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Michele Pertusi, Raffaele Cortesi – Tosti: Le liriche sui testi di D’Annunzio (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:40:15 minutes | 822 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Tactus
The voice of one of the best known singers in the international opera scene, that of bass Michele Pertusi, is certainly the ideal interpreter of the romances by Francesco Paolo Tosti, composer that became famous for his chamber lyrics, as well as the protagonist of the most important artistic salons of the era and singing teacher of Princess Margherita of Savoy. The texts of the romances contained in this full bodied double album are all by the great Gabriele D’Annunzio, whom with Tosti formed one of those artistic combinations that are rarely found in the history of music, given the congeniality expressed by the two authors, each giant in his own art.
The pianist Raffaele Cortesi, expert connoisseur and performer of the chamber vocal repertoire, shows his elegant and refined style in accompanying Michele Pertusi on the piano.
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Erika Grimaldi, Daniela Barcellona, Francesco Meli, Michele Pertusi, London Symphony Chorus, London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda – Verdi: Requiem (1874) (2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:55 minutes | 1,47 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © LSO Live
Recently appointed Principal Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda gathered together an outstanding cast of Italian stars for these searing performances of Verdi’s Requiem to open the LSO’s 2016/17 season.
Originally destined to be a collaboration of movements from Italian composers to honour the death of Rossini, the Requiem evolved into a memorial for the Italian writer and poet Alessandro Manzoni, whom Verdi revered, and premiered on 22 May 1874 — exactly a year after Manzoni’s death.
The most complex and dramatic sequence is the ‘Dies irae’ (Day of wrath). The vivid text of the Last Judgement allows Verdi’s operatic talents to flourish amidst the drama and pathos. The main theme erupts in violent fury of brass and percussion while the chorus roars a descending scale pattern of intimidating catastrophe and fear. In a momentary lull, a single trumpet in the orchestra opens a simple fanfare, answered quietly by a trumpet out in the concert hall. The fanfare builds in intensity and numbers until the four trumpets on stage and four house trumpets, often spatially arranged for maximum effect, join the full orchestra for a blazing opening to the choral entrance of the ‘Tuba mirum’ (The trumpet shall sound).
Whilst not a devout Catholic, Verdi was influenced by a profound sense of higher power: combining his gifts for the theatrical with his admiration for the great Italian liturgical music of the past, he created a passionate and deeply moving masterpiece, beloved of performers and audiences alike.
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Cecilia Bartoli, John Osborn, Sumi Jo, Michele Pertusi, Orchestra La Scintilla, Giovanni Antonini – Bellini: Norma (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:23:04 minutes | 2,60 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Decca Music Group Ltd.
In collaboration with Giovanni Antonini, Riccardo Minasi and Maurizio Biondi, Cecilia Bartoli restores the sound and spirit of Norma in a landmark Decca recording based on the opera’s original sources. Cecilia Bartoli leads a fabulous cast in Decca’s groundbreaking new recording, which presents Vincenzo Bellini’s Norma in a form that is complete with the exquisite mix of vocal and instrumental colours that Bellini intended for his ‘tragic opera’.
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