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Welsh National Opera Orchestra\/Carlo Rizzi<\/p>
Signum Classics SIGCD778\u00a0\u00a0 70:15 mins<\/em><\/p> Conductor Carlo Rizzi insists that his symphonic suites from two of the composer\u2019s most popular operas \u2013 Tosca<\/a><\/strong><\/em> and Madam Butterfly<\/a><\/strong><\/em> \u2013 are not arrangements, but rather \u2018the music of Puccini<\/a><\/strong>\u2019. Purely instrumental versions of operatic music, of course, are nothing new. <\/p> As one of today\u2019s leading Puccini interpreters, Rizzi is well qualified to create new pieces of this type, which are in effect opera without voices. This is possible because (as Puccini expert Roger Parker comments in his liner notes) the composer\u2019s frequently self-sufficient orchestral underpinning means that the \u2018musical substance of entire arias can be delivered without the voice being present\u2019.<\/p> Though not in dramatic order, the technically impeccable result has been ingeniously assembled and is finely performed by the Welsh National Opera Orchestra, which naturally knows the original scores well. To these Rizzi adds two early orchestral works, the Preludio sinfonico first performed at a student concert at the Milan Conservatory in July 1882, and the Capriccio sinfonico, Puccini\u2019s graduation piece from the Conservatory, premiered exactly a year later. <\/p> In fact, we hear the Preludio twice, both in its original form (restored here by Rizzi) and in a later version that cuts some 90 seconds off the piece. Neither is a distinguished example of Puccini\u2019s art, though already his flair for orchestral writing is readily apparent. <\/p> Points of interest include the distinctly Wagnerian<\/a><\/strong> opening of the Preludio, with its obvious reminiscence of the Lohengrin<\/a><\/strong><\/em> prelude, and a chunk of the Capriccio which 13 years later Puccini recycled as the opening musical gesture of La boh\u00e8me<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, where he recalls, perhaps, his own student life in Milan as he describes that of his four Bohemians in their Parisian attic.<\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n By George Hall Published: Thursday, 29 February 2024 at 19:03 PM Welsh National Opera Orchestra\/Carlo Rizzi Signum Classics SIGCD778\u00a0\u00a0 70:15 mins Conductor Carlo Rizzi insists that his symphonic suites from two of the composer\u2019s most popular operas \u2013 Tosca and Madam Butterfly \u2013 are not arrangements, but rather \u2018the music of Puccini\u2019. 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