Donizetti: Nuits D'Été À Pausilippe

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Brilliant Classics
Release Date
November 9, 2018
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      DONIZETTI, GAETANO
    • PERFORMER
      Calandra, Tenzi, Nicotra
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 09, 2018
    • UPC
      5028421956725
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI95672
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Il Barcaiuolo: Barcarolle

      Composer: Gaetano Donizetti

      Performer: Letizia Calandra, Ilario Nicotra

    2. No. 2. Il Crociato: Romance

      Composer: Gaetano Donizetti

      Performer: Fausto Tenzi, Ilario Nicotra

    3. No. 3. A mezzanotte: Ariette

      Composer: Gaetano Donizetti

      Performer: Letizia Calandra, Ilario Nicotra

    4. No. 4. La torre di biasone: Ballade

      Composer: Gaetano Donizetti

      Performer: Fausto Tenzi, Ilario Nicotra

    5. No. 5. La conocchia: Chanson napolitaine

      Composer: Gaetano Donizetti

      Performer: Letizia Calandra, Ilario Nicotra

    6. No. 6. Le crepuscule: Romance

      Composer: Gaetano Donizetti

      Performer: Fausto Tenzi, Ilario Nicotra

    7. No. 7. Il giuramento: Nocturne a deux voix

      Composer: Gaetano Donizetti

      Performer: Letizia Calandra, Fausto Tenzi, Ilario Nicotra

    8. No. 8. L'aurora: Nocturne a deux voix

      Composer: Gaetano Donizetti

      Performer: Letizia Calandra, Fausto Tenzi, Ilario Nicotra

    9. No. 9. L'alito di bice: Nocturne a deux voix

      Composer: Gaetano Donizetti

      Performer: Letizia Calandra, Fausto Tenzi, Ilario Nicotra

    10. No. 10. Amor voce del cielo: Nocturne a deux voix

      Composer: Gaetano Donizetti

      Performer: Letizia Calandra, Fausto Tenzi, Ilario Nicotra

    11. No. 11. Un guardo ed una voce: Nocturne a deux voix

      Composer: Gaetano Donizetti

      Performer: Letizia Calandra, Fausto Tenzi, Ilario Nicotra

    12. No. 12. I bevitori: Brindisi a deux voix

      Composer: Gaetano Donizetti

      Performer: Letizia Calandra, Fausto Tenzi, Ilario Nicotra

    13. No. 1. La lontananza: Arietta

      Composer: Gaetano Donizetti

      Performer: Fausto Tenzi, Ilario Nicotra

    14. No. 2. L'amante spagnuolo: Bolero

      Composer: Gaetano Donizetti

      Performer: Letizia Calandra, Ilario Nicotra

    15. No. 3. Amore e morte: Arietta

      Composer: Gaetano Donizetti

      Performer: Letizia Calandra, Fausto Tenzi, Ilario Nicotra

    16. No. 4. Amor marinaro: Canzonetta napoletana

      Composer: Gaetano Donizetti

      Performer: Letizia Calandra, Ilario Nicotra

    17. No. 5. Il fiore: Duettino pastorale

      Composer: Gaetano Donizetti

      Performer: Letizia Calandra, Fausto Tenzi, Ilario Nicotra

    18. No. 6. L'incostanza d'Irene: Duettino

      Composer: Gaetano Donizetti

      Performer: Letizia Calandra, Fausto Tenzi, Ilario Nicotra

    19. Giuro d'amore, "Eterno amore e fè ti giuro"

      Composer: Gaetano Donizetti

      Performer: Fausto Tenzi, Ilario Nicotra


Donizetti was prolific in the field of vocal chamber music, to the extent that he almost rivaled Rossini. Nuits d'été à Pausillippe is an album of ariettas, romanzas, notturnos and duettinos published in 1836. The texts speak of four seasons and three cities, but it's Naples that takes the lead role: Donizetti lived and worked in the city between 1822 and 1838. Mostly authored by local poets, the texts are essentially simple portraits of things Italian: the boatman, the breath of the beloved, and the tower of Biasone (which ends with one of Donizetti's most disarming tunes). Le crépuscule (Twilight), however, sets verses by Victor Hugo as a romanza describing the new dawn, and continues with the lover's door that is closed. While Posillipo (Pausilippe) is a hillside overlooking the bay of Naples, Infrascata is a steep road leading from the city centre to another hillside, that of the Vomero. The frontispiece of the first edition of Soirées d'autumne à l'Infrascata indicates it was intended as a sequel to the earlier collection. Here the tone is more overtly ardent, not least in the Neapolitan barcarola Me voglio fa 'na casa (I'd Like to Have a House) which has been a popular recital item for many great singers. The complete collection is far less often heard, and recorded, lending considerable rarity value to this new recording. It is led by the soprano Letizia Calandra, a specialist in Neapolitan repertoire.