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Verdi: Otello

Aleksandrs Antonenko (Otello), Krassimira Stoyanova (Desdemona), Carlo Guelfi (Iago), Barbara Di Castri (Emilia), Juan Francisco Gatell (Cassio), Michael Spyres (Roderigo), Paolo Battaglia (Montano), Eric Owens (Lodovico) & David Govertsen (Herald)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus,...

tip-top precision from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra players. They reach a level of pristine excellence that any opera house orchestra- no matter how eminent- would struggle to equal...[Stoyanova's]... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas Issue 2013, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 30th Sep 2013
Catalogue No: CSOR9011301
Label: CSO Resound
Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Verdi: Otello

Work length2:15:52

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Aleksandrs Antoņenko, Krassimira Stoyanova, Carlo Guelfi, Barbara di Castri, Juan Francisco Gatell, Michael Spyres, Paolo Battaglia, Eric Owens, David Govertsen, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Children's Choir, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Riccardo Mu, Aleksandrs Antonenko, Krassimira Stoyanova, Carlo Guelfi, Barbara di Castri, Juan Francisco Gatell, Michael Spyres, Paolo Battaglia, Eric Owens, David Govertsen
Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Children's Choir, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Muti
Recorded: 7, 9, 12 April 2011
Recording Venue: Orchestra Hall, Symphony Center, USA

Act I: Una vela! (Chorus, Montano, Cassio, Iago, Roderigo)

Track length4:27

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Act I: Esultate! (Otello, Chorus)

Track length2:26

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Act I: Roderigo, ebben che pensi? (Iago, Roderigo)

Track length2:21

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Act I: Fuoco di gioia! (Chorus, Iago, Cassio, Roderigo)

Track length4:03

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Act I: Inaffia l'ugola! (Iago, Cassio, Roderigo, Chorus)

Track length4:03

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Act I: Capitano, v'attende (Montano, Cassio, Iago, Roderigo, Chorus)

Track length1:18

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Act I: Abbasso le spade! (Otello, Iago, Cassio, Montano)

Track length3:12

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Act I: Gia nella notte (Otello, Desdemona)

Track length10:40

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Act II: Non ti crucciar (Iago, Cassio)

Track length2:53

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Act II: Credo in un Dio crudel, "Iago's Credo" (Iago)

Track length4:13

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Act II: Eccola (Iago, Otello, Chorus)

Track length6:33

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Act II: Dove guardi splendono (Chorus, Desdemona, Otello, Iago)

Track length4:01

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Act II: D'un uom che geme (Desdemona, Otello, Iago, Emilia)

Track length4:48

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Act II: Desdemona rea! (Otello, Iago)

Track length5:28

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Act II: Era la notte (Iago, Otello)

Track length4:00

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Act II: Si, pel ciel (Otello, Iago)

Track length2:24

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Act III: La vedetta del porto (Herald, Otello, Iago, Desdemona)

Track length2:39

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Act III: Dio ti giocondi, o sposo (Desdemona, Otello)

Track length10:05

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Act III: Dio! Mi potevi scagliar (Otello, Iago)

Track length4:05

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Act III: Vieni, l'aula e deserta (Iago, Cassio, Otello)

Track length3:58

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Act III: Questa e una ragna (Iago, Cassio, Otello, Chorus)

Track length3:19

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Act III: Viva! Evviva! (Chorus, Lodovico, Otello, Desdemona, Emilia, Iago)

Track length5:31

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Act III: A terra! … si … nel livido fango (Desdemona, Emilia, Cassio, Roderigo, Lodovico, Chorus, Iago, Otello)

Track length7:37

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Act IV: Era piu calmo? (Emilia, Desdemona)

Track length4:44

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Act IV: Piangea cantando nell'erma landa (Desdemona, Emilia)

Track length6:41

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Act IV: Ave Maria (Desdemona)

Track length5:01

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Act IV: Chi e la? (Desdemona, Otello)

Track length6:45

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Act IV: Aprite! Aprite! (Emilia, Otello, Desdemona, Cassio, Iago, Lodovico, Montano)

Track length3:17

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Act IV: Niun mi tema (Otello, Cassio, Lodovico, Montano)

Track length5:20

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Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi’s birthday, CSO Resound releases its second recording with Maestro Riccardo Muti featuring Verdi’s second-to-last opera, 'Otello'. The recording joins remarkable fidelity to the instrumental and choral score with a spellbinding collection of vocal soloists, and will be treasured by opera lovers and anyone who enjoys thrilling music. Recorded live in concert at Symphony Center in 2011, this album will stand as benchmark in Verdi performance and interpretation by one of today’s finest conductors. Maestro Muti and the CSO’s first recording together was a lauded album of Verdi’s 'Messa da Requiem', which won two Grammy® Awards. A musical force in Chicago and around the world, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra is consistently hailed as one of the finest international orchestras. Its expansive catalogue of more than 900 recordings has earned 62 Grammy® Awards—more than any other orchestra in the world.

Italian libretto with English translation, liner notes & perfomer biographies in English, French, German

Reviews

Christmas Issue 2013

tip-top precision from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra players. They reach a level of pristine excellence that any opera house orchestra- no matter how eminent- would struggle to equal...[Stoyanova's] lyric tone sounds convincingly Italianate, while her musicality pays dividends in the Willow Song

26th October 2013

In Muti’s impeccably schooled Chicago Otello, the orchestra is the star. Aleksandrs Antonenko makes up in dramatic conviction what he lacks in tonal allure – and his top notes are thrilling.

December 2013

Muti’s has all elements held in balance. This orchestra is certainly capable of the pile-driver brass… In Muti’s hands Otello remains and opera, not a concerto for orchestra… Muti’s treatment of the Act 3 prelude has such a sureness of dramatic purpose, it’s genius at a Toscaninian level…The orchestra play like a participatory character in the drama.

November 2013

The orchestral sound is splendid particularly the incisive brass, who blaze brightly… Orchestra Hall offers a superb acoustic… For an audio souvenir of Antonenko’s Otello and for its brilliant orchestral playing, this is a welcome issue.

22nd October 2013

I can’t think of anyone singing the role today who does so as compellingly and powerfully as does Antonenko. He has heroic power and Italianate phrasing that put him up there with many of the finest...Stoyanova strikes the ear as rather too strident on her first entrance, but she mellows to give a very moving account of the love duet.

13th October 2013

[Muti's] Otello has a new expansiveness, while not losing his earlier, youthful impulsiveness. Antonenko has emerged as the Otello of his generation...Stoyanova is an exquisite Desdemona, Carlo Guelfi a shouty, malevolent Iago.

10th October 2013

[Muti's] pressured, detailed style suits Otello rather well...Stoyanova's assertive Desdemona and Aleksandrs Antonenko's Otello [are] among the finest on disc, beautifully sung and wonderfully insightful in his depiction of the Moor's psychological disintegration. The playing is sensational.

Verdi: Otello

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