Mercadante: Music for Solo Flute / Trapani
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Mercadante: Music for Solo Flute / Trapani

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Composer
Saverio Mercadante
Artist
Laura Trapani
Format
CD
Discs
1
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Jul 28, 2023
Catalog #
BRI96511
UPC
5028421965116

About

Operatic, early-Romantic fantasias for solo flute by one of the great names of Italian opera. Laura Trapani’s previous album for Brilliant Classics brought wider renown for the sparkling flute-writing of Beethoven’s pupil Ferdinand Ries (96132). Now the Ferrara-based flautist turns her attention south to another overlooked figure of the early 19th century, Saverio Mercadante.

Mercadante learnt the flute as a child and became a virtuoso on the instrument during his training in Naples while learning the craft of an opera composer which would bring him fame across Europe. One of his earliest successes for the stage was a ballet based on the legend of a magic flute - unrelated to Mozart’s masonic tale - and from the 1820s onwards, audiences flocked to Mercadante’s lyric dramas for their pacy drama, memorable tunes and arias that displayed the great singers of the age to best advantage. His Capricci also date from this early stage of his career. Comparable to the more celebrated caprices for violin by his elder contemporary Paganini, they are technical studies which stretch the technique of the most accomplished flautists, and they dazzle the ear with their lightning runs, filigree figurations and flourishes. The Capricci have received recordings from celebrated flautists, whereas the later Arie Variate have been relatively overlooked, and this release marks only their second recording, and the first to be made for CD. They are fantasies on popular operatic arias in the style of the piano potpourris and paraphrases which would be raised to an art-form by Franz Liszt a generation later. The chosen themes are mostly drawn from operas of the late 1810s such as Rossini’s Armida and Elisabetta, Regina d’Inghilterra, but they range from Mozart’s Don Giovanni to Mercadante’s own Gabriella di Vergy of 1828. Laura Trapani thus restores to the catalogue a shining example of early Romantic instrumental virtuosity.

Tracklist 17 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1 in A Major 01:10
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1 in A Major
    Duration
    01:10
    Composer
    Saverio Mercadante
    Performer
    Laura Trapani
  2. 2 No. 2 in E Minor 03:07
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2 in E Minor
    Duration
    03:07
    Composer
    Saverio Mercadante
    Performer
    Laura Trapani
  3. 3 No. 3 in B Minor 02:42
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3 in B Minor
    Duration
    02:42
    Composer
    Saverio Mercadante
    Performer
    Laura Trapani
  4. 4 No. 4 in A Minor 02:33
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 4 in A Minor
    Duration
    02:33
    Composer
    Saverio Mercadante
    Performer
    Laura Trapani
  5. 5 No. 5 in C Major 01:01
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 5 in C Major
    Duration
    01:01
    Composer
    Saverio Mercadante
    Performer
    Laura Trapani
  6. 6 No. 6 in C Major 01:02
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 6 in C Major
    Duration
    01:02
    Composer
    Saverio Mercadante
    Performer
    Laura Trapani
  7. 7 No. 7 in A Minor 01:20
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 7 in A Minor
    Duration
    01:20
    Composer
    Saverio Mercadante
    Performer
    Laura Trapani
  8. 8 Cara per te quest'anima from Rossini's Armida 05:59
    Track
    8
    Title
    Cara per te quest'anima from Rossini's Armida
    Duration
    05:59
    Composer
    Saverio Mercadante
    Performer
    Laura Trapani
  9. 9 4 Variations on Ombra che a me d'intorno from Gabriella di Vergy by Michele Carafa 07:17
    Track
    9
    Title
    4 Variations on Ombra che a me d'intorno from Gabriella di Vergy by Michele Carafa
    Duration
    07:17
    Composer
    Saverio Mercadante
    Performer
    Laura Trapani
  10. 10 Variations on La ci darem la mano from Mozart's Don Giovanni 07:00
    Track
    10
    Title
    Variations on La ci darem la mano from Mozart's Don Giovanni
    Duration
    07:00
    Composer
    Saverio Mercadante
    Performer
    Laura Trapani
  11. 11 Variations on Bell'alme generose from Rossini's Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra 09:09
    Track
    11
    Title
    Variations on Bell'alme generose from Rossini's Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra
    Duration
    09:09
    Composer
    Saverio Mercadante
    Performer
    Laura Trapani
  12. 12 Come la nebbia al vento fuggì mia verde età 08:14
    Track
    12
    Title
    Come la nebbia al vento fuggì mia verde età
    Duration
    08:14
    Composer
    Saverio Mercadante
    Performer
    Laura Trapani
  13. 13 D'amor al dolce impero 07:43
    Track
    13
    Title
    D'amor al dolce impero
    Duration
    07:43
    Composer
    Saverio Mercadante
    Performer
    Laura Trapani
  14. 14 Variations on Ah, nati e ver noi siamo from Rossini's Ricciardo e Zoraide 02:23
    Track
    14
    Title
    Variations on Ah, nati e ver noi siamo from Rossini's Ricciardo e Zoraide
    Duration
    02:23
    Composer
    Saverio Mercadante
    Performer
    Laura Trapani
  15. 15 5 Variations on Dov' e mai quel core amante from Rossini's Mose in Egitto 03:00
    Track
    15
    Title
    5 Variations on Dov' e mai quel core amante from Rossini's Mose in Egitto
    Duration
    03:00
    Composer
    Saverio Mercadante
    Performer
    Laura Trapani
  16. 16 Variations on Assia a pie d'un salice from Rossini's Otello 02:57
    Track
    16
    Title
    Variations on Assia a pie d'un salice from Rossini's Otello
    Duration
    02:57
    Composer
    Saverio Mercadante
    Performer
    Laura Trapani
  17. 17 Variations on O cangia il mio destino from Rossini's Ricciardo e Zoraide 03:49
    Track
    17
    Title
    Variations on O cangia il mio destino from Rossini's Ricciardo e Zoraide
    Duration
    03:49
    Composer
    Saverio Mercadante
    Performer
    Laura Trapani