Fabio Biondi Podlasie Opera A - Moniuszko Widma (apparitions) [CD]

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Widma ('Phantoms'), a masterful musical theatre based on Mickiewicz's Dziady. This group of leading Polish singers, the Podlasie Opera and Philharmonic Choir, the Europa Galante orchestra, and a number of Polish theatre stars, complete the group of masterpieces that were enthusiastically received by international critics with this recording: Halka, Flis, Hrabina, and finally Verbum nobile. This recording of Widma is a world premiere - the first to be presented on period instruments.

This is another release in the concert and phonographic plan of The Fryderyk Chopin Institute, which has been in progress since 2018 and includes the performance and release of all Moniuszko's surviving operas as well as his other most valuable works (cantatas, songs, piano miniatures). It is also another title whose interpretation was presented by Fabio Biondi, an excellent Italian conductor, enchanted with the works of the father of Polish national opera. Biondi presents unusual knowledge, taste, and great musical imagination, showing the value of Moniuszko's works in full splendour, emphasised by the sound of historical instruments, and deservedly placing them among the works of the Italian bel canto's masters.

One of Stanislaw Moniuszko's most magnificent works, not often performed but delighting in its wealth of musical and theatrical textures and colours, has been recorded for the first time on period instruments by the Europa Galante orchestra.

This world premiere recording on period instruments is released as part of the Fryderyk Chopin Institute's 'Concerts Frozen in Time' series (Muzyka zatrzymana w czasie), and was recorded during the 18th International Music Festival 'Chopin and his Europe' in the 'Teatr Wielki' Polish National Opera in Warsaw, Moniuszko Auditorium 12--14 August 2022.

The National Fryderyk Chopin Institute label are grateful to the National Forum of Music in Wroclaw and its director, Andrzej Kosendiak, for making Maciej Prohaska's reconstruction of Stanislaw Moniuszko's original score available.

Stanislaw Moniuszko: Widma (Apparitions): Introduction: 'Dziady'

Intrada

All is darkness, all is quiet

Close the chapel doors now, tight

All is darkness, all is quiet

Pour some incense in my hands

First, I call you lighter souls

Look, ah, look up in the air

O, little soul--what do you need

Little angel, little soul

Now the dreadful hour's at hand

Away, she-eagles! Ravens! Owls!

Aria: Children, ho! Don't you know me, children?

What then is needed, for your soul

In vain he begs, in vain he prays

You're hungry? Oh -- a thousand pardons!

Hunger makes you grieve?

No help, although I need it badly!

If we may not allay your pain

Now take the wreath down from the pole

Mother of God! This image!

Duettino: She wears a wreath upon her brow

Zosia's song: Oh, once among the springtime dew

Yes, I was Zosia, born and raised

What needs your soul, so sorely driven

In vain you rush--these are but shades

Now each and every soul I call

That's all, time's up. Open the door

This defies all human reason!

Stanislaw Moniuszko: Widma (Apparitions): Introduction: 'Dziady'

Intrada

All is darkness, all is quiet

Close the chapel doors now, tight

All is darkness, all is quiet

Pour some incense in my hands

First, I call you lighter souls

Look, ah, look up in the air

O, little soul--what do you need

Little angel, little soul

Now the dreadful hour's at hand

Away, she-eagles! Ravens! Owls!

Aria: Children, ho! Don't you know me, children?

What then is needed, for your soul

In vain he begs, in vain he prays

You're hungry? Oh -- a thousand pardons!

Hunger makes you grieve?

No help, although I need it badly!

If we may not allay your pain

Now take the wreath down from the pole

Mother of God! This image!

Duettino: She wears a wreath upon her brow

Zosia's song: Oh, once among the springtime dew

Yes, I was Zosia, born and raised

What needs your soul, so sorely driven

In vain you rush--these are but shades

Now each and every soul I call

That's all, time's up. Open the door

This defies all human reason!

• Genre: Classical
• Product Type: AUDIO CD
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