Episode 5
In this final chapter Donald Macleod and Roger Parker look at how composers like Puccini responded to the artistic currents prevailing at the beginning of the twentieth century and how elements of verismo spread beyond Italy.
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Pietro Mascagni
Un di ero piccina (Act 2, Iris)
Performer: Renee Fleming (Iris), Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Marco Armiliato (conductor),
- Decca 478 1533.
- 2.
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Giacomo Puccini
La Fanciulla del West , Start of Act 3
Performer: Francis Egerton (tenor) Nick, Sherrill Milnes (baritone) Rance, Robert Lloyd (bass) Ashby, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Zubin Mehta (conductor),
- DG 419 6402 2.
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Ethel Smyth
The Wreckers
Performer: Judith Howard (Avis), David Wilson-Johnson (Lawrence), Annemarie Sand (Jack), Anthony Roden (Tallan), Brian Bannatyne-Scott (Harvey), BBC Philharmonic, Huddersfield Choral Society, Odaline de la Martinez (conductor),
- Conifer Classics CDCF2501.
- 15.
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Riccardo Zandonai
Francesca da Rimini, Act 3
Performer: Elena Filipova (soprano), Frederic Kalt (tenor), Vienna Symphony, Fabio Luisi (conductor) ,
- Koch 3-1368-2/A&B.
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Leos Janáček
Jenufa, Jenufa's Prayer from Act 2
Performer: Elisabeth Soderstrom (Jenufa), Eva Randova (Kostelnička), Vienna Philharmonic, Charles Mackerras (conductor),
- Deca 414 485-2.
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Giacomo Puccini
Giacomo Puccini - Il tabarro (Il trittico) Finale: Nulla!....Silenzio! ….T'ho colto!.
Performer: Carlo Guelfi (Michele), Maria Guleghina (Giorgetta), Neil Shicoff (Luigi), London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano (conductor)
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