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C Gomes - Opera Overtures and Preludes | Naxos 8574409

C Gomes - Opera Overtures and Preludes

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8574409

Barcode: 0747313440979

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 24th March 2023

Contents

Works

Gomes, Carlos

A noite do castelo
» Prelude (Act 1)
Condor
» Nocturne (Act 3)
» Prelude (Act 1)
Fosca
» Overture
Il Guarany
» Overture
Joana de Flandres
» Prelude (Act 1)
Lo schiavo
» Prelude 'Alvorada' (Act 4)
» Prelude (Act 1)
Maria Tudor
» Prelude (Act 1)
Salvator Rosa
» Overture

Artists

Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Fabio Mechetti

Works

Gomes, Carlos

A noite do castelo
» Prelude (Act 1)
Condor
» Nocturne (Act 3)
» Prelude (Act 1)
Fosca
» Overture
Il Guarany
» Overture
Joana de Flandres
» Prelude (Act 1)
Lo schiavo
» Prelude 'Alvorada' (Act 4)
» Prelude (Act 1)
Maria Tudor
» Prelude (Act 1)
Salvator Rosa
» Overture

Artists

Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Fabio Mechetti

About

Carlos Gomes was not only Brazil’s leading operatic composer, but he also helped pave the way for Italian verismo during the latter part of the 19th century. The preludes and overtures from his operas chart a course from early experimentation with orchestral sonority to a new conception of atmosphere and tension in his historically based dramas. In Alvorada (‘Dawn’) from Lo schiavo his descriptive writing comes close to the status of a symphonic poem. The music from his greatest artistic triumph, Il Guarany, weaves themes into an organic whole, while his final opera, Condor, is reminiscent of French orchestral music in its employment of whole-tone scales.

This is Volume 14 in Naxos’s The Music of Brazil series. These are also the first recordings of the overtures and preludes of Gomes to be made available for an international audience.

Fabio Mechetti has been artistic director and principal conductor of the Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra since its foundation. Under his leadership, the orchestra has received numerous awards, recorded nine albums, including several for Naxos, and undertaken a tour of South America. In 2014, he became the first Brazilian music director of an Asian orchestra when he was appointed principal conductor of the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra. In the US, Mechetti conducted the Jacksonville Symphony for 14 years and is now its conductor emeritus.

Fabio Mechetti and the Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra are leading figures in the Naxos ‘Music of Brazil’ series – in 2008, Mechetti became the founding music director and principal conductor of the orchestra.

The Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra has received numerous awards and accolades, including CONCERTO magazine’s Grand Prize (2015, 2020), the Carlos Gomes Award for the best Brazilian Orchestra (2012), and being named classical music ensemble of the year (2010) by the São Paulo Association of Art Critics (APCA).

Together conductor and orchestra have recorded the music of Pedro I which can be heard on 8574404: ‘The sure orchestral direction of Fabio Mechetti …provide a triumphant demonstration of how far understanding of the performance of repertoire from the 18th century in Brazil has come over the past few decades, and the recorded sound, captured at the Sala Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, is exemplary’ (Gramophone).

They have also recorded Almeida Prado on 8574225 which was nominated for a Latin Grammy in 2020 (Best Classical Album category): ‘The Minas Gerais Philharmonic Orchestra, under the expert direction of Fabio Mechetti, provides a wellconsidered and exemplary accompaniment. The recorded sound is very good’ (Fanfare).

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