Composer: Antonio Carlos Gomes
Orchestra: Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Fabio Mechetti
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8574409
Release: 2023
Size: 214 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Il Guarany
01. Overture
Maria Tudor
02. Overture
Condor
03. Preludio
Condor
04. Notturno
Fosca
05. Overture
Joana de Flandres
06. Preludio
Salvator Rosa
07. Overture
A noite do castelo
08. Preludio
Lo schiavo
09. Prelude
Lo schiavo
10. Prelude to Act IV
Carlos Gomes was not only Brazil’s leading operatic composer, but he also helped pave the way for Italian verismo during the latter part of the 19th century. The preludes and overtures from his operas chart a course from early experimentation with orchestral sonority to a new conception of atmosphere and tension in his historically based dramas. In Alvorada (‘Dawn’) from Lo schiavo his descriptive writing comes close to the status of a symphonic poem. The music from his greatest artistic triumph, Il Guarany, weaves themes into an organic whole, while his final opera, Condor, is reminiscent of French orchestral music in its employment of whole-tone scales.