Special offer. Rossini: Stabat Mater
Serena Farnocchia (soprano), Anna Bonitatibus (mezzo-soprano), Ismael Jordi (tenor), Alex Esposito (bass)
Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Opera Vlaanderen Antwerp/Ghent, Alberto Zedda
Though Zedda was a man of seemingly inexhaustible energy, even in his ninth decade, his reading of the Stabat mater has a wise-old-man quality about it: solid, certain of touch, appropriately...
Special offer. Rossini: Stabat Mater
Serena Farnocchia (soprano), Anna Bonitatibus (mezzo-soprano), Ismael Jordi (tenor), Alex Esposito (bass)
Symphony Orchestra and Chorus of the Opera Vlaanderen Antwerp/Ghent, Alberto Zedda
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Though Zedda was a man of seemingly inexhaustible energy, even in his ninth decade, his reading of the Stabat mater has a wise-old-man quality about it: solid, certain of touch, appropriately...
About
It is difficult to talk of Alberto Zedda in the past tense. Zedda was a person of such enthusiasm that it immediately rubbed off on all those who approached him. In addition to being an excellent conductor, he was an organizer of cultural events, a highly-efficient manager, full of ideas, who put at the service of music his omnivorous culture. For Dynamic Alberto Zedda recorded live Rossini’s Otello, Semiramide and Armida. Partially written in 1831 and only completed at the end of 1841, Rossini’s Stabat Mater was premiered in Paris, at the Theatre Italien, on January 7, 1842, delivered by fine soloists: Giulia Grisi, Emma Albertazzi, Mario de Candia and Antonio Tamburini. It has always been the composer’s best-known and most popular sacred work, because of the power of its dramatic contrasts and beautiful melodies, which make of it one of the masterpieces of Italian 19th-century sacred music, worthy of a place beside Giuseppe Verdi’s Messa da Requiem.
Contents and tracklist
- Serena Farnocchia, Anna Bonitatibus, Ismael Jordi, Alex Esposito
- Vlaanderen Opera House Symphony Chorus Ghent, Vlaanderen Opera House Symphony Orchestra Ghent
- Alberto Zedda
Awards and reviews
November 2017
Though Zedda was a man of seemingly inexhaustible energy, even in his ninth decade, his reading of the Stabat mater has a wise-old-man quality about it: solid, certain of touch, appropriately dark-hued…Zedda’s performance is possessed of a quality of quiet understanding that will give special satisfaction to any Rossinian who truly knows and loves this work.