Rosemary Tuck, Richard Bonynge - Wallace: Opera Fantasies and Paraphrases (2009)

Tracklist

01. Verdi - Fantaisie brillante sur des motifs de l'opera La traviata
02. Bellini - Fantaisie de salon sur l'opera La sonnambula
03. Donizetti - Fantaisie de salon sur l'opera Lucia di Lammermoor
04. Verdi - Nabucco: Va pensiero, "Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves"
05. Donizetti - Variations brillantes sur la Barcarolle de l'opera L'elisir d'amore
06. Verdi - Rigoletto: Bella figlia dell'amore
07. Lurline: The Night Winds
08. Donizetti - Fantaisie de salon sur des themes de l'opera Don Pasquale
09. Grande Fantaisie sur des themes de l'opera Maritana
10. Halevy - Grande Duo sur l'opera L'eclair

As an internationally admired opera composer, William Vincent Wallace was perfectly placed to provide brilliant fantasies and paraphrases from the operatic repertoire, refashioned for the domestic piano market. Most in this selection date from 1850-57 and exude his virtuoso, often Lisztian, instinct for bravura. He didn’t neglect his own works – there’s an especially lovely aria from his opera Lurline, as well as an extensive fantasia on themes from Maritana, perhaps his best known work. Rosemary Tuck’s playing of Wallace has been acclaimed for her “ideally deft and scintillatingly assured performances.” (Gramophone)

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