After the success with critics and audiences of Ivanhoe (CDS 397/1-2), here is a new collaboration between Dynamic and the Valle d’Itria Festival to the publication of another Rossinian pastiche: Robert Bruce, first staged at the Paris Opera in 1846. The most interesting aspect of Robert Bruce was that Rossini, having left his retreat, decided to borrow material especially from La Donna del Lago, a contradictory work to which, thanks to the additions from other scores, he seemed to give a new equilibrium and a second chance. But it would be incorrect to say that Robert Bruce is an adaptation of that opera: in it we find passages from Zelmira, Mose, Torvaldo e Dorlinska, Maometto II and Armida, skilfully put together by the composer Louis Niedermeyer.

Tracklisting:
CD1
1.Overture
2.Act I. Robert! Robert! (Scots)
3.Dieu sur leur souffrance (Bruce)
4.A ma fille, je l'espere (Douglas)
5.Marie! (Arthur)
6.Calme et pensive plage (Marie)
7.Moi te perdre! arret funeste! (Arthur)
8.Ciel! Un anglais! (Bruce)
9.Ce sont les clans de la montagne (Nelly)
10.Marche
11.La gloire est belle (Edouard)
12.Sire! Douglas le Noir (Morton)
13.Ah! Pour lui point de clemence! (Edouard)
14.Va, triomphe! (Edouard)
15.Act II. Le roi sommeile (Douglas)
16.Que ton ame, si noble, si bonne (Douglas)
17.Oh! noble pere! (Marie)
18.O saint amour, premiere flamme! (Marie)

CD2
1.Les Anglais! (Nelly)
2.Loyale famille! (Bruce)
3.Sort funeste! (Bruce)
4.Dieu te punisse! (Arthur)
5.Ingrate, adieu! (Arthur)
6.La guerre sans treve (Bruce)
7.Que l'hymne du barde (Bardes)
8.Act III. Oui, demain l'Ecossais (Bruce)
9.Anges sur moi penches (Bruce)
10.Cette route souterraine (Douglas)
11.Buvons, buvons (Les chevaliers)
12.Jeune fille de la montagne (Les chevaliers)
13.Sire! Les Ecossais (Morton)
14.Puisqu'un destin barbare (Marie)
15.Viens! Barbare (Marie)
16.Arrete et pour ta vie (Marie)

Performer:
Robert Bruce - Nicolas Rivenq
Marie - Iano Tamar
Arthur - Simon Edwards
Edouard - Davide Cicchetti
Douglas - Massimiliano Chiarolla
Nelly - Inga Balabanova
Morton - Ramaz Chikviladze
Dickson - Pietro Naviglio
A page - Tiziana Portoghese
A bard - Pietro Naviglio
Bratislava Chamber Choir
Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia
Conductor - Paolo Arrivabeni

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