John Matheson, BBC Concert Orchestra - Giuseppe Verdi: La Forza del Destino (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 955 Mb | Total time: 68.08+57.33+31.03 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Opera Rara | # ORCV304 | Recorded: 1981
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 955 Mb | Total time: 68.08+57.33+31.03 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Opera Rara | # ORCV304 | Recorded: 1981
This marks the final offering from Opera Rara's laudable restoration of BBC broadcasts from the 1970s and '80s of Verdi's first thoughts on specific operas, and it is quite up to the standard of the series. It differs only in being given without an audience, and was broadcast two years after the recording.
On disc we know the 1862 original Forza from Gergiev's Philips set recorded, appropriately enough, in St Petersburg. That version is by and large finely cast with Russian singers and excitingly conducted, but this one, featuring British artists and one North American, need hardly fear the comparison. John Matheson may be a slightly more measured interpreter than Gergiev but he is perhaps even more adept at disclosing the many subtleties in shaping the slightly sprawling score as a unified whole. His orchestra provides fine playing – special praise for the first clarinet before Alvaro's Act 3 solo – and the BBC Singers nicely characterise their roles.
Alvaro, an even more taxing role than in the better-known revised version for Milan, is superbly sung by Kenneth Collins: Bergonzi and Domingo apart, no other tenor in the late 20th century was as ideal for the part. Collins, a true spinto, makes light of the demands, and sings with unstinting strength and an innate sense of Verdian style, a suitable souvenir of a singer so little represented on disc.
Martina Arroyo, also on Gardelli's EMI recording of 12 years earlier, is a profoundly sympathetic, even-voiced Leonora: she really sings her heart out. As the implacable Don Carlo, Peter Glossop remains an appreciable Verdian. His tone had loosened a little by 1981 but he splendidly conveys the avenging brother's wrath, particularly in his fiery encounter with Alvaro in Act 4.
Like Collins, Don Garrard and Derek Hammond- Stroud were then singing the revised version at the Coliseum. The much-admired Canadian bass sings with depth and authority as Padre Guardiano, and Hammond-Stroud in one of his favourite roles makes Melitone more than a mere buffo but rather a hot-headed, obtuse friar, as he should be. Janet Coster fills most of the considerable demands of Preziosilla's role and it is good to be reminded of the stalwart tenor Kenneth Bowen and of Roderick Kennedy's sturdy bass. All sing with exemplary Italian.
The recording has breadth and presence.–Gramophone Classical Music Guide
Performer:
Il Marchese di Calatrava - Roderick Kennedy
Leonora di Vargas - Martina Arroyo
Curra - Alison Truefitt
Don Alvaro - Kenneth Collins
Un Alcade - Philip O'Reilly
Don Carlo di Vargas - Peter Glossop
Fra Trabuco - Kenneth Bowen
Preziosilla - Janet Coster
Fra Melitone - Derek Hammond-Stroud
Padre Guardiano - Don Garrard
Un Chirurgo - David Fieldsend
BBC Singers
BBC Concert Orchestra
Conductor - John Matheson
Track List:
CD1:
01. Atto I. Preludio
02. Introduzione. Scena: Buona notte, mia figlia
03. Romanza: Me, pellegrina ed orfana - Leonora
04. Duetto - Leonora, Alvaro: Ah, per sempre
05. Pronti destrieri
06. Ah! Seguiri fino agli ultimi confine
07. Finale Primo. E tardi - Allor di calma è duopo
08. Atto II. Coro - Ballabile: Holà, holà, holà
09. Scena, canzone - Alcalde, Leonora, Preziosilla: La cena è pronta - Alcade
10. Canzone - Al suon del tamburo - Preziosilla
11. Preghiera - quintetto: Padre eteerno Signor! pietà
12. Scena e ballata - Studente: Viva la buona compagnia!
13. Son Pereda, son ricco d'onore
14. Scena, Coro e ripresa della danza: Ma, gnaffe, a me non se la fa…
15. Scena ed aria - Leonora, Coro: Son giunta! Grazie, o Dio!
16. Madre, Madre, pietosa
17. Scena e duetto - Melitone, Leonora, Guardiano: Chi siete?
18. Or siam soli…
19. Ah, tranquilla l'alma sento
20. Se voi scacciate questa pentita
21. Sull'alba il piede all'eremo
22. Finale II. Preghiera: Il santo nome di Dio Signore
23. La Vergine degl' Angeli
CD2:
01. Atto III. Scena e romanza - Coro, Alvaro: Attenti al giuoco
02. La vita è inferno all'infelice
03. Oh tu che in seno agli' angeli
04. Scena, battaglia e duettino - Alvaro, Carlo: Al tradimento…
05. All'armi! All'armi!
06. Piano… qui posl…
07. Solenne in quest'ora
08. Scena ed aria - Carlo: Morir! Tremenda cosa!
09. Urna fatale
10. È salvo!… Egli è salvo!
11. Coro e strofe - Preziosilla, Coro: Lorché pifferi e tamburi
12. Venite a me davanti
13. Scena ed arietta - Trabuco, Coro: Qua, vivendiere, un sorso
14. A buon mercato
15. Coro, Preziosilla: Pane, pan per carità!
16. Tarantella - Coro, Preziosilla: Nella guerra è la follia
17. Predica - Melitone, Coro: Toh! toh! Poffare il mondo!
18. Rataplan - Preziosilla, Coro: Rataplan della gloria
19. Scena e duetto - Alvaro, Carlo: E come ricambiarvi tante cure?
20. Sleale! Il segrero fu dunque violato?
21. No, d'un imene il vincolo
22. Finale III. Scena ed aria - Alvaro: Qual sangue sparsi!
23. S'incontri la mort!
CD3:
01. Atto IV. Coro ed aria buffa - Melitone, Coro: Fate la carità
02. Che? Siete all'osteria?
03. Scena e duetto - Guardiano, Melitone: Auf! Pazienza non v'ha che basti
04. Del mondo i disinganni
05. Giunge qualcuno, aprite
06. Scena e duetto - Alvaro, Carlo: Spento mi cred' Alvaro…
07. Le minaccie, e i fieri accenti
08. Melodia - Leonora: Pace, pace mio Dio
09. Scena e Finale Ultimo. Chi preme questa terra è maledetto!
10. Sì, dunque a me presso tu stavi
11. Miserere mei Deus
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