Turco,

Adorate Deum: Gregorian Chant from the Proper of the Mass
Nova Schola Gregoriana / Alberto Turco
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC: 305 MB | Full Artwork | 5% Recovery Info
Label/Cat#: Naxos "Early Music" # 8.550711| Country/Year: Europe 1993
Genre: Classical, Sacred | Style: Medieval, Gregorian Chant

…This disc is equally appropriate for the chant specialist and for someone who wants as little as a single disc to fill an empty space in his collection.

Le Settimane Musicali al Teatro Olimpico propongono di anno in anno, nel corso dei loro “viaggi musicali” attraverso le capitali d'Europa, pregevolissime chicche e autentiche riscoperte, che nelle ultime edizioni troviamo riportate in DVD.
Ultimo uscito, per la Bongiovanni, il delizioso allestimento Turco in Italia , nella versione napoletana, che vedemmo nell'estate del 2009. Alessandro Cammarano

Le narrateur de Turco part sur les traces de son arrière-grand-oncle, Francesco de Martini, aventurier grandiose dont la moindre des réussites fut d’avoir pulvérisé à coups de tank le portail du palais éthiopien pour en délivrer le futur négus dont il devient le chef de la garde impériale. Sylvain Chantal excelle dans cette manière de mêler le trivial quotidien et la grande histoire, les problèmes de siphon et la géopolitique mondiale, la drague sur Internet et les commandos suicides. …

Il turco in Italia has too long been regarded as a cheap knockoff composed by Rossini to capitalize on the great success of L’italiana in Algeri. In fact, the later opera has the superior libretto, and is markedly bolder in its technical demands and use of exotic colors. It isn’t as often performed, but when it is done with the energy and flair shown in this production of Pesaro’s Rossini Opera Festival, it works very well.

FANFARE: Barry Brenesal

Il Turco in Italia is one of Rossini‘s wittiest but most neglected works. It is full of ingenious and freshly composed invention. It is Rossini‘s first collaboration with Felice Romani - Bellini‘s librettist - on this opera and Romani understood perfectly Rossini‘s love of pastiche and parody. He provided a commedia dell‘ arte scenario that gave Rossini plenty of opportunity to mock traditions he had helped to cultivate in the first place. The plot is delightfully salcious and among the many jewels in the score, the duet for Geronio and Selim, in which the Turk tries to persuade the ageing husband to sell his wife to him, is widely considered one of the composer‘s masterpieces.