Giacomo Puccini

Gianni Schicchi – Crisantemi – 6 piano works

Various Artists

1 CD – Total time: 69:25
Booklet 12 pages, Italian/English

12,90 

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GIANNI SCICCHI
1. Povero Buoso!
2. O Simone? …Simone?
3. Se tutto andrà come si spera
4. Ai miei cugini Zita e Simone!
5. Dunque era vero!
6. E non c’è nessun mezzo…
7. Avete torto
8. Firenze è come un albero fiorito
9. Quale aspetto sgomento e desolato!
10. Brava la vecchia
11. O mio babbino caro
12. Datemi il testamento!
13. Nessuno sa che Buoso ha reso il fiato?
14. L’è permesso?
15. Si corre dal notaio
16. A me i poderi di Fucecchio
17. Hanno saputo che Buoso è crepato!
18. Ecco la cappellina!
19. Prima un avvertimento! …Addio, Firenze
20. Ecco il notaro
21. Dunque incomincio. In Dei nomini
22. Ora siamo alla mula
23. Ladro! Ladro!
24. Lauretta mia
25. Ditemi voi, Signori

26. CRISANTEMI

6 PIANO WORKS
27. Adagio in la maggiore
28. Piccolo Valzer
29. Scossa elettrica. Marcetta brillante
30. Foglio d’album
31. Piccolo Tango
32. Pezzo per pianoforte.
Calmo e molto lento (1916)

This recording combines three of the lesser-known aspects of Puccini: it presents his rather rare chamber music along with his decidedly better known opera Gianni Schicchi. The recording of this opera was made at a live, open air performance held a few years ago in Donizetti’s native city with the city’s own Symphonic Orchestra, conducted by Fabrizio Maria Carminati. Clearly, the sound of the recording has undergone a rigorous technical optimization process, which allows all the magic of a live performance to shine through. Roberto Servile, Cinzia Rizzone, and Francesco Piccoli are a few of the members of the cast in this performance. Crisantemi, Elegy for String Quartet, performed here by the famous La Scala String Quartet, was composed in a single night after Puccini heard about the death of the Amedeo di Savoia, Duca d’Aosta, in 1890. The work was subsequently transcribed for a larger group of instruments. And finally, here are Puccini’s six compositions for piano – exceedingly rare – Adagio in A Major, Short Waltz, Electric Shock, Page from an Album, Short Tango, and Composition for Piano (1916). These works are performed by Marco Sollini, a pianist we are already familiar with thanks to his recordings of Sergej Rachmaninov (CD 2073, along with Salvatore Barbatano and François-Joël Thiollier) and of Gioachino Rossini (CD 2076, with the principals of the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra and Salvatore Barbatano).