Composer: Hector Berlioz, Gaetano Donizetti, Charles François Gounod, Ernest Guiraud, Jacques Halévy, Pietro Mascagni, Jules Emile Frederic Massenet, Giuseppe Saverio Raffaele Mercadante, Giacomo Antonio Domenico Michele Secondo Maria Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi
Performer: Pene Pati, Amina Edris, Amitai Pati
Orchestra: Orchestre National Bordeaux-Aquitaine
Conductor: Emmanuel Villaume
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Warner
Catalogue: 5419789770
Release: 2024
Size: 1.44 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Puccini: Turandot, Act 3: “Nessun dorma!” (Calaf, Coro)
02. Gounod: Faust, Act 3: Cavatine. “Salut ! Demeure chaste et pure” (Faust)
03. Gounod: Faust, Act 3: Cabalette. “Et toi, malheureux Faust” – “C’est l’enfer qui t’envoie” (Faust)
04. Massenet: Manon, Act 3: “Je suis seul !” – “Ah ! Fuyez, douce image” (Des Grieux)
05. Mascagni: L’amico Fritz, Act 2: Duetto delle ciliegie. “Suzel, buon dì!” (Fritz, Suzel)
06. Verdi: Macbeth, Act 4: Duetto. “Dove siam?” – “La patria tradita” (Macduff, Malcolm, Coro)
07. Berlioz: La damnation de Faust, Op. 24, H 111, Act 4: “Nature immense” (Faust)
08. Massenet: Werther, Act 3: “Traduire ! Ah ! Bien souvent” – “Pourquoi me réveiller” (Werther)
09. Donizetti: Dom Sébastien, Act 2: “Seul sur la terre” (Dom Sébastien)
10. Puccini: Che gelida manina (from La Bohème)
11. Mercadante: Il bravo, Act 1: Duetto. “Non sai tu che non avrai più del ciel” (Carlo, Pisani)
12. Guiraud: Frédégonde, Act 2: Duo. “Nous partirons ce soir !” (Brunhilda, Mérowig)
13. Donizetti: La favorite, Act 4: “La maîtresse du roi !” (Fernand)
14. Donizetti: La favorite, Act 4: “Ange si pur” (Fernand)
15. Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Act 3: “Tombe degli avi miei” – “Fra poco a me ricovero” (Edgardo)
16. Verdi: Macbeth, Act 4: “O figli miei!” – “Ah, la paterna mano” (Macduff)
17. Halévy: La Juive, Act 2: Trio. “Tu possèdes, dit-on, un joyau magnifique” (Eudoxie, Éléazar, Léopold)
18. Gounod: Faust, Act 3: “Quel trouble inconnu me pénètre !” – Cavatine. “Salut demeure chaste et pure” (Faust)
Taking its title, Nessun Dorma, from the greatest tenor hit of them all, Pene Pati’s second album balances favourite numbers with operatic rarities – two of them in world premiere recordings. In addition to Puccini, the Italian composers are Verdi, Donizetti, Mascagni and Mercadante, while the French school is represented by Berlioz, Meyerbeer, Gounod, Massenet, Halévy and Guiraud. Joining the Samoan tenor on the album are his soprano wife, Amina Edris, his tenor brother Amitai Pati, conductor Emmanuel Villaume, the Orchestre National Bordeaux Aquitaine and the Choeur de l’Opéra National de Bordeaux. In the words of the Telegraph, Pene Pati possesses an “extraordinary gift for producing a golden thread of sound that can swell without strain to magnificence,” while Opera magazine has lauded his “distinctively clear, marvellously sunny timbre, innate musicality and exceptionally vivid textual projection”. For the tenor himself, Nessun Dorma “showcases my love of the art of storytelling and the emotions it can elicit … As you listen to the album, I hope it takes you on an emotional journey.”