A New Generation
Donald Macleod explores Verdi's relationship with the younger generation of Italian artists including Arrigo Boito, a man almost 30 years his junior.
[Donald Macleod explores Verdi's later life and music when, after years of honing his craft, he unleashed an outpouring of innovative masterworks that would propel opera from the world of the 19th century into the modern age. It wasn't a smooth road, though, and the aging composer had to be persuaded out of retirement several times as he found himself increasingly at odds with the world around him.]
Donald Macleod examines the beginnings of Verdi's collaborative relationship with Arrigo Boito, a man almost 30 years his junior. It started badly - at a banquet at which both men were present, Boito called on 'young Italian Art' to throw off the shackles imposed by the 'old and cretinous'. Verdi took it as a personal insult, but they managed to recover from this and Boito would become the librettist of Verdi's final works.
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Giuseppe Verdi
Simon Boccanegra - extract
Singer: Renato Bruson. Singer: Katia Ricciarelli. Singer: Konstantin Sfris. Singer: Felice Schiavi. Singer: Veriano Luchetti. Singer: Ruggero Raimondi. Choir: Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- RCA : 74321-57733 2.
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Giuseppe Verdi
Inno delle nazioni
Singer: Francesco Meli. Choir: Turin Teatro Regio Orchestra. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.- CHAN 10659.
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Giuseppe Verdi
Requiem - Dies Irae - Ingemisco, Confutatis, Lacrymosa
Singer: 慕uba Orgon谩拧ov谩. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- Philips 442 143-2.
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Giuseppe Verdi
Opening song: Stornello
Singer: Margaret Price. Performer: Geoffrey Parsons.- DG 4196212.
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