Franco Alfano - Complete String Quartets

Franco ALFANO (1875-1954)

Complete String Quartets

No. 1 in D Major (1914-18 rev. 1924)

No. 2 in Tre Tempi Collegati in C Major (1926)

No. 3 in G Minor (1945)

Elmira Darvarova (violin I) 

Mary Ann Mumm (violin II) 

Craig Mumm (viola) 

Samuel Magill (cello)

World Premier Recordings

rec. 2022, Mount Vernon, USA

Franco Alfano - Risurrezione

Franco ALFANO (1875-1954)

Risurrezione (1904)

Dramma in four acys - Libretto by Cesare Hannau from the novel by Leo Tolstoy

Cast

Anne Sophie Duprels (soprano) – Katyusha

Matthew Vickers (tenor) – Dimitri

Leon Kim (bass) – Simonov

Francesca di Sauro (mezzo-soprano) – Sofia

Romina Tomasoni (contralto) – Matryona, Anna

Ana Victoria Pitts (contralto) – Vera, Karablyova

Barbara Marcacci (soprano) – Fentichka

Filomena Pericoli (contralto) – Hunchback

Nadia Sturlese (mezzo-soprano) – Redhead

Niccolo Ayroldi (baritone) – Train-station officer

Giulia Bruni (mezzo-soprano) – Fedia

Silvia Capra (soprano) – Woman

Giovanna Costa (contralto) – Third prisoner

Lisandro Guinis (bass) – Krizlov, Second peasant

Nicola Lisanti (tenor) – Officer, First peasant

Monica Marzini (soprano) – Second prisoner

Giovanni Mazzei (baritone) – Guard

Antonio Montesi (baritone) – Cossack

Egidio Massimo Naccarato (baritone) – Muzhik

Delia Palmieri (soprano) – First prisoner

Nadia Pirazzini (contralto) – Old maidservant

Gabriele Spina (bass) – Chief guard

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Chorus and Orchestra

Francesco Lanzillotta

rec. Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, 17 and 21 January 2020

 

Franco Alfano - Cyrano de Bergerac

Franco ALFANO (1876-1954)

Cyrano de Bergerac - Comédie héroïque en quatre actes (cinq tableaux) (1936)

Manuela Uhl (sop) - Roxane

Jennifer Arnold (mz) - La Duègne et Soeur Marthe

Susanna Bernhard (sop) - Lisa et une soeur

Roman Sadnik (ten) - Cyrano

Wolfgang Newerla (bar) - De Guiche

Simon Pauly (bar) - Carbon, De Valvert, l'officer Espagnol

Paul McNamara (ten) - Christian

Matthias Kelin (bass-bar) - Ragueneau

Bernd Gebhardt (bass-bar) - Le Bret

Konstantin Heintel (bar) - Lignière

Kiel Opera Chorus

Kiel Philharmonic Orchestra

Markus Frank

Deutschland Radio live, Kiel Opera House, 12, 30 May 2002 DDD

Franco Alfano - Cello Sonata; Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano

Franco ALFANO (1875-1954)

Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano (1932) [28:24]

Sonata for Cello and Piano (1925) [31:42]

Elmira Darvarova (violin), Scott Dunn (piano), Samuel Magill (cello)

rec. 9-10 June 2008, M&I Studios, New York