Mascagni: Orchestral Works Luciano Ganci, Filarmonica 900 del Teatro Regio di Torino & Gianandrea Noseda

• Pietro Mascagni (1863 - 1945):
• 1Mascagni: L'apoteosi della cicogna04:20
• 2Mascagni: Visione lirica04:08
• 3Mascagni: La gavotta della bambole02:47
• 4Mascagni: Danza esotica08:07
• 5Mascagni: Ave Maria03:11
• 6Mascagni: Padre nostro04:41
• 7Mascagni: Mein erster Walzer09:31
• 8Mascagni: Serenata (Version for Voice and Orchestra)03:09
• The Eternal City Suite:
• 9Mascagni: The Eternal City Suite: I. Prelude03:44
• 10Mascagni: The Eternal City Suite: II. Intermezzo between Acts I and II03:37
• 11Mascagni: The Eternal City Suite: III. Interlude between Acts II and III03:54
• 12Mascagni: The Eternal City Suite: VI. Interlude between Acts III and IV04:41
• 13Mascagni: The Eternal City Suite: V. Interlude between Acts IV and V05:48
• Total Runtime01:01:38

Info for Mascagni: Orchestral Works

This album focuses on works that Pietro Mascagni, a composer largely known for his operatic output, composed for the concert hall. It forms part of Chandos’ ongoing series devoted to Italian music, the music performed by Gianandrea Noseda and Filarmonica ’900 Teatro Regio Torino with the tenor Luciano Ganci. Mascagni devoted his early years to composing sacred works, two such pieces being featured here, the tuneful Padre nostro and Ave Maria, the latter adapted from the Intermezzo of his operatic masterpiece Cavalleria rusticana. Two other works were written for the orchestra in Cerignola, Puglia where Mascagni had founded the local Philharmonic Society: the symphonic Danza esotica and Mein erster Walzer which presents Mascagni’s unique take on the Viennese waltz. Mascagni himself described La gavotta delle bambole as a ‘charming little thing’ for which he had hopes of popular success. Soon after, he composed the incidental music to Hall Caine’s play The Eternal City, the Suite from which focuses on the love between the two protagonists. Two further works represent a much later period in Mascagni’s compositional life, the small-scale symphonic poem Visione lirica and L’apoteosi della cicogna, his last orchestral work.

"A fascinating programme of concert works by a composer famed for his work for the stage Noseda has championed Mascagni before, and his passion for (and pride in) this repertoire shines through every bar. Anyone who loves Italian music of the late 19th and 20th centuries should sample without delay." (Guy Weatherall, Classical Music magazine)

"...Some agreeably spick-and-span playing from the Turin orchestra under Gianandrea Noseda’s sympathetic baton and Chandos’s unobtrusively natural sound grace an anthology that Mascagni diehards will want to hear..." (Andrew Achenbach, Gramophone magazine)

Luciano Ganci, tenor
Filarmonica 900 del Teatro Regio di Torino
Gianandrea Noseda, conductor

Luciano Ganci
Born in Rome, Luciano Ganci started studying music in the CAPPELLA MUSICALE PONTIFICIA SISTINA directed by Mo. Domenico Bartolucci. He studied piano and organ with D. Mitaritonna, D. Agostino and P.R. Preite.

Since 2006 he started studying Opera singing. From 2008 he studied and improved with Maestro Otello Felici in Rome, Francesca Patanè and Marco Chingari.

Beside his musical studies, he obtained the Geometry Diploma and, later, he studied Civil Engineering, graduating in Urban and Regional Planning.

Winner of several competitions, such as Ottavio Ziino, Rolando Nicolosi, the "Young Tenors Selection" organized by the Associazione Franco Corelli as well as winner of the competition Iris Adami Corradetti and of the Premio Internazionale Giuseppe Verdi as Young promise of opera of 2010. He has been also a semi-finalist of the prestigious Operalia contest of Plácido Domingo.

In 2009, he fully undertook the soloist career. After a brief experience with minor roles in LE NOZZE DI FIGARO and GIANNI SCHICCHI, he sang REQUIEM and VESPERAE SOLENNES DE CONFESSORE by Mozart. He participated in October, along with José Carreras, in the Opera gala at the Second Award Pavarotti d'oro at the Teatro Asioli of Correggio (RE). In December he sang KRÖNUNGSMESSE by Mozart in the Cathedral of Milan under the baton of Claudio Scimone.

In 2010, it occurred his real operatic debut with the role of Alfredo in LA TRAVIATA at the Teatro Politeama in Palermo (Morandi - Maestrini). Later he debuted Rodolfo in LA BOHÈME at the Abu Dhabi Festival (Veronesi - Scaparro), and Pinkerton in MADAMA BUTTERFLY (Queler - Ewitt) at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago.

In 2011 was Rodolfo in LA BOHÈME (Attanasi) in Prague and Zlìn, Pinkerton in MADAMA BUTTERFLY (Morandi - Cigni) at the Teatro Politeama of Palermo, and debuted the role of Oronte in I LOMBARDI ALLA PRIMA CROCIATA in Milan (Coladonato). The same year, in November, he debuted as Turiddu in CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA (Upadhyaya - De Mattia) in New Delhi.

The year 2012 opened with the debut at the Haus für Mozart in Salzburg in the role of Alfredo in LA TRAVIATA (Hussain/Kelly - Gergen), debut that marked a turning point in his career. Soon after, in fact, he was called to retake the role of Alfredo at the Teatro Verdi of Salerno (K.L.Wilson - Stinchelli) and at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Bisanti - R.di Meana). In May he was the protagonist in L'AMICO FRITZ by Mascagni at the Teatro Verdi of Trieste (Carminati - Salvo), where he later returned to play the role of Jesus in the Beethoven's oratory CHRISTUS AM ÖLBERGE, conducted by Wayne Marshall. In the same year, he sang several times Mozart's REQUIEM, and participated to the recording of a CD of previously unreleased tracks by Mascagni conducted by Gianandrea Noseda, published by Chandos. In November, he debuted as Manrico in IL TROVATORE at the Ravenna Festival (Pazkowsky - Muti).

In 2013, he debuted as Corrado in IL CORSARO by Giuseppe Verdi at the Teatro Verdi in Trieste, under the conduction and the direction of Gianluigi Gelmetti at the opening of the opera season. He continued, in February, with MADAMA BUTTERFLY at the Teatro delle Muse of Ancona (Palumbo - Bernard), followed by the debut in Verdi's REQUIEM at the Cathedral of Udine, IL TROVATORE at the Teatro Comunale of Piacenza (Pazkowsky - Muti), IL CORSARO in Budapest (Montanaro), Pécs and Banska Bystrica and the debut in the role of Ismaele in NABUCCO at the Beijing NCPA (Kohn - Deflo). In the summer, MADAMA BUTTERFLY at the prestigious Theatre Herodes Atticus in Athens (Michailidis - De Ana). In September he sang Verdi's MESSA DA REQUIEM at the Auditorium della Conciliazione in Rome (Frajese) and in autumn a new debut as Foresto in Verdi's ATTILA, in Astana, at the World premiere of the opening of the Theatre in Kazakhstan (Gergiev - Pizzi). In November he was Alfredo in LA TRAVIATA at the Teatro Massimo of Palermo (Beltrami - Pelly) and then again in Astana for ATTILA (Bohemians - Pizzi).

The 2014 resumed the scheme of the previous year, but on a larger scale. In January NABUCCO at the Teatro del Maggio Musicale in Florence (Palumbo - Muscato), in February he was engaged in MADAMA BUTTERFLY in Trieste (Renzetti - Ciabatti), in March he debuted with ATTILA at Marijinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg (Gergiev - Pizzi) and in April again MADAMA BUTTERFLY in Edmonton, Canada (Tweteen - Albery). In the same month he played again Ismaele in NABUCCO at Beijing NCPA (Zanetti - Deflo), where he remained to play in May the role of Manrico in IL TROVATORE (Lu Ja - De Ana). In June, he was engaged in the role of Foresto in ATTILA in Istanbul (Castriota) and in July it came the important debut in the role of Mario Cavaradossi in TOSCA at the Arena Sferisterio of Macerata (H.N.Kim - R. di Meana). It followed a new Verdi's debut in the role of Macduff in MACBETH at the Royal Opera House in Muscat (Renzetti - Brokhaus). In May, he played the role of Alfredo in LA TRAVIATA at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow and, in the same month, he was Pinkerton in MADAMA BUTTERFLY at the Teatro Verdi of Padua (Severini - Poda). In November he was engaged in two successful friendly concerts for the Classique Foundation of Gozo (Malta) at the Aurora Opera House, and then at the Erkel Színház Theater in Budapest, in honor of the 25 year career of the soprano Andrea Rost. In August he played the role of Rodolfo in LA BOHÈME at the Greek National Opera (Karytinos - Wertmüller), and he debuted in Beethoven's IX SYMPHONY conducted by Gianluigi Gelmetti.

The year 2015 started with a recital for the prestigious season of the Oratory of the Gonfalon of Rome, in February he debuted at Teatro Comunale of Bologna with the role of Pinkerton in MADAMA BUTTERFLY (Yoshida - Brunetti). In March, he sang in the MESSA DA REQUIEM by Giuseppe Verdi in Rome and Taranto, conducted by Gianluigi Gelmetti and debuted at the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa in L'AMICO FRITZ (Battistoni). In April, he debuted with great success the role of Rodolfo in LUISA MILLER at the Budapest Spring Festival and later at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples (Rustioni - De Rosa). In May, he debuted the role of Amenofi in MOSÈ by Rossini in Milan, in a production of the Veneranda Fabbrica del Duomo with great public approval, alongside the famous bass Ruggero Raimondi (Quattrocchi). In June and July he sang in LA TRAVIATA in Japan, Hyogo Performing Art Center (Sado - Mortelliti). In October, he debuted in the role of Pollione in NORMA by Vincenzo Bellini at the Teatro Giuseppe Verdi in Padua (Severini - Miccichè). In December, he played once again the role of Rodolfo in LA BOHÈME at the Opera Antwerpen in Belgium (Fogliani - Carsen).

2016 opened with two recitals in Rome and the role of Rodolfo in LA BOHÈME at the Opera Gent in Belgium (Fogliani - Carsen). In February he returned to the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples to play the role of Pollione in Bellini's NORMA (Nello Santi - Amato), and in March he played the role of Rodolfo in LUISA MILLER (Michailidis - Krief) at the Teatro Verdi of Trieste. In July, he returned at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples for MADAMA BUTTERFLY (Steinberg - Del Bono). In August and September, after two years, he was guest at Beijing NCPA for MACBETH by Giuseppe Verdi (Oren - De Ana). In October, a new role was added to his debuts, Carlo VII in GIOVANNA D'ARCO by Giuseppe Verdi at the Festival Verdi in Parma (Tebar – Boddeke & Greenaway). In November, it took place his operatic debut in Korea, in Seoul, in LA TRAVIATA (De Filippi - Brockhaus) and after that he was in Teatro alla Scala di Milano in MADAMA BUTTERFLY.

017 opened with LA BOHÈME in Salzburg, Haus für Mozart, then a new Verdi's debut in the role of Gustavo III in UN BALLO IN MASCHERA at the NCPA of Beijing (Palumbo - De Ana), and the role of Cavaradossi in TOSCA at Teatro Verdi of Trieste (Carminati - De Ana), Teatro Nuovo Giovanni da Udine and Teatro Giuseppe Verdi of Pordenone. In August he played the MESSA DI GLORIA of Puccini, in October the Verdi's STIFFELIO (Calvo - Vick) with great success during the Festival Verdi in Parma 2017. In October, he sang for the opening night of the season of the Valencia's theater with MADAMA BUTTERFLY (Matheuz - Lopez).

He sang in concerts and recitals in Montreal and Edmonton (Canada), Bratislava (Slovakia), Lucerne (Switzerland), New Delhi (India), Prague (Czech Republic), Kobe (Japan), Yeosu (Korea), Naples, Perugia, Rome, Parma and Verona.

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