Rossini: Guglielmo Tell

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If ever there was a case for armchair opera it's Rossini's Guglielmo Tell. The very limitations which have made it, so far, a non-repertory work, give space for the imagination to redress the... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 1st Oct 1986
Catalogue No: E4171542
Label: Decca
Length: 3 hours 54 minutes

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Rossini: Guillaume Tell

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Piero de Palma (tenor), Mirella Freni (soprano), Ferruccio Mazzoli (bass), Cesar Antonio Suarez (tenor), Elizabeth Connell (mezzo-soprano), John Tomlinson (bass), Richard van Allan (bass), Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass), Della Jones (mezzo-soprano), Sherrill Milnes (baritone), Luciano Pavarotti (tenor)
National Philharmonic Orchestra, Ambrosian Singers
Riccardo Chailly
Recorded: 1979-06-08
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Overture

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"E il ciel seren, sereno il giorno"

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"Il piccol legno ascendi"

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"Oh! quale alta d'intorno" - "Pastori intorno ergete il canto!"

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"Al fremer del torrente"

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"Contro l'ardor del giorno"

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"Il mio giuro egli disse"

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"Arresta! Qual dolor"

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Il sol che intorno splende

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Oh smania!

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Delle antiche virtudi l'esempio rinnovate

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"Cinto il crine di bei fiori"

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Passo a sei

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"Gloria e onore al giovinetto"

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"Ecco là, tremante, e reggendosi appena"

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"Nume pietoso"

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"Che sento, ohimè!"

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"Ciò ch'ei fece

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"Qual silvestre metro intorno"

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"S'allontanano alfine!"

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"Selva opaca, deserta brughiera"

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"Se il mio giunger t'oltraggia"

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"Tutto apprendi, o sventurato"

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"Ciel! Guglielmo! Gualtiero! Dio!"

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"Allor che scorre de'forti il sangue"

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"Confuso da quel bosco" - "Con ardor richiese il cor"

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"Domo, o ciel, da un stranier"

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"De'prodi ascolta, è già compiuto il patto"

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"La valanga che volve"

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"Giuriam, giuriam pei nostri danni"

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Arnoldo! e d'onde nasce

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Ah! se privo di speme è l'amore

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"Gloria al poter supremo!"

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Quell'agil piè ch'egual non ha

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Passo di soldati

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Inchinati, superbo

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Quel fasto m'offende

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"Corri alla madre"

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"Resta immobile"

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Vittoria!...E fia ver?...L'ira sol

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...è il suo destin segnato

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"Anatema a Gessler!"

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"Ah.. non mi lasciar, o speme di vendetta"

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O muto asil del pianto...Vendetta!

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"Resta omai; ah! ti perde il duolo"

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"Sottratto a orribil nembo"

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"E per patir i nostri mali estremi"

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"Tu che l'appoggio del debol sei"

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"Io lo vidi"

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"Io ti rivedo!"

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"Tutto cangia, il ciel s'abbella"

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2010

If ever there was a case for armchair opera it's Rossini's Guglielmo Tell. The very limitations which have made it, so far, a non-repertory work, give space for the imagination to redress the balance: the short, Rousseau-esque scenes of life by Lake Lucerne, the distant entrances and exits of shepherds and huntsmen, the leisurely but perfectly balanced side-vignettes of fisherman, hunter, child.
Thanks to the clarity and liveliness of the recording itself and, above all, the shrewd casting, this set creates a vivid charivari of fathers, sons, lovers and patriots, all played out against some of Rossini's most delicately painted pastoral cameos. Chailly keeps up the undercurrent of tension between private love and public loyalty, as well as working hard the rustic jollity of the score. Tell himself could hardly have a better advocate than Sherrill Milnes. Arnoldo and Matilde, too, are cleverly cast. Pavarotti contains the coarse, direct impulsiveness of Arnoldo's shepherd stock with the tenderness of love, in his characteristic charcoal cantabile and the numbness of his remorse.
Mirella Freni, singing opposite Pavarotti as the forbidden Princess Matilde, phrases with aristocratic poise, folding into every fragment of embryonic bel canto the fragile ardour of a young girl's love. The vocal chemistry between them in their Act 2 declaration of love is a lively incarnation of their roles. A similarly interesting patterning of vocal timbres is produced by the casting of Elizabeth Connell as Edwige, Tell's wife, and of Della Jones as Jemmy, their son. Their last-act Trio with Matilde is matched by the contrasting colours of the basses of Ghiaurov, Tomlinson and Van Allan: their roles may be small, but their characters are vividly stamped on an excellent ensemble performance.

Offer,Rossini: Guglielmo Tell

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