Album guide
Reimagining Opera (Arr. for Jazz Ensemble)
Dario Savino Doronzo, Pietro Gallo, Michel Godard
- Released
- 2019
- Label
- Digressione Music
- Forces
- Trumpet, Piano
- Personnel
- Dario Savino Doronzo flugelhorn, Pietro Gallo piano, with Michel Godard tuba and serpent on three tracks
Italian flugelhorn player Dario Savino Doronzo has said that classical works are too often treated as untouchable objects of reverence. In ReimagineDuo, his instrument takes the singer’s line while Pietro Gallo’s piano opens the score to jazz improvisation.
Michel Godard joins them on tuba and serpent for three tracks, adding a bass voice to the otherwise spare duo. His own Fruccia d’ali closes the album after seven new readings of Italian opera and song.
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Source works
The album’s complete track listing, with each classical source identified and original compositions marked plainly.
- Otello ‘Ouverture’ - Arr. for Jazz EnsembleVerdi: Otello — Preludio
- Sì dolce è ‘l tormento - Arr. for Jazz EnsembleMonteverdi: Quarto scherzo delle ariose vaghezze: ‘Sì dolce è’l tormento’, SV 332
- Se tu m’ami - Arr. for Jazz EnsembleParisotti: ‘Se tu m’ami’, published as Pergolesi’s
- Turandot ‘Nessun dorma’ - Arr. for Jazz EnsemblePuccini: Turandot, Act III: ‘Nessun dorma’
- Cavalleria rusticana ‘Intermezzo’ - Arr. for Jazz EnsembleMascagni: Cavalleria rusticana — Intermezzo sinfonico
- Caro mio ben - Arr. for Jazz EnsembleGiordani: ‘Caro mio ben’
- La molinara ‘Nel cor più non mi sento’ - Arr. for Jazz EnsemblePaisiello: L’amor contrastato ossia La molinara, Act III: ‘Nel cor più non mi sento’
- Fruccia d’ali - Arr. for Jazz EnsembleOriginal composition by Michel Godard