Rossini: Il Viaggio a Reims (The Journey to Reims)

Rossini: Il Viaggio a Reims (The Journey to Reims)

Rossini: Il Viaggio a Reims (The Journey to Reims)
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Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Import
Published: 1990
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Il Viaggio A Reims: Introduzione - Scena I: 'Presto, presto, su coraggio'
  2. Il Viaggio A Reims: Introduzione - Scena II: 'Benche grazie al mio talento'
  3. Il Viaggio A Reims: Introduzione - Scena III: (Aria) - 'Di vaghi raggi adorno' (Madama Cortese)
  4. Il Viaggio A Reims: Introduzione - Scena IV: 'Partire io pur vorrei'
  5. Il Viaggio A Reims: Introduzione - Scena V: 'Amabil Contessina'
  6. Il Viaggio A Reims: Introduzione - Scena VI: 'Che accade'
  7. Il Viaggio A Reims: Recitativo e Aria della Contessa: 'Ahime! sta in gran pericolo'
  8. Il Viaggio A Reims: Recitativo e Aria della Contessa: (Aria) - 'Partir, oh ceil! desio' (Contessa di Folleville)
  9. Il Viaggio A Reims: Recitativo e Aria della Contessa - Scena VII: (Aria Cont.) 'Che miro! ah! qual sorpresa'
  10. Il Viaggio A Reims: Recitativo e Aria della Contessa - Scena VIII: 'Eh! senti, mastro Antonio'
  11. Il Viaggio A Reims: Sestetto: 'Si, di matti una gran gabbia'
  12. Il Viaggio A Reims: Sestetto - Scena IX: 'La mia quota a voi consegno'
  13. Il Viaggio A Reims: Sestetto - Scena X: 'Donna ingrata'
  14. Il Viaggio A Reims: Sestetto - Scena XI: 'Naturale e l'impazienza'
  15. Il Viaggio A Reims: Sestetto - Scena IX: (A sei) 'Non pavento alcun periglio' (Conte di Libenskof, Madama Cortese, Marchesa Melibea)
  16. Il Viaggio A Reims: Sestetto: (Aria) - 'Arpa gentil' (Corinna)
  17. Il Viaggio A Reims: Sestetto: 'Zitti. Non canta piu' (A sei) 'Simbol di pace e gloria'
  18. Il Viaggio A Reims: Sestetto - Scena XII: 'Gelsomin non ritorna'
  19. Il Viaggio A Reims: Scena e Aria di Milord: 'Ah! perche la conobbi?' (Aria) 'Invan strappar core'
  20. Il Viaggio A Reims: Scena e Aria di Milord - Scene XIII-XIV: 'Milord, una parola'
Music CD 2
  1. Il Viaggio A Reims: Recitativo e Duetto di Corinna e del Cavaliere - Scena XV: 'Sola ritrovo alfin la bella Dea'
  2. Il Viaggio A Reims: Recitativo e Duetto di Corinna e del Cavaliere: (Duetto) 'Nel suo divin sembiante' (Corinna)
  3. Il Viaggio A Reims: Recitativo e Duetto di Corinna e del Cavaliere (Scena XVI): 'Bravo il signor Ganimede!'
  4. Il Viaggio A Reims: Aria di Don Profondo: 'Medaglie incomparabili'
  5. Il Viaggio A Reims: Aria di Don Profondo - Scene XVII-XIX: 'Vedeste il Cavaliere?'
  6. Il Viaggio A Reims: Gran Pezzo Concertato a 14 Voci: 'Ah! A tal colpo inaspettato' (Contessa di Folleville, Corinna, Marchesa Melibea, Conte di Libenskof, Madame Cortese)
  7. Il Viaggio A Reims: Gran Pezzo Concertato a 14 Voci - Scene XX: 'Signor, ecco una lettera'
  8. Il Viaggio A Reims: Gran Pezzo Concertato a 14 Voci - Scene XXI-XXII: Son qua, cosa comanda?
  9. Il Viaggio A Reims: Scena e Duetto del Conte e Melibea - Scena XXIII: 'Di che son reo?' (Duetto) 'D'alma celeste, oh Dio' (Conte di Libenskof, Marchesa Melibea)
  10. Il Viaggio A Reims: Scena e Duetto del Conte e Melibea - Scena XXIV: 'Madama qui mi manda'
  11. Il Viaggio A Reims: Finale - Scena XXV: Ritornello
  12. Il Viaggio A Reims: Finale: 'Ora, secondo gli usi' - Inno Tedesco 'Or che regna'
  13. Il Viaggio A Reims: Finale: 'Altro da dir avrei' - Polacca 'Ai prodi guerrieri' (Marchesa Melibea)
  14. Il Viaggio A Reims: Finale: 'Libenskof, tocca a voi' - Inno Russo 'Onore, gloria ed alto omaggio' (Conte di Libenskof)
  15. Il Viaggio A Reims: Finale: 'Don Alvaro, dal nord al mezzogiorno' - Canzone Spagnola 'Omaggio all'Augusto Duce'
  16. Il Viaggio A Reims: Finale: 'Milord, in tuon maggiore' - Inno Inglese 'Dell'aurea pianta'
  17. Il Viaggio A Reims: Finale: 'Contessa, Cavaliere, a voi la scelta lascio' - Canzone Francese 'Madre del nuovo Enrico' (Contessa di Folleville)
  18. Il Viaggio A Reims: Finale: 'Madama, Don Profondo, voi terminar dovete' - Tirolese 'Piu vivace e piu fecondo' (Madame Cortese)
  19. Il Viaggio A Reims: Finale: 'Corinna, or tocca a voi'
  20. Il Viaggio A Reims: Finale: (Improvviso) 'All'ombra amena' (Corinna)
  21. Il Viaggio A Reims: Finale: (Tutti) 'Viva il diletto augusto Regnator'

Music reviews of Rossini: Il Viaggio a Reims (The Journey to Reims)

Music Review: A Masterpiece! Rossini's Best Opera Next To Barber Of Seville
Rating: 5 Stars

Recorded in the 80's, this live recording of Rossini's obscure and little known opera "The Voyage To Reims" is outstanding and exemplifies a lost operatic style as well serving as a document of grand Rossini opera. Rossini's nearly Mozartian-style melodies are all here, rich with bel canto virtuosity. THE PLOT: A group of aristocrats are staying at a hotel on their way to Reims, to witness the grand coronation of a new European monarch. The opera was written to correspond with an actual coronation which Rossini attended. This opera is so beautiful and excessively virtuosic that it must surely rank as Rossini's best work next to the ever popular Barber of Seville. The interactions between the characters are hilarious. At one point, they talk about Bach and Beethoven while playing snippets of their music. The "royalty" in this opera come from fictitious European countries and nationalistic music that sound French, Spanish, Russian and German are written for arias. Each singer (soprano, mezzo soprano, tenor, baritone and bass) gets a showpiece of an aria to themselves. And the cast is top-notch: Soprano Cecilia Gazdia as Corinna, mezzo soprano Lucia Valentini Terrani as the Marchesa Melibea, soprano Lella Cuberli as the Countess Di Folleville, soprano Katia Ricciarelli as Madame Cortese, tenor Francisco Araiza as the Count of Libenskof, bass Samuel Ramey as Lord Sidney, baritone Ruggero Raimondi as Don Profondo, basso-bufo Enzo Dara as the Baron Di Trombonok and baritone Leo Nucci as Don Alvar. The conductor is Claudio Abbado leading the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

If you're a fan of Samuel Ramey, this recording features two great arias he sings with aplomb. His Rossini and bel canto style was truly his strongest suit, though he would later leave this operatic repertoire to focus on the famed "Devil" personaee. He sings with enormous lung power and basso profundo but has enough coloratura to fly with the bouncy music. Ruggero Raimondi is also here, singing with flair and grand style, singing in almost the same way he sings Mozart's Don Giovanni. If you're a fan of soprano Katia Ricciarelli, she is given beautiful arias and scenes. Possessing a noble-sounding voice, she showcases her superlative middle range and her fioritura. Soprano Cecilia Gazdia has an even better high range and she sings with supreme sweetness and agility. Her single aria "Arpa Gentil" as she plays the harp is worth this recording. The ensuing ensemble "Simboli Di Pace" is all fireworks as the voices go from low to high. The music is sublime, and only got better and better. This type of singing has died. No great Rossini singer exists today, as Rossini's music is considered antiquated. But he outshone even Mozart in writing opera. The music is lilting, grand and lively. One can imagine how much fun it must have been to attend a Rossini opera!

THE FINALE: The opera ends with all the characters (and that's many) coming together to sing a patriotic "coronation" anthem "Viva Il Diletto Augusto Regnator" (Long Live The August King" which is lifted from an actual French anthem. Tchaikovsky would later use this same aria's music for the finale of his Sleeping Beauty ballet, which was modeled after the court of Louix the 14th. The ensemble sounds beautiful and again becomes another reason for buying this recording. Any true fan of Rossini opera will want to get this recording or if you happen to enjoy rare opera.
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This is one of those great Rossinian singing competitions in which everyone--and, in particular, the listeners--wins. Composed as a piece of occasional entertainment for the coronation of Charles X in Paris, Rossini borrowed liberally from his recent comic success Le Comte Ory and fashioned a musical necklace chock filled with one shiny bauble after another. Each character has a showpiece aria, from the highs of soprano Cecilia Gasdia as a melodramatic poetess all the way down to the basso realms of Samuel Ramey and Ruggero Raimondi. The ensembles are as delicious as the solos, and Claudio Abbado, in a very theatrical mood (this was recorded live) keeps everything going wittily and with great elan. The plot is practically nonexistent, but with singing like this, it's hard to complain. A real dazzler--and great fun. --Robert Levine

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