Saverio

Parfois, à l’instar de Cendrillon, l’héroïne du conte de Perrault condamnée par sa marâtre à rester au coin de l’âtre, nous traversons des périodes de repli existentiel. Nous ensevelissons sous les cendres nos aspirations, nous renonçons à notre liberté. Et si Cendrillon avait des choses à nous enseigner ? …

The CD, unpublished and live, features the clarinetist Tommaso Lonquich in Mozart's Concerto for clarinet and orchestra K 622 in A major, in the reconstruction by Lonquich himself for the original basset clarinet. He is accompanied by the Canova Chamber Orchestra conducted by Enrico Saverio Pagano who also perform the first version of the famous Symphony n. 40 K 550 in G minor by the Austrian composer.

« C'est vraiment trop injuste ! » s’exclamait l’adorable poussin noir du dessin animé des années 1960-1970… Qui n’a jamais exprimé la plainte de Calimero ? Qui n'a jamais, aussi, pesté contre les bougons, grincheux et grognons qui passent leur temps à formuler leurs griefs ? Saverio Tomasella, psychanalyste, s'adresse ici aux Calimero qui voudraient devenir moins râleurs, ainsi qu'aux proches de ces personnes difficiles à vivre. …

Riccardo Muti's 2011 performances of Saverio Mercadante's I due Figaro (The Two Figaros) were the first it had received since 1835, and this Ducale release of the presentation at the Teatro Alighieri in Ravenna, Italy, is the world-premiere recording. The story of this comic opera is a sequel to events in the Beaumarchais plays, which inspired Rossini's Barber of Seville and Mozart's Marriage of Figaro; the characters of Figaro, Susanna, Cherubino, and the Count and Countess Almaviva are seen a decade later in another farce of disguises and deception. The music is very much in the animated style of Rossini, with an exotic quality that Mercadante discovered on his visit to Madrid, and the mood of the opera is brightened by the combination of Neapolitan tunefulness and Spanish dance rhythms.