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Leoncavallo, Domingo, Veronesi
I Medici
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (22) - Disc #1
1. Preludio e fanfara da caccia
2. E nel Papa un nemico
3. Tacita selva
4. No, de l'antica Grecia
5. L'amor egli Ã¨ la nuvola
6. Come amava il suo damo!
7. Fiorin di prato!
8. PartÃ¬ Ma niuno scorgesi
9. Ninfa non sono
10. Come poterti e sprimere
11. Taci un rumor nel bosco
12. Mosso e deciso
13. Egli vole guidar
14. PerchÃ¨ pace
15. LaggiÃ¹! ... Ascolta il canto
16. Che ne di'tu?
17. Le mie modeste
18. Tutto Ã¨ festa e tripudio
19. Si canterÃ²! ... Le copie s'intrecciano
20. Povera Simonetta
21. Allora che piÃ¹ facili
22. Si! Si! Questo nuovo palpito
Track Listings (12) - Disc #2
1. Andante sostenuto
2. Va, rinfranca nel sonno
3. Ã? la ... Si scorge lume
4. Gli eventi non arrisero
5. Me lasso! Io che pensava
6. Qualcuno Ã¨ lÃ
7. Allegro con Fuoco
8. Credo in unum Deum
9. Signor prostrata in lagrime
10. Muori! Muori!
11. Da lunga pezza i Medici
12. All'Arno! A morte!

CD Details

All Artists: Leoncavallo, Domingo, Veronesi, Orch Del Maggio
Title: I Medici
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Original Release Date: 1/1/2010
Re-Release Date: 6/8/2010
Genre: Classical
Style: Symphonies
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 028947774563

Synopsis

Album Description

Domingo continues to amaze opera lovers by adding another tenor lead to his shelf of heroes - in this case, Giuliano de' Medici in Leoncavallo's rarity I Medici. Recorded in the Medici city, Florence, it is the one and only complete recording of this work on the market: A must buy for every Domingo fan and lover of verismo. I Medici was first performed in 1893, the year after Leoncavallo's Pagliacci put the composer on the map.

CD Reviews

Rare Verismo

ALFRED H. Harris | Prunedale, Ca. | 06/13/2010

(4 out of 5 stars)

"Remarkable performance by Domingo at, I think, around 70 years of age. Excellently recorded. The soprano is quite strained but the overall production is a great achievment in plugging one of the many vacant holes in recordings of operas of this period. You can also get a German/Italian piano vocal score on line. When do we get a full recording of Mascagni's Parisina and a more competent recording of Leoncavallo's Chatterton?"

Historical verismo at its best

Ross Scimeca | 08/10/2010

(4 out of 5 stars)

"We always associate Leoncavallo with his masterpiece I Pagliacci, but this came as a real suprise to me. The crux of the opera is the attempted assassination of of Lorenzo Medici. The style of both the libretto and the music is more like Cilea or Catalani. The third act is what makes this opera both unique and a masterpiece in its use of trios and duets. For those who want to expand their knowledge of Italian verismo, this should prove most interesting."