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The Romantic arias Rolando Villazón chose for his first solo recital on Deutsche Grammophon all come from operas he has never sung on-stage. Given the selection, that's not surprising, because there is some pretty obscure material here. The most familiar operas are Verdi's Luisa Miller and Simon Boccanegra, Ponchielli's La Gioconda, Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur, and Boito's Mephistofele, none of them are exactly at the core of the contemporary repertoire. From there, Villazón reaches even further afield, to works by Mercadante, Pietri, Gomes, and obscure operas by Donizetti and Ponchielli. It's a pleasure to hear a recital devoted to rarities sung with such passion and conviction; it's clear Villazón is thrilled to have discovered these little known or virtually unknown arias and to offer them to modern audiences. The most familiar aria is the title track, Cielo e Mar! and with it Villazón sets the tone for the whole album: an intensely warm tone with the substance and richness of a lyric baritone, seamless legato, absolute technical security, and interpretive sensitivity to the variety of musical styles represented. The most familiar arias are, perhaps unsurprisingly, the musical highlights of the album, but some of the rarities are real finds; the cavatina "La dea di tutti I cor" from Mercadante's Il Guiramento, "Ah! Sei tu fra gli angeli" from Gomes' Fosca, and the scene from Donizetti's Poliuto stand out for their melodically memorable lyricicism, and all the Verdi excerpts display a sense of dramatic urgency and orchestrational sophistication that set them apart in a class by themselves. Baritone Gianluca Alfano, who fills in incidental solo parts in several of the scenes, is very weak and sounds out of place on an undertaking of the quality of this recital. Coro e Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, led by Daniele Callegari, provide a solid accompaniment, and the sound is clear, present, and well-balanced.
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La Gioconda / Act II (Amilcare Ponchielli)
Daniel Zalay, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Amilcare Ponchielli, Composer - Rolando Villazon, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arrigo Boito, Author - Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Orchestra, MainArtist - Daniele Callegari, Conductor, MainArtist - Rainer Maillard, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jürgen Bulgrin, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Victor Marie Hugo, Author, Original Text Author - Ute Fesquet, Producer - Valerie Gross, Producer
℗ 2007 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Adriana Lecouvreur / Act I (Francesco Cilèa)
Francesco Cilea, Composer - Daniel Zalay, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Eugene Scribe, Author - Rolando Villazon, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arturo Colautti, Author - Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Orchestra, MainArtist - Daniele Callegari, Conductor, MainArtist - Ernest Legouve, Author - Rainer Maillard, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jürgen Bulgrin, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ute Fesquet, Producer - Valerie Gross, Producer
℗ 2007 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Il giuramento / Act I (Saverio Mercadante)
Daniel Zalay, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Rolando Villazon, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Saverio Mercadante, Composer - Giacomo Rossi, Author - Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Orchestra, MainArtist - Daniele Callegari, Conductor, MainArtist - Rainer Maillard, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jürgen Bulgrin, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Victor Marie Hugo, Author, Original Text Author - Ute Fesquet, Producer - Valerie Gross, Producer
℗ 2007 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Mefistofele / Act I (Arrigo Boito)
Daniel Zalay, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Rolando Villazon, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arrigo Boito, ComposerLyricist - Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Orchestra, MainArtist - Daniele Callegari, Conductor, MainArtist - Rainer Maillard, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jürgen Bulgrin, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ute Fesquet, Producer - Valerie Gross, Producer
℗ 2007 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Maristella / Act I (Giuseppe Pietri)
Daniel Zalay, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Rolando Villazon, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Salvatore Di Giacomo, Author, Original Text Author - Giuseppe Pietri, Composer - Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Orchestra, MainArtist - Maso Salvini, Author - Daniele Callegari, Conductor, MainArtist - Rainer Maillard, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jürgen Bulgrin, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ute Fesquet, Producer - Valerie Gross, Producer
℗ 2007 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Fosca - Original Verion / Act III (Antonio Ghislanzoni)
Antonio Ghislanzoni, Author - Daniel Zalay, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Rolando Villazon, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Orchestra, MainArtist - Daniele Callegari, Conductor, MainArtist - Antonio Carlos Gomes, Composer - Rainer Maillard, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jürgen Bulgrin, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ute Fesquet, Producer - Valerie Gross, Producer
℗ 2007 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Simon Boccanegra / Act II (Giuseppe Verdi)
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer - Daniel Zalay, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Rolando Villazon, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arrigo Boito, Author - Francesco Maria Piave, Author - Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Orchestra, MainArtist - Daniele Callegari, Conductor, MainArtist - Rainer Maillard, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jürgen Bulgrin, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ute Fesquet, Producer - Valerie Gross, Producer
℗ 2007 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Poliuto / Act II (Gaetano Donizetti)
Salvatore Cammarano, Author - Daniel Zalay, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Gaetano Donizetti, Composer - Rolando Villazon, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Pierre Corneille, Author, Original Text Author - Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Orchestra, MainArtist - Gianluca Alfano, Baritone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Daniele Callegari, Conductor, MainArtist - Rainer Maillard, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jürgen Bulgrin, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ute Fesquet, Producer - Valerie Gross, Producer
℗ 2007 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Il giuramento / Act II (Saverio Mercadante)
Daniel Zalay, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Rolando Villazon, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Saverio Mercadante, Composer - Giacomo Rossi, Author - Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Orchestra, MainArtist - Daniele Callegari, Conductor, MainArtist - Rainer Maillard, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jürgen Bulgrin, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Victor Marie Hugo, Author, Original Text Author - Ute Fesquet, Producer - Valerie Gross, Producer
℗ 2007 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Adriana Lecouvreur / Act II (Francesco Cilèa)
Francesco Cilea, Composer - Daniel Zalay, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer - Rolando Villazon, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arturo Colautti, Author - Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Orchestra, MainArtist - Daniele Callegari, Conductor, MainArtist - Rainer Maillard, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jürgen Bulgrin, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ute Fesquet, Producer, Executive Producer - Valerie Gross, Producer, Executive Producer
℗ 2007 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Il figliuol prodigo (Amilcare Ponchielli)
Daniel Zalay, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Amilcare Ponchielli, Composer - Rolando Villazon, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Orchestra, MainArtist - Angelo Zanardini, Author - Daniele Callegari, Conductor, MainArtist - Rainer Maillard, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jürgen Bulgrin, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ute Fesquet, Producer - Valerie Gross, Producer
℗ 2007 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Mefistofele / Epilogue (Arrigo Boito)
Daniel Zalay, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Rolando Villazon, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Arrigo Boito, ComposerLyricist - Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Orchestra, MainArtist - Daniele Callegari, Conductor, MainArtist - Rainer Maillard, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jürgen Bulgrin, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ute Fesquet, Producer - Valerie Gross, Producer
℗ 2007 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Luisa Miller / Act II (Giuseppe Verdi)
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer - Salvatore Cammarano, Author - Daniel Zalay, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Rolando Villazon, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Friedrich Schiller, Author, Original Text Author - Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Orchestra, MainArtist - Daniele Callegari, Conductor, MainArtist - Rainer Maillard, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jürgen Bulgrin, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ute Fesquet, Producer - Valerie Gross, Producer
℗ 2007 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer - Salvatore Cammarano, Author - Daniel Zalay, Producer, Editor, Recording Producer, StudioPersonnel - Rolando Villazon, Tenor, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Friedrich Schiller, Author, Original Text Author - Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Orchestra, MainArtist - Coro Sinfonico di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Chorus, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Gianluca Alfano, Baritone, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Daniele Callegari, Conductor, MainArtist - Ruben Jais, Chorus Master, AssociatedPerformer - Rainer Maillard, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Jürgen Bulgrin, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Ute Fesquet, Producer - Valerie Gross, Producer
℗ 2007 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Album review
The Romantic arias Rolando Villazón chose for his first solo recital on Deutsche Grammophon all come from operas he has never sung on-stage. Given the selection, that's not surprising, because there is some pretty obscure material here. The most familiar operas are Verdi's Luisa Miller and Simon Boccanegra, Ponchielli's La Gioconda, Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur, and Boito's Mephistofele, none of them are exactly at the core of the contemporary repertoire. From there, Villazón reaches even further afield, to works by Mercadante, Pietri, Gomes, and obscure operas by Donizetti and Ponchielli. It's a pleasure to hear a recital devoted to rarities sung with such passion and conviction; it's clear Villazón is thrilled to have discovered these little known or virtually unknown arias and to offer them to modern audiences. The most familiar aria is the title track, Cielo e Mar! and with it Villazón sets the tone for the whole album: an intensely warm tone with the substance and richness of a lyric baritone, seamless legato, absolute technical security, and interpretive sensitivity to the variety of musical styles represented. The most familiar arias are, perhaps unsurprisingly, the musical highlights of the album, but some of the rarities are real finds; the cavatina "La dea di tutti I cor" from Mercadante's Il Guiramento, "Ah! Sei tu fra gli angeli" from Gomes' Fosca, and the scene from Donizetti's Poliuto stand out for their melodically memorable lyricicism, and all the Verdi excerpts display a sense of dramatic urgency and orchestrational sophistication that set them apart in a class by themselves. Baritone Gianluca Alfano, who fills in incidental solo parts in several of the scenes, is very weak and sounds out of place on an undertaking of the quality of this recital. Coro e Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, led by Daniele Callegari, provide a solid accompaniment, and the sound is clear, present, and well-balanced.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 14 track(s)
- Total length: 00:56:29
- Main artists: Rolando Villazón Orchestra Sinfonica Di Milano Giuseppe Verdi Daniele Callegari
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
- Genre: Classical
- Collection: First Release
© 2008 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin This Compilation ℗ 2008 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
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