Manuel Jiménez Friaza
Since you shared this beautiful interpretation of the Intermezzo on the occasion of Easter, I haven't stopped listening to it, in a certain mystical "trance"... Thank you.
Favorite track: Cavalleria Rusticana Intermezzo.
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Deciding to make something ‘Easter themed’, I happened upon the idea of recording Cavalleria Rusticana Intermezzo, taken from Pietro Mascagni’s 1890 Cavalleria Rusticana opera…the story of which is set at Easter. I am always nervous in anticipation of my audience’s response to things I make, nevertheless find here my humble interpretation of this work, I do hope you will enjoy it. Mascagni too appeared to suffer with self doubt. I read that, disappointed by his own composition, Mascagni had discarded the unfinished version of this opera. Thankfully for the opera appreciating audience of the future, the manuscript was wrested from the 19th century equivalent of the waste paper basket by his wife, whereupon the work soon won the competition for which it had been written and was much lauded as a great international success.
Anyway, wishing you a lovely weekend…and a ‘Happy Easter’ to those who celebrate it.
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