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Zandonai - I Cavalieri di Ekebu (Barbieri, Picchi, Zaccaria, Malaspina, Panni - Simonetto 1957)[Bonustracks Gluck-Alceste, Fighera 1950/Rossini-L'italiana in Algeri, Capuana 1960]
Жанр: Opera
Страна-производитель диска: Portugal
Год издания диска: 2002
Издатель (лейбл): Gala
Номер по каталогу: GL 100.711
Дата записи: 1957
Аудиокодек: APE
Тип рипа: tracks
Битрейт аудио: lossless
Продолжительность: 67'38 + 68'19
Источник: собственный рип
Наличие сканов в содержимом раздачи: да

Код:

01. Act 1. La, la, la, la, la, la, la!
02. Act 1. Giosta!...Altezza!
03. Act 1. Bevo! Bevo! Bevo!
04. Act 1. Mille diavoli! Marmotta!
05. Act 1. Guardami, Allora ritonò colui
06. Act 1. Vecchia terra di Ekebù
07. Act 2. Tra, la, la, la, la, la!
08. Act 2. Ragazzi
09. Act 2. Ora basta! Alla recita! Ma presto!
10. Act 2. Non piangare, non piangare...perchè?
11. Act 2. Notte serena!
12. Act 2. Inferno! Inferno!

01. Act 3. Bevo al Natale!
02. Act 3. Natal! Natal! Natal! Natal!
03. Act 3. Lasciatemi, lasciatemi andar via!
04. Act 3. Belzebù! Belzebù! Belzebù!
05. Act 3. Mezzanote!
06. Act 3. Comandante! Comandante! Comandante!
07. Act 3. Oh! Oh! - Ecco...È finito!
08. Act 4. Cavalieri della morta!
09. Act 4. Giusta Signore
10. Act 4. Cosi sia!...Cosi...sia!
11. Act 4. Lasciarmi? Tu?
12. Act 4. Ragazzi! Mille diavoli! Marmotte!
13. Act 4. Alla fucina!

Riccardo Zandonai (1883-1944) - I Cavalieri di Ekebù
Mirto Picchi (Giosta Berling)
Fedora Barbieri (Comandante)
Rina Malatrasi Anna)
Antonio Zaccaria (Sintram)
Giampiero Malaspina (Cristiano)
Bruno Cioni (Samzelius)
Mario Carlin (Liecrona)
Maria Amadini (Ostessa)
Nicoletta Panni (Una Fanciulla)
Arrigo Cattelani (Un Cavaliere)
Coro e Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI di Milano
Alfredo Simonetto
Milan 1957

CD2
14. Divinità infernal

Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714 - 1787) - Alceste Italian Version Opera In 3 Acts
Fedora Barbieri
Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI
Mario Fighera
Turin 1951

CD2
15. Cruda sorte
16. Per lui che adoro
17. Amici in ogni evento

Gioachino Rossini (1792 - 1868) - L' Italiana In Algeri (The Italian Girl In Algiers)
Fedora Barbieri
Coro e Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Franco Capuana
Florence 1960

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I cavalieri di Ekebu (The Knights of Ekeby), first performed at La Scala, Milan, in March 1925, is an excellent example of the way in which Zandonai experimented with harmony within a traditionalist, late-verismo framework.
Although many of the opera's dissonant chords and percussive effects recall Puccini's Turandot they actually predate that work, which had yet to be performed when I cavalieri was written in 1923 and 1924.
Furthermore, while the score is imbued with lyricism this is concentrated in the orchestral writing rather than the vocallines, which are essentially declamatory in manner.
The opera is based on Selma Lagerlöf's moralistic fairy story The Legend of Gösta Berling (sometimes translated as Gösta Berling 's Saga) of 1891.
A classic in Scandinavia - hence the opera's particular popularity there - it was also the basis of the famous 1924 Swedish silent film The Atonement of Gösta Berling that starred the young Greta Garbo as Anna.
The cavaliers of the title are a group of vagabonds - former destitute drop­outs - who have been rescued from vagrancy by the wealthy and eccentric Franci, Lady of the Castie of Ekeby. She has established a forge at the castle in order to occupy the group of men she refers to as her 'knights' and, known as 'La Comandante', she mies them firmly but fondly.
The ironworks are flourishing, and in addition to providing the men with protection, purpose and renewed self-respect they form the mainstay ofthe prosperous local economy.
However, the kind-hearted Comandante has a turbulent and secret past: the source of her wealth, and thus indirectly the Knights' livelihoods, was an adulterous affair that took place many years earlier.
Gösta (Giosta in Italian) Berling, a young Lutheran minister who has been defrocked and driven from his church in Bro because of alcholism, finds his way to Ekeby and is discovered by La Comandante.
Recognising in his story something of her own shame and potential victimization, she confides in him and reveals the secret of her past.
She then encourages him to join the Knights by discussing the charms of Anna, daughter of the evil landowner Sintram, with whom she believes he will be enchanted.
When Anna and Giosta appear together in a play that is staged at the Castle as a Christmas Eve treat, she confesses that she loves him.
However, Sintram despises Giosta and is furious when, with La Comandante's protection, the young couple run away together.
He, it transpires, was fully aware of Franci's secret past, and in order to wreak revenge at his daughter's elopement with Giosta he tells La Comandante's husband and the Knights about her inheritance through adultery.
He goes on to exploit his demonic reputation by claiming that she maintains her influence at Ekeby only by sacrificing one ofher Knights to him each year.
Angry, terrified, and not a little drunk from the Christmas festivities, the Knights revolt against La Comandante, who is driven out of the castle but accepts her punishment with meekness and dignity.
Responsibility for the administration of the ironworks then passes to the Knights, but La Comandante predicts disaster.
Within a year she is proved correct: in the absence of her authority the Knights have drunk themselves into a permanent stupor and the forge is failing.
As a result, the town is bankrupt and the local people are starving. Furthermore, Anna has been stricken by guilt and has abandoned Giosta.
At this point La Comandante returns to the Castle.
Near to death, she both forgives and is forgiven by the Knights before ordering the forge to be restarted.
She bequeaths her possessions to Anna and Giosta, who are now reunited, and has the joy of watching her Knights sing happily as they return the ironworks to prosperity.
Though a sad ending, it is also a happy one, for good has triumphed over evil: her death has atoned for the indolence of the Knights and has saved them from the power of the evil Sintram.