Rachmaninov - Francseca da Rimini
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Label: Chandos
Cat No: CHAN10442
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 29th October 2007
Contents
Artists
Svetla Vassileva (soprano)Misha Didyk (tenor)
Sergey Murzaev (baritone)
Gennady Bezzubenkov (baritone)
Evgeny Akimov (tenor)
BBC Singers
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Gianandrea NosedaWorks
Francesca da Rimini, op.25Artists
Svetla Vassileva (soprano)Misha Didyk (tenor)
Sergey Murzaev (baritone)
Gennady Bezzubenkov (baritone)
Evgeny Akimov (tenor)
BBC Singers
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Gianandrea NosedaAbout
Rachmaninov’s one-act opera uses a libretto by Modest Tchaikovsky, based on a story told by Dante in his Divine Comedy. An underlying theme is that hell is happiness recalled in times of chronic misery. The story concerns the character of Francesca da Rimini, the tragic heroine murdered with her lover by her jealous husband.
The Bulgarian soprano Svetla Vassileva and the Ukrainian tenor Misha Didyk take the parts of Francesca and Paolo, the doomed lovers of Dante’s story, and three Russians, led by Sergey Murzaev as Lanceotto, complete the team of soloists.
Gianandrea Noseda has a particular affinity for Russian music, which perhaps grew from his time with Gergiev at the Kirov, and it is clear from his conducting that Rachmaninov’s music is deeply personal to him. Following the concert, The Daily Telegraph noted that ‘Noseda conducted like a man possessed, conjuring hair-raising intensity from the BBC Philharmonic in the whirlwinds depicting the outer circles of hell’.
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