Vincerò!

This is a big voice with a warm Italianate tone and a fitting sense of the legato required for this repertoire. Verismo sobbing is kept to a minimum. Beczala knows exactly how to build the drama... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2020, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 21st Jan 2022
Catalogue No: PTC5186993
Label: Pentatone

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Puccini: Recondita armonia (from Tosca)

Piotr Beczala (tenor), Marco Boemi
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana

Puccini: E lucevan le stelle (from Tosca)

Piotr Beczala (tenor), Marco Boemi
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana

Cilea: La dolcissima effigie (from Adriana Lecouvreur)

Piotr Beczala (tenor), Marco Boemi
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana

Cilea: L'anima ho stanca (from Adriana Lecouvreur)

Piotr Beczala (tenor), Marco Boemi
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana

Cilea: Il russo Mèncikoff (from Adriana Lecouvreur)

Piotr Beczala (tenor), Marco Boemi
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana

Mascagni: Viva il vino spumeggiante (from Cavalleria Rusticana)

Piotr Beczala (tenor), Marco Boemi
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana

Mascagni: Mamma, quel vino (from Cavalleria Rusticana)

Piotr Beczala (tenor), Marco Boemi
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana

Puccini: Donna non vidi mai (from Manon Lescaut)

Piotr Beczala (tenor), Marco Boemi
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana

Puccini: Tra voi, belle (from Manon Lescaut)

Piotr Beczala (tenor), Marco Boemi
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana

Giordano, U: Come un bel dì di maggio (from Andrea Chénier)

Piotr Beczala (tenor), Marco Boemi
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana

Giordano, U: Un dì, all' azzurro spazio (from Andrea Chénier)

Piotr Beczala (tenor), Marco Boemi
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana

Giordano, U: Amor ti vieta (from Fedora)

Piotr Beczala (tenor), Marco Boemi
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana

Leoncavallo: Vesti la giubba (from I Pagliacci)

Piotr Beczala (tenor), Marco Boemi
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana

Puccini: Ch'ella mi creda libero e lontano (from La Fanciulla del West)

Piotr Beczala (tenor), Marco Boemi
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana

Puccini: Orgia, Chimera Dall'occhio Vitreo (from Edgar)

Piotr Beczala (tenor), Marco Boemi
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana

Puccini: Firenze è come un albero fiorito (from Gianni Schicchi)

Piotr Beczala (tenor), Marco Boemi
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana

Puccini: Addio, fiorito asil (from Madama Butterfly)

Piotr Beczala (tenor), Marco Boemi
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana

Puccini: Nessun dorma (from Turandot)

Piotr Beczala (tenor), Marco Boemi
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana

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Interview, Piotr Beczała on Verismo

9th July 2020

The Polish tenor talks to Katherine about Vincerò!, his debut recording on Pentatone, featuring arias by Puccini, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Giordano and Cilea.

Recording of the Week, Vincerò! Piotr Beczała sings Verismo

15th May 2020

The Polish tenor is at the top of his considerable game in arias by Puccini, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Cilea and Giordano.

Reviews

September 2020

This is a big voice with a warm Italianate tone and a fitting sense of the legato required for this repertoire. Verismo sobbing is kept to a minimum. Beczala knows exactly how to build the drama of an aria, as befits a pupil of Sena Jurinac.

September/October 2020

Beczala simulates the hefty mid-range that he doesn’t naturally possess, and for many this won’t be a serious liability. The bottom line is that Beczala is enough of a star to convey the spirit of these familiar arias. I have no hesitation recommending this CD as an enjoyable listen as long as one doesn’t expect a rival to the great verismo singers of the past.

June 2020

Just listen to the luminous ring to Beczała’s tenor in the open-hearted ‘Recondita armonia’...In an age when many singers are persuaded to take on heavier repertoire far too soon, it’s refreshing to read of an artist armed with patience. And it’s refreshing to hear a tenor tackle this repertoire with such apparent ease, for this is a simply wonderful disc...Beczała never needs to force unduly, yet there’s plenty of emotion to these readings.

July 2020

There’s no finer tenor operating in the spinto verismo category today than Piotr Beczała...this is a highly enjoyable portrait documenting a musically scrupulous artist moving into a new phase in his career...Thoughtful artistry comes through in his ability to vary tone emotionally, even within the music of a single character...he manages freshly to illuminate some textual points even in this thrice-familiar material.

15th May 2020

At 50, the Polish tenor is in his absolute prime: whereas others make a virtue of necessity and employ any signs of wear-and-tear to dramatic effect in this music, Beczała sounds in complete control of every interpretative gesture…his attitude to this repertoire seems to be less motivated by the smell of the greasepaint and the roar of the crowd and more by the desire to portray these characters as real, complex people.

31st May 2020

He perhaps lacks the visceral Italianate “ping” for Mascagni’s Turiddu and Leoncavallo’s Canio. Even so, he phrases Calaf’s Nessun dorma aristocratically, and his voice, at 53, still sounds youthful for Lieutenant Pinkerton’s farewell to Madame Butterfly and Rinuccio’s paean to Florence.

11th June 2020

All is delivered with the nuance and artistry of a singer with a nearly three-decade career under his belt but whose voice betrays next to no wear and tear.

Vincerò!

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Interview, Piotr Beczała on Verismo

Recording of the Week, Vincerò! Piotr Beczała sings Verismo

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