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Fabio Mechetti: Carlos Gomes – Opera Overtures and Preludes (FLAC)

Fabio Mechetti: Carlos Gomes - Opera Overtures and Preludes (FLAC)
Fabio Mechetti: Carlos Gomes – Opera Overtures and Preludes (FLAC)

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.

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