Nino Sanzogno - Il Turco in Italia - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Rossini's brilliant satirical opera, Il Turco in Italia, is as notable for it's considerable use of ensemble set pieces as for it's many memorable tunes. The plot revolves around the tangled romance of the Turkish nobleman, Selim, on a visit to Naples to experience Italian life at first hand, and of his former mistress, Zaida, with whom he is finally reunited. Among the many highlights is the masterful duet of Geronio and Selim, in which the Turk tries to persuade the ageing husband to sell him his wife, the capricious Fiorilla.

Chailly / Palacio / Barbacini - Il Turco in Italia [COMPACT DISCS] date 05/27/2009

One of Milhaud' finest and most expressive later scores, L'Amour chante sets poems on the subject of love by various poets, making of each a 'novel within a sigh'. in the Poemes juifs, whose anonymous texts Milhaud read in a magazine.