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Composer of the Week Verismo
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Verismo: 2/5. Donald Macleod explores the influence of Mascagni's opera Cavalleria rusticana, a work featuring rivalry and infidelity, that has been cited as a watershed of verismo.

The last decade of the nineteenth century produced a work that's been cited as a watershed of verismo. Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana is a tale of rivalry and infidelity, set in a village in Sicily. Its unprecedented popularity generated a rush of composers interested in producing their own takes on this new style of musical drama. Two years later that included Leoncavallo who produced "I Pagliacci", an opera that's forever linked with Cavalleria rusticana as part of the double bill popularly known as Cav and Pag
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Music Played

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Le villi: Se come voi piccin脿 io fossi.."Non ti scodar di me!"

    Performer: Renata Scotto (Anna), National Philharmonic Orchestra, Lorin Maazel (conductor)

    • CBS Masterworks CBS CD 76890.
    • 3.

  • Pietro Mascagni

    Cavalleria rusticana: Tu qui Santuzza

    Performer: Luciano Pavarotti (Turiddu), Julia Varady (Santuzza), Carmen Gonzales (Lola), National Philharmonic Orchestra, Gianandrea Gavazzeni

    • Decca 414 590-2.
    • 8.

  • Pietro Mascagni

    Cavalleria rusticana: Fior di giaggiolo

    Performer: Luciano Pavarotti (Turiddu), Julia Varady (Santuzza), Carmen Gonzales (Lola), National Philharmonic Orchestra, Gianandrea Gavazzeni

    • Decca 414 590-2.
    • 9.

  • Pietro Mascagni

    Cavalleria rusticana: Ah! lo vedi

    Performer: Luciano Pavarotti (Turiddu), Julia Varady (Santuzza), Carmen Gonzales (Lola), National Philharmonic Orchestra, Gianandrea Gavazzeni

    • Decca 414 590-2.
    • 10.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Otello, Act 2:

    Performer: Peter Glossop (Iago), Jon Vickers (Otello), Mirella Freni (Desdemona), Stefania Malag霉 (Emilia), Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan (conductor),

    • EMI CMS 7 69308 1/2/4.
    • 12 to 18.

  • Ruggero Leoncavallo

    Pagliacci: Excerpt from the Commedia (Finale)

    Performer: Joan Carlyle (Nedda), Carlo Bergonzi (Canio), Rolando Panerai (Silvio), Ugo Benelli Peppe (Arlecchino), Giuseppe Taddei (Tonio), Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan, Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

    • DG 419 2257-2.

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  • Tue 18 May 2010 12:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3
  • Tue 18 May 2010 22:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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