Pops Plays Puccini
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Composer: Giacomo PucciniConductor: Erich Kunzel
Orchestra: Erich Kunzel
Orchestra: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
Orchestra: Crafton Beck
Orchestra: Steven Bernstein
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1991-03-14
Music Label: Telarc
Soundtracks:
- O Mio Babbino Caro
- Recondita Armonia
- Perche Chiuso?-Qual Occhio-Mia Gelosa!
- Largo Religioso Sostenuto Molto : Finale
- Vissi D'arte, Vissi D'Amore
- E Lucevan Le Stelle
- Nessun Dorma!
- Ancora Un Passo Or Via
- Vogliatemi Bene
- Un Bel Di
- Humming Chorus Finale
- Orchestral Prelude
- In Quelle Trine Morbide
- Che Gelida Manina
- Mi Chiamano Mimi
- O Soave Fanciulla
- Quando Me'n Vo'
- Speravo Di Trovarvi Qui
- Sono Andati?
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Music Review: Lyrical Clarity... Beauty... and Gracefulness...
Rating: 5 Stars
This album of Puccini pieces contains orchestral playing which sounds top-rank and effortless...though that is the true sign of excellent lyrical discipline and ensemble sensitivity by Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. The aspect which is so stunning in these pieces is the ensemble string playing...in a piece such as "Recondita Armonia" from *Tosca,* you almost believe that you have never really heard the lyrical beauty of this piece before...the strings are sumptuous, yet clear... The only piece which sounds "ponderous," because of the orchestration's bringing out the menace as well as the fatefulness is the "Te Deum" from *Tosca*... the organ is there...the brass is there...but it simply does not seem to be in synch with the lyrical beauty and grace of the other pieces...though it is, in itself, melodic, chordlike, but too heavy... There is quite a dramatic contrast which occurs on the CD as you go from the loud climax of the "Te Deum" and then are introduced to the quiet lyrical beauty of the "Vissi d'arte"...though it, too, builds in intensity to a climax... which subsides into quiet beauty once again... Much of the reason for the beauty and the grace of the sounds on this album must go to the adaptation and orchestrations of the pieces...these have been done by Crafton Beck, Steven Bernstein, and Erich Kunzel... ...the "E lucevan le stelle" is exquisite...quiet...but melancholy...lyrically longing...never strained...simply ravishing in its haunting beauty and sentiment...with a crescendo climax that also quietly fades away... ...I personally do not care much for the use of the horn at the beginning of the "Nessun Dorma"...but then the string playing becomes incredibly stately and harmonic... and when the horn returns the second time, it seems quite appropriate at that spot... ...if there are two pieces which sum up the beauty and lyricism of this album, they are the "Ancora un passo or via" from Act I of *Madama Butterfly* and the "Vogliatemi bene" from Act I of *Madama Butterfly*...the string playing is passionate, tender, and compelling (especially on the "Vogliatemi bene")...and the clarinet playing in the early part of the "Vogliatemi" is as harmonically apt as is the use of the same instrument in the "I pini del Gianicolo" in Respighi's "Pines of Rome"... ...lyrical clarity...beauty...and gracefulness...
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