Life and Works: Verdi - CD

CD - 1

Guiseppe Verdi: Life and Works

 

1. Aida:Grand March and Triumphal Chorus

00:07:28

 

2. La Traviata : Brindisi ' Libiam ne' lieti calici"

00:02:54

 

3. Early manhood, civil strife, and the start of a career

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4. Overture to 'Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio'

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5. Tragedy, creation, and the birth of a true professional

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6. Overture to 'Un giorno di regno'

00:01:55

 

7. Failure, despair, and rescue : the genesis o Nabucco

00:04:38

 

8. Nabucco: Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves 'Va, pensiero, sull'ali dorate'

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9. A sensation reported and recalled

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10. Overture to 'Nabucco'

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11. Into the galleys: fame. frustration, and A Major surprise

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12. Macbeth : Chorus of the Scottish Exiles 'Patria oppressa!"

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13. The revolution of Macbeth and a return to safer ground

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14. Overture to 'I masnadieri'

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15. Paris and a love affair

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16. The revolutions of 1848

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17. Overture to 'La battaglia di Legnano'

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CD - 2

Guiseppe Verdi: Life and Works

 

1. Composition and censorship: the strife-torn birth of Rigoletto

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2. Rigoletto : 'La donna e mobile'

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3. Verdi the unsurpassed psychologist

00:00:52

 

4. Rigoletto: 'Bella figlia dell'amore'

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5. Strepponi, Busseto, and the rift with Barezzi

00:06:22

 

6. Escape : Verdi and Strepponi at Sant' Agata

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7. Il Trovatore : Soldiers' Chorus 'Or co'dadi, ma fra poco'

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8. 'The Bear of Busseto' emerges : the darker side of Verdi

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9. Il Trovatore : 'Di tale amor che dirsi'

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10. Verdi's divorce' from his parents;his mother's death, and a theatrical fiasco

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11. La Traviata: 'Dite alla giovine'

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12. Verdi and Women: Strepponi and the 'Dark Lady'

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13. 'La Travailata': Verdi's trials at the Paris Opera

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14. I vespri siciliani : ' Quando al mio sen per te parlava'

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15. Verdi in rehearsal - and a review from Berlioz

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16. Overture to 'I vespri siciliani'

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CD - 3

Guiseppe Verdi: Life and Works

 

1. Yet more trouble with the censors

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2. Un ballo in maschera: 'Ma se m'e forza perderti'

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3. A passionate patriot, a reluctant politician

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4. A semi-official retirement, nursed by disenchantment

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5. Verdi welcomes war

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6. He travels to Paris for Don Carols

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7. Don Carols: 'Tu che la vanita'

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8. Stupendous triumph

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9. Verdi shaken by deaths of his father, Barezzi, and Rossini

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10. He meets Manzoni

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11. An unusual opera

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12. La forza del destino:'Solenne in quest'ora'

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13. Enter Teresa Stolz, exit Mariani

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14. La forza del destino: 'Pace, pace'

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15. Strepponi struggles with jealousy as Verdi writes Aida

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16. Aida: Act III, Nile Scene

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CD - 4

Guiseppe Verdi: Life and Works

 

1. Verdi bemoans the corruption of the operatic world

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2. Manzoni's death begets a masterpiece

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3. Requiem: 'Rex tremendae'

00:03:49

 

4. The return to Shakespeare

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5. Otello: 'Canzone del salce - Ave Maria'

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6. Verdi the Wagner of Italy

00:02:34

 

7. Otello: 'Desdemona rea, si, per ciel'

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8. A Shakespearian swansong

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9. Falstaff : Finale 'Ogni sorta di gente; Facciamo il parentado'

00:07:11

 

10. Old age and the death of Strepponi

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11. Verdi the widower

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12. Stolz and the aged Verdi; a visit from Toscanini

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13. Te Deum

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14. The old man dies and the world pays homage

00:07:57

 

15. Requiem, Part VII: Dies irae; Requiem aeternam; Libera me

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