Rossini Songs
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Composer or Director: Gioachino Rossini
Genre:
Vocal
Label: Arabesque
Magazine Review Date: 4/1993
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 78
Mastering:
Stereo
ADD
Catalogue Number: Z6623
Tracks:
| Composition | Artist Credit |
|---|---|
| Péchés de vieillesse, Book 1, 'Album per canto', Movement: La passeggiata (SATB) |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Arleen Augér, Soprano Dalton Baldwin, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer Jennifer Larmore, Mezzo soprano John Aler, Tenor Steven Kimbrough, Baritone |
| Soirées musicales, Movement: La pesca |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Arleen Augér, Soprano Dalton Baldwin, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer Jennifer Larmore, Mezzo soprano |
| Péchés de vieillesse, Book 1, 'Album per canto', Movement: La fioraia fiorentina (S) |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Arleen Augér, Soprano Dalton Baldwin, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer |
| Péchés de vieillesse, Book 2, 'Album français', Movement: Zora: |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Dalton Baldwin, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer Jennifer Larmore, Mezzo soprano |
| Péchés de vieillesse, Book 2, 'Album français', Movement: L'Orpheline du Tyrol (S) |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Dalton Baldwin, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer Jennifer Larmore, Mezzo soprano |
| Péchés de vieillesse, Book 3, 'Morceaux réservés', Movement: Les Amants de Séville (AT) |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Dalton Baldwin, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer Jennifer Larmore, Mezzo soprano John Aler, Tenor |
| Péchés de vieillesse, Book 2, 'Album français', Movement: Un Sou (TB) |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Dalton Baldwin, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer John Aler, Tenor Steven Kimbrough, Baritone |
| Péchés de vieillesse, Book 3, 'Morceaux réservés', Movement: L'Esule (T) |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Dalton Baldwin, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer John Aler, Tenor |
| (Il) Trovatore |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Dalton Baldwin, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer Steven Kimbrough, Baritone |
| Péchés de vieillesse, Book 1, 'Album per canto', Movement: La lontananza (T) |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Dalton Baldwin, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer John Aler, Tenor |
| Péchés de vieillesse, Book 1, 'Album per canto', Movement: L'ultimo ricordo (T) |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Dalton Baldwin, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer Steven Kimbrough, Baritone |
| Péchés de vieillesse, Book 11, 'Miscellanée de musique vocale', Movement: Aragonese (sop) |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Arleen Augér, Soprano Dalton Baldwin, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer |
| Musique anodine, Movement: Mi lagnerò tacendo (mez) |
Gioachino Rossini, Composer
Arleen Augér, Soprano Dalton Baldwin, Piano Gioachino Rossini, Composer Jennifer Larmore, Mezzo soprano Steven Kimbrough, Baritone |
Author: Richard Osborne
There are so many songs from Rossini's final years that single-disc selections are bound to be arbitrary. (It was a thrill many years ago when the late lamented Dino Ciani made a complete recording of one of the finest volumes of Rossini's late piano music, the Album de Chaumiere.) There is also a problem in balancing programmes as a result of one of Rossini's most abstruse procedures: his using the verses of Metastasio's Mi lagnero tacendo as a matrix for songs that were written to—or later provided with—other words.
I am not sure the present recital completely solves these various problems. Rossini returned to composition after years of physically and psychologically enforced absence in April 1857 with his Musique anodine: six settings for three solo voices of the Metastasio text. It makes a strangely satisfying effect and is superbly performed here by Jennifer Larmore (the record's obvious star), Arleen Auger and the baritone Steven Kimbrough. Why, though, is it placed virtually at the end of the collection, with another version of the Metastasio left to round off the entire programme?
The singing of all four soloists is generally distinguished and Dalton Baldwin accompanies briskly and decisively. The recording, though, is rather too immediate. As a result one tends to feel all the more keenly a certain relentlessness about the programme: both its execution and its content.'
I am not sure the present recital completely solves these various problems. Rossini returned to composition after years of physically and psychologically enforced absence in April 1857 with his Musique anodine: six settings for three solo voices of the Metastasio text. It makes a strangely satisfying effect and is superbly performed here by Jennifer Larmore (the record's obvious star), Arleen Auger and the baritone Steven Kimbrough. Why, though, is it placed virtually at the end of the collection, with another version of the Metastasio left to round off the entire programme?
The singing of all four soloists is generally distinguished and Dalton Baldwin accompanies briskly and decisively. The recording, though, is rather too immediate. As a result one tends to feel all the more keenly a certain relentlessness about the programme: both its execution and its content.'
Rossini Songs
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