Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936)
Quattro rispetti taoscani
Deità silvane

Giuseppe Martucci (1856-1909)
Trois pièces, op. 84

Amilcare Ponchielli (1834-1886)
Sonnet de Dante "Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare"

Ciro Pinsuti (1829-1888)
Sonnet de Dante "Tanto gentile e tanto onesta pare"

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)
Trois sonnets de Pétrarque, S 158

Rosa Feola, soprano
Iain Burnside, piano

Young soprano Rosa Feola captured international attention as a treble prize-winner at the Plácido Domingo World Opera Competition (2010). Attributed ‘blazing star potential’ for her sensitive phrasing and imaginative colouring of words (Telegraph), she brings her feel for text to this celebration of music and Italian poetry, in which master orchestrator Respighi paints Tuscan folk scenes and woodland deities and the virtuoso Liszt is inspired by Petrarch. Presenting the major singers of today and the stars of tomorrow, the Rosenblatt Recitals are London's only world-class season of opera recitals.