Gabriele Ferro - La Sonnambula - DVD

In 1950, Timothy Evans was hanged for the murder of his baby daughter Geraldine. The police also believed that he had killed his wife Beryl. But to his final moments Evans protested his innocence. Three years later, a gruesome discovery at 10 Rillington Place revealed that his neighbor -- star prosecution witness John Reginald Christie (Tim Roth -- The Hateful Eight, Pulp Fiction) knew much more about the sinister goings on in the house

This new production of La Sonnambula dazzles with lovingly detailed and imaginative sets that produced a Swiss alpine resort in the 1930s. Bepi Morassi's staging is described as 'a spirited and witty new production' (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung). The New York Times hailed Jessica Pratt as a soprano of 'gleaming sound, free and easy high notes, agile coloratura runs and lyrical gract'.

If the legend of the 'sermon to the birds' constitutes a magnificent example of narrative art on the piano, for this way of expressing extra-musical ideas solely with notes the three series of Années de Pèlerinage would seem to be a salient cycle in Liszt's oeuvre. These 'years of pilgrimage' contain a total of 26 character pieces, forming a kind of musical diary for Liszt's years of travelling. After the very successful of Volume 1 (InchSvizzerlandInch) the young and talented Italian pianist Francesco Piemontesi takes care of the second part, InchItalyInch. Again, an impressive movie accompany the pianist on his trip throug Italy, on the traces of Franz Liszt. This shows not only the beauty of the landscape but also interesting statements of Francesco Piemontesi about his actual recording.