Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Tancredi: Act l - Overture
2. Tancredi: Act l - Introduzione
3. Tancredi: Act l - Recitativo
4. Tancredi: Act l - Coro e Cavatina
5. Tancredi: Act l - Recitativo
6. Tancredi: Act l - Recitativo e cavatina
7. Tancredi: Act l - Recitativo
8. Tancredi: Act l - Recitativo e Aria
9. Tancredi: Act l - Recitativo
10. Tancredi: Act l - Recitativo
11. Tancredi: Act l - Recitativo e Duetto
12. Tancredi: Act l - Recitativo e Duetto
13. Tancredi: Act l - Coro
14. Tancredi: Act l - Recitativo
15. Tancredi: Act l - Recitativo instramentale e Finale
16. Tancredi: Act l - Finale primo
17. Tancredi: Act ll - Recitativo
18. Tancredi: Act ll - Recitativo
19. Tancredi: Act ll - Aria

Disc 2:

1. Tancredi: Act ll - Recitativo
2. Tancredi: Act ll - Aria
3. Tancredi: Act ll - Scena
4. Tancredi: Act ll - Cavatina
5. Tancredi: Act ll - Recitativo
6. Tancredi: Act ll - Recitativo
7. Tancredi: Act ll - Duetto
8. Tancredi: Act ll - Recitativo
9. Tancredi: Act ll - Aria
10. Tancredi: Act ll - Aria
11. Tancredi: Act ll - Aria
12. Tancredi: Act ll - Recitativo
13. Tancredi: Act ll - Duetto
14. Tancredi: Act ll - Recitativo
15. Tancredi: Act ll - Aria
16. Tancredi: Act ll - Gran Scena
17. Tancredi: Act ll - Coro
18. Tancredi: Act ll - Recitativo
19. Tancredi: Act ll - Rondo
20. Tancredi: Act ll - Recitativo
21. Tancredi: Act ll - Secondo finale

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14471 in Music
• Released on: 1995-06-08
• Number of discs: 2
• Dimensions: .47 pounds
• Running time: 147 minutes

Customer Reviews

Another side of Rossini
Three reasons to buy 'Tancredi':

1. ) Most people know Rossini through comic operas like'The Barber of Seville'. Yet Rossini wrote nearly as many serious operas as he did comic operas. 'Tancredi' was the breakthrough opera that won him an international reputation - precisely as a composer of serious opera. It is worth exploring this side of Rossini.

2. ) Rossini was a master of form. He laid down a pattern of composition that was followed by Donizetti and Bellini and was only gradually modified by Verdi. In 'Tancredi' the various Rossinian forms are especially clear. (For example, the structure fast-slow-fast for a duet, or the use of a quieter section in the middle of the Act One finale). It thus provides a study for the whole scaffolding of early nineteenth century Italian opera.

3.) Rossini was a genius. He was only twenty when he wrote 'Tancredi', but it is certainly not an 'immature' work. It has all the melody, 'fioratura', ensemble work, crescendos and sheer verve of any Rossini opera. But, because it is a serious opera, it includes the pathos of a scene where a father unwillingly condemns his daughter to death, another where the heroine sings her plaintive aria from prison, and another where the hero, in exile, dwells on his feelings of betrayal by his lover. This is the stuff of Italian opera!

One listener's note: following the convention of the time, everything is sung in a higher register. The villain is not even a bass but a baritone. The king is a tenor and the hero, Tancredi, is a mezzo-soprano (well sung in virile-fashion by Ewa Podles). This did slightly throw me on a first listening!

I think, to be very honest, a final thing that swayed me was the price: all this without hitting that "forty quid level" of posh, boxed opera sets. I assure you: the quality is still very good.