Mascagni: Orchestral Works Luciano Ganci, Filarmonica 900 del Teatro Regio di Torino & Gianandrea Noseda

• Pietro Mascagni (1863 - 1945):
• 1 Mascagni: L'apoteosi della cicogna 04:20
• 2 Mascagni: Visione lirica 04:08
• 3 Mascagni: La gavotta della bambole 02:47
• 4 Mascagni: Danza esotica 08:07
• 5 Mascagni: Ave Maria 03:11
• 6 Mascagni: Padre nostro 04:41
• 7 Mascagni: Mein erster Walzer 09:31
• 8 Mascagni: Serenata (Version for Voice and Orchestra) 03:09
• The Eternal City Suite:
• 9 Mascagni: The Eternal City Suite: I. Prelude 03:44
• 10 Mascagni: The Eternal City Suite: II. Intermezzo between Acts I and II 03:37
• 11 Mascagni: The Eternal City Suite: III. Interlude between Acts II and III 03:54
• 12 Mascagni: The Eternal City Suite: VI. Interlude between Acts III and IV 04:41
• 13 Mascagni: The Eternal City Suite: V. Interlude between Acts IV and V 05:48
• Total Runtime 01:01:38

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This album focuses on works that Pietro Mascagni, a composer largely known for his operatic output, composed for the concert hall. It forms part of Chandos’ ongoing series devoted to Italian music, the music performed by Gianandrea Noseda and Filarmonica ’900 Teatro Regio Torino with the tenor Luciano Ganci. Mascagni devoted his early years to composing sacred works, two such pieces being featured here, the tuneful Padre nostro and Ave Maria, the latter adapted from the Intermezzo of his operatic masterpiece Cavalleria rusticana. Two other works were written for the orchestra in Cerignola, Puglia where Mascagni had founded the local Philharmonic Society: the symphonic Danza esotica and Mein erster Walzer which presents Mascagni’s unique take on the Viennese waltz. Mascagni himself described La gavotta delle bambole as a ‘charming little thing’ for which he had hopes of popular success. Soon after, he composed the incidental music to Hall Caine’s play The Eternal City, the Suite from which focuses on the love between the two protagonists. Two further works represent a much later period in Mascagni’s compositional life, the small-scale symphonic poem Visione lirica and L’apoteosi della cicogna, his last orchestral work.

"A fascinating programme of concert works by a composer famed for his work for the stage Noseda has championed Mascagni before, and his passion for (and pride in) this repertoire shines through every bar. Anyone who loves Italian music of the late 19th and 20th centuries should sample without delay." (Guy Weatherall, Classical Music magazine)

"...Some agreeably spick-and-span playing from the Turin orchestra under Gianandrea Noseda’s sympathetic baton and Chandos’s unobtrusively natural sound grace an anthology that Mascagni diehards will want to hear..." (Andrew Achenbach, Gramophone magazine)

Luciano Ganci, tenor
Filarmonica 900 del Teatro Regio di Torino
Gianandrea Noseda, conductor

Luciano Ganci
Der Tenor begann seine musikalische Ausbildung im Kinderchor der Sixtinischen Kapelle. Nach Studien bei u. a. Mirella Freni und Otello Felici war er 2007 Semifinalist bei Plácido Domingos Wettbewerb Operalia in Paris und gewann 2009 den ersten sowie den Publikums- und Kritikerpreis des Concorso Ottavio Ziino. Seither tritt er regelmäßig an den bedeutendsten Opernhäusern Europas sowie in Asien, Kanada und Russland auf. Er verkörpert die Tenorpartien in u. a. „Gianni Schicchi“, „La bohème“, „Madama Butterfly“, „La traviata“, „Nabucco“, „Il corsaro“, „Il trovatore“, „Un ballo in maschera“, „Tosca“, „Giovanna d‘ Arco“, „Attila“, „Luisa Miller“, „Macbeth“, Stiffelio“ oder „L‘ amico Fritz“. Eine Zusammenarbeit mit Dirigent Valerij Gergiev zur Eröffnung des neuen Theaters im kasachischen Astana ermöglichte ihm ein Gastengagement am Mariinskij Theater in St. Petersburg. Auch war er 2015 in Rossinis „Mosé“ zu erleben, einer Zusammenarbeit mit der EXPO Mailand. Neben zahlreichen Engagements in Italien (u. a. Mailand, Palermo, Neapel, Triest, Bologna und Parma) ist er ein häufiger Gast am National Center for the Performing Arts in Peking sowie in Japan und Südkorea. Sein Debüt am Salzburger Landestheater absolvierte er bereits 2012 als Alfredo in Andreas Gergens Inszenierung von „La Traviata“.

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