Riccardo Muti conducts Italian Masterworks
Details
- Composer
- ARRIGO BOITO (COMPOSER) GIUSE
- Artist
- Muti, Zanellato
- Format
- CD
- Label
- CSO Resound
- Released
- Jan 04, 2019
- Catalog #
- CSOR9011801
- UPC
- 810449010047
About
This album features overtures, choruses and intermezzos drawn from masterworks by Verdi, Puccini, Mascagni, and Boito, played with mastery by Music Director Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Having presented these works numerous times during his tenure as music director of the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Maestro Muti performed them with the CSO in the 2016/17 season. Recorded live during concerts in June 2017, this album presents a virtuosic showcase of 19th-century Italian music in all its passion, joy and heartbreak. Produced by David Frost, winner of sixteen Grammy awards, most recently in January 2018 for Classical Producer of the Year, this release spotlights the magnificent connection between the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Maestro Muti.
REVIEW:The well-chosen program includes idiomatic performances of the prelude to Nabucco and the Vespri Siciliani overture. Moving from Verdi to Puccini and Mascagni, Muti luxuriates in the authoritative use of rubato and portamento to wrench every bit of pathos from the intermezzos from Manon Lescaut and Cavalleria Rusticana. These are performances that will be hard to beat. That said, if one goes back to compare Muti to Toscanini, there is one difference that is striking. For Muti the orchestra is a single united, glossy instrument. In Toscanini’s readings, each section of the orchestra steps up for their “group solos” with the vibrancy of opera stars taking their parts.
— American Record Guide
Tracklist 10 tracks
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1 Nabucco: Overture 06:57
- Track
- 1
- Title
- Nabucco: Overture
- Duration
- 06:57
- Composer
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Ensemble
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Riccardo Muti
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2 Nabucco, Act I: Introduction and Recitative: Gli arredi festivi giu candano infranti 06:10
- Track
- 2
- Title
- Nabucco, Act I: Introduction and Recitative: Gli arredi festivi giu candano infranti
- Duration
- 06:10
- Composer
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Ensemble
- Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Riccardo Muti
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3 Macbeth, Act IV: Patria oppressa! 07:30
- Track
- 3
- Title
- Macbeth, Act IV: Patria oppressa!
- Duration
- 07:30
- Composer
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Ensemble
- Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Riccardo Muti
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4 I vespri siciliani: Overture 09:16
- Track
- 4
- Title
- I vespri siciliani: Overture
- Duration
- 09:16
- Composer
- Giuseppe Verdi
- Ensemble
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Riccardo Muti
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5 Manon Lescaut, Act II: Intermezzo 06:18
- Track
- 5
- Title
- Manon Lescaut, Act II: Intermezzo
- Duration
- 06:18
- Composer
- Giacomo Puccini
- Ensemble
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Riccardo Muti
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6 Cavalleria rusticana: Intermezzo 04:32
- Track
- 6
- Title
- Cavalleria rusticana: Intermezzo
- Duration
- 04:32
- Composer
- Pietro Mascagni
- Ensemble
- Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Riccardo Muti
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7 Prologue in the Heaven: Prelude - Ave, Signor degli angeli 11:22
- Track
- 7
- Title
- Prologue in the Heaven: Prelude - Ave, Signor degli angeli
- Duration
- 11:22
- Composer
- Arrigo Boito
- Ensemble
- Chicago Children's Choir, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Riccardo Muti
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8 Prologue in the Heaven: Ave, Signor - T'e noto Faust? 07:06
- Track
- 8
- Title
- Prologue in the Heaven: Ave, Signor - T'e noto Faust?
- Duration
- 07:06
- Composer
- Arrigo Boito
- Performer
- Riccardo Zanellato
- Ensemble
- Chicago Children's Choir, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Riccardo Muti
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9 Prologue in the Heaven: Siam nimbi volanti 02:15
- Track
- 9
- Title
- Prologue in the Heaven: Siam nimbi volanti
- Duration
- 02:15
- Composer
- Arrigo Boito
- Performer
- Riccardo Zanellato
- Ensemble
- Chicago Children's Choir, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Riccardo Muti
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10 Prologue in the Heaven: Salve, Regina! 07:07
- Track
- 10
- Title
- Prologue in the Heaven: Salve, Regina!
- Duration
- 07:07
- Composer
- Arrigo Boito
- Ensemble
- Chicago Children's Choir, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- Conductor
- Riccardo Muti