CD-Charts Position 1

Wallace: Maritana

Search: Finale Act I
from: Marco Polo

Release Date December 17, 1996

CD-Charts Position 2
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Schubert: Fierrabras

Search: Finale Act I
from: Deutsche Gram. Ger.

Release Date June 01, 2001
Schubert's operas have not received the attention that they actually deserve. This is even the case with Fierrabras, which is his major work for the genre. Conductors, directors, opera lovers, etc. - they have all rejected this work. For what reason? Well, the history is that the taste of the Vienna audience required Italian operas (i.e. Rossini); unfortunately at the time Schubert tried to get his masterpiece staged. As a result, it was first staged some 60 years after Schubert's death, and then by people who evidently prioritized some stereotyped idea of "opera" before the peculiar musical ideas of a master. In fact, the opera was not staged (nor recorded) unabridged before the Abbado 1988 live performance caught on this set. Thus it never ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 3
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Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor

Search: Finale Act I
from: Mondo Musica

Release Date December 19, 2000
Schubert's operas have not received the attention that they actually deserve. This is even the case with Fierrabras, which is his major work for the genre. Conductors, directors, opera lovers, etc. - they have all rejected this work. For what reason? Well, the history is that the taste of the Vienna audience required Italian operas (i.e. Rossini); unfortunately at the time Schubert tried to get his masterpiece staged. As a result, it was first staged some 60 years after Schubert's death, and then by people who evidently prioritized some stereotyped idea of "opera" before the peculiar musical ideas of a master. In fact, the opera was not staged (nor recorded) unabridged before the Abbado 1988 live performance caught on this set. Thus it never ... Read More: