Rossini - Cantatas Volume 2 / Bartoli, Flórez, Kelly, Scano, Barcellona; Chailly

Juan Diego Florez - Rossini - Cantatas Volume 2 / Bartoli, Flórez, Kelly, Scano, Barcellona; Chailly

Rossini - Cantatas Volume 2 / Bartoli, Flórez, Kelly, Scano, Barcellona; Chailly
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Artist: Juan Diego Florez
Composer: Gioachino Rossini
Conductor: Riccardo Chailly
Orchestra: Orchestra Filarmonica Della Scala
Performer: Cecilia Bartoli
Performer: Paul Austin Kelly
Performer: Elisabetta Scano
Performer: Daniela Barcellona
Performer: Luigi Petroni
Edition: Music CD
Format: Import
CD Release Date: 2001-03-23
Music Label: Decca Import
Soundtracks:
  1. Le nozze di Teti, e di Peleo: Preludio
  2. Le nozze di Teti, e di Peleo: N. 1 Coro: Suoni il monte, echeggi il piano (Coro)
  3. Le nozze di Teti, e di Peleo: Recitativo: Oh come lento giunge un momento felice ai voti miei (Peleo)
  4. Le nozze di Teti, e di Peleo: N. 2 Cavatina: Giusto cielo, i voti miei tu pietoso intendi (Peleo, Coro)
  5. Le nozze di Teti, e di Peleo: Recitativo: Figlio d'Acasto (Teti)
  6. Le nozze di Teti, e di Peleo: N. 3 Duetto: Costante al tuo fianco (Teti, Peleo)
  7. Le nozze di Teti, e di Peleo: N. 4 Coretto: Fin del bosco i cupi orrori (Coro, Teti, Peleo)
  8. Le nozze di Teti, e di Peleo: Recitativo: Numi, fra voi dall'etra io qui discesi
  9. Le nozze di Teti, e di Peleo: N. 5 Coro: Deh venite: sull'ara d'lmene
  10. Le nozze di Teti, e di Peleo: N. 6 Terzetto: Per me regni alfin la Pace (Peleo, Teti)
  11. Le nozze di Teti, e di Peleo: Recitativo: Invan del pallid'Orco l'empia Furia affacciossi
  12. Le nozze di Teti, e di Peleo: N. 7 Coro: Deh venite: sull'ara d'lmene
  13. Le nozze di Teti, e di Peleo: N. 8 Duetto: Chi mi reca le rose ed i gigli (Cerere)
  14. Le nozze di Teti, e di Peleo: Recitativo: Tanto puo dunque ancora sperar (Teti, Peleo, Cerere)
  15. Le nozze di Teti, e di Peleo: N. 9 Aria: Ah non potrian resistere (Cerere, Coro)
  16. Le nozze di Teti, e di Peleo: Recitativo: M'udite o genti
  17. Le nozze di Teti, e di Peleo: N. 10 Coro: Liete danze per queste pendici
  18. Le nozze di Teti, e di Peleo: N. 11 Finale: Sacro ad Ausonia vedrassi il Giglio (Cerere, Teti, Peleo, Coro)
  19. Il pianto d'Armonia sulla morte di Orfeo: Sinfonia - Paul Austin Kelly (Armonia)
  20. Il pianto d'Armonia sulla morte di Orfeo: Coro: Quale i campi Rodopei (Coro) - Paul Austin Kelly (Armonia)
  21. Il pianto d'Armonia sulla morte di Orfeo: Recitativo: Sparse il lacero crine (Armonia) - Paul Austin Kelly (Armonia)
  22. Il pianto d'Armonia sulla morte di Orfeo: Aria: Nelle spietate Furie destar pietosa pianto (Armonia) - Paul Austin Kelly (Armonia)
  23. Il pianto d'Armonia sulla morte di Orfeo: Recitativo: Ma tu che desti gia si dolce suono (Armonia) - Paul Austin Kelly (Armonia)
  24. Il pianto d'Armonia sulla morte di Orfeo: Aria con coro: Almo piacer de' Numi (Armonia, Coro) - Paul Austin Kelly (Armonia)

Music reviews of Rossini - Cantatas Volume 2 / Bartoli, Flórez, Kelly, Scano, Barcellona; Chailly

Music Review: Crave a Dose of Rossini Now and Then?
Rating: 5 Stars

I know I do. When my mood is funky, nothing raises it more dependably than Rossini's musical "abbondanza" - his extravagant wit, untarnished nobility, amore honore valore with ample parmaggiano, his ringing heroic tenors, his eye-and-wine-glass-popping sopranos - and my mood needs elevating in this sordid era of mass deception, when America is being herded toward its Day of Reckoning, eagerly by its religious fanatics toward cultural civil war, cynically by its corporatist neo-conservatives toward World War III. Perhaps only music can put that two-headed dog to sleep.

These two cantatas - already an archaic form in the early 19th C - are products of Rossini's youth. Il Pianto d'Armonia was a conservatory project, written when he was 16, but already displaying his command of the "seria" musical vocabulary, a pre-taste of the grandeur of Guglielmo Tell. Le Nozzi di Teti, written when Rossini was 24, is a celebratory masterpiece composed for the wedding of the Duc de Berry, half cantata and half pageant. The accounts of its single performance suggest that it was splendiferous, with the kind of vocal athletic display to be heard in his greatest operas.

Juan Diego Florez is widely considered the finest Rossini tenor of our lifetimes, and his subtle emotionalism in these performances supports that assessment. Cecilia Bartoli was born and raised to sing the most heart-stopping flights of coloratura; her arias as Ceres in Le Nozzi di Teti are virtuosically acrobatic. Paul Kelly and Elisabetta Scano, though less world-famous, match Bartoli and Flores passage for passage.

Rossini's abbondanza extended to la cucina, by the way. He was both chef and gourmet. I'd love to have jolly Gioachino join me in the kitchen to whip up some edible music - "slow food", you may be sure, all local, all organic. Rossini was said to know the names of every regional cheese in the Italy of his time, and to be able to recognize each of them by one taste. Corporate fast food and globalization have destroyed most of those extravagant local flavors. I doubt Rossini would relish frozen scallops and gas-ripened tomatoes. He might well need a dose of his own music to keep his pallet fresh and cheerful.
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Here are two of Rossini's "secular" cantatas: "The Lament of Harmony on the Death of Orpheus" for tenor, male chorus, and orchestra, written when he was a 16-year-old conservatory student, and the far more substantial "Wedding of Thetis and Peleus," one of many such pieces he composed for special occasions, commissioned for the marriage of an Italian princess to a French prince. Both consist of primarily short, separate, contrasting numbers, most of which would be perfectly at home in the opera house.

Indeed, Rossini himself evidently made no distinction between the genres, recycling and adapting arias freely from one to the other. No wonder much of the music here sounds familiar. It is also very beautiful. There are some echoes of Haydn and Mozart, but most is vintage Rossini, full of charm, grace, and beguilingly lovely, celestially floating melodies, as well as exciting sections of high drama. Only the end of the Wedding Cantata gets repetitious, as if Rossini had run out of ideas.

The orchestration is singularly felicitous, with wonderful woodwind passages and horn solos. The vocal parts are extremely difficult, demanding agile coloratura, melting lyricism, and dramatic weight. All are stratospheric, going up to many high B-flats and B's; the tenors have several C's and even a D. The singing ranges from excellent to spectacular; only the soprano is a little shrill at times. Tenors Florez as Peleus and Kelly as Harmony are outstanding, and Cecilia Bartoli, who gets stellar treatment with the only picture in the booklet, also gets every chance to display her strengths in all their glory: the intense, focused voice, pure throughout a huge range; the large palette of colors and timbres; the rippling, immaculately clear coloratura. The orchestra and chorus, led by Riccardo Chailly, are splendid. --Edith Eisler

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