David Parry - Donizetti: Lucia of Lammermoor (2002)

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Artist: David Parry, Philharmonia Orchestra, Elizabeth Futral, Alan Opie, Paul Charles Clarke, Peter Wedd, Peter Rose, Christine Rice, Stephen Chaundy
Title: Donizetti: Lucia of Lammermoor
Year Of Release: 2002
Label: Chandos
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks + booklet)
Total Time: 2:22:25
Total Size: 605 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

01. Part 1: Scene 1: Prelude
02. Part 1: Scene 1: Introductory Chorus: Through the park and the woods that surround it (Normanno, Chorus)
03. Part 1: Scene 2: Scene: You seem unhappy (Normanno, Enrico, Raimondo)
04. Part 1: Scene 2: Cavatina: Trembling, I feel the horror (Enrico, Normanno, Raimondo)
05. Part 1: Scene 3: Your suspicions are confirmed now (Normanno, Enrico, Raimondo, Chorus)
06. Part 1: Scene 3: All in vain do you try (Enrico, Raimondo, Chorus)
07. Part 1: Scene 4: Introduction
08. Part 1: Scene 4: He is not here yet! … (Lucia, Alisa)
09. Part 1: Scene 4: In deepest night a silence reigned (Lucia, Alisa)
10. Part 1: Scene 4: When, in the burning ecstasy (Lucia, Alisa)
11. Part 1: Scene 4: Scene: Here is Edgardo … (Alisa, Edgardo, Lucia)
12. Part 1: Scene 4: Duet: Pray remember that my father (Edgardo, Lucia)
13. Part 1: Scene 4: Let us swear to love for ever (Edgardo, Lucia)
14. Part 1: Scene 4: Imagine when the breezes sigh (Lucia, Edgardo)
15. Part 2: Act I Scene 1: Scene: Lucia is coming to you soon (Normanno, Enrico)
16. Part 2: Act I Scene 2: Come here to me, Lucia (Enrico)
17. Part 2: Act I Scene 2: Duet: In my eyes, as I approach you (Lucia, Enrico)
18. Part 2: Act I Scene 2: Duet: In secret I suffered the loneliness (Lucia, Enrico)
19. Part 2: Act I Scene 2: What is that? (Lucia, Enrico)
20. Part 2: Act I Scene 2: Your refusal will destroy me (Enrico, Lucia)
21. Part 2: Act I Scene 3: Scene and Aria: At last! (Lucia, Raimondo)
22. Part 2: Act I Scene 3: Ah! Listen, listen to friendly guidance (Raimondo, Lucia)
23. Part 2: Act I Scene 3: In making such a sacrifice (Raimondo, Lucia)
24. Part 2: Act I Scene 4: Finale II: We welcome you to celebrate (Arturo, Chorus)
25. Part 2: Act I Scene 4: Scene: Where is Lucia? (Arturo, Enrico, Chorus)
26. Part 2: Act I Scene 4: Quartet: Our mother's death still grieves her … (Enrico, Lucia, Arturo, Raimondo, Alisa, Chorus)
27. Part 2: Act I Scene 4: What restrains me at such a moment? (Edgardo, Enrico, Lucia, Raimondo, Alisa, Arturo)
28. Part 2: Act I Scene 4: Continuation of Finale II: Wretched man, do as we tell you (Arturo, Enrico, Edgardo, Raimondo, Lucia, Chorus)
29. Part 2: Act I Scene 4: Stretta of Finale II: Go, you villain, detested and hated! (Arturo, Enrico, Chorus, Raimondo, Lucia, Edgardo, Alisa)
30. Part 2: Act II Scene 1: Scene and Duet: Violent and cruel is the night (Edgardo, Enrico)
31. Part 2: Act II Scene 2: Ashton! (Edgardo, Enrico)
32. Part 2: Act II Scene 2: I long for the moment when daylight is dawning (Edgardo, Enrico)
33. Part 2: Act II Scene 3: So great the happiness that we are voicing (Chorus)
34. Part 2: Act II Scene 4: Grand Scene with Chorus: Stop at once your celebrations - From the chamber (Raimondo, Chorus)
35. Part 2: Act II Scene 4: What you have told us is past believing! (Raimondo, Chorus)
36. Part 2: Act II Scene 5: Scene and Aria: Oh God in heaven! (Lucia, Chorus)
37. Part 2: Act II Scene 5: Alas! I see the spectre between us (Lucia)
38. Part 2: Act II Scene 5: They bring the incense (Lucia, Raimondo, Normanno, Chorus)
39. Part 2: Act II Scene 6: Here is Enrico (Raimondo, Enrico, Chorus, Lucia)
40. Part 2: Act II Scene 6: Scatter your tears of anguish (Lucia, Enrico, Raimondo, Chorus)
41. Part 2: Act II Scene 7: Aria Finale: My ancestors lie here buried (Edgardo)
42. Part 2: Act II Scene 7: A lonely grave will shelter me (Edgardo)
43. Part 2: Act II Scene 8: Such misfortune! (Edgardo, Raimondo, Chorus)
44. Part 2: Act II Scene 8: Rest in peace, for I shall follow (Edgardo, Raimondo, Chorus)

Donizetti’s Lucia, with its violent musical and theatrical contrasts, was the opera from which Giuseppe Verdi learned and borrowed most. One of the most exhilarating nineteenth-century Italian operas, it is distinctive for its fluid structure, sumptuous orchestration and expressive melodies and is arguably the most consistent of Donizetti’s serious operas.

The libretto, by Salvatore Cammarano (who would write further librettos for Donizetti and for other composers, including Verdi), is based on Sir Walter Scott’s The Bride of Lammermoor. Set in late sixteenth-century Scotland, Enrico, a Scottish nobleman, is determined that his sister, Lucia, will marry Arturo, but Lucia is in love with Edgardo, her family’s enemy. Edgardo goes away on business but before he does, he and Lucia exchange rings. While he is away, ENrico forges a letter to prove Edgardo;s infidelity. Lucia is distraught and reluctantly agrees to marry Arturo. Edgardo arrive to find that Lucia has already signed the marriage contract. Enrico challenges Edgardo to a duel. During the wedding celebrations, Lucia appears carrying a bloody dagger. Driven mad by grief she ha murdered Arturo and in her deranged state, hallucinates that she is about to marry Edgardo. She dies. Edgardo, on hearing of Lucia’s death, also kills himself.

Composed and premiered in 1835, Lucia was an instant hit with the public and critics and, while his other serious operas were neglected and largely forgotten, Lucia was, and is, still performed. To this day the work holds a special place among Donizetti’s works, both in operatic history and in people’s affections.

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