Composer: Georges Bizet, Charles François Gounod, Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Karol Szymanowski, Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky, Giuseppe Verdi
Performer: Luka Faulisi, Itamar Golan
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Sony
Catalogue: 19658765272
Release: 2023
Size: 932 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Bizet: Carmen Fantasy
01. Prélude – Habanera
02. Air des cartes
03. Près des remparts de Séville
04. Coda
05. Tchaikovsky: Kuda, Kuda ‘Lensky’s Aria’ (from Eugene Onegin)
Gounod: Fantasia on Themes from ‘Faust’
06. Introduction
07. Valentin’s Aria
08. Mephisto
09. Il se fait tard, adieu!
10. Waltz
11. Szymanowski: Roxana’s Song from the opera ‘King Roger’
Tchaikovsky: Kuda, Kuda ‘Lensky’s Aria’ (from Eugene Onegin)
12. Libiamo, ne’ lieti calici
13. Addio, del passato
14. Sempre libera
15. Finale
Verdi: Fantasy on La Traviata
16. Prologue
17. Hymn to the Sun
18. The Tsar’s Dream
19. Wedding March
20. Epi logue
“Aria” marks the refreshingly unconventional Sony Classical debut of rising Italian-Serbian-French violinist Luka Faulisi. Enhancing operatic melodies with violinistic fireworks, the recording presents arias and scenes arranged for violin and piano by some of the great violinist-composers of the past and including an arrangement by Faulisi himself. Among the operatic jewels included are Franz Waxman’s Carmen Fantasy (as made famous by Jascha Heifetz), Henryk Wieniawski’s Fantasy on Themes from Gounod’s Faust, Leopold Auer’s arrangement of ‘Lensky’s Aria’ from Tchaikovsky’s opera Eugene Onegin and Fausili’s own version of Violetta’s glittering aria ‘Sempre libera’ from Verdi’s La Traviata.