Giovanni Pacini - Classical Music CD

G Pacini: Alessandro nell'Indie - Bruce Ford, Jennifer Larmore, Laura Claycomb, Dean Robinson, Mark Wilde; Geoffrey Mitchell Choir; London Philharmonic Orchestra; David Parry, conductor

Label - Opera Rara

Cat. No. - ORC35

SACD Hybrid Recording

3 SACD Set

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G Pacini: Pacini Rediscovered - Annick Massis, Jennifer Larmore, Majella Cullagh, William Matteuzzi, Yvonne Kenny, Bruce Ford; Philharmonia Orchestra; London Philharmonic Orchestra; Academy of St Martin in the Fields; David Parry & Antonello Allemandi

Label - Opera Rara

Cat. No. - ORR238

Released to tie in with Opera Rara's ground-breaking presentation of Pacini's Allessandro nell'Indie at the English National Opera in November 2006, Pacini Rediscovered features a very impressive line-up of internationally acclaimed singers.

Giovanni Pacini's first opera, Annetta e Lucindo, was produced in 1813, the year of Rossini's Tancredi and L'Italiana in Algeri; his last, Berta, only seven months before his death in 1867, the year of Verdi's Don Carlos. It is only necessary to compare these titles to realise the enormous changes in musical styles and taste that took place during the fifty-four years he was composing.

If none of Pacini's contemporaries wrote for so long, it would also be true to say that none of them wrote so much. He himself claimed to have composed over 100 operas, and although modern estimates would be more conservative (since several of the works he listed were revisions, and some of them more strictly oratorios and cantatas than operas), even the most rigorous estimate would put the total at over 70.

Pacini and Rossini stand together as the two 19th century Italian composers who, more than any others, demanded the most exacting standards of bravura singing. And though the quality of his music can be uneven (an off-stage entry for military band or the appearance of the chorus between the movements of an aria always threatens to precipitate the music in the direction of trivial frippery), he was also capable of moments of magical enchantment and most serene and lyrical beauty, as may be heard on this disc in - pre-eminently - the extracts from Annetta e Lucindo, Maria regina d'Inghilterra, Allan Cameron and the glorious trio from Alessandro nell'Indie - this disc serves as a prelude to Opera Rara's and the London Philharmonic Orchestra's studio recording and concert performance of Pacini's Alessandro nell'Indie at the London Coliseum on Sunday 19th November 2006.

The introduction (in English, French, Italian and German) and accompanying booklet notes are by Jeremy Commons.
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G Pacini: Maria regina d'Inghilterra - The Philharmonia Orchestra; The Geoffrey Mitchell Choir; David Parry, conductor

Label - Opera Rara

Cat. No. - ORC15

3 CD Set

Cast: MARY TUDOR - Nelly Miricioiu, RICCARDO FENIMOORE - Bruce Ford, ERNESTO MALCOLM - Jose Fardilha, CLOTILDE TALBOT - Mary Plazas, GAULTIERO CHURCHILL - Alastair Miles, A PAGE - Susan Bickley, RAOUL - Benjamin Bland
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G Pacini: Carlo di Borgogna - Geoffrey Mitchell Choir; Academy of St Martin in the Fields; David Parry, conductor

Label - Opera Rara

Cat. No. - ORC21

3 CD Set

Cast: CARLO - Bruce Ford, LEONORA - Elizabeth Futral, ARNOLDO - Roberto Frontali, ESTELLA - Jennifer Larmore, AMELIA - Helen Williams, LORD ATHOL - Dominic Natoli, GUGLIELMO - Garry Magee
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G Pacini; S Mercadante: PAVENTA INSANO - Pacini, Mercadante - Arias and Ensembles - Annick Massis, Bruce Ford, Majella Cullagh, Kenneth Tarver, Laura Polverelli, Alan Opie; London Philharmonic Orchestra; David Parry, conductor

Label - Opera Rara

Cat. No. - ORR236

Pacini and Mercadante, both Italian composers of the early 19th century were renowned for enriching the harmonic language and the orchestration of their day, and anticipated some of Verdi’s innovations that were to come. The six trios featured on this disc display the strength and beauty of their vocal writing in an operatic form.
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