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

Ha negl’occhi un tale incanto
Lucrezia Tacchi, Cristina De Carolis

Mentre dal caro lido
Pierpaolo Martella

Lamento di Cecco da Varlungo "Com’è possivol mai Sandra crudele"
Cristóbal Campos Marín

Faut-il renfermer dans mon âme
Cristina De Carolis

Sull’onda tremola, ride la luna
Eleonora de Prez

Philis plus avare que tendre 
Eleonora de Prez

Un pour espoir “Je vais quitter tout ce que j’aime”
Francesco Bossi

L’addio “Dunque addio mio caro amore”
Eleonora de Prez e Francesco Bossi

La zingara “Fra l’erbe cosparse”
Lucrezia Tacchi

O Cloe, delizia di questo core
Pierpaolo Martella

Oh vieni al mare! “Vieni, la barca è pronta”
Eleonora de Prez

A piè del mesto salice
Francesco Bossi

Bolero – L’amante spagnuolo “Corri destrier, deh celere”
Lucrezia Tacchi

La Fiancée du timbalier “Monseigneur le duc de Bretagne”
Eleonora de Prez

Qual colomba che fugga
Cristóbal Campos Marín e Pierpaolo Martella

La Bohémienne “Sono nata in Oriente”
Cristina De Carolis

Te dire adieu “Tu pars, il faut te dire adieu”
Francesco Bossi

L’ora del ritrovo “Odi, Elisa: quest’è l’ora”
Lucrezia Tacchi

Pas d’autre amour que toi “Ah! si tu voulais, toi que j’aime”
Eleonora de Prez

Licandro pastorello
Lucrezia Tacchi

Il pegno “Questi capegli bruni”
Pierpaolo Martella

Sin che fedele
Lucrezia Tacchi, Cristina De Carolis, Cristóbal Campos Marín, Eleonora de Prez, Francesco Bossi e Pierpaolo Martella
World premiere

Rataplan “Partir conviene”
Lucrezia Tacchi, Cristina De Carolis, Cristóbal Campos Marín, Eleonora de Prez, Francesco Bossi e Pierpaolo Martella

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