Giovanni Pacini
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Giovanni Pacini (11 February 1796 – 6 December 1867) was an Italian composer, best known for his operas. Pacini was born in Catania, Sicily, the son of the buffo Luigi Pacini, who was to appear in the premieres of many of Giovanni's operas. The family was of Tuscan origin, living in Catania when the composer was born. He served as the Florence Conservatory's first director from 1849 through 1862.
His first 25 or so operas were written when Gioachino Rossini dominated the Italian operatic stage. But Pacini's operas were "rather superficial", a fact which, later, he candidly admitted in his Memoirs. For some years he held the post of "director of the Teatro San Carlo in Naples." Later, retiring to Viareggio to found a school of music, Pacini took time to assess the state of opera in Italy and, during a five-year period during which he stopped composing, laid out his ideas in his Memoirs. Like Saverio Mercadante, who also reassessed the strength and weaknesses of this period in opera, Pacini's style did change, but he quickly became eclipsed by the rising influence of Giuseppe Verdi on the Italian operatic scene, and many of his operas appeared to be old fashioned and rarely, if ever, appeared outside of Italy." Pacini's work is largely forgotten today, although some recordings do exist.
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- Quartet No. 1 for Two Violins, Viola and Cello in C Major, Op. 4: I. Vivace - Quartetti d'archi in 3P, Vol. 1 - Pappalardo: Quartet No. 1 in C Major, Op. 4 - Pacini: Quartet No. 2 in C Major - Giovanni Pacini
- Quartet No. 1 for Two Violins, Viola and Cello in C Major, Op. 4: II. Adagio - Quartetti d'archi in 3P, Vol. 1 - Pappalardo: Quartet No. 1 in C Major, Op. 4 - Pacini: Quartet No. 2 in C Major - Giovanni Pacini
- Quartet No. 1 for Two Violins, Viola and Cello in C Major, Op. 4: III. Minuetto. Allegro vivace - Trio. Poco meno allegro - Più presto - Quartetti d'archi in 3P, Vol. 1 - Pappalardo: Quartet No. 1 in C Major, Op. 4 - Pacini: Quartet No. 2 in C Major - Giovanni Pacini
- Quartet No. 1 for Two Violins, Viola and Cello in C Major, Op. 4: IV. Allegretto - Quartetti d'archi in 3P, Vol. 1 - Pappalardo: Quartet No. 1 in C Major, Op. 4 - Pacini: Quartet No. 2 in C Major - Giovanni Pacini
- Quartet No. 2 for Two Violins, Viola and Cello in C Major: I. Allegro giusto - Quartetti d'archi in 3P, Vol. 1 - Pappalardo: Quartet No. 1 in C Major, Op. 4 - Pacini: Quartet No. 2 in C Major - Giovanni Pacini
- Quartet No. 2 for Two Violins, Viola and Cello in C Major: II. Minuetto. Allegro giusto - Quartetti d'archi in 3P, Vol. 1 - Pappalardo: Quartet No. 1 in C Major, Op. 4 - Pacini: Quartet No. 2 in C Major - Giovanni Pacini
- Quartet No. 2 for Two Violins, Viola and Cello in C Major: III. Andantino affettuoso - Quartetti d'archi in 3P, Vol. 1 - Pappalardo: Quartet No. 1 in C Major, Op. 4 - Pacini: Quartet No. 2 in C Major - Giovanni Pacini
- Quartet No. 2 for Two Violins, Viola and Cello in C Major: IV. Allegro - Quartetti d'archi in 3P, Vol. 1 - Pappalardo: Quartet No. 1 in C Major, Op. 4 - Pacini: Quartet No. 2 in C Major - Giovanni Pacini
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- Norma, Act I: Casta Diva (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi) - Casta Diva - Giovanni Pacini
- La Cenerentola, Act II: Nacqui all'affanno e al pianto - Casta Diva - Giovanni Pacini
- La Cenerentola, Act II: Non più mesta - Casta Diva - Giovanni Pacini
- Ines di Castro: Cari giorni - Casta Diva - Giovanni Pacini
- L'elisir d'amore, Act I: Una parola - Casta Diva - Giovanni Pacini
- L'elisir d'amore, Act I: Chiedi all'aura - Casta Diva - Giovanni Pacini
- Norma, Act II: Mira, O Norma (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi) - Edit - Casta Diva - Giovanni Pacini
- Norma, Act II: Cedi! Deh, cedi! (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi) - Edit - Casta Diva - Giovanni Pacini
- Norma, Act II: Si, fino all’ore estreme (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi) - Casta Diva - Giovanni Pacini
- La sonnambula, Act I: Prendi: l'anel ti dono - Edit - Casta Diva - Giovanni Pacini
- Il turco in Italia, Act I: No mia vita, mio tesoro (Critical Ed. Margaret Bent) - Casta Diva - Giovanni Pacini
- Il turco in Italia, Act I: Ed osate… (Critical Ed. Margaret Bent) - Edit - Casta Diva - Giovanni Pacini
- I puritani, Act II: O rendetemi la speme - Casta Diva - Giovanni Pacini
- Irene, Act II: Ira del ciel - Casta Diva - Giovanni Pacini
- Vaga luna che inargenti - Casta Diva - Giovanni Pacini
- La danza - Casta Diva - Giovanni Pacini
- Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492, Act II: Voi che sapete - Casta Diva - Giovanni Pacini
- Così fan tutte, Act II: Il cor vi dono - Casta Diva - Giovanni Pacini
- La clemenza di Tito: Se mai senti spirarti sul volto - Casta Diva - Giovanni Pacini
- Siface: Come Nave in mezzo all'onde - Casta Diva - Giovanni Pacini
- Alcina, HWV 34, Act I: Di' cor mio - Casta Diva - Giovanni Pacini
- Alcina, HWV 34, Act III: Ma quando tornerai - Casta Diva - Giovanni Pacini
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