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  • Release Date: 09/16/1997
  • Sales Rank: 58,227
  • Label: DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON
  • UPC: 028944764024

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The Fiddler of the Opera

1. Figaro (concert paraphrase of 'Largo al factotum' from Rossini's "Barber of Seville"), for cello & piano 4:43
Composed by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Performed by Gil Shaham and Akira Eguchi
2. Concert Fantaisy on themes from Mozart's "The Magic Flute," for violin & orchestra (or piano) 11:48
Composed by Pablo de Sarasate
Performed by Gil Shaham and Akira Eguchi
3. Mélodie (Dance of the Blessed Spirits) for violin & piano (transcriptin of Gluck's Lento from Orfeo ed Euridice) 2:49
Composed by Fritz Kreisler
Performed by Gil Shaham and Akira Eguchi
4. I palpiti, introduction & variations on "Di tanti palpiti" from Rossini's "Tancredi," for violin & orchestra, Op 13, MS 77 9:40
Composed by Niccolò Paganini
Performed by Gil Shaham and Akira Eguchi
5. Transcription for violin of the March from Prokofiev's "The Love for Three Oranges" 1:29
Composed by Jascha Heifetz
Performed by Gil Shaham and Akira Eguchi
6. Der Rosenkavalier, opera, Op. 59 (TrV 227): Waltzes 7:29
Composed by Richard Strauss
Performed by Gil Shaham and Akira Eguchi

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February 05, 2005: I knew I was destined to love Gil Shaham as soon as I saw this CD, and I knew that I did love him as soon as I heard his "Largo al Factotum!" What a clever arrangement!...Figaro's opening aria was one of my very first operatic experiences, and to this day I still feel quivery excited shivers down my back when I hear the baritone start his "lar-a-la-la-la's!" What fun it must be to play it! Amongst the other pieces on the CD there is Gluck’s “Dance of The Blessed Spirits,” of course, and a lovely fantasy on “The Magic Flute.” The sparkling "Carmen" fantasy is flawlessly performed (though no one can hold a candle to Perlman’s version of the Sarasate Fantasy), and Heifetz's famous "Porgy and Bess" arrangements (upon hearing which, I up and ordered the sheet music straightaway). People who enjoy this CD, I am sure, have the same sentiment as I: we ADORE hearing the arias sung, but while we hear 'em we're itching to play them ourselves!