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Verdi: I Due Foscari

 
Verdi: I Due Foscari   Artist: Katia Ricciarelli José Carreras Piero Cappuccilli Samuel Ramey ORF Symphony Orchestra ORF Symphony Orchestra Lamberto Gardelli
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Product Details
Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0028947586975
Format: Box set
Label: Universal Classics
Manufacturer: Universal Classics
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Universal Classics
Release Date: 2007-07-16
Running Time: 104
Studio: Universal Classics
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Tracks
Disc 1:
1. Overture (Prelude) - ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
2. Coro: "Silenzio" - ORF Chorus, Samuel Ramey, Vincenzo Bello, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
3. Scena: "Qui ti rimani". Arioso: "Brezza del suol natio" - José Carreras, Antoniak Mieczyslaw, ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
4. Cavatina: "Dal più remoto esilio" - José Carreras, Antoniak Mieczyslaw, ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
5. Cabaletta: "Odio solo, ed odio atroce" - José Carreras, ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
6. Scena: "No... mi lasciate" - Katia Ricciarelli, ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
7. Cavatina: "Tu al cui sguardo onnipossente" - Katia Ricciarelli, ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
8. Scena e Cabaletta: "Che mi rechi?" - Katia Ricciarelli, Elizabeth Connell, ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
9. Coro: "Tacque il reo" - ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
10. Scena: "Eccomi solo alfine" - Piero Cappuccilli, ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
11. Romanza: "O vecchio cor, che batti" - Piero Cappuccilli, ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
12. Finale. Scena: "L'illustre dama Foscari" - Katia Ricciarelli, Piero Cappuccilli, Franz Handlos, ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
13. Duetto: "Tu pur lo sai" - Katia Ricciarelli, Piero Cappuccilli, ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
14. "Di sua innocenza dubiti?" - Katia Ricciarelli, Piero Cappuccilli, ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli

Disc 2:
1. Prelude - ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
2. Scena: "Notte! perpetua notte" - José Carreras, ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
3. Preghiera: "Non maledirmi, o prode" - José Carreras, ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
4. Scena: "Ah, sposo mio!" - Katia Ricciarelli, José Carreras, ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
5. Duetto: "No, non morrai" - Katia Ricciarelli, José Carreras, ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
6. Barcarola: "Tutta è calma la laguna". Stretta: "Speranza dolce ancora" - Katia Ricciarelli, José Carreras, ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
7. Scena: "Ah, padre!" - José Carreras, Katia Ricciarelli, Piero Cappuccilli, ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
8. Terzetto: "Nel tuo paterno amplesso" - José Carreras, Katia Ricciarelli, Piero Cappuccilli, ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
9. Scena: "Addio..." - José Carreras, Katia Ricciarelli, Piero Cappuccilli, Samuel Ramey, ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
10. Quartetto: "Ah sì, il tempo" - José Carreras, Katia Ricciarelli, Piero Cappuccilli, Samuel Ramey, ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
11. Finale. Coro: "Che più si tarda" - ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
12. Scena: "O patrizi..." - José Carreras, Katia Ricciarelli, Piero Cappuccilli, Samuel Ramey, Vincenzo Bello, Antoniak Mieczyslaw, ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
13. "Queste innocenti lagrime" - José Carreras, Katia Ricciarelli, Piero Cappuccilli, Samuel Ramey, Vincenzo Bello, Elizabeth Connell, ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
14. Introduzione: "Alla gioia!" - Samuel Ramey, Vincenzo Bello, ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
15. Barcarola: "Tace il vento" - ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
16. Scena: "Donna infelice" - José Carreras, Katia Ricciarelli, ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
17. Aria: "All'infelice veglio" - José Carreras, Katia Ricciarelli, Samuel Ramey, ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
18. Scena: "Egli ora parte" - Katia Ricciarelli, Piero Cappuccilli, Vincenzo Bello, ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
19. Cabaletta: "Più non vive!" - Katia Ricciarelli, ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
20. Finale. Scena: "Signor, chiedon parlarti" - Piero Cappuccilli, Samuel Ramey, Franz Handlos, ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
21. Aria: "Questa è dunque l'iniqua mercede" - Piero Cappuccilli, ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra, Lamberto Gardelli
22. Scena: "Che venga a me, se lice" "Quel bronzo infernale" - Piero Cappuccilli, Samuel Ramey, Vincenzo Bello, Lamberto Gardelli, Katia Ricciarelli, ORF Chorus, ORF Symphony Orchestra

Customer Reviews

Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5 What a score!, 2007-10-30
If you're weary of 'standard' Verdi, start (re)discovering his neglected works, especially via the Gardelli/Philips cycle of the early operas. You will then muse on the inexplicable mystery behind unjustly undervaluing these works: the plot (which operatic story isn't entirely/partly silly/dull?), or the music? Fully convinced that it isn't the latter factor, I can't think of any early Verdi score that has failed to move me. That nothing really happens in I DUE FOSCARI is due mainly to the fact that its plot derives from the 'romantic' pen of Byron, who was fully aware of the play's dramatic weakness and insisted that his major concern was highlighting the characters' passions (while the play - which I've recently read - is overlong, its operatic adaptation lasts just under 120 minutes). This being primarily a drama of 'emotion', rather than of 'action', Verdi succeeded in portraying them 'feelingly', excelling himself in one number after another: the passionate solos (with irresistibly rousing cabalettas), ensembles (magnificent duets for father/daughter-in-law and husband/wife, who also share a memorable trio and quartet with the opera's villain, a moving supplication episode, and a heartbreaking abdication/death scene), and choruses (not least the charming barcarole) are all superb, first-class Verdi (you'll cry your eyes out). The late Cappuccilli (Doge), Carreras (Jacopo), Ricciarelli (Lucrezia), and Ramey (Loredano) are on top form, sensitively directed back in 1976 by Gardelli (early Verdi's best conducting champion). This 30-year-old set, which amazingly doesn't betray its age (hearing it on headphones, you'd think it was recorded yesterday, the sound being stupendous), comes with the libretto in Italian and English, and an informative article by Julian Budden, as well as an historical note and a synopsis in English, French and German. Given Amazon's current half-price tag (without doubt, for a limited period only), what more would you ask for?
PS Make sure you don't miss the other Gardelli/Philips recordings: UN GIORNO DI REGNO, LA BATTAGLIA DI LEGNANO, I MASNADIERI, IL CORSARO, ATTILA, STIFFELIO, I LOMBARDI, ERNANI (I hope this will be re-issued soon), as well as (on Orfeo) ALZIRA and OBERTO. I also recommend GIOVANNA D'ARCO (Levine/EMI), AROLDO (Queler/Sony), and JERUSALEM (Luisi/Philips).

Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5Average rating of 5/5 Melodious and neglected early Verdi, 2008-10-22
With "Nabucco", "I Lombardi" and "Ernani" already under his belt, Verdi could hardly be said to be a novice composer when he wrote "I Due Foscari" for Rome in 1844, and yet somehow this opera seems to have been relegated to the "interesting but justly neglected" category, as if it were an immature and unrewarding work. It is, in fact, a subtle and intimate opera, full of mellow, touching duets and relying more upon plangent melody and perecptive musical characterisation rather than dramatic events - of which there are, admittedly, precious few. The cast and recording quality are of the highest order - typical of the whole Philips/Gardelli early Verdi project - and while I do not completely agree with earlier reviewers that Ricciarelli and Cappuccilli are flawless - their vocal production is at time a little breathy and deliberate - they are both very fine and Carreras is undoubtedly in his youthful, peak form (as is the young Ramey). Hearing this set might prompt you to sample the other recordings featuring Carreras in that excellent series: "Un Giorni di Regno" (1973); "Il Corsaro" (1975); "La Battaglia di Legnano" (1977) and "Stiffelio (1979), coupling Carreras with a succession of wonderful leading ladies: Ricciarelli, Caballe, Norman and Sass. These sets form the best of Carreras' recorded legacy and with the demise of studio recordings of opera, we can perhaps now feel even more appreciative of a series which certainly does not sound its age. (Those recordings where another tenor was used - a young Domingo in "I Lombardi" (1971) and "I Masnadieri" with Bergonzi - are equally recommendable.)

The opera itself is short at an hour and three-quarters and leaves you wanting more. There is mercifully little "rum-ti-tum" stuff typical of second-rate early Verdi; rather there is much gentle, delicate scoring that makes extensive use of melodic themes. An interesting and unusual addition to anyone's Verdi collection.