Romantic Overtures - Vol. 5: Italian Opera Overtures - Eloquence: ELQ4807220 - CD

Release Date: 8th Apr 2013
Catalogue No: ELQ4807220
Label: Eloquence
Series: Romantic Overtures
Length: 58 minutes

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Excerpt, Mascagni: Le Maschere

Work length6:31

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Recorded: 1957

Ouverture

Track length6:31

Excerpt, Mascagni: Guglielmo Ratcliff

Work length5:08

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Recorded: 1957

Intermezzo

Track length5:08

Excerpt, Puccini: Suor Angelica

Work length3:30

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Recorded: 1957

Intermezzo

Track length3:30

Catalani: La Wally: Prelude To Act IV

Work length7:34

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Recorded: 1957

Excerpt, Rossini: Il Signor Bruschino

Work length4:38

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Recorded: 1957

Ouverture

Track length4:38

Excerpt, Verdi: Luisa Miller

Work length5:44

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Recorded: 1957

Overture

Track length5:44

Bellini: Norma Overture

Work length5:44

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Recorded: 1957

Excerpt, Donizetti: Linda di Chamounix

Work length6:49

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Recorded: 1957

Overture

Track length6:49

Ponchielli: La Gioconda / Act 1

Work length4:18

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Recorded: 1957-07
Recording Venue: Teatro Della Pergola, Florence

Preludio

Track length4:18

Ponchielli: La Gioconda / Act 3

Work length8:59

Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Recorded: 1957-07
Recording Venue: Teatro Della Pergola, Florence

Il ballo delle ore (Dance of the Hours) ... Prodigio!

Track length8:59

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During the 1950s, 60s and 70s, Decca recorded a number of albums with some of its key conductors of Overtures. Many of these were singled out by the press for their terrific sound quality (the fabled ‘Decca Sound’) and for their often adventurous programming. Some of them also included entr’actes and intermezzi. Prized as collectors’ items, many of the original LPs exchange hands at high prices. And most of these reissues, in Decca Eloquence’s ‘Romantic Overtures’ series appear in CD, in part or whole, for the first time.

Romantic Overtures – Volume 5 is a collection of Overtures and Intermezzi from grand Italian opera. Thugs drowning blind women, a mountain lass buried in an avalanche, a cup of poison for two… this is the stuff of this highly entertaining CD conducted by Gianandrea Gavazzeni, who conducted several recordings of Italian opera for Decca. Mascagni is represented by his little known operas Le maschere and Guglielmo Ratcliff; the operas La Wally and Norma not by their single ‘big’ arias, but by Preludes. And to round off the original – and extremely rare – 1956 LP (entitled ‘Great Moments from Italian Opera’), we have the Prelude and ‘Dance of the Hours’ from La Gioconda.

Romantic Overtures - Vol. 5: Italian Opera Overtures

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