Paolo Fresu - Norma (2019/2021) [Official Digital Download]

"Norma” is the new album by Paolo Fresu with the Orchestra Jazz del Mediterraneo and Paolo Silvestri and is scheduled for release on October 18th on the trumpeter’s label Tǔk Music.

It is definitely not simple to make the musical score of a true opera masterpiece such as Norma by Vincenzo Bellini meet with the world of jazz. But in the truest sense of interpretation and of free adaptation typical of the afroamerican music world, in the same way in which jazz mastered the great american songbook around 1950’s, it looks possible and appropriate to have the freedom of revisiting a landmark of the opera tradition through the lenses of the freest among the modern musical forms.

Paolo Fresu, omnivore of contemporary musical art, respectfully tributes the work of Bellini and with just one sentence describes what this project is about: “it’s the plain revisitation in its instrumental version, where the trumpet takes the place of the voice, of some of the beautiful arias of Norma by Bellini, produced in Catania and taken to the contemporary era thanks to the magisterial pen of Paolo Silvestri”.

TRACKLIST

1. Orchestra Jazz del Mediterraneo - Norma: Casta diva (Arr. for Jazz Orchestra)
2. Orchestra Jazz del Mediterraneo - Norma: Ite sul colle, o druidi (Arr. for Jazz Orchestra)
3. Orchestra Jazz del Mediterraneo - Norma: Dormono entrambi - Mira o Norma (Arr. for Jazz Orchestra)
4. Orchestra Jazz del Mediterraneo - Norma: Va, crudele, al Dio spietato (Arr. for Jazz Orchestra)
5. Orchestra Jazz del Mediterraneo - Norma: Deh! Proteggimi o Dio! - Oh! Rimembranza! (Arr. for Jazz Orchestra)
6. Orchestra Jazz del Mediterraneo - Norma: Oh, di qual sei tu vittima! (Arr. for Jazz Orchestra)
7. Orchestra Jazz del Mediterraneo - Norma: Guerra! Guerra! - Qual cor tradisti - Deh! Non volerli vittime (Arr. for Jazz Orchestra)



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