Francesca da Rimini

Album by Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff & BBC Singers & BBC Philharmonic & Gianandrea Noseda

Francesca da Rimini is a symphonic poem by Sergei Rachmaninov, composed in 1900. The orchestral work employs late-Romantic harmony and dramatic, chromatic orchestration with agitated string writing and dark brass colours to evoke its narrative subject, and it illustrates Rachmaninov's development of a mature orchestral voice alongside his piano output.

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  1. 1.
    Francesca da Rimini, op. 25: Prologue. [Largo]
    6:11
  2. 2.
    Francesca da Rimini, op. 25: Prologue. The First Circle of Hell. The Shade of Virgil, Followed by Dante
    5:37
  3. 3.
    Francesca da Rimini, op. 25: Prologue. The Second Circle. Dante and Virgil on the Edge of the Precipice
    8:25
  4. 4.
    Francesca da Rimini, op. 25: Scene I. Rimini. The Malatesta Castle.
    1:26
  5. 5.
    Francesca da Rimini, op. 25: Scene I. "My Answer Is Plain." (Lanceotto)
    2:59
  6. 6.
    Francesca da Rimini, op. 25: Scene I. "Nothing Can Extinguish These Jealous Thoughts." (Lanceotto)
    9:00
  7. 7.
    Francesca da Rimini, op. 25: Scene I. "My Lord Called for Me?" (Francesca)
    8:44
  8. 8.
    Francesca da Rimini, op. 25: Scene II. Rimini. A Room in the Castle.
    2:31
  9. 9.
    Francesca Da Rimini, op. 25: Scene II. "The Fair Guinivere..." (Paolo)
    16:03
  10. 10.
    Francesca Da Rimini, op. 25: Scene II. Epilogue
    3:47

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