Kees Bakels, Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra - Pietro Mascagni: Il piccolo Marat (1992)
Kees Bakels, Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra - Pietro Mascagni: Il piccolo Marat (1992)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 466 Mb | Total time: 74:37+51:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Bongiovanni | # GB 2168/9-2 | Recorded: 1992
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 466 Mb | Total time: 74:37+51:14 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Bongiovanni | # GB 2168/9-2 | Recorded: 1992
Following the phenomenal success of Cavalleria Rusticana (1889) operas flowed rapidly from Mascagni’s pen for about a decade: L’Amico Fritz (1891), I Rantzau (1892), Guglielmo Ratcliff (1895), Silvano (1895), Zanetto (1896), and Iris (1898). With the arrival of the 20th Century the pace began to slow down: Le Maschere (1901), Amica (1905), Isabeau (1911), Parisina (1913), Lodoletta (1917), Il Piccolo Marat (1921), Pinotta (1932) and finally Nerone (1935), largely a reworking of a much earlier piece. Mascagni himself was convinced that the public’s obstinacy in preferring Cavalleria Rusticana was an injustice. Criticism of the earlier works has tended to centre on clumsy libretti and patches of weaker inspiration, while real controversy has surrounded the later pieces. Here, we are told, Mascagni tried to dress up as a modern, flirting with dissonance and ungainly vocal declamation, at the expense of his natural melodic gifts. He was dabbling in things beyond his reach. The case for the defence was put by, among others (but not very many others, alas), William Alwyn, who was convinced that Il Piccolo Marat was among the greatest music dramas of the 20th Century, to be spoken of in the same breath as Wozzeck.
As regards the implication of incompetence, I do not see how anybody could listen to the records under review and deny that Mascagni knew exactly what he was doing. His handling of the large orchestra and of vocal declamation is masterly, while each act has a satisfying shape and moves to its end without wasting time. To test the truth of Alwyn’s assertion it would be necessary to experience the opera in the theatre as well as to live with a recorded performance for a certain length of time.
If today we are obliged to say "we don’t know the piece well enough to be sure about it", it was not always so. In the same year as its first performance in Rome (1921) it was also heard in Verona, Milan (not La Scala), Pisa and Turin, as well as in Buenos Aires, Rosario and Montevideo, where the leading role was taken by Beniamino Gigli. The following year it was performed in Dresden and Copenhagen. Its foreign career practically stopped here (it has never been produced at Covent Garden or in any city of the United States) but between 1921 and 1953 it could boast performances somewhere in Italy in every year except 1944, 1947 and 1949. It finally reached La Scala, under Mascagni’s baton, in 1939. After 1953 it was seldom sighted. In 1961 Virginia Zeani and Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, recently (1957) married and evidently looking for something effective in which they could appear together, revived it with Umberto Borsò as Il piccolo Marat, Afro Poli as the carpenter and Oliviero De Fabritiis conducting. This performance has been issued on Fonè. The Zeani-Rossi-Lemeni ticket brought about a modest revival, since in 1962 came the present Sanremo performance, with a different tenor and conductor, and in 1963 they took it to Naples, Catania and Barcelona. Subsequent performances of the opera took place in 1966, 1979, 1989 (a Livorno performance also issued on Fonè) and 1992 (a concert performance in Utrecht conducted by Kees Bakels available on Bongiovanni and a run of performances at Wexford). –Christopher Howell
Performer:
L'Orco - Frédéric Vassar
Mariella - Susan Neves
Il Piccolo Marat - Daniel Galvez-Vallejo
La Mama - Christa Pfeiler
Il Soldato - Sigmund Cowan
La Spia - Hubert Claessens
Il Ladro - Math Dirks
La Tigre - Lieuwe Visser
Il Carpentiere - Didier Henry
Il Capitano - Sigmund Cowan
Netherlands Radio Choir
Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra
Direttore - Kees Bakels
Track List:
CD1:
01. Atto Primo. Introduzione
02. Il canto dei prigionieri: 'O vergine, confido'
03. Le voci della folla: 'Ah! Ferma! Ferma!'
04. 'Morte ai briganti' (L'Orco)
05. 'Io non ho fatto nulla' (Mariella)
06. 'Guarda la plebe' (Il piccolo Marat)
07. 'Popolo stolto' (Il piccolo Marat)
08. 'Manca il pane primidì' (Una voce)
09. 'Io non so chi tu sia' (Mariella)
10. 'Senza vele… senza remi' (Il carpentiere)
11. 'Ubriaconi armati' (Il soldato)
12. 'I ribelli vi accusano' (Il soldato)
13. 'Mamma' (Il piccolo Marat)
14. 'Da un tuo ricordo' (Il piccolo Marat)
15. 'Sien deserte le strade' (una voce lontana)
16. Atto Secondo. Introduzione
17. 'La mamma ritrovò' (Mariella)
18. 'Mariella… Chi è' (Il carpentiere, Mariella)
19. 'Eh! Mariella, apri!' (Il piccolo Marat)
20. 'E tu non hai spavento' (Mariella)
21. 'Talpa che vedi' (L'Orco)
22. 'Che tribunale è questo' (Il soldato)
CD2:
01. 'Di pietà? Di pietà?' (L'Orco)
02. 'Delle macerie salgo sulla vetta' (L'Orco)
03. 'No… non ci sono!' (Mariella)
04. 'Ma guarda le mie mani' (Il piccolo Marat)
05. 'Va nella tua stanzetta' (Il piccolo Marat)
06. 'Che cosa fai' (Mariella)
07. Atto Terzo. Introduzione
08. La ronda dei diavoli neri: 'Qua, là, noi marciam'
09. 'Quel prete bianco' (L'Orco)
10. 'Ah! Salvi! Salvi!' (Il piccolo Marat, Mariella)
11. 'Perché non sono stata io ferita' (Mariella)
12. 'Mariella!…Ah! se tu m'ami' (Il piccolo Marat)
13. 'Scende… scende… è già fuori' (Il piccolo Marat)
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Kees Bakels, Netherlands Radio Symphony Orchestra - Pietro Mascagni: Il piccolo Marat (1992)
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