FULL Il Figlio ritrovato Padua 2021
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Il Figlio ritrovato
- Composer: various
- Libretto: various
- Venue & Opera Company: Teatro Verdi. Padova, Italy
- Recorded: November 2, 2021
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Remo Stella, Anna Moro
- Conductor: Antonello Pagotto
- Orchestra: Wind Orchestra of the Northern Operational Forces
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Esercito Italiano
- Date Published: 2021
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
The program
Ave Maria
(G. Caccini)
Giulio Caccini (ca. 1550 – 1618), also known as Giulio Romano, was a composer, singer and luthier but above all he is considered the founder of the opera. World stars of the caliber of Andrea Bocelli and Inessa Galante have brought back the arias of the multifaceted Italian artist.
(Solo flute: Sergeant Major Francesco Tarantino – Fanfare of the “Pozzuolo del Friuli” Cavalry Brigade).
The echo of silences
(C. Taurisano)
The Italian Alps were the scene of many battles during the First World War. Even today, going up those peaks, we can imagine the echo of machine guns and cannons, those death sounds that today are reproduced by the pursuit of the out-of-tune snare drum and eardrums. With the song “the echo of silences”, written by Sergeant Cosimo Taurisano, we want to pay homage to the souls of the victims of both factions by offering the melodies of Austrian silence ( Ich hatte einen Kamerade ) and the Italian one that intertwine in the grand finale where a symbolic embrace that praises peace is idealized.
(Solo trumpet: Corporal Major Chief Mirko Cipriano – Fanfare of the 11th Bersaglieri Regiment).
The Great War
(M. Mangani)
Composed by Maestro Michele Mangani on the occasion of the centenary of the First World War, the piece contains the most popular songs in that historical period, masterfully harmonized and instrumented for a modern band.
Medea
(G. Piantoni)
“Medea” is a small town (less than a thousand inhabitants) in the province of Gorizia. During the Great War, Medea became an observation point on the front of the Isonzo river by the King Vittorio Emanuele III. Among the ranks of the 57th Infantry Regiment (Brigata Abbruzzi), which participated in the sixth battle of the Isonzo (August 1916), was the Maestro Giuseppe Piantoni who in those sad and poignant moments found only solace in music. The Maestro will produce a vast repertoire inspired by the bloody air that was breathed at the front and one of these compositions was dedicated to the Friulian town.
(Version for modern staff by Maestro Giorgio Cannistrà).
The Army in Vittorio Veneto
(A. Lacerenza)
Song written in 1956 by Amleto Lacerenza, first Master of the Italian Army Band, and subsequently modified in 1968. This march, hymn of jubilation and remembrance, was written to commemorate “the battle of Vittorio Veneto” which sanctioned the victory of Italy in the First World War.
(Instrumentation for wind orchestra by Maestro Salvatore Farina)
Elegy for Gorizia
(F. Creux)
The Sixth Battle of the Isonzo, also known as the Battle of Gorizia, was fought in the first half of August 1916 between the Italian and Austro-Hungarian armies and culminated in the conquest of the city by the Italian troops. The capture of Gorizia cost the Italians four times more casualties than those of the rival army, but it represented an important victory and a significant milestone in the history of the conflict. Maestro Fulvio Creux wanted to remember those days so distant, but still alive in the memory, with a composition for Banda that wants to recall the events and deeds of those many “common men” who fought under different banners and, in many cases, left their youth and their hopes on that land.
Ave Maria
(JS Bach – C. Gounod)
It is a famous composition on the Latin text of the Ave Maria. The melody of the song was written in 1859 by the French composer Charles Gounod who thought it superimposed on the Prelude n.1 in C major composed more than 130 years earlier by Johann Sebastian Bach. This “Ave Maria” was performed in 1921 in the Basilica of Aquileia, dedicated to Santa Maria Assunta, during the sad phases that led to the choice of the body which would later be buried in Rome as an Unknown Soldier and which would therefore have represented the sacrifice of six hundred thousand fallen Italians. Maria Bergamas, a commoner from Gradisca d’Isonzo, ideally representing all the Italian mothers who had lost a child during the war, was instructed to choose between eleven bodies.