Rolando Villazon's Viva Verdi!: My Personal Selectyion
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Rolando Villazon's Viva Verdi!: My Personal Selectyion
Rolando Villazon, Anna Netrebko, Placido Domingo, Bryn Terfel, Brigitte Fassbaender, Joan Sutherland & others
[ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD ]
Release Date: Friday 1 April 2016
Leading tenor, Rolando Villazon, has personally selected 34 great Verdi tracks, sung by the great names of the present and past, to inspire a new generation with the composer's great arias, powerful choruses and popular tunes.
The tracklist is framed by two stirring overtures, it includes famous numbers by all the leading singers on DG and Decca (as well as a couple from EMI), including Roberto Alagna, Carlo Bergonzi, Grace Bumbry, Joseph Calleja, José Carreras, Plácido Domingo, Renée Fleming, Anna Netrebko, Luciano Pavorotti, Katia Ricciarelli, Joan Sutherland and BrynTerfel. There are rousing choruses and several extracts from the Requiem too. It's a splendid 150-minute collection.
The striking cover includes one of Rolando's inimitable Verdi sketches, and will include a sticker incorporating a photo of the artist. The all-colour booklet has an article by journalist Richard Lawrence which also takes in some quotes from the artist in a recent interview for this release.
Villazón is confident that every excerpt on these discs will make the listener want to hear the complete work. "No other composer creates such an immediate link with the audience. Go to see La traviata: you hear those rhythms, those melodies, that dramatic force, and you are drawn into his world. It doesn't matter whether you love opera or know nothing about it: it just captures you, it grabs you." Listening to the numbers from La traviata here, you have to agree.
Tracks:
La Forza Del Destino: Sinfonia
Va, pensiero (from Nabucco)
La donna è mobile (from Rigoletto) with Joseph Calleja (tenor)
È il sol dell'anima (from Rigoletto) with Anna Netrebko (soprano), Rolando Villazón (tenor)
Bella figlia dell'amore (from Rigoletto) with Renata Scotto (soprano), Fiorenza Cossotto (mezzo), Carlo Bergonzi (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
Stride la vampa (from Il Trovatore) with Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo)
Anvil Chorus (from Il Trovatore)
Di quella pira (from Il trovatore) with Luciano Pavarotti (tenor)
Miserere d'un' alma gia vicina (from Il Trovatore) with Rosalind Plowright (soprano), Plácido Domingo (tenor)
Fontainebleau! Forêt immense et solitaire … (from Don Carlos) with Roberto Alagna (tenor)
O tu che in seno agli angeli (from La Forza del Destino) with José Carreras (tenor)
La traviata: Prelude to Act 1
Libiamo, ne' lieti calici (from La Traviata) with Anna Netrebko (soprano), Rolando Villazón
È strano! è strano!...Ah! fors è lui (from La traviata) with Anna Netrebko (soprano) & Saimir Pirgu (tenor)
Di Provenza il mar (from La Traviata) with Sherrill Milnes (baritone)
Parigi, o cara (from La Traviata) with Joan Sutherland (soprano), Luciano Pavarotti (tenor)
Se quel guerrier io fossi!…Celeste Aida (from Aida)
Grand March & Ballet Music (from Aida)
Vieni, o guerriero vindice (from Aida) with Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass)
O terra, addio (from Aida) with Katia Ricciarelli (soprano), Elena Obraztsova (mezzo), Plácido Domingo (tenor)
I Vestpri Siciliani: Sinfonia
plus excerpts fro Requiem, Don Carlo, Simon Boccanegra, Otello & Falstaff
