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Rossini: Ricciardo e Zoraide

Matteuzzi; Miricioiu; Ford; Jones; Miles; Nilon; Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Parry

"As realized here Ricciardo e Zoraide is a piece of which the sympathetic listener could grow very fond. Frustratingly fond. I lost count of the times when (thought to myself, "Now, if only that was in one of the better known operas, it would be ranked among Rossini's most memorable ideas!" Flowers, as the poet has it, born (more or less) to blush unseen and waste their sweetness on the desert air." (Gramophone)

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Rossini: Ricciardo e Zoraide, opera

Jones; Matteuzzi; Miles; Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields; Parry; Sillito

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Gramophone

"Rossini’s 26th opera, a dramma written between Mosè and Ermione, enjoyed spectacular success after its 1818 premiere; a quarter of a century later it sank into obscurity until 1990, when it was exhumed at the Rossini festival at Pesaro. Dramatically it’s unwieldy, absurd and not at all PC, with its cast of dastardly Nubians and heroic Christians. But musically it is delightful vintage Rossini."

BBC Music Magazine

Label:
Opera Rara

Range:
Opera Rara

Catalogue Number:
ORC14

Barcode:
792938001425

Release Date:
1st Jan 1996

Recording Date:
1st Jun 1995

Recording Location:
Henry Wood Hall, London, England

Producer:
Patric Schmid

Engineer:
Robert Auger

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