Verdi - Rarities | Warner 2564646538

Verdi - Rarities

Label: Warner

Cat No: 2564646538

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 8th April 2013

Contents

Works

Verdi, Giuseppe

Aida
» Sinfonia
Attila
» Lo la vida
» Oh dolore! (Act 3)
Ernani
» Odi il voto (recitative & aria) (Act 2)
I due Foscari
» Si lo sento, Iddio mi chiama
I vespri siciliani
» A toi que j'ai cherie (Act 4)
Simon Boccanegra
» Prelude

Artists

Luciano Pavarotti (tenor)
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala

Conductor

Claudio Abbado

Works

Verdi, Giuseppe

Aida
» Sinfonia
Attila
» Lo la vida
» Oh dolore! (Act 3)
Ernani
» Odi il voto (recitative & aria) (Act 2)
I due Foscari
» Si lo sento, Iddio mi chiama
I vespri siciliani
» A toi que j'ai cherie (Act 4)
Simon Boccanegra
» Prelude

Artists

Luciano Pavarotti (tenor)
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala

Conductor

Claudio Abbado

About

“To speak nowadays about unperformed works by Giuseppe Verdi seems absurd, since he has enjoyed such uninterrupted popularity and circulation as to make it almost incredible that there should be compositions, however minor, that are still completely unknown.

But Verdi was, at least for a certain period of his life, sensitive to the demands of great singers, who could often decree the success or failure of an opera, and, as a mark of recognition, he wrote additional or substitute pieces for several of them — essentially the pieces presented here.

In contrast, the orchestral pieces included here were put aside by the composer and were not included in the final editions of the works for which they were conceived. It is now difficult to establish with certainty the reasons which led Verdi to make these substitutions or omissions: it can however be presumed that they were discarded due to dramatic rather than musical considerations.
” (From the liner notes by Pietro Spada)

Recordings are from 1978 and 1980

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