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Italian operatic bass-baritone
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Arias for Francesco Benucci (Matthew Rose - Arcangelo)
Arias for Francesco Benucci byGiovanni PaisielloAntonio SalieriVincente Martin y SolerWolfgang Amadeus MozartGiuseppe SartiMatthew Rose, BaritoneJonathan Cohen, Arcangelo (Period Instruments)Hyperion CDA68078 (2015)(Only HIP recording of the Recitativo to "Non piu andrai.")[Flac & Scans, No Log]
2016-08-10 12:34:26
FRANCESCO Benucci was an Italian singer who went to Vienna in 1783 to join Emperor Josef II's newly formed Italian comic opera company. Mozart and Salieri were among the composers involv... In order to view this article, you must be a subscriber.
The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2016-03-02 22:44:09
Grotta Promises Graces
[…] amazing Mozart/Da Ponte operas – all too often we think they emerge from a vacuum. The Italian troupe in Vienna (hand-picked by Salieri) premiered a wide variety of works, and it’s remarkable to see the way all of these composers wrote for the same singers – playing to their particular strengths. So the original Ferrando in Cosi (Vincenzo Calvesi) also created the role of Artemidoro in Grotta; the original Trofonio (the favorite Buffo bass Francesco Benucci) would go on to create the role of Figaro, etc. These works are a treasure-trove of how composers approached singers and theatricality, and Trofonio was a very popular opera in its day: the music sparkles, with two first-rate finales, some exquisite solo arias, and inventive orchestration. Any YouTube examples to suggest for a highlight reel? There is a lovely recording by Christophe Rousset who, along with the musicologist Dorothea Link, has done so much […]
2016-01-31 11:14:01
[…] made me realise that my own pilgrimage through the cantatas of Bach once again stalled in 2015, and I remained stuck in 1714. Progress must be made this year, or I shall have to admit defeat. And there were other artists who gave me great pleasure. These included Elizabeth Watts in Alessandro Scarlatti; Max Cencic’s Arie Napoletane; Valer Sabadus in Caldara; Ann Hallenberg’s Agrippina and arias for Luigi Marchesi, Matthew Rose singing Mozart’s arias for Benucci and Evgeny Nikitin singing Wagner. If you haven’t had an opportunity to listen to these discs then I can’t recommend them strongly enough. By the same token, there were some recitals that didn’t personally make much of an impact – surprisingly both Christian Gerhaher and Dorothea Roschmann’s Mozart recital discs left me slightly cold, as did Rattle’s Das Rheingold. And Diana Damrau’s Fiamma del bel canto misfired, as did Dagmar Peckova’s Sinful Women. In […]
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