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On sale -20%This release showed up on classical best-seller lists in early 2024, and one wonders whether the buyers were influenced by the main graphics, referring only to Puccini "Orchestral Songs & Works"; listeners may have been intrigued by the idea of hitherto unknown orchestral songs by Puccini. He never wrote any such thing; heard here are transcriptions of songs for voice and piano by the student Puccini, plus a few early orchestral works and a string-orchestra version of the string quartet Crisantemi, which has been done before. The music here, transcriptions of music that is all-but-unknown to begin with, certainly could be described as niche, but it is interesting for Puccini fans and others, for it has the flavor of a labor of love. Transcriber Johannes X. Schachtner teases out the hints of the mature Puccini in these songs, many of which sound quite operatic even though Puccini had yet to write a single note of opera. Sample the full-scale "orchestral" introduction in Mentia all'avviso, written for the composer's final exams at the Milan Conservatory, or the little scrap of stage action represented by Casa mia, casa mia. Schachtner's work is retrospective, drawing on Puccini's operatic style. The Münchner Rundfunkorchester and conductor Ivan Repušić also offer convincing performances of the marginally better-known Preludio sinfonico and Capriccio sinfonico, which adumbrate the mature Puccini equally well. Hear the middle section of the latter work, and then listen to the beginning of La bohème. The song performances by tenor Charles Castronovo are at the right scale, neither full-on operatic nor chamber in scope. This is certainly recommended to Puccini lovers, and also for gifts to the same from those struggling to find music Puccini lovers may not know.
© James Manheim /TiVo
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Album review
This release showed up on classical best-seller lists in early 2024, and one wonders whether the buyers were influenced by the main graphics, referring only to Puccini "Orchestral Songs & Works"; listeners may have been intrigued by the idea of hitherto unknown orchestral songs by Puccini. He never wrote any such thing; heard here are transcriptions of songs for voice and piano by the student Puccini, plus a few early orchestral works and a string-orchestra version of the string quartet Crisantemi, which has been done before. The music here, transcriptions of music that is all-but-unknown to begin with, certainly could be described as niche, but it is interesting for Puccini fans and others, for it has the flavor of a labor of love. Transcriber Johannes X. Schachtner teases out the hints of the mature Puccini in these songs, many of which sound quite operatic even though Puccini had yet to write a single note of opera. Sample the full-scale "orchestral" introduction in Mentia all'avviso, written for the composer's final exams at the Milan Conservatory, or the little scrap of stage action represented by Casa mia, casa mia. Schachtner's work is retrospective, drawing on Puccini's operatic style. The Münchner Rundfunkorchester and conductor Ivan Repušić also offer convincing performances of the marginally better-known Preludio sinfonico and Capriccio sinfonico, which adumbrate the mature Puccini equally well. Hear the middle section of the latter work, and then listen to the beginning of La bohème. The song performances by tenor Charles Castronovo are at the right scale, neither full-on operatic nor chamber in scope. This is certainly recommended to Puccini lovers, and also for gifts to the same from those struggling to find music Puccini lovers may not know.
© James Manheim /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 19 track(s)
- Total length: 01:08:17
- 2 Digital booklets
- Main artists: Charles Castronovo Munich Radio Orchestra Ivan Repušić
- Composer: Giacomo Puccini
- Label: BR-Klassik
- Genre: Classical
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