Letter 'P' Cleanup (Random Reviews from the Overflow Room)
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I was amazed at how many single discs featured composers at the start of the letter "P." Here's a typically eclectic mix that rounds out our traversal of "P," albeit in reverse alphabetical order.
Kudos to Naxos! They have a delightful catalogue and I'm happy their willing to produce lesser known works.
markmiller
Paisiello's Barber of Seville can't hold a candle to Rossini's except for the yawning-sneezing trio which is great. Nina is the best of him I've heard and really pioneered the romantic, larmoyante school. But Cimarosa and Salieri are ultimately more interesting, I'd say.
I'm very fond of Paine's two symphonies and Mehta does so well with them. Scores are available free online.
I think Pacini's best opera is Saffo but the four or five I've heard all have interesting sequences. Like Donizetti, he wrote millions of operas and its hard to get a handle on him.
I must hear Paderewski's Polonia. Besides the piano concerto (Earl Wild with Fiedler) I have two versions of his opera Manru and it ain't bad. Virtually the same story as Rachmaninoff's Aleko Met did it eons ago.
bbailey
Onslow is in "O"s, maybe Mr.Hurwitz will say a few words about him.
ОлександрКрестін
What, no Zacharia Paliashvili?? I have his opera Absalom and Etery, which I guess is the most famous opera to come out of Georgia. I don't know anything else by him, though. Doubtless all your Paliashvili is upstairs!
robhaynes
Paisiello. You described his music as Charming and Delicious but when I read Classic's Today you quoted. These are competent performances of boring music. The two purely orchestral works are anonymous to the point of non-existence; the concertos affect a certain gallant tunefulness but are so four-square in phrasing and formulaic in construction that they outstay their welcome after the opening two minutes of their respective first movements. I'm confused.
