Riccardo Muti conducts Italian Masterworks

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Label
CSO Resound
Release Date
January 4, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      ARRIGO BOITO (COMPOSER) GIUSE
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Children'S Choir
    • PERFORMER
      Muti, Zanellato
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 04, 2019
    • UPC
      810449010047
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CSOR9011801
    • LABEL
      CSO Resound
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Chamber Music & Recitals
    Works ⌄

    1. Nabucco: Overture

      Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

      Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Riccardo Muti

    2. Nabucco, Act I: Introduction and Recitative: Gli arredi festivi giu candano infranti

      Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

      Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Riccardo Muti

    3. Macbeth, Act IV: Patria oppressa!

      Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

      Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Riccardo Muti

    4. I vespri siciliani: Overture

      Composer: Giuseppe Verdi

      Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Riccardo Muti

    5. Manon Lescaut, Act II: Intermezzo

      Composer: Giacomo Puccini

      Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Riccardo Muti

    6. Cavalleria rusticana: Intermezzo

      Composer: Pietro Mascagni

      Ensemble: Chicago Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Riccardo Muti

    7. Prologue in the Heaven: Prelude - Ave, Signor degli angeli

      Composer: Arrigo Boito

      Ensemble: Chicago Children's Choir, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Riccardo Muti

    8. Prologue in the Heaven: Ave, Signor - T'e noto Faust?

      Composer: Arrigo Boito

      Ensemble: Chicago Children's Choir, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Riccardo Zanellato

      Conductor: Riccardo Muti

    9. Prologue in the Heaven: Siam nimbi volanti

      Composer: Arrigo Boito

      Ensemble: Chicago Children's Choir, Chicago Symphony Orchestra

      Performer: Riccardo Zanellato

      Conductor: Riccardo Muti

    10. Prologue in the Heaven: Salve, Regina!

      Composer: Arrigo Boito

      Ensemble: Chicago Children's Choir, Chicago Symphony Chorus, Chicago Symphony Orchestra

      Conductor: Riccardo Muti


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