Puccini: Complete Songs for Soprano and Piano

Puccini: Complete Songs for Soprano and Piano cover $25.00 Low Stock add to cart

GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Complete Songs for Soprano and Piano
Krassimira Stoyanova (soprano), Maria Prinz (piano)

[ Naxos / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 10 March 2017

Should this item be out of stock at the time of your order, we would expect to be able to supply it to you within 4 - 7 business days.

Through Puccini represents the late-Romantic apex of the Italian operatic tradition, his songs are much less well known and, in their pared simplicity and emotional restraint, could hardly be more different from his stage works. The nineteen complete songs for soprano (two in duet with a mezzo) and piano cover themes typical of lyric poetry including life, death, personal resolution, love, nature, home and religious faith. There are also rare salon pieces and examples of Puccini's secular juvenilia, written between 1875 and 1880.

"This collection of songs is valuable in many ways, not least to find out how many melodic motives later were recycled and developed in Puccini's operas. Krassimira Stoyanova has a grand voice, vibrant, beautiful and expressive and she easily scales it down to the dimensions suitable for the simpler songs but used with impressive power and intensity for the more operatic items." MusicWeb

"Her disc of Puccini songs demonstrates why she's amongst the most sought-after sopranos of the day. Stoyanova's voice has a cool, almost instrumental quality, which then bursts into a surprisingly rich and warm sound when she unleashes it, but always with a sense of control...Stoynova sails through it in glorious voice and Maria Prinz's accompaniment is as equally accomplished. For lovers of good singing." Opera Now April 2017

Tracks:

Canto d'anime
Sole e Amore
E l'uccellino
La Primavera
Ave Maria Leopolda
Ad una morta
Morire
Salve Regina
A te
Casa mia, casa mia
Sogno d'or
Terra e mare
Inno a Roma, for chorus and organ and orchestra
Beata Viscera
Avanti Urania
Storiella D'amore
Inno a Diana
Menti All'avviso
Vexilla for men's chorus and organ