Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante
Born: 16th September 1795, Altamura, Italy
Died: 17th December 1870, Naples, Italy
Nationality: Italian
Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante was an Italian composer, particularly of operas. While Mercadante may not have retained the international celebrity of Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti or Gioachino Rossini beyond his own lifetime, he composed as prolifically as any of them, and his development of operatic structures, melodic styles and orchestration contributed significantly to the foundations upon which Giuseppe Verdi built his dramatic technique.
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Carlo Rizzi on Mercadante, Leoncavallo and Donizetti
28th Dec 2023
The Italian conductor looks back on his first few years as Artistic Director of Opera Rara, including recordings of Leoncavallo's Zingari and Mercadante's Il Proscritto - plus a new mission to record the complete Donizetti songs with singers including Lawrence Brownlee and William Thomas.
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Popular Works: Mercadante
- Capricci (20) (3)
- Clarinet Concerto in B flat (2)
- Compita è omai – Fu celeste (Il Giuramento) (2)
- Concerto for Clarinet & Orchestra in B flat major Op. 101 (5)
- Concerto for Flute & Orchestra in D major (13)
- Concerto for Flute & Orchestra in E major (9)
- Concerto for Flute & Orchestra in E minor (19)
- Concerto for two flutes in D major (3)
- Concerto No. 1 in E Major, Op. 49 (2)
- Concerto No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 57 (2)
- Concerto No. 4 in G Major (5)
- Didone Abbandonata (3)
- Flute Concerto in F major (2)
- Flute Concerto in G major (2)
- Flute Quartet in E minor (2)
- Francesca da Rimini (4)
- Garibaldi (2)
- I Normanni a Parigi (highlights) (1)
- Il Giuramento (5)
- L`Abbandonata (1)
- La Dea di tutti i cor! – Bella adorata incognita (Il Giuramento) (2)
- La Pallomma (from 4 Canz. Napolitane) (1)
- La prege dell´orfana (Romanza) (1)
- La preghiera (2)
- Le sette ultime parole di nostro Signore sulla croce (9)
- Pelagio (1)
- Qual giglio candido (Parola quinta) (2)
- Quartet for Flute, Clarinet, Horn and Bassoon, Op. 50 No. 2 (2)
- Requiem (2)
- Ricci: Lamento (1)
- Salve Maria (4)
- Seven Last Words (1)
- Sinfonia on themes from Rossini's Stabat Mater (3)
- T'amo bell'idol mio (2)
- Tantum ergo (2)
- Theme and Variations in A Major (1)
- Thomas: Sola! (danish song) (1)
- Three Concertos for Flute and Orchestra (1)
- Variations in F major, on an aria from Rossini's Armida (3)
- Variations on 'La ci darem la mano' from Mozart's 'Don Giovanni' (5)
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Special offer. Mercadante: Il Proscritto
Ramón Vargas (Giorgio Argyll), Irene Roberts (Malvina Douglas), Elizabeth DeShong (Odoardo Douglas), Sally Matthews (Anna Ruthven), Iván Ayón-Rivas (Arturo Murray), Goderdzi Janelidze (Guglielmo Ruthven) Britten Sinfonia, Opera Rara Chorus, Carlo Rizzi
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Presto Editor's Choice, April 2023
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BBC Music Magazine, July 2023, Opera Choice
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International Opera Awards, 2023, Winner - Complete Opera Recording
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2023, Shortlisted - World Premiere Recording (Rediscovery)
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Opera
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Nessun Dorma
Pene Pati (tenor), with Amina Edris (soprano), Amitai Pati (tenor), Orchestre National Bordeaux-Aquitaine, Emmanuel Villaume
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Opus Klassik Awards, 2025, Solo Vocal
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The Last Castrato. Arias for Velluti
Franco Fagioli (countertenor), Orchestre et Chœur de l'Opéra Royal, Stefan Plewniak
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