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Notes and Editorial Reviews
Kathleen Battle's Rosina is sexually alluring, agile and ingratiating, and Domingo's Figaro reveals the astonishing craft and natural musicianship of this great singer.
[A]s well as possessing a fabulously fluent coloratura technique, Kathleen Battle also has richer, smokier tones in her voice. Her Rosina is sexually alluring, agile and ingratiating, but never vapid... Domingo's Figaro reveals the astonishing craft and natural musicianship of this great singer. It is in many respects a masterly performance... Lucio Gallo's furtive, dapper, inwardly angry Dr Bartolo is as much a triumph of guileful characterization as it is of high-wire virtuoso musicianship. Indeed, the virtuosity of the pattersinging is one of the
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set's most remarkable features... In all this, Abbado's experience proves crucial. But, then, he was always very good at controlling Rossini ensembles. What we have from him on this latest set is an entirely new sense of the inner detail of Rossini's score. More than ever, he seems willing to chance his arm with Rossini in a way he rarely does with, say, a Beethoven symphony... In all this the players of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe are his fearless confederates.
-- Gramophone [12/1992, reviewing the complete Il barbiere di Siviglia]
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Works on This Recording
1.
Il barbiere di Siviglia: Ecco ridente in cielo by Gioachino Rossini
Performer:
Frank Lopardo (Tenor)
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Period: Romantic
Written: 1816; Italy
Date of Recording: 02/1992
Venue: Teatro Comunale Ferrara, Italy
2.
Il barbiere di Siviglia: Largo al factotum by Gioachino Rossini
Performer:
Placido Domingo (Tenor)
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Period: Romantic
Written: 1816; Italy
8.
Il barbiere di Siviglia: Contro un cor by Gioachino Rossini
Performer:
Kathleen Battle (Soprano),
Frank Lopardo (Tenor)
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Period: Romantic
Written: 1816; Italy
9.
Il barbiere di Siviglia: Don Basilio! Cosa veggo by Gioachino Rossini
Performer:
Kathleen Battle (Soprano),
Ruggero Raimondi (Bass),
Lucio Gallo (Baritone),
Frank Lopardo (Baritone),
Placido Domingo (Tenor)
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Period: Romantic
Written: 1816; Italy
12.
Il barbiere di Siviglia: Ah! qual colpo inaspettato by Gioachino Rossini
Performer:
Kathleen Battle (Soprano),
Placido Domingo (Tenor),
Frank Lopardo (Tenor)
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Period: Romantic
Written: 1816; Italy
13.
Il barbiere di Siviglia: Di sì felice innesto by Gioachino Rossini
Performer:
Frank Lopardo (Baritone),
Lucio Gallo (Baritone),
Ruggero Raimondi (Bass),
Gabriela Sima (Mezzo Soprano),
Kathleen Battle (Soprano),
Placido Domingo (Tenor)
Conductor:
Claudio Abbado
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Period: Romantic
Written: 1816; Italy
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