Highlights From Famous Operas - CD 8 - Bellini, Donizetti / Brilliant Classics Audio CD 1994 / 280742

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Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini (Italian: [vinˈtʃɛntso salvaˈtoːre karˈmɛːlo franˈtʃesko belˈliːni]; 3 November 1801 – 23 September 1835) was a Sicilian opera composer, who was known for his long-flowing melodic lines for which he was named "the Swan of Catania". Many years later, in 1898, Giuseppe Verdi "praised the broad curves of Bellini's melody: 'there are extremely long melodies as no-one else had ever made before'."

Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (29 November 1797 – 8 April 1848) was an Italian composer, best known for his almost 70 operas. Along with Gioachino Rossini and Vincenzo Bellini, he was a leading composer of the bel canto opera style during the first half of the nineteenth century and a probable influence on other composers such as Giuseppe Verdi. Donizetti was born in Bergamo in Lombardy. At an early age he was taken up by Simon Mayr who enrolled him with a full scholarship in a school which he had set up. There he received detailed musical training. Mayr was instrumental in obtaining a place for Donizetti at the Bologna Academy, where, at the age of 19, he wrote his first one-act opera, the comedy Il Pigmalione, which may never have been performed during his lifetime.

Tracklist:

1.  Vincenzo Bellini - Norma - ''Alcun s'avanza... Oh! Rimembranza...'' Act II (Norma, Adalgisa)   11:31

2.  Gaetano Donizetti - Anna Bolena - ''Dio che mi vedi in core... Al par del mio... Va, infelice'', Act II (Anna Bolena, Giovanna Seymour)   15:46

3.  Vincenzo Bellini - Norma - ''Me Chiami o Norma? Deb! con te li prendi... Mira, o Norma... Cedi... deh! cedi! Si, fino all'ore...'' Act II   13:55

4.  Vincenzo Bellini -I Capuleti E I Montecchi - ''Ah! Mia Giulietta! Si fuggire! Vieni, ah, vieni...'' Act I (Romeo, Giulietta)   17:07