The Donizetti Brunch:
DONIZETTI SONGS I

Cast

Soprano Lucrezia Tacchi
Soprano Cristina De Carolis
Tenor Cristóbal Campos Marín
Mezzo-soprano Eleonora de Prez
Baritone Francesco Bossi
Baritone Pierpaolo Martella

Piano Giulio Zappa

Program Notes

A handful of these songs have been long known and often performed; many more were listed in specialist catalogues but very rarely if ever performed; others still were completely unknown or thought lost and have now come to light.

Recent research connected with this project has made clear that, in total, Donizetti wrote some 200 solo songs over the course of his thirty-year career. Making modern editions of this vast corpus has been challenging: the songs are dispersed in European libraries and beyond, often having been casually given away at the time of composition (typically as a present to the dedicatee).

In their totality, these compositions make a powerful case for Donizetti as a key figure in nineteenth-century domestic music-making: someone whose achievements in this area deserve to be better known; a body of work that, single-handedly, makes a powerful argument for the importance of the Italian “school” in a field long dominated by German and French composers.

The Donizetti Song Project is based on a new edition of the composer’s complete solo songs, concluded by Roger Parker and Ian Schofield.

Roger Parker

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Programme

Music by Gaetano Donizetti

Chi soffre una tiranna
Lucrezia Tacchi, Cristina De Carolis

Dio! che col cenno moderi
Francesco Bossi

Le Crépuscule "L’aube naît et ta porte est close!"
Cristóbal Campos Marín

Depuis qu’une autre a su te plaire
Lucrezia Tacchi

Malvina "Depuis qu’une autre a su te plaire" 
Eleonora de Prez

Bei labbri che Amore formò
Cristina De Carolis 

Ov’è la voce magica
Pierpaolo Martella

La Prière "Voici le jour qui va paraître"
Eleonora de Prez, Cristóbal Campos Marín

Billets doux "Billets chéris, interprètes de l’âme" 
Lucrezia Tacchi

Quanto mio ben t’adoro
Pierpaolo Martella

Au tic-tac des castagnettes
Eleonora de Prez

Auf dem Meere "Ob die Stürme auch wüthen" 
Francesco Bossi

Non v’è più barbaro
Eleonora de Prez

La Prière à Sainte Catherine
Eleonora de Prez

Sull’onda cheta e bruna
Francesco Bossi, Pierpaolo Martella
World premiere

La Bergère du Tyrol
Lucrezia Tacchi
Modern times premiere 

Il mio grido io getto ai venti
Pierpaolo Martella

Sovra il remo sta curvato
Cristóbal Campos Marín

Sospiri, aneliti, che m’opprimete
Eleonora de Prez

Le Bal masqué "Je les ai vus entrer dans cette loge" 
Lucrezia Tacchi

Amore e morte "Odi d’un uom che muore" 
Francesco Bossi

Il campanello
Lucrezia Tacchi, Cristina De Carolis, Cristóbal Campos Marín, Eleonora de Prez, Francesco Bossi, Pierpaolo Martella

Se schiudi il labbro
Lucrezia Tacchi, Cristina De Carolis, Cristóbal Campos Marín, Eleonora de Prez, Francesco Bossi, Pierpaolo Martella
World premiere 

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