Luca Francesconi - Ballata | Stradivarius STR57012

Luca Francesconi - Ballata

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Label: Stradivarius

Cat No: STR57012

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 1st August 2011

Contents

Artists

Marco Beasley
Anders Larsson
Ildiko Komlosi
Woo-Kyung Kim
Eberhard Francesco Lorenz
Laure Delcampe
Donal J Byrne
Stephan Loges
Susanne Schimmack
Silvia Weiss
Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie

Conductor

Kazushi Ono

Works

Francesconi, Luca

Ballata

Artists

Marco Beasley
Anders Larsson
Ildiko Komlosi
Woo-Kyung Kim
Eberhard Francesco Lorenz
Laure Delcampe
Donal J Byrne
Stephan Loges
Susanne Schimmack
Silvia Weiss
Orchestre Symphonique et Choeurs de la Monnaie

Conductor

Kazushi Ono

About

This world première recording is dedicated to Luca Francesconi and his Ballata, a two-act opera whose libretto, by Umberto Fiori, is based upon S T Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Francesconi confirms his particular confidence for large-scale musical thought, rather than merely show a flair for illustrative brilliance.

"Coleridge’s Mariner confronts a natural world that is implacably adverse, one that [...] remains magnificently indifferent to its needs. To respond to that requires a sense of pacing, of large-scale dynamic proportion, that must prevail over any proclivity to exuberant detail.[...] That sense of scale [...] is everywhere in Francesconi’s recent work. [...] Fiori’s fine libretto is so constructed as to allow for the enchained series of numbers that are integral to that form of dramaturgy, because they pace the opera’s progress through a sequence of images and actions whose synopsis could be presented in a few, trite sentences, but whose power and resonance can only be felt when worked through at the slow, remorseless pace common to Francesconi’s opera, and Coleridge’s poem” - David Osmond-Smith (liner notes)

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