Ramón Vargas, Joanna Parisi, Charles Spencer - Verdi: Songs (2014) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. L'esule
02. La seduzione
03. Il poveretto
04. Stornello
05. 6 Romances: No. 1, Non t'accostare all'urna
06. 6 Romances: No. 2, More, Elisa, lo stanco poeta
07. 6 Romances: No. 3, in solitaria stanza
08. 6 Romances: No. 4, Nell'orror di notte oscura
09. 6 Romances: No. 5, Perduta ho la pace
10. 6 Romances: No. 6, Deh, pietoso, oh Addolorata
11. 6 Romances: No. 1, Il tramonto
12. 6 Romances: No. 2, La zingara
13. 6 Romances: No. 3, Ad una stella
14. 6 Romances: No. 4, Lo spazzacamino
15. 6 Romances: No. 5, Il mistero
16. 6 Romances: No. 5, Brindisi
17. Tantum ergo
18. Ave Maria

For Giuseppe Verdi ‘the song had about the same significance that the sketch has for the painter’. It gave him the opportunity ‘to sketch emotions and characters in a smaller, more improvised form, genre pictures of passions and destinies he otherwise placed in the wide space of the stage’.

Hence, his songs are, as it were, the forerunners of his theatre music, ‘they also possess the clout of characterization, the magnificent objectivity of portrayal we admire in the opera arias’ (W Oehlmann).

After his successful album with opera arias (C5165), the famous tenor Ramón Vargas takes care of these beautiful miniatures from the world famous Italian opera composer.

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