Piotr Beczala, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana & Marco Boemi – Vincerò! (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Global star tenor Piotr Beczala presents Vincerò!, the first fruit of his exclusive collaboration with PENTATONE. Vincerò! is a collection of heart-wrenching opera arias by Puccini, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Giordano and Cilea. For Beczala, this recording documents his vocal transition from the lyrical tenor repertoire to the more dramatic roles of Verismo, and thus simultaneously marks a significant new chapter in his stage career. Beczala is accompanied by the Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana and the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, led by maestro Marco Boemi; an extraordinary singers conductor who has worked with the greatest vocalists of our age. Piotr Beczala has the kind of voice you want to hang medals on. Its luminosity makes many of his fellow lyric tenors, past and present, sound by comparison like flickering candlewicks. Beczalas clarity and cleanliness of tone are the essence of his appeal. (Opera News Awards, 2015)

Vinceró! , “I will win!”. A whole program is hidden behind the famous and peremptory injunction that Calaf gives himself to conquer the love of the intractable Princess Turandot. It is under this banner, in the form of a bet, that Piotr Beczala places his first Pentatone recital, illustrating his evolution from the lyrical tenor repertoire to the dramatic roles of verismo. Puccini features prominently on this album with the famous arias from Tosca, Manon Lescaut, La Fanciulla del West, Edgar, Gianni Schicchi, Madame Butterfly and, of course, Turandot, which the star-studded Polish tenor had not yet performed on stage.

Recorded in 2019 at the Queen Sofia Palace of Arts in Valencia with the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana conducted by Marco Boemi, this recital also features some verismo composers from the end of the 19th century: Cilea, Mascagni, Giordano and Leoncavallo. A new turning point for Piotr Beczala, who will continue to play Radames and Lohengrin in Zurich and New York – François Hudry

Tracklist:
1. Piotr Beczala, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana & Marco Boemi – Tosca, SC 69 (Excerpts): Recondita armonia (02:51)
2. Piotr Beczala, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana & Marco Boemi – Tosca, SC 69 (Excerpts): E lucevan le stelle (04:19)
3. Piotr Beczala, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana & Marco Boemi – Adriana Lecouvreur (Excerpts): La dolcissima effigie (02:06)
4. Piotr Beczala, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana & Marco Boemi – Adriana Lecouvreur (Excerpts): L’anima ho stanca (01:57)
5. Piotr Beczala, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana & Marco Boemi – Adriana Lecouvreur (Excerpts): Il russo Mèncikoff (01:58)
6. Piotr Beczala, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana & Marco Boemi – Cavalleria rusticana (Excerpts): Intanto amici – Viva il vino spumeggiante (03:05)
7. Piotr Beczala, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana & Marco Boemi – Cavalleria rusticana (Excerpts): Mamma, quel vino è generoso (03:46)
8. Piotr Beczala, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana & Marco Boemi – Manon Lescaut, SC 64 (Excerpts): Donna non vidi mai (02:28)
9. Piotr Beczala, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana & Marco Boemi – Manon Lescaut, SC 64 (Excerpts): Tra voi, belle (01:33)
10. Piotr Beczala, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana & Marco Boemi – Andrea Chénier (Excerpts): Come un bel dì di maggio (02:53)
11. Piotr Beczala, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana & Marco Boemi – Andrea Chénier (Excerpts): Un dì all’azzuro spazio (05:03)
12. Piotr Beczala, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana & Marco Boemi – Fedora: Amor ti vieta (01:44)
13. Piotr Beczala, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana & Marco Boemi – Pagliacci: Recitar! – Vesti la giubba (03:33)
14. Piotr Beczala, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana & Marco Boemi – La fanciulla del West, SC 78: Ch’ella mi creda libero e lontano (01:53)
15. Piotr Beczala, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana & Marco Boemi – Edgar, SC 62: Orgia, chimera dall’occhio vitreo (04:58)
16. Piotr Beczala, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana & Marco Boemi – Gianni Schicchi, SC 88: Avete torto – Firenzo è come un albero fiorito (03:14)
17. Piotr Beczala, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana & Marco Boemi – Madama Butterfly, SC 74: Addio fiorito asil (02:02)
18. Piotr Beczala, Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana & Marco Boemi – Turandot, SC 91: Nessun dorma (03:22)