Donizetti: Vesper Psalms
) | Label: NAXOS Catalog: 8573910 Format: CD Brown, Andrea Lauren; Mallmann, Niklas; Simon Mayr Chorus; Ochoa, Daniel; Concerto de Bassus; Schäfer, Markus; Krödel, Johanna; Rosenbaum, Christoph; Hauk, Franz; Feith, Anna; Gubba-Chkheidze, Theona; Sammer, VeronikaGaetano Donizetti is renowned as a leading composer of the Italian romantic bel canto opera style during the first half of the 19th century. But in his earlier years and as a student of Simon Mayr his dramatic genius came to the fore in his settings of psalm texts for Vespers, a form then still popular in Italy both in secular and liturgical contexts. Donizetti’s Vesper Psalms are characterized by beautifully shaped operatic melodies and colorful orchestration on a grand scale, creating moments of real rhetorical force- outstanding features of works that have lain undiscovered in manuscript form for two centuries.  Price: $19.98 |