Vanessa Benelli Mosell - Casta Diva (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Pianist Vanessa Benelli Mosell turns to the drama of Italian opera for her new album Casta Diva. Decca Classics will release the album, which assembles a collection of popular arias, overtures, and themes from “Norma,” “La Bohème,” “Il Barbiere di Siviglia,” “Guillaume Tell,” “Madama Butterfly” and more in virtuosic arrangements by some of the great pianists of the 19th and 20th centuries. Some of the arrangements come from Chopin, Wittgenstein, Liszt, Thalburg, and Ginzburg.

Mosell noted in a press statement, “I went to see my first opera Boris Godunov at the age of 3 in Florence and was transfixed by the children’s choir of the Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. At five, I joined them entering the world of the theatre, performing, rehearsing and living with a pantheon of opera stars and conductors such as Semyon Bychkov, Riccardo Chailly and Zubin Mehta. It was inspirational and it is utterly wonderful to return to this world of opera through the prism of the piano. It is my dream one way to be able to conduct these great operas as well.”

TRACKLIST

01. Vanessa Benelli Mosell - Gioacchino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia: Largo al factotum (Transcr. Ginzburg for Piano)
02. Vanessa Benelli Mosell - Sigismond Thalberg: L'art du chant appliqué au piano, Op. 70: 119. Casta diva, de l'opéra "Norma" (after V. Bellini)
03. Vanessa Benelli Mosell - Franz Liszt: Concert Paraphrase on Rigoletto, S. 434 (after G. Verdi): Preludio. Allegro - Andante - Presto
04. Vanessa Benelli Mosell - Hexaméron: Variation No. 6, B. 113
05. Vanessa Benelli Mosell - Réminiscences de Norma, S. 394 (after V. Bellini)
06. Vanessa Benelli Mosell - Giacomo Puccini: La bohème, SC 67: Che gelida manina (Arr. Carignani for Piano)
07. Vanessa Benelli Mosell - Ferruccio Busoni: Elegien, BV 249: 4. Turandots Frauengemach. Intermezzo
08. Vanessa Benelli Mosell - Sigismond Thalberg: L'art du chant appliqué au piano, Op. 70: 1. Quatuor de l'opéra "I puritani" (after V. Bellini)
09. Vanessa Benelli Mosell - Réminiscences de Lucia di Lammermoor, S. 397 (after G. Donizetti)
10. Vanessa Benelli Mosell - Giacomo Puccini: La bohème, SC 67: Quando me'n vo' (Arr. Carignani for Piano)
11. Vanessa Benelli Mosell - Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly: Coro a bocca chiusa (Transcr. Wittgenstein for Piano)
12. Vanessa Benelli Mosell - Gioacchino Rossini: William Tell: Overture (Transcr. Liszt for Piano)



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