Il Corsaro

Il Corsaro

Il Corsaro
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Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor: Lamberto Gardelli
Orchestra: New Philharmonia Orchestra
Performer: Alexander Oliver
Performer: Clifford Grant
Performer: Gianpiero Mastromei
Performer: Jessye Norman
Performer: John Noble
Performer: José Carreras
Performer: Montserrat Caballé
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-08-09
Music Label: Philips
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Prelude
  2. Come Liberi Volano I Venti
  3. Ah! Si, Ben Dite...
  4. Si: De' Corsari Il Fulmine
  5. Egli Non Riede Ancora!
  6. Non So Le Tetre Immagini
  7. E Pur Tristo, O Medora
  8. No, Tu Non Sai Comprendere
  9. Oh Qual Perenne Gaudio T'aspetta
  10. Ne Sulla Terra Creatura Alcuna
  11. Ah Conforto E Sol La Speme
  12. Sol Grida Di Festa
  13. Salve, Allah!
  14. Giunge Un Dervis
  15. Resta Ancora
  16. Audace Cotanto Mostrarti Pur Sai?
  17. Signor, Trafitti Giacciono
Music CD 2
  1. Alfin Questo Corsaro E Mio Prigione
  2. Cento Leggiadre Vergini
  3. S'Avvicina Il Tuo Momento
  4. Eccola!... Fingasi
  5. Eccomi Prigioniero!
  6. Ei Dorme?
  7. Seid La Vuole
  8. Sul Capo Mio Discenda
  9. La Terra, Il Ciel M'abborrino
  10. Voi Tacete
  11. Per Me Infelice
  12. O Mio Carrado, Appressati

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Music Review: SWAGGER AND SWASHBUCKLE
Rating: 5 Stars

Verdi's interactions with his librettists, publishers, impresarios and censors would have made a good opera in their own right, I often think. The difficult early history of Il Corsaro is related in fascinating detail and with the right sense of humour for us in a really excellent essay by Julian Budden that accompanies this well-produced set. Whatever interruptions and rethinking its genesis underwent, I would call it a superb piece of early Verdi, full of the raw power, drama and melody that had Shaw, in defiance of orthodoxy at the time, calling him a far greater composer than Mendelssohn. I can also only compliment Philips for reissuing it now (it was originally made 30 years ago) and treating with a proper disdain any misplaced sensitivity that might be felt about its subject-matter. The story concerns a reach-me-down operatic situation in which corsairs battle with a conventionally villainous Pasha to gain the release of a female slave, and the political content or relevance to current events of this narrative with its eunuchs, Turks, dervishes, odalisques and general atmosphere of bead-curtains and Ali Baba seems to me to be precisely nil.

Gardelli handles the score as to the manner born, never letting the pace relax or playing down the hyperbole and melodrama. The cast perform admirably, including the minor players. Carreras in particular is on superb form, and while I wondered whether the part of Medora might be just a little low-key for Jessye Norman she is at her formidable best in the final trio with Carreras and Montserrat Caballe. The part of the slave Gulnara, sung by Caballe, is the most dramatic, and her long duets first with the menacing Pasha Seid and then with the dithering Corrado (Carreras) are absolutely gripping. It struck me as being lucky that Seid had already left the room before she let out her final 'Guai, tiranno', otherwise it might have blown him through the door.

I am far too keen on Verdi to be as discriminating as Julian Budden is in his very thoughtful comments on the arias - I swallow them whole. He has some interesting remarks about the instrumental writing too, in which there are the touches of originality and genius that would flower fully much later in the Requiem. In general the orchestration is the big guitar, which I take and enjoy as I find it. You could tell that the recording is not quite recent, but it is perfectly satisfactory for the most part, although Norman is probably treated too much at arm's length. For me this set is a major musical and theatrical event. I have not throughout my life noticed many performances of Il Corsaro advertised. If I see any more now I shall know what I ought not to go on missing.
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