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Il Salotto Volume 11 - La Serenata

Works by Donizetti, Offenbach, Thomas, Mercadante, Pacini, Campana, Mariani, Elwart, Coppola & Beauplan

Bruce Ford, Diana Montague, Barry Banks, Majella Cullagh, Mark Stone, Elizabeth Vidal, Paul Austin Kelly, Sine Budgaard, Roland Wood. Susie Beer (cello), Richard Simpson (oboe) & David Harper (piano)

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Release Date: 29th Oct 2007
Catalogue No: ORR242
Label: Opera Rara
Series: Il Salotto
Length: 68 minutes

Thomas, Ambroise: Le soir

Work length3:42

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Bruce Ford (tenor)
Recorded: March 2005
Recording Venue: Church of St. Clement with St. Barnabas and St. Matthew, London

Pacini: Quando lo miro

Work length2:32

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Majella Cullagh (soprano)
Recorded: March 2005
Recording Venue: Church of St. Clement with St. Barnabas and St. Matthew, London

Thomas, Ambroise: Ange et mortel

Work length5:25

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Diana Montague (mezzo-soprano), Bruce Ford (tenor)
Recorded: March 2005
Recording Venue: Church of St. Clement with St. Barnabas and St. Matthew, London

Campana, F: Prends patience

Work length3:33

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Diana Montague (mezzo-soprano)
Recorded: March 2005
Recording Venue: Church of St. Clement with St. Barnabas and St. Matthew, London

Mariani, A: Splende nel ciel

Work length6:32

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Mark Stone (baritone), Majella Cullagh (soprano), Bruce Ford (tenor)
Recorded: March 2005
Recording Venue: Church of St. Clement with St. Barnabas and St. Matthew, London

Campana, F: Pour toi

Work length3:22

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Bruce Ford (tenor)
Recorded: March 2005
Recording Venue: Church of St. Clement with St. Barnabas and St. Matthew, London

Offenbach: Si j'etais petit oiseau

Work length6:14

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Elizabeth Vidal (soprano), Susanne Beer (cello)
Recorded: March 2005
Recording Venue: Church of St. Clement with St. Barnabas and St. Matthew, London

Campana, F: Pres de la mer

Work length2:48

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Diana Montague (mezzo-soprano), Mark Stone (baritone)
Recorded: March 2005
Recording Venue: Church of St. Clement with St. Barnabas and St. Matthew, London

Mercadante: Ecco qual fiero istante

Work length2:58

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Roland Wood (baritone), Sine Bundgaard (soprano), Diana Montague (mezzo-soprano), Bruce Ford (tenor)
Recorded: March 2005
Recording Venue: Church of St. Clement with St. Barnabas and St. Matthew, London

Thomas, Ambroise: La serenata

Work length6:37

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Elizabeth Vidal (soprano)
Recorded: March 2005
Recording Venue: Church of St. Clement with St. Barnabas and St. Matthew, London

Pacini: Il soldato

Work length2:31

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Mark Stone (baritone)
Recorded: March 2005
Recording Venue: Church of St. Clement with St. Barnabas and St. Matthew, London

Donizetti: T'intendo si mio cor con tanto

Work length2:48

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Sine Bungaard (soprano), Diana Montague (mezzo-soprano)
Recorded: March 2005
Recording Venue: Church of St. Clement with St. Barnabas and St. Matthew, London

Antoine-Elie Elwart: Le Chalumeau

Work length5:26

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Elizabeth Vidal (soprano), Richard Simpson (oboe)
Recorded: March 2005
Recording Venue: Church of St. Clement with St. Barnabas and St. Matthew, London

Chalumeau

Track length5:26

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Coppola, P: Vieni diletta, che guinta

Work length5:14

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Barry Banks (baritone)
Recorded: March 2005
Recording Venue: Church of St. Clement with St. Barnabas and St. Matthew, London

Mariani, A: Il giglio

Work length5:39

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Majella Cullagh (soprano)
Recorded: March 2005
Recording Venue: Church of St. Clement with St. Barnabas and St. Matthew, London

Beauplan: La Galopomanie

Work length2:41

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Paul Austin Kelly (tenor), Diana Montague (mezzo-soprano), Bruce Ford (tenor), Elizabeth Vidal (soprano), Mark Stone (baritone), Majella Cullagh (soprano)
Recorded: March 2005
Recording Venue: Church of St. Clement with St. Barnabas and St. Matthew, London

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This disc is accompanied by a fully illustrated 64 page booklet with an introduction and notes to the songs by the distinguished writer, broadcaster and music journalist Patrick O’Connor. One of the most inspired of Opera Rara’s recent initiatives has been a series exploring the more intimate world of the salon (salotto, in Italian) and the music written for this most sophisticated of social environments. Throughout 19th-century Europe the drawing-rooms of fashionable hostesses (or occasionally, like Rossini, hosts) rang to the sound of high-quality music-making, especially when the performers, in the very best houses, were the great singers of the day. Opera Rara responds, aptly, with some of the leading bel canto singers of our day, including Diana Montague, Bruce Ford, Majella Cullagh and Barry Banks. Composers both major and minor would regularly attend such occasions, and many wrote songs, duets, trios and larger ensemble pieces especially to delight the guests. This latest selection takes its title from a setting by Ambroise Thomas, and includes his most famous song, the enchanting Le soir, as well as other examples from the pens of Mercadante, Donizetti, Offenbach and Pacini and several of their lesser-known contemporaries. And there’s a sure winner in the sextet La Galopomanie, written by Amédée de Beauplan in 1840 in response to the latest dancing craze – the gallop!

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Opera Rara’s exquisite salon music series

March 2008

Bruce Ford, Diane Montague and Majella Cullagh are the pick of the singers, while the piano accompaniments of David Harper are beautifully done.

Il Salotto Volume 11 - La Serenata

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