Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana

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This was a strong contender in an overcrowded field when it was first released. You'd be hard pressed to find either a more positive or a more intelligent Turiddu or Santuzza than Domingo or... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 10th Aug 1999
Catalogue No: 74321395002
Label: RCA
Length: 70 minutes

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Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana

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National Philharmonic Orchestra, Plácido Domingo (tenor), Ambrosian Singers, John McCarthy (chorus master), Renata Scotto (soprano), Jean Kraft (mezzo-soprano), Pablo Elvira (baritone), Isola Jones (mezzo-soprano), Anne Simon (mezzo-soprano)
James Levine

Preludio

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O Lola chái la, di latti la cammisa

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Act I: Gli aranci olezzano

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Act I: Dite, mamma Lucia

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Act I: Il cavallo scalpita

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Act I: Beato voi, compar Alfio

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Act I: Regina coeli, laetare - Alleluja!

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Act I: Voi lo sapete

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Act I: Tu qui, Santuzza?

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Act I: Bada, Santuzza, schiavo non sono

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Act I: Fior die giaggiolo, gli angeli belli stanno

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Act I: Ah, lo vedi, che hai tu detto?

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Act I: Turiddu, ascolta!

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Act I: Oh, il Signore vi manda, compar Alfio

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Act I: Il ver

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Act I: Intermezzo sinfonico

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Act I: A casa, a casa, amici

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Act I: Intanto, amici, qua, beviamone un bicchiere

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Act I: A voi tutti salute!

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Act I: Compar Turiddu

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Act I: Mamma, mamma ... quel vino è generoso

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2010

This was a strong contender in an overcrowded field when it was first released. You'd be hard pressed to find either a more positive or a more intelligent Turiddu or Santuzza than Domingo or Scotto. Scotto manages to steer a precise course between being too ladylike or too melodramatic. She suggests all the remorse and sorrow of Santuzza's situation without resorting to self-pity. Her appeals to Turiddu to reform could hardly be more sincere and heartfelt, her throbbing delivery to Alfio, 'Turiddi mi tolse l'honore', expresses all her desperation when forced to betray her erstwhile lover, and her curse on Turiddu, 'A te la mala pasqua', while not resorting to the lowdown vigour of some of her rivals, is filled with venom. Domingo proved how committed he was to his role when the part was first given to him at Covent Garden in the mid- 1970s. He gives an almost Caruso-like bite and attack to Turiddu's defiance and (later) remorse, and finds a more appropriate timbre than Bergonzi (for Karajan, reviewed under Leoncavallo). He also delivers the Brindisi with an appropriately carefree manner, oblivious of the challenge awaiting him. Pablo Elvira's Alfio is no more than adequate, and the other American support is indifferent.
Levine's direction, as positive as Karajan's, is yet quite different. He goes much faster, and time and again catches the passion if not always the delicacy of Mascagni's score. He's well supported by the superb NPO. With a bright and forward recording, this reading of the work is wholly arresting.

Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana

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