: Act 3. Scena. Egli ora parte
- I due Foscari, opera: Act 3. Cabaletta. Più non vive!
- I due Foscari, opera: Act 3. Finale. Scena. Signor, chiedon parlarti
- I due Foscari, opera: Act 3. Finale. Aria. Questa dunque è l'iniqua mercede
- I due Foscari, opera: Act 3. Finale. Scena. Che venga a me, se lice / Quel bronzo infernale
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #160817 in Music
- Brand: Unknown
- Released on: 2007-08-14
- Number of discs: 2
- Dimensions: .46 pounds
Customer Reviews
Melodious and neglected early Verdi
With "Nabucco", "I Lombardi" and "Ernani" already under his belt, Verdi could hardly be said to be a novice composer when he wrote "I Due Foscari" for Rome in 1844, and yet somehow this opera seems to have been relegated to the "interesting but justly neglected" category, as if it were an immature and unrewarding work. It is, in fact, a subtle and intimate opera, full of mellow, touching duets and relying more upon plangent melody and perecptive musical characterisation rather than dramatic events - of which there are, admittedly, precious few. The cast and recording quality are of the highest order - typical of the whole Philips/Gardelli early Verdi project - and while I do not completely agree with earlier reviewers that Ricciarelli and Cappuccilli are flawless - their vocal production is at times a little breathy and deliberate - they are both very fine and Carreras is undoubtedly in his youthful, peak form (as is the young Ramey). Hearing this set might prompt you to sample the other recordings featuring Carreras in that excellent series: "Un Giorni di Regno" (1973); "Il Corsaro" (1975); "La Battaglia di Legnano" (1977) and "Stiffelio (1979), coupling Carreras with a succession of wonderful leading ladies: Ricciarelli, Caballe, Norman and Sass. These sets form the best of Carreras' recorded legacy and with the demise of studio recordings of opera, we can perhaps now feel even more appreciative of a series which certainly does not sound its age. (Those recordings where another tenor was used - a young Domingo in "I Lombardi" (1971) and "I Masnadieri" with Bergonzi - are equally recommendable.)
The opera itself is short at an hour and three-quarters and leaves you wanting more. There is mercifully little "rum-ti-tum" stuff typical of second-rate early Verdi; rather there is much gentle, delicate scoring that makes extensive use of melodic themes. An interesting and unusual addition to anyone's Verdi collection.
Ricciarelli y Carreras en su mejor momento
Si bien hay muchas grabaciones de Ricciarelli y Carreras juntos, como el Elixir de Amor con Scimone o La Battaglia di Legnano con Gardelli, en éste momento de su carrera, ambos cantantes tienen un esplendor particular y sus voces ensamblan perfectamente. Cappuccilli da vida a un papel olvidado hasta el momento como Foscari y lo interpreta realmente majestuoso. Samuel Ramey tiene una voz noble y joven todavía, aunque ya se escucha su color particular como en muchos otros momentos, todo este elenco dirigido por Gardelli, un gran conocedor de Verdi que grabó la mayoría de sus óperas tempranas.
I due Foscari CD; A Verdi tragedy
Excellent performance of a Verdi opera with a Shakespearian plot.
José Carreras & Katia Ricciarelli gave better-than-I-expected performances.




