NEW ON NAXOS | JANUARY 2025
Franz LISZT (1811–1886) Complete Piano Music, Vol. 64 Fantaisie romantique Fantaisie symphonique Sergio Gallo, Piano
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Franz Liszt’s prolific output as a composer was maintained during a stormy life and performing career. As a result, many works were revised before they became the popular pieces we know and love today. This wonderful selection of earlier and lesser-known versions of Liszt’s masterpieces includes the majestic Paralipomènes à la Divina Commedia , alongside other pieces that shed light on spiritual aspects of the final version of Années de pèlerinage. The relatively unfamiliar Fantasie romantique , with its evocations of the Swiss Alps, is also featured. Key features: • This recording is a fine addition to our already extensive catalogue of Liszt’s solo piano music, presenting as it does some of the less frequently heard versions of parts of the fabulous and justly popular Années de pèlerinage . Fans of this work and of Liszt in general will want to supplement their collections with this gem of a recital, with its discoveries of beautiful music that the composer left out of the final score of the Dante Sonata and the powerful Suisse themes in the comparatively rarely heard Fantasie romantique . • Sergio Gallo ’s recording of Beethoven’s Piano Pieces and Fragments (Naxos 8.574131) is included in the Beethoven Complete Edition, a 90-disc boxed set that was nominated for the International Classical Music Award. Fanfare wrote of this album that ‘Gallo is a master at voicing, and there are informative relationships to hear in every phrase if one can get used to dramatic subtlety. This is a worthy supplement to the collection of anyone keen on investigating Beethoven’s piano output’.
8.574565 Release date: 10 Jan 2025 Companion titles – Previous volumes in the series
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Click to listen to Fantaisie romantique sur deux mélodies suisses, S157/R9
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Gaetano DONIZETTI (1797–1848) L’aio nell’imbarazzo Melodramma giocoso in two acts (1824) Libretto by Jacopo Ferretti (1784–1852) after Giovanni Giraud (1776–1834) Marilena Ruta, Soprano • Caterina Dellaere, Mezzo-soprano Francesco Lucii, Lorenzo Martelli, Tenors Alessandro Corbelli, Lorenzo Liberali, Baritones Alex Esposito, Bass-baritone • Hana Lee, Fortepiano Orchestra e Coro Donizetti Opera Vincenzo Milletarì
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Donizetti’s L’aio nell’imbarazzo (‘The Embarrassed Tutor’) is a melodramma giocoso in two acts, premiered to considerable acclaim in 1824. Its subject is the belated attempt by the elderly Marquis Giulio to keep his sons innocent of the ways of world and the comedy of errors that result. Two years later Donizetti drastically revised the opera, which duly appeared under the title Don Gregorio . This production uses the critical edition and restores the work, as far as possible, to Donizetti’s original conception – including excised arias, and emphasising the composer’s sparkling orchestration. Key features: •
8.660565-66 Release date: 10 Jan 2025 Companion titles – Gaetano Donizetti, Composer
Of this production Bachtrack wrote that ‘ Vincenzo Milletarì conducted the Orchestra Donizetti Opera with enthusiasm, for a very good performance’… ‘Milletarì’s gestures are broad and manifest, the attacks are precise. He breathes and pauses with the singers’. • ‘ As Don Gregorio, Alex Esposito was heroic in his effort to make the humour shine through. A masterful stage animal… His sillabati and coloratura were perfect throughout, and his powerful bass-baritone made him the star performer’. • ‘ Alessandro Corbelli was Don Giulio; he is an old glory, specialising in the buffo baritone repertoire… His know-how and experience allowed him to navigate the role, and his natural likeability made his performance a success with the audience’. • ‘ Marilena Ruta , as Gilda, showed a very good coloratura in the final aria’.
Vincenzo Milletarì
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Alex Esposito
Click to listen to Act I: No. 1. Introduzione: Scene 1: Mi traduca dal volgare
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