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Rossini: Guillaume Tell

Andrew Foster-Williams (Tell), Alessandra Volpe (Hedwige), Judith Howarth (Mathilde), Michael Spyres (Arnold), Tara Stafford (Jemmy), Giulio Pelligra (Rodolphe), Artavazd Sargsyan (Ruodi), Nahuel Di Pierro (Walther Fürst/Melchthal), Raffaele Facciolà (Gesler), Marco Filippo Romano (Leuthold)

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Rossini: Guillaume Tell
Foster-Williams's Tell is solemn and determined, if a little rough around the edges, Michael Spyres's Arnold generally fluent and lyrical, Judith Howarth's Mathilde passionate and engaged, Tara...

BBC Music Magazine, August 20153 out of 5 stars

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Rossini: Guillaume Tell

Andrew Foster-Williams (Tell), Alessandra Volpe (Hedwige), Judith Howarth (Mathilde), Michael Spyres (Arnold), Tara Stafford (Jemmy), Giulio Pelligra (Rodolphe), Artavazd Sargsyan (Ruodi), Nahuel Di Pierro (Walther Fürst/Melchthal), Raffaele Facciolà (Gesler), Marco Filippo Romano (Leuthold)

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Foster-Williams's Tell is solemn and determined, if a little rough around the edges, Michael Spyres's Arnold generally fluent and lyrical, Judith Howarth's Mathilde passionate and engaged, Tara...

BBC Music Magazine, August 20153 out of 5 stars

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About

Performed for the first time in its original uncut version, this production of Guillaume Tell was the jewel in the crown of the 25-year history of the ‘Rossini in Wildbad’ opera festival. Rossini’s final, great, operatic masterpiece is a story of liberation, the oppressed Swiss attaining their ideal of emancipation by hounding the tyrannical Habsburgs out of their country. Although it was composed for the complex demands of the Paris Opéra, numerous dances, choruses and arias were dropped for reasons of practicality. These are restored in the present recording which also includes the stunning finale of the shorter 1831 version of the opera (CD 4 / Track 13).

Artists

Andrew Foster-Williams (Tell), Alessandra Volpe (Hedwige), Judith Howarth (Mathilde), Michael Spyres (Arnold), Tara Stafford (Jemmy), Giulio Pelligra (Rodolphe), Artavazd Sargsyan (Ruodi), Nahuel Di Pierro (Walther Fürst/Melchthal), Raffaele Facciolà (Gesler), Marco Filippo Romano (Leuthold)

Virtuosi Brunensis & Camerata Bach Choir, Poznań, Antonino Fogliani

  • Release date: 2nd Mar 2015
  • Label: Naxos
  • Catalogue number: 8660363-66
  • Length: 4 hours 12 minutes
  • Genre:

Contents and tracklist

Rossini: Guillaume Tell
Work length3:48:41
Ouverture
Track length11:25
Act I: Introduction: Quel jour serein (Chorus)
Track length3:29
Act I: Introduction: Accours dans ma nacelle (Ruodi, Guillaume, Hedwige, Jemmy)
Track length5:51
Act I: Introduction: On entend des montagnes (Chorus, Jemmy, Hedwige, Ruodi, Guillaume, Arnold, Melcthal)
Track length2:14
Act I: Introduction: Pasteurs, que vos accents s'unissent (Melcthal, Chorus)
Track length5:16
Act I: Recitatif: Contre les feux du jour (Guillaume, Melcthal, Arnold)
Track length3:52
Act I: Duo: Ou vas-tu? (Guillaume, Arnold)
Track length3:51
Act I: Duo: Ah! Mathilde, idole de mon ame! (Arnold, Guillaume)
Track length4:31
Act I: Marche - Recitatif et choeur: Sur nos tetes (Hedwige, Arnold, Melcthal, Guillaume, Chorus)
Track length4:57
Act I: Recitatif: Des antiques vertus (Melcthal, Guillaume, Arnold, Hedwige, Jemmy)
Track length3:20
Act I: Choeur danse: Hymenee, ta journee (Chorus)
Track length5:16
Act I: Pas de six: Allegretto
Track length4:56
Act I: Choeur danse: Gloire, honneur au fils de Tell (Chorus, Jemmy, Hedwige)
Track length3:44
Act I: Recitatif: Pale et tremblant (Jemmy, Ruodi, Leuthold, Hedwige, Melcthal, Guillaume, Chorus)
Track length2:58
Act I Final: Dieu de bonte (Chorus, Rodolphe, Jemmy, Hedwige, Melcthal, Ruodi)
Track length5:23
Act I Final: Comme lui nous aurions du faire (Chorus, Rodolphe, Jemmy, Hedwige, Melcthal, Ruodi)
Track length3:44
Act II: Quelle sauvage harmonie (Chorus, Un chasseur)
Track length4:03
Act II: Recitatif: Ils s'eloignent enfin (Mathilde)
Track length3:03
Act II: Romance: Sombre foret (Mathilde)
Track length5:35
Act II: Recitatif: Ma presence (Arnold, Mathilde)
Track length2:42
Act II: Duo: Oui, vous l'arrachez a mon ame (Mathilde, Arnold)
Track length3:15
Act II: Duo: Doux aveu (Arnold, Mathilde)
Track length6:41
Act II: Recitatif: On vient (Arnold, Mathilde, Guillaume, Walter)
Track length2:57
Act II: Trio: Quand l'Helvetie (Guillaume, Arnold, Walter)
Track length6:23
Act II: Trio: Il est donc vrai? (Arnold, Walter, Guillaume)
Track length3:38
Act II Final: Des profondeurs du bois (Guillaume, Arnold, Walter, Chorus)
Track length3:18
Act II Final: En ces temps de malheurs (Chorus, Guillaume, Arnold, Walter)
Track length4:00
Act II Final: Qui vient (Guillaume, Chorus, Walter, Arnold)
Track length5:07
Act II: Serment: Jurons, jurons (Guillaume, Chorus, Arnold, Walter)
Track length4:20
Act III: Scene et Air: Arnold, d'ou nait ce desespoir? - Pour notre amour (Mathilde, Arnold)
Track length5:39
Act III: Scene et Air: Quel bruit (Arnold, Mathilde)
Track length4:22
Act III: Marche et choeur: Gloire au pouvoir supreme! (Chorus, Gesler) - Recitatif: Que l'empire germain (Gesler)
Track length6:32
Act III: Divertissement: Pas de trois et Choeur tyrolien: Allegretto - A nos chants (Chorus) - Allegro vivace
Track length4:03
Act III: Divertissement: A nos chants (Chorus)
Track length4:41
Act III: Divertissement: Pas de soldats: Allegro brillante - Allegro vivace
Track length5:41
Act III: Final du divertissement: Allegro
Track length5:11
Act III Final: Recitatif: Audacieux, incline-toi! (Rodolphe, Guillaume, Chorus, Gesler)
Track length1:43
Act III Final: Quatuor: C'est la cet archer redoutable (Chorus, Gesler, Guillaume, Rodolphe, Jemmy)
Track length2:58
Act III Final: Recitatif: Rejoins ta mere (Guillaume, Gesler, Jemmy)
Track length3:36
Act III Final: Air: Ah, que ton ame se rassure (Jemmy)
Track length6:27
Act III Final: Recitatif et air: Je te benis - Sois immobile (Guillaume, Gesler, Jemmy, Chorus)
Track length5:03
Act III Final: Recitatif et final: Victoire! (Chorus, Jemmy, Guillaume, Gesler, Mathilde, Rodolphe)
Track length5:19
Act III Final: Recitatif et final: Quand l'orgueil les egare (Chorus, Jemmy, Guillaume, Gesler, Mathilde, Rodolphe)
Track length3:26
Act IV: Recitatif: Ne m'abandonne point - Air: Asile hereditaire (Arnold)
Track length6:30
Act IV: Vengeance! (Chorus, Arnold)
Track length5:14
Act IV: Recitatif: Ou vas-tu? (Chorus, Hedwige, Jemmy)
Track length2:10
Act IV: Trio: Je rends a votre amour (Mathilde, Jemmy, Hedwige)
Track length4:39
Act IV Final: Recitatif, Priere et Choeur: Quoi! Dans nos maux (Hedwige, Mathilde, Jemmy, Chorus)
Track length4:56
Act IV Final: Je l'ai vu! (Leuthold, Hedwige, Mathilde, Chorus, Gesler, Guillaume, Jemmy)
Track length4:06
Act IV Final: En vain il veut nous fuir (Chorus, Gesler, Hedwige, Jemmy, Walter, Arnold, Mathilde)
Track length3:21
Act IV Final: Tout change et grandit en ces lieux (Guillaume, Hedwige, Jemmy, Mathilde, Arnold, Walter, Chorus)
Track length3:15
Rossini: Guillaume Tell, Act III -Appendix
Work length23:43
  • Raffaele Facciolà (bass), Artavazd Sargsyan (tenor), Tara Stafford (soprano), Alessandra Volpe (mezzo-soprano), Marco Filippo Romano (bass), Diana Mian (soprano), Giulio Pelligra (tenor)
  • Virtuosi Brunensis, Camerata Bach Choir Poznań
  • Antonino Fogliani
  • Recorded: 13, 16, 18 and 21 July 2013
  • Recording Venue: Trinkhalle, Bad Wildbad, Germany
Pas de deux: Andante
Track length1:11
Pas de deux: Andante maestoso
Track length3:30
Pas de deux: [suite] Allegretto
Track length4:18
Pas de trois et choeur tyrolien (version originale): Allegretto - A nos chants (Chorus) - Allegro vivace - A nos chants (Chorus)
Track length10:16
Va nouveau final (Paris 1831): Quel tumulte - Dieu vengeur - Des bois, des monts, de la cite (Gesler, Rodolphe, Jemmy, Hedwige, Guillaume, Chorus, Mathilde, Arnold, Walter)
Track length4:28

Awards and reviews

August 2015

Foster-Williams's Tell is solemn and determined, if a little rough around the edges, Michael Spyres's Arnold generally fluent and lyrical, Judith Howarth's Mathilde passionate and engaged, Tara Stafford's Jemmy punchy and nicely scaled...There's sterling work from the orchestra under the skilful baton of Antonino Fogliani.
3 out of 5 stars

June 2015

Foster-Williams marries an appropriately sympathetic theatrical presence with vocal production that is both focused and refined. Much the same could be said of Judith Howarth's Matilde...Antonino Fogliano's conducting is very fine. Each act is astutely placed and shaped, as indeed is the entire opera.

25th March 2015

For Rossini completists, then, this set – all 4h 12mins of it – is a must, and there’s some stylish, lively conducting from Antonino Fogliani, who certainly galvanises the orchestra and chorus...The best contributions come from Judith Howarth as Mathilde and Michael Spyres as Arnold.
3 out of 5 stars
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