La Tregua (Caroline Helton & Kathryn Goodson)
La Tregua: Songs from a Lost World of Italian Jewish Composers, Vol. II (1895-1945)
With this recording soprano Caroline Helton and pianist Kathryn Goodson continue their exploration of the music of some of the Italian Jewish composers who were central to Italian culture during the first part of the twentieth century, but whose contributions to the repertoire were essentially lost as a result of WWII. Most of the music on this CD has never been recorded and has rarely been performed in the intervening years, but the quality of the songs undoubtedly deserves the efforts to raise them from obscurity.
Tre canti (1912) by Leone Sinigaglia (1868-1944)
Canto dell’ospite
Quiete meridiana nell’Alpe
Il rifugio
Quattro canti (1895) by Guido Alberto Fano (1875-1961)
Era un trillar d’uccelli
Tremavan nel cielo le stelle
Sognai di te
Da lo stagno al ciel gemea
Due madrigali (1937) by Renzo Massarani (1898-1975)
Brunetta
Morir vorrei
Quattro canti veronesi (1934) by Renzo Massarani
Ànema cara
Ve la conto e ve la canto
O Dio del çielo
Signor Sergento
Vocalise (1932) by Felice Boghen (1869-1945)
Briciole (1915) by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968)
Rio Bo
Mezzogiorno
Il passo delle Nazarene
Tre canti (unpublished manuscript, 1945) by Guido Alberto Fano (1875-1961)
O strana bimba
O falce di luna
Ad Annie
La Tregua (1902) by Leone Sinigaglia (1868-1944)
