Verdi: Preludes, Ballets Music & Opera Choruses

Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milano, Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Trumpeters of the Royal Military School of Music, Kneller Hall, New Philharmonia Orchestra & Philharmonia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti

Verdi: Gli arredi festivi (from Nabucco) Va, pensiero (from Nabucco) Gerusalem! (from I Lombardi) O signore, dal tetto natio (from I Lombardi) Evviva!? Beviamo! (from Ernani) Esultiamo (from Ernani) Un patto! (from Ernani) Preludio (from Attila) Urli, rapine (from Attila) Viva il ré dalla mille foreste (from Attila) Del ciel l'immensa volta (from Attila) Chi dona luce al cor?..(from Attila) Patria oppressa (from Macbeth) Rigoletto - Prelude Zitti, Zitti (from Rigoletto) Anvil Chorus (from Il Trovatore) La Vergine degli Angeli (from La Forza del Destino) Compagni, sostiamo (from La forza del destino) Nella guerra, è la follia (from La forza del destino) Rataplan, rataplan, della gloria (from La forza del destino) Sanctus (from Requiem) Gloria all'Egitto (from Aida) Grand March from Aida Aida: Ballabile Vieni, o guerriero vindice (from Aida) Nabucco Overture Macbeth - Prelude Macbeth - Ballo La battaglia di Legnano - Sinfonia Luisa Miller Sinfonia La traviata: Prelude to Act 1 La traviata: Prelude to Act 3 Le Quattro Stagioni (I vespri siciliani Act III) John McCaw (clarinet) & Gordon Hunt (oboe) La Forza del Destino: Sinfonia

This is one of several special EMI Classics releases marking the bicentenary of the birth of Giuseppe Verdi, which will occur on 10 October 2013. With his questing spirit, Verdi took an often innovative approach to the choral and orchestral components of his operas. In Nabucco, his first great success, the chorus of Hebrew slaves became a protagonist – and its ‘Va, pensiero’ became Italy’s honorary national anthem – while his overtures range from atmospheric introductions, for instance the haunting prelude to La traviata, to full-blown orchestral showpieces, such as the splendid sinfonia that opens La forza del destino.

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