BaL 23.04.11 - Rossini: Stabat Mater

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Building a Library: Rossini Stabat Mater - Richard Osborne recommends a recording.

Available versions:

Nadia Stefan-Savova (soprano), Julia Hamari (mezzo-soprano), Veriano Luchetti (tenor) & Ruggero Raimondi (bass)
Kammerchor Ernst-Senff & Ernst-Senff-Chor, Berliner Philharmoniker, Carlo Maria Giulini

Helen Field (soprano), Della Jones (contralto), Arthur Davies (tenor), Roderick Earle (bass)
London Symphony Chorus, City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox

Anna Netrebko (soprano), Joyce DiDonato (mezzo), Lawrence Brownlee (tenor), Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (bass)
Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano

Maria Stader (soprano), Marianna Radev (alto), Ernst Haeflifer (tenor) & Kim Borg (bass)
RIAS-Kammerchor, RIAS-Knabenchor, Berlin Mädchenchor, Chor des Hedwigs-Kathedrale & RIAS-Symphonie-Orchester, Ferenc Fricsay

Katia Ricciarelli, Lucia Valentini-Terrani, Dalmacio Gonzales & Ruggero Raimondi
Philharmonia Orchestra & Philharmonia Chorus, Carlo Maria Giulini

Catherine Malfitano, Agnes Baltsa, Robert Gambill & Gwynne Howell
Coro e Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Riccardo Muti

Barbara Frittoli (soprano), Sonia Ganassi (mezzo-soprano), Giuseppe Sabbatini (tenor), Michele Pertusi (bass)
Netherlands Radio Choir, Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly

Orgonasova, Bartoli, Gimenez & Scandiuzzi
Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Myung-Whun Chung

Luciano Pavarotti, Mirella Freni, Pilar Lorengar, Yvonne Minton, Lucia Valentini-Terrani, Hans Sotin, Ruggero Raimondi
London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, István Kertész

Carlo Colombara (bass), Patrizia Pace (soprano), Gloria Scalchi (contralto), Antonino Siragusa (tenor)
Hungarian State Opera Orchestra, Hungarian State Opera Chorus, Pier Giorgio Morandi

Anday (Rosette), Fehenberger (Lorenz), Frantz (Ferdinand), Seefried (Irmgard)
Mozarteum-Orchester, Der Salzburger Domchor, Messner (Joseph)

Stezeva, Michalska-Taliaferro, Stein, Storojev, Kantotei Maulbronn,
SWR SO, Jurgen Budday

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Looking through the list of BAL recommendations, it appears there have never been comparisions of any Rossini recordings. This seems extraordinary.

[vinteuil]

Looking through the list of BAL recommendations, it appears there have never been comparisions of any Rossini recordings. This seems extraordinary.

It does indeed seem extraordinary.

Eine Alpen: - many thanks for your listing above. I have the Muti on an EMI twofer coupled with the Cleobury Petite Messe - but what I wd really like to find now for a Stabat Mater is a recentish HIPP version. No sign of any so far??

[Chris Newman]

I will go for Fricsay (if not overall certainly historical) or Giulini (Philharmonia).

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

It does indeed seem extraordinary.

Eine Alpen: - many thanks for your listing above. I have the Muti on an EMI twofer coupled with the Cleobury Petite Messe - but what I wd really like to find now for a Stabat Mater is a recentish HIPP version. No sign of any so far??

Not that I'm aware of. I've looked through the Presto and Amazon lists.

But there is/was the following HIPP version:

Stoyanova, Lang, Fowler, Borowski, Academy for Ancient Music, Berlin, Rias Chamber Choir, Marcus Creed

[Barbirollians]

Surely the really notable thing is the return of Richard Osborne to the programme -perhaps they do read us at BBC Radio3 after all !

A proper reviewer conducting a proper review .

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

A proper reviewer conducting a proper review .

...and two weeks in succession.

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

Hot off the press: a new version

Performer: Anna Netrebko, Marianna Pizzolato
Conductor: Antonio Pappano
Orchestra/Ensemble: Santa Cecilia Academy Rome Orchestra

[MickyD]

Not that I'm aware of. I've looked through the Presto and Amazon lists.

But there is/was the following HIPP version:

Stoyanova, Lang, Fowler, Borowski, Academy for Ancient Music, Berlin, Rias Chamber Choir, Marcus Creed

Yes, and it has since been re-released on Harmonia Mundi's budget price Musique d'Abord label - I have the original release and like it very much.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rossini-Stabat-Mater-Gioachino/dp/B000OCYGS6/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1303538310&sr=1-3

[Don Petter]

I will go for Fricsay (if not overall certainly historical) or Giulini (Philharmonia).

Another vote for Fricsay here.

[BBMmk2]

Yes, and it has since been re-released on Harmonia Mundi's budget price Musique d'Abord label - I have the original release and like it very much.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rossini-Stab...3538310&sr=1-3

Ah, I just found that I have this recording in that marbelous anniversary set that HM issued(Sacred Music). Very good recording.

[Steerpike]

Ah, the bliss of it!

A wonderfully done BAL. A sense of the details and of the whole. Wit and seriousness.

Encore!!!

[Don Petter]

Ah, the bliss of it!

A wonderfully done BAL. A sense of the details and of the whole. Wit and seriousness.

Encore!!!

Indeed! This is what it should be like.

[amateur51]

Minority Report Alert!!

It was indeed good to hear Richard Osborne again but I fear that for me he has become almost a parody of himself. Oh that schoolmasterly learning, worn like chain mail and delivered with a clunking fist. "As the King says in Hamlet ...'' If we trimmed out the excess fat I doubt there was more than a 30 minute programme there.

His treatment of the HIPP-informed version was nothing short of scandalous, similarly the Naxos version - let us make up our own minds, with your guidance, dear Richard, rather than having to take your word for it.

Rant over!

[pilamenon]

I agree - a rather dreary old school review. A very safe choice, too, but I suppose that's what's expected in BaL.