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Verdi: Simon Boccanegra.(1857 version)(Sound Recording Review)
VERDI: Simon Boccanegra (1857 version)
Ligi," Turp, Bruscantini, Elvin, Howell, Hudson: BBC Concert Orchestra and Singers, Matheson. 1975. Text and translation. Chandos CHAN 10053
This important release should be in the library of anyone devoted to Verdi. Opera Rata has been reissuing the BBC's pioneering studio traversals of the original versions of Verdi works; this very satisfying broadcast (with discreet applause after scenes) presents considerable streches of fine music that Verdi set aside in his 1881 restructuring, plus countless minor but telling variants of text and scoring in this beautiful, moving work's more familiar passages. One would hare to forego the 1881 versions spectacular council chamber scene, which looks forward to Verdi and Boito's future collaborations, but it's salutary to encounter the prelude to the 1857 prologue, a completely different Fiesco--Gabriele duet and the original Act I finale: a sunlit portside celebration suggesting elements of Don Carlos's auto-dafe and Otello's Cypriot revels.
The cast may not be absolutely top flight, but all five leads have individual vocal personalities and enter fully into John Matheson's serious, elegiac concept of the piece. By 1975, the late Sesto Bruscantini was nearing the end of his years as a leading baritone, and his was never a refulgent instrument. Even in the prologue, his Simon ...
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