[ Deutsche Grammophon 3 Classic Recordings / 3 CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 20 October 2015
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In Herbert von Karajan the lighter side of classical music found its ideal interpreter, whether of interludes and other orchestral music from operas, light and serious overtures by Rossini and Suppe, or ballets such as Gaite Parisienne, based on Offenbach's operas, and that in Gounod's Faust.
"The conductor shows his mastery of phrase and idiom immediately in the opening La Traviata Prelude which is beautifully done, and the same poise gives distinction to the famous Cavalleria Rusticana Intermezzo and indeed the Puccini items. Where high drama is called for, as in the music of the verismo school, Karajan rises to the occasion and one can hear the resin sizzle as those Berlin string bows bite" - Stereo Record Guide on the Opera Intermezzi
Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)
La traviata
Act 3 Prelude
Pietro Mascagni (1863 - 1945)
Cavalleria rusticana
Intermezzo sinfonico
Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924)
Suor Angelica, Opera lirica in un atto
Intermezzo
Ruggiero Leoncavallo (1857 - 1919)
Pagliacci
Act 1 Intermezzo
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky (1839 - 1881
Khovanshchina
Act 4 Intermezzo
Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924)
Manon Lescaut
Act 3 Intermezzo
Franz Schmidt (1874 - 1939)
Notre Dame
Intermezzo
Jules Massenet (1842 - 1912)
Thaïs
Acte Deux Meditation
Umberto Giordano (1867 - 1948)
Fedora
Act 2 Intermezzo
Francesco Cilèa (1866 - 1950)
Adriana Lecouvreur
Act 2 Intermezzo
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari (1876 - 1948)
Der Schmuck der Madonna
3 Akt Intermezzo
Pietro Mascagni (1863 - 1945)
L'amico Fritz
Act 3 Intermezzo
Gaite Parisienne, ballet music by Offenbach arranged by Manuel Rosenthal
Gounod: Faust, Ballet Music
Gounod: Faust, opera: La Valse de Faust
Rossini:
Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), opera: Overture (Sinfonia)
La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie), opera: Overture
Semiramide, opera: Overture
Guillaume Tell (William Tell), opera: Overture
Suppe:
Ein Morgen, ein Mittag, ein Abend in Wien (Morning Noon and Night in Vienna), overture from the incidental music
Leichte Kavallerie (Light Cavalry), overture to the operetta
Dichter und Bauer (Poet and Peasant), overture to the operetta