Verdi: Un ballo in maschera Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo, Transylvania State Choir, Marek Janowski

• Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901): Un ballo in mashcera, Act 1:
• 1 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 1: Preludio 03:59
• 2 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 1: Posa in Pace 01:40
• 3 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 1: S'avanza il Conte! - Amici miei… 03:41
• 4 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 1: Il cenno mio di là con essi attendi 02:28
• 5 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 1: Alla vita che t'arride 02:40
• 6 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 1: Il primo Giudice 01:36
• 7 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 1: Volta la terrea fronte alle stelle 02:03
• 8 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 1: Signori, oggi d'Ulrica alla magion v'invito 02:49
• 9 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 1: Zitti… l'incanto non dèssi turbare – Re dell'abisso 06:31
• 10 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 1: Su, fatemi largo 02:02
• 11 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 1: Che veggo! 03:03
• 12 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 1: Dalla città all'occaso 04:01
• 13 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 1: Su, profetessa, monta il treppiè 00:47
• 14 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 1: Di' tu se fedele il flutto m'aspetta 03:05
• 15 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 1: Chi voi siate, l'audace parola 02:34
• 16 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 1: È scherzo od è follia 03:42
• 17 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 1: Finisci il vaticinio 02:10
• 18 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 1: O figlio d'Inghilterra 02:21
• 19 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 2: Preludio 02:05
• Un ballo in mashcera, Act 2:
• 20 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 2: Ecco l'orrido campo – Ma dall'arido stelo 07:28
• 21 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 2: Teco io sto – Gran Dio! 08:52
• 22 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 2: Ahimè! s'appressa alcun 02:54
• 23 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 2: Odi tu come fremono cupi 02:35
• 24 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 2: Seguitemi – Mio Dio! 02:32
• 25 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 2: Ve', se di notte qui colla sposa 05:19
• Un ballo in mashcera, Act 3:
• 26 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 3: A tal colpa è nulla il pianto 02:14
• 27 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 3: Morrò, ma prima in grazia 04:50
• 28 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 3: Alzati! Là tuo figlio a te concedo riveder 01:56
• 29 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 3: Eri tu che macchiavi quell'anima 04:01
• 30 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 3: Siam soli. Udite 02:25
• 31 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 3: Dunque l'onta di tutti sol una 06:20
• 32 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 3: Il messaggio entri – Ah! Di che fulgor 03:51
• 33 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 3: Forse la soglia attinse – Ma se m'è forza perderti 05:14
• 34 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 3: Ah! dessa è là… – Sì, rivederti, Saioa Hernández 01:27
• 35 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 3: Fervono amori e danze 02:00
• 36 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 3: Saper vorreste 01:50
• 37 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 3: Fervono amori e danze 01:42
• 38 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 3: Ah! perchè qui! fuggite… 05:39
• 39 Verdi: Un ballo in mashcera, Act 3: Ella è pura 04:16
• Total Runtime 02:10:42

Info for Verdi: Un ballo in maschera

Maestro Marek Janowski, the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo and the Transylvania State Philharmonic Choir present Giuseppe Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera (1859), together with a stellar cast, headed by Freddie De Tommaso (Riccardo), Lester Lynch (Renato) and Saioa Hernández (Amelia). Un ballo in maschera is Verdi’s tragicomic masterpiece, in which the composer skilfully switches gears between the light and tragic, as well as between his earlier and more mature style. As such, it is both an entertaining and highly sophisticated work. The three main soloists are all seasoned Verdi interpreters, while Janowski approaches this ingenuous score with his eye for symphonic architecture, resulting in a performance that is lively and balanced. The international cast of this recording is completed by Elisabeth Kulman (Ulrica), Annika Gerhards (Oscar), Kevin Short (Samuel), Adam Lau (Tom), Jean-Luc Ballestra (Silvano), and Samy Camps (Giudice/Servo).

Marek Janowski is one of the most celebrated conductors of our time, and has a vast Pentatone discography, mostly consisting of German operas and symphonic works. After Cavalleria rusticana and Il Tabarro (both 2020), this is his third Italian opera recording for the label. Lester Lynch also has a longstanding relationship with Pentatone and starred in many opera recordings, including Otello (2017), Cavalleria rusticana and Il Tabarro (both 2020), as well as La Fanciulla del West, Madama Butterfly (both 2021), and La Traviata (2022). The Transylvania State Philharmonic Choir has featured on several opera recordings, while the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo appeared on Arabella Steinbacher’s Fantasies, Rhapsodies & Daydreams (2016). Freddie De Tommaso and Saioa Hernández make their Pentatone debut.

Freddie De Tommaso, tenor (Riccardo)
Lester Lynch, baritone (Renato)
Saioa Hernandez, soprano (Amelia)
Elisabeth Kulman, mezzo-soprano (Ulrica)
Annika Gerhards, soprano (Oscar)
Kevin Short, bass-baritone (Samuel)
Adam Lau, bass (Tom)
Jean-Luc Ballestra, baritone (Silvano)
Samy Camps, tenor (Giudice/Servo)
Transylvania State Philharmonic Choir
Orchestre Philharmonique De Monte Carlo
Marek Janowski, conductor

Marek Janowski
first came to the Dresden Philharmonic as principal conductor from 2001 to 2003, during which time he already impressed with unusual and challenging programs. With the 2019/2020 concert season, he returned to the Dresden Philharmonic as principal conductor and artistic director.

Born in Warsaw in 1939, raised and educated in Germany, Marek Janowski looks back on an extensive and successful career both as an opera conductor and as artistic director of major concert orchestras. After years as assistant conductor and conductor in Aachen, Cologne, Düsseldorf and Hamburg, his artistic path led him to Freiburg i. Br. and Dortmund as GMD. Between the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the Bavarian State Opera in Munich, between Chicago, San Francisco, Hamburg, Vienna, Berlin and Paris, there is no opera house of world renown at which he has not been a regular guest since the late 1970s.

In concert, on which he has concentrated since the late 1990s, he continues the great German conducting tradition. From 2002 to 2016, he was principal conductor of the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB). Prior to that, and partly in parallel, he served as chief conductor of the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (2005-2012), the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo (2000-2005), and the Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France (1984-2000), among others, which he developed into France's top orchestra. He was also chief conductor of the Gürzenich Orchestra in Cologne for several years (1986-1990).

Marek Janowski is known worldwide as an outstanding conductor of Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Bruckner and Strauss, but also as an expert in the French repertoire. For more than 35 years, more than 50 recordings, most of which have won international awards - including several complete opera recordings and complete symphonic cycles - have contributed to making Marek Janowski's special abilities as a conductor known internationally.

A special focus for him is Richard Wagner's ten operas and music dramas, which he realized in concert with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, the Rundfunkchor Berlin and a phalanx of international soloists between 2010 and 2013 in the Berlin Philharmonie. All concerts were released on SACD by Pentatone in cooperation with Deutschlandradio. Marek Janowski also returned to an opera house once again for Wagner, conducting the "Ring" at the Bayreuth Festival in 2016 and 2017. He had already recorded this cycle for the disc with the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden from 1980 to 1983. For the years 2014 to 2017, he was invited by the NHK Symphony (the most important orchestra in Japan) to conduct Wagner's tetralogy in concert in Tokyo.

Under his direction, several recordings have already been made with the Dresden Philharmonic, such as the one-act operas "Cavalleria rusticana" and "Il Tabarro" by Mascagni and Puccini, as well as Beethoven's "Fidelio", also recorded by the Pentatone label.

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