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Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri

Marianna Pizzolato (Isabella), Lorenzo Regazzo (Mustafa), Ruth Gonzalez (Elvira), Elsa Giannoulidou (Zulma), Giulio Mastrototaro (Haly), Lawrence Brownlee (Lindoro), Bruno De Simone (Taddeo) & Gianni Fabbrini (harpsichord continuo)

Virtuosi Brunensis & Transylvania State Philharmonic...

Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri
[Pizzolato's] disarmingly seductive Isabella is airier and more graceful than any of her predecessors on record...these latter-day Italian Rossinians act with spirit, project with intelligence...

Gramophone Magazine, September 2010

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Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri

Marianna Pizzolato (Isabella), Lorenzo Regazzo (Mustafa), Ruth Gonzalez (Elvira), Elsa Giannoulidou (Zulma), Giulio Mastrototaro (Haly), Lawrence Brownlee (Lindoro), Bruno De Simone (Taddeo) & Gianni Fabbrini (harpsichord continuo)

Virtuosi Brunensis & Transylvania State Philharmonic...

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[Pizzolato's] disarmingly seductive Isabella is airier and more graceful than any of her predecessors on record...these latter-day Italian Rossinians act with spirit, project with intelligence...

Gramophone Magazine, September 2010

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Using the critical edition by Azio Corghi, this recording of L’Italiana in Algeri was made at a jubilee performance of the XXth Rossini in Wildbad Festival in 2008.

For his tenth opera, the already celebrated 21-year-old Rossini wanted ‘a humorous libretto full of spectacle’.

This spirited opera, completed in barely a month, scored an immediate hit and its manic atmosphere of ‘organized, total lunacy’, as Stendhal put it, has ensured its enduring popularity.

Artists

Marianna Pizzolato (Isabella), Lorenzo Regazzo (Mustafa), Ruth Gonzalez (Elvira), Elsa Giannoulidou (Zulma), Giulio Mastrototaro (Haly), Lawrence Brownlee (Lindoro), Bruno De Simone (Taddeo) & Gianni Fabbrini (harpsichord continuo)

Virtuosi Brunensis & Transylvania State Philharmonic Choir, Cluj, Alberto Zedda

  • Release date: 26th Apr 2010
  • Label: Naxos
  • Series: Opera Classics
  • Catalogue number: 8660284-85
  • Length: 2 hours 15 minutes
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Contents and tracklist

Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri
Work length2:15:48
Sinfonia
Track length7:49
Act I Scene 1: Introduzione: Serenate il mesto ciglio - Cavatina e Stretta dell'Introduzione: Delle donne l'arroganza (Chorus, Elvira, Zulma, Haly, Mustafa)
Track length7:06
Act I Scene 1: Recitativo: Ritiratevi tutti (Mustafa, Zulma, Elvira, Haly)
Track length1:49
Act I Scene 3: Cavatina: Languir per una bella (Lindoro)
Track length6:49
Act I Scene 3: Recitativo e Duetto: Ah, quando fia (Lindoro, Mustafa)
Track length1:09
Act I Scene 3: Duetto: Se inclinassi a prender moglie (Lindoro, Mustafa)
Track length4:08
Act I Scene 4: Coro: Quanta roba! Quanti schiavi! - Cavatina: Cruda sorte! Amor tiranno! (Chorus, Isabella)
Track length5:20
Act I Scene 4: Recitativo: Gia ci siam. Tanto fa (Isabella, Taddeo, Haly)
Track length1:17
Act I Scene 5: Recitativo: Ah! Isabella … siam giunti a mal partito (Taddeo, Isabella)
Track length1:13
Act I Scene 5: Duetto: Ai capricci della sorte (Isabella, Taddeo)
Track length7:25
Act I Scene 6: Recitativo: E ricusar potresti (Zulma, Lindoro, Elvira) - Scene 7: Ascoltami, Italiano (Mustafa, Lindoro) - Scene 8: Dunque degg'io lasciarvi? (Elvira, Mustafa, Haly)
Track length2:55
Act I Scene 8: Aria: Gia d'insolito ardore nel petto (Mustafa)
Track length3:22
Act I Scene 9: Recitativo: Vi dico il ver (Zulma, Elvira, Lindoro)
Track length0:34
Act I Scene 10: Coro nel Finale I: Viva, viva il flagel delle donne (Chorus, Haly, Mustafa)
Track length2:22
Act I Scene 11: Duettino nel Finale I: Oh! Che muso, che figura! (Isabella, Mustafa)
Track length4:06
Act I Scene 12: Quartettino nel Finale I: Vo' star con mia nipote (Taddeo, Haly, Mustafa, Isabella)
Track length2:18
Act I Scene 13: Settimino: Pria di dividerci - Seguito e Stretta: Va sossopra il mio cervello (Zulma, Elvira, Lindoro, Isabella, Mustafa, Taddeo, Haly, Chorus)
Track length9:05
Act II Scene 1: Introduzione: Uno stupido, uno stolto (Chorus, Elvira, Zulma, Haly)
Track length1:54
Act II Scene 2: Recitativo: Amiche, andate a dire all'Italiana (Mustafa, Zulma, Elvira)
Track length0:55
Act II Scene 3: Recitativo: Qual disdetta e la mia! Onor e patria (Isabella, Lindoro)
Track length1:28
Act II Scene 3: Cavatina: Oh, come il cor di giubilo (Lindoro)
Track length2:22
Act II Scene 4: Recitativo: Ah! Se da solo a sola (Mustafa, Taddeo)
Track length1:11
Act II Scene 4: Coro: Viva il grande Kaimakan (Chorus)
Track length0:56
Act II Scene 4: Recitativo: Kaimakan! Io non capisco niente (Taddeo, Mustafa)
Track length0:27
Act II Scene 4: Aria: Ho un gran peso sulla testa (Taddeo, Chorus)
Track length4:01
Act II Scene 5: Recitativo: Dunque a momenti (Isabella, Lindoro, Elvira, Zulma)
Track length1:56
Act II Scene 5: Cavatina: Per lui che adoro (Isabella, Mustafa, Taddeo, Lindoro)
Track length6:08
Act II Scene 6: Recitativo: Io non resisto piu: questa Isabella (Mustafa, Taddeo, Lindoro)
Track length0:41
Act II Scene 6: Quintetto: Ti presento di mia man (Mustafa, Isabella, Taddeo, Lindoro, Elvira)
Track length9:40
Act II Scene 7: Recitativo: Con tutta la sua boria (Haly)
Track length0:33
Act II Scene 7: Aria: Le femmine d'Italia (Haly)
Track length2:33
Act II Scene 8: Recitativo: E tu speri di togliere (Taddeo, Lindoro, Mustafa)
Track length0:52
Act II Scene 10: Recitativo: Orsu: la tua nipote con chi crede (Mustafa, Lindoro, Taddeo)
Track length0:56
Act II Scene 10: Terzetto: Pappataci! Che mai sento! (Mustafa, Lindoro, Taddeo)
Track length5:40
Act II Scene 11: Recitativo: Tutti i nostri Italiani (Taddeo, Lindoro)
Track length0:46
Act II Scene 11: Coro: Pronti abbiamo e ferri e mani (Chorus)
Track length1:20
Act II Scene 11: Recitativo: Amici, in ogni evento (Isabella, Taddeo)
Track length1:16
Act II Scene 11: Scena ed Aria: Pensa alla patria, e intrepido (Isabella, Chorus)
Track length6:00
Act II Scene 12: Recitativo: Che bel core ha costei! (Taddeo, Mustafa)
Track length0:54
Act II Scene 13: Finale II: Dei pappataci s'avanza il coro (Lindoro, Chorus, Taddeo, Mustafa)
Track length3:33
Act II Scene 14: Quartetto nel Finale II: Non sei tu che il grado eletto (Isabella, Mustafa, Chorus, Lindoro, Taddeo)
Track length6:23
Act II Scene 15: Seguito: Son l'aure seconde, son placide l'onde (Chorus, Lindoro, Isabella, Taddeo, Mustafa)
Track length1:55
Act II Scene 16: Stretta del Finale II: Mio signore (Haly, Elvira, Zulma, Mustafa, Isabella, Lindoro, Taddeo, Chorus)
Track length2:41

Awards and reviews

September 2010

[Pizzolato's] disarmingly seductive Isabella is airier and more graceful than any of her predecessors on record...these latter-day Italian Rossinians act with spirit, project with intelligence and ornament with skill...The Czech Virtuosi Brunensis provide lean, light-fingered strings, stylish winds and a pair of horns well able to cope with the demands Rossini occasionally makes of them.

18th July 2010

Pizzolato...[is] a deft, charming and witty Isabella. Lorenzo Regazzo’s nifty Mustafa and Bruno De Simone’s classic buffo Taddeo could hardly be bettered today, while the rising American tenor Lawrence Brownlee is a stylist to the tips of his vocal cords, with splendiferously pingy high notes. At Naxos prices, an unmissable bargain.
4 out of 5 stars
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