{"product_id":"2240622","title":"Fabio Biondi Podlasie Opera A - Moniuszko Widma (apparitions) [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWidma ('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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStanislaw Moniuszko: Widma (Apparitions): Introduction: 'Dziady'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntrada\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll is darkness, all is quiet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClose the chapel doors now, tight\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAll is darkness, all is quiet\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePour some incense in my hands\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst, I call you lighter souls\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLook, ah, look up in the air\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eO, little soul--what do you need\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLittle angel, little soul\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow the dreadful hour's at hand\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAway, she-eagles! Ravens! Owls!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAria: Children, ho! Don't you know me, children?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat then is needed, for your soul\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn vain he begs, in vain he prays\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYou're hungry? Oh -- a thousand pardons!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHunger makes you grieve?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo help, although I need it badly!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf we may not allay your pain\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow take the wreath down from the pole\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMother of God! This image!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDuettino: She wears a wreath upon her brow\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZosia's song: Oh, once among the springtime dew\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYes, I was Zosia, born and raised\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat needs your soul, so sorely driven\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn vain you rush--these are but shades\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow each and every soul I call\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat's all, time's up. Open the door\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis defies all human reason!\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54420744601985,"sku":"2240622","price":16.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/5906395034383.jpg?v=1750621218","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/2240622","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}