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Verdi: Falstaff.(concert performances of operas by Giuseppe Verdi)
VERDI: Falstaff Ibarra, Domashenko, Henschel, Moreno; Pertusi, C. Alvarez, Bezduz, Elliott, Hoare, Jeffrey; London Symphony Orchestra, Davis. LSO Live LSO0055 (2)
For the past few years, Colin Davis and the London Symphony Orchestra have been on a roll, giving concert performances of operas and stripping away the trappings of sets and costumes to get to the soul of the composers' intentions. The LSO Falstaff arrives on the critically-praised heels of live-performance-to-disc releases of Les Troyens and Peter Grimes, and once again the orchestra and conductor do themselves proud. Theirs is a truly revelatory reading of Verdi's final opera (so different from Davis's merely acceptable 1992 RCA/BMG recording of the same work), bursting with sinew and wit and surging with immense dynamic range--surely the strings, winds and brass of the LSO have never been more agile--yet imbued with a delicate, exquisite poignancy that speaks volumes about the fleeting nature of youth and love. (The final-scene passage "Gia s'avanza la coppia degli sposi" had me reaching, unexpectedly, for a handkerchief.)
There is a thrilling, lightsome immediacy to this bargain-priced set--produced from three performances last May in London's Barbican Hall--that brings to mind the much-loved Toscanini-NBC Symphony Orchestra radio-broadcast recording. With everything so right, orchestrally speaking, it's a bit disappointing to report that ...
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