Premieres Rare Verdi Arias

Premieres Rare Verdi Arias

Premieres Rare Verdi Arias
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Performer: Giuseppe Verdi
Orchestra: Alfredo Giacomotti
Conductor: Giuseppe Morresi
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
  1. Simon Boccanegra, opera: Prelude / Vorspiel
  2. Ernani, opera: Act 2: 'Odi Il Voto'
  3. Attila, opera: Act 3: 'Oh Dolore'
  4. Io la vidi, aria for tenor & orchestra
  5. I due Foscari, opera: Act 1: Scene & Cavatina, 'Dal Pi�¹ Remoto Esilio
  6. I due Foscari, opera: Act 1: Cabaletta Di Jacopo, "Sì Lo Sento, Iddio Mi Chiama"
  7. I Vespri siciliani, opera (Les v�ªpres siciliennes): Act 4:'A toi Que J'Ai Cherie
  8. Aida, opera: Overture

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Music Review: A self-recommending combination
Rating: 5 Stars

Any Verdi enthusiast and voice-lover will want to earn to own this disc, despite its short measure of just over 42 minutes and the fact that it contains only six arias and two orchestral items. Recorded in the late 70's, it finds Pavarotti in finest voice, apart from the incipient habit of little over-emphatic "coups de glotte" to end phrases; he even twice treats us to a lovely falsetto phrase descending from D-sharp in the alternative aria written for the celebrated Mario in "I Due Foscari".

Most of the arias are from early works and display an understandable immaturity of style, but it is interesting to hear the results of Verdi's willingness to accommodate the vocal gifts or mere whims of his star singers. He understood their importance to his success and was no doctrinaire when it came to adaptation, nor was he averse to cutting anything which compromised dramatic impact. Hence it is instructive to hear the original overture to "Aida" - almost a pastiche of themes - and to realise that Verdi's instincts were quite right when he jettisoned it in favour of the more concise, brief and atmospheric prelude leading into the High Priest Ramfis's first utterance, "Si, corre voce".

It is also a pleasure to hear the other alternative late work: an alternative aria for the tenor Villaret 1863 Paris revival of "Les vêpres siciliennes", a plaintive number sung in surprisingly good French by Pavarotti.

Abbado - a conductor who tended to bring out the best in the tenor but with whom Pavarotti rarely worked - provides sensitive accompaniment with the La Scala orchestra. The AAD sound is a little over-loaded at climaxes and not exactly sumptuous, but perfectly satisfactory.
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