The Romantic Castrato: The Ornamented Songs and Arias of Giambattista Velluti | Toccata Next TOCN0008

The Romantic Castrato: The Ornamented Songs and Arias of Giambattista Velluti

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Label: Toccata Next

Cat No: TOCN0008

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 19th June 2020

Contents

Artists

Robert Crowe (male soprano)
Joachim Enders (piano)
Iris Rath (flute)

Works

Beethoven, Ludwig van

Variations (6) on 'Nel cor piu non mi sento', WoO70

Cramer, Johann Baptist

Air Venetien, arrange en Rondo brillant pour le piano forte

Fane, John (Lord Burghersh)

L'Amor timido
» Che vuoi mio cor? ... T'intendo mio cor
» Placido zeffiretto
» Sinfonia

Morlacchi, Francesco

Tebaldo e Isolina
» Notte tremenda ... Caro suono lusinghier
» Sinfonia

Nicolini, Giuseppe

Carlo Magno
» Ecco, o Numi ... Ah quando cessera
» Sinfonia

Rossini, Gioachino

Ciro in Babilonia
» T'abbraccio, ti stringo

Velluti, Giovanni Battista

Variations (8) on 'Nel cor piu non mi sento'

Welsh, Thomas

Ah, can I think of days gone by?

Artists

Robert Crowe (male soprano)
Joachim Enders (piano)
Iris Rath (flute)

About

Giovanni Battista Velluti (1780–1861) was one of the last of the larger-than-life castrati who had dominated operatic life in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Velluti, though, spent his career almost entirely in the Romantic era, singing the music of his day. His style of ornamentation attracted widespread admiration and set the standard for the  prime donne  who were emerging as the stars of their age in operas by such composers as Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti. Here the American male soprano Robert Crowe recreates Velluti’s extraordinary sound-world, in a recording that helps explain why such diverse luminaries as Stendhal, Mary Shelley and the Duke of Wellington admired Velluti as one of the most accomplished and inventive singers of his time.

Toccata Next maintains the spirit of discovery of Toccata Classics: interesting programmes of generally unknown music, and from as wide a catchment area – geographically, historically, stylistically – as possible. But Toccata Next has a more catholic policy on repertoire, free from the Toccata Classics policy of presenting one composer at a time. Like its parent label, though, Toccata Next generally presents first recordings – of fascinating music you won’t find anywhere else.

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