Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.It is easy to forget that Verdi, most Italian of composers, wrote two works for London. The first was his early opera I masnadieri in 1847; the second the rarely performed Inno delle nazioni (\u201cHymn of the Nations\u201d), a showpiece of the International Exhibition of 1862. By coincidence, both had their premieres at Her Majesty\u2019s Theatre on Haymarket.The \u201cHymn of the Nations\u201d is exactly what it says, a hymn to peace between countries that combines anthems representing Britain, France and Italy. Like most pieces written for a specific occasion, it doesn\u2019t bear much repeated listening, but Verdi delivers choral splendour on a grand scale (there were 250 voices at the premiere); in this Decca recording, Freddie De Tommaso is a more than creditable tenor soloist.It is paired with the substantial Quattro pezzi sacri (\u201cFour sacred pieces\u201d). Assembled over more than a decade towards the end of Verdi\u2019s life, these four choral movements offer a late but fascinating addition to his works.Two of them, the \u201cAve Maria\u201d and \u201cLaudi alla Vergine Maria\u201d, are for choir alone and in their polyphonic choral writing look back to the Italian Renaissance glory of Palestrina. The longer pair, the \u201cStabat Mater\u201d and \u201cTe Deum\u201d, add an orchestra to summon hellfire and jubilation in the manner of Aida and the Requiem.There is a lot of opera-house drama to be unleashed here and Riccardo Chailly, with Milan\u2019s Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala, does not hold back. Native Italian musicianship is as valuable here as it is in Verdi\u2019s operas.\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u2606\u2018Verdi: Inno delle nazioni and Quattro pezzi sacri\u2019 is released by Decca<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.It is easy to forget that Verdi, most Italian of composers, wrote two works for London. The first was his early opera I masnadieri in 1847;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-130623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-culture"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130624,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130623\/revisions\/130624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}