Romanze da salotto inedite dell'ottocento Barbara Vignudelli & Stefano Malferrari

• Fabio Campana (1819 - 1882): Omaggio a Bologna (Excerpts):
• 1 Campana: Omaggio a Bologna (Excerpts): No. 3, Al chiaro di luna 03:03
• 2 Campana: Omaggio a Bologna (Excerpts): No. 2, Siciliana 03:28
• 3 Campana: Omaggio a Bologna (Excerpts): No. 1, La ninna nanna 03:42
• Stanislao Ronzi (1823 - 1893): Romanza:
• 4 Ronzi: Romanza 01:28
• Antonio Samperi (1828 - 1893): Una serenata a Sorrento:
• 5 Samperi: Una serenata a Sorrento 03:02
• Gaetano Corticelli (1804 - 1840): 3 Ariette da camera:
• 6 Corticelli: 3 Ariette da camera: No. 1, La rondinella 06:36
• 7 Corticelli: 3 Ariette da camera: No. 2, La rosa 04:27
• 8 Corticelli: 3 Ariette da camera: No. 3, Il trovatore 08:17
• Michele Rachelle: La rosa:
• 9 Rachelle: La rosa 01:47
• Piero Coppola (1793 - 1876): Rapito nell'estasi:
• 10 Coppola: Rapito nell'estasi 01:28
• Giuseppe Biletta (1810 - 1894): Una memoria:
• 11 Biletta: Una memoria 05:26
• Federico Vellani (1822 - 1907): Le rocher des aveux:
• 12 Vellani: Le rocher des aveux 06:16
• Arturo Quilici: Barcarola:
• 13 Quilici: Barcarola 01:51
• Alessandro Nini (1805 - 1880): La serenata del pastore:
• 14 Nini: La serenata del pastore 03:18
• Clito Moderati (1830 - 1907): Penso a te:
• 15 Moderati: Penso a te 03:27
• Luigi Zamboni (1767 - 1837): La fioraia fiorentina:
• 16 Zamboni: La fioraia fiorentina 04:18
• Total Runtime 01:01:54

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Throughout the 19th century, vocal chamber opera is one of the most customary ways of writing, making and experiencing music. It involves a legion of poets, composers and singers, some of whom are professionals (theatre composers, quality musicians, opera stars), some of whom are amateurs. This repertoire has been studied above all in relation to the production of the great operas - Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Verdi - or the late production of the specialist Francesco Paolo Tosti, but it is actually a very broad phenomenon that gave rise to valuable productions, even if in order to appreciate them it must not be forgotten that the framework of fruition, the nature of the performers and the aesthetics of salon music itself demanded different values from those of theatre production: spontaneity, ease, immediacy (values to which the 'great operaticists' themselves adhered when writing for the drawing room). The choice of poetic texts and the consequent musical structure can be traced back to the different occasions of writing, ranging from the drafting on the imprint, perhaps on improvised verses during a soiree, to the fine-tuning of a collection of printed pieces to be sold to amateurs, stimulated by musical entrepreneurship. Drawing on unpublished manuscripts belonging to the Liszt Institute in Bologna, soprano Barbara Vignudelli and pianist Stefano Malferrari offer us a superb performance of this sylloge, which presents in an exemplary manner a sampling of the variety of stylistic devices and formal solutions employed by composers who are all outside the circle of famous names, yet capable of composing short pages that reserve pleasant surprises for the listener.

Barbara Vignudelli, soprano
Stefano Malferrari, pianoforte

Barbara Vignudelli
Born in Bologna (Italy), she is now living in Paris, where she works. Graduated at “F.Venezze” Conservatory in Rovigo (Italy) as Singer, at “L.Cherubini” Conservatory in Florence (Italy) in Vocal and Chamber Music with honors, she also owns a Master’s degree in Vocal and Chamber Music with honors at “G. Verdi” Conservatory, in Milan (directed by the soprano Stelia Doz) and a second level Master's degree on XXth Century Italian music. ​

She attended several courses and master-classes in chamber music (A. Ballista, D. Dorrow, L.Poli, G.Kuhn, S. Doz, G. Salvetti, G.Neuhold, D.Baldwin, A. Ballista, S. Walker, M. Martineau, R. Vignoles, L. Castellani). ​

As soloist soprano she collaborated with different Theaters and Musical Associations in Italy and abroad: Théatre National de Marseille, Venice Biennial, Italian National Broadcaster (RAI) Milan, Italian National Broadcaster (RAI) Symphonic Season Turin(E.Grieg Peer Gynt, K. Järvi dir.), Municipal Theater in Ferrara, Lyric season of Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (E.Grieg Peer Gynt, G.Albrecht dir., F.Mendelssohn Elias, R.Abbado dir., Der Esels Schatten by R.Strauss, M. de Bernardt dir, L’Orfeo by C. Monteverdi Goldoni Theater inauguration R. Jacobs dir), Venice Cini Foundation, Puccini Festival Foundation (150° Strauss anniversary, lieder recital), Petruzzelli Theater Lyric Season in Bari (Musetta in Bohème by G.Puccini), Megaron Musiki - Athens (Il ritorno di Ulisse in Patria, T. Pinnock director), Schladminger Musiksommer -Austria, MiTo Festival, Sintra Festival - Lisboa – Portugal (Tosca by G.Puccini), Collège des Bernardins Paris, Saison Basilique Sainte Clotilde -Paris (St.Jean Passion di J.S.Bach), Festival de Normandie, Festival des arts de la Grange de Clavière - Saint Agrève, Saison Basilique St.Eustache Paris (Radio France), Rittersaal Schloss - Mannheim Allemagne, Auditorium Radio France (Paris). ​

She recorded for: BMG Ricordi, Tactus, Dynamic, S. Paolo Edition, Bongiovanni, R.A.I Turin, Brilliant, Decca.

Stefano Malferrari
Classified among the winners of a few international competitions (Enna, Senigallia), he gave concerts: recitals and soloist with orchestra (Warsaw Symphony Orchestra, Recife Symphony Orchestra, Accademia Bizantina), chamber music groups, and ensembles of contemporary music for celebrated Italian associations and concert halls, such as Sala Verdi (Milan), Philharmonic Academy (Rome), Teatro Comunale (Florence), and Teatro Comunale (Bologna). Other concerts have been given in Europe (Switzerland, France, Germany, Sweden, Croatia, Iceland, Norway, Great Britain, Spain, Russia, Greece), middle and south America (Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Brazil, Chile, Argentina and Ecuador), and Asia (Kazakstan, Thailand).

He played in several international festivals: “Rossini Opera Festival” (Pesaro), “Festival dei Due Mondi” (Spoleto), “Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Florence)”, “MilanoMusica” (Milan), “Settembre Musica” (Turin), “Biennale Musica” (Venice), “Cité de la musique” (Strasbourg) and “International Bergen Festival” (Bergen, Norway), Ravenna Festival, Dimitria Festival (Thessaloniki).

Very committed to chamber music and Lieder repertoire, he played with many renowned musicians, e.g., the flautists Andrea Griminelli, Giorgio Zagnoni, the pianist Jörg Demus, the violinist Domenico Nordio, the sopranos Dimitra Theodossiu, Irina Lungu and Lorna Windsor and the mezzo Monica Bacelli.

He has devoted particular attention to the contemporary repertoire by collaborating with the violinist Enzo Porta, the flautist Annamaria Morini, and the pianist Mauro Castellano; on many occasions he presented works in first absolute execution, by collaborating with composers such as Sylvano Bussotti, Jonathan Harvey, Tristan Murail, Adriano Guarnieri, Paolo Aralla, Cristina Landuzzi, and Chiara Benati. He has taken part in many contemporary music ensembles, e.g. Octandre (Bologna), FontanaMIX (Bologna), European Music Project (Ulm, Sweden) and Zephir Ensemble (Palermo).

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