Great Verdi Voices

 
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Great Verdi Voices
Leontyne Price (soprano) Julia Varady (soprano) Jose Carreras (tenor) Renato Bruson (baritone) Giuseppe Taddei (baritone) Franco Bonisolli (tenor), et

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Release Date: Friday 4 August 2017

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The radio recordings collected on this album from BR-Klassik were made between 1962 and 1984. All impressively convey the vocal presence of the renowned performing artists and are thus also of historical significance: the recordings produced by the Bayerischer Rundfunk document the development of how Verdi's music was received in Germany during the two decades in question.

Many live recordings also offer interesting alternatives to their studio counterparts at that time by the same renowned performers. Their names read like a who's who of the most excellent Verdi interpretations: Arleen Auger, Sena Jurinac, Leontyne Price, Margaret Price, Anneliese Rothenberger, Julia Varady, Vladimir Atlantov, Carlo Bergonzi, Franco Bonisolli, Renato Bruson, Piero Cappuccilli, José Carreras, Nicolai Gedda, Neil Shicoff and Giuseppe Taddei.

The selection of arias and opera scenes ranges from Verdi's early operas Ernani, Macbeth and Il Corsaro (The Corsair) and middle operas Rigoletto, Il Trovatore (The Troubadour), La Traviata and Un ballo in maschera (A Masked Ball), to the later works: Don Carlo, Aida, Otello and Falstaff. The arias and scenes, arranged chronologically according to their dates of composition, are a representative cross-section of Verdi's operatic oeuvre. The Münchner Rundfunkorchester accompanies throughout, under various German and international conductors.

Tracks:

1. Surta è la notte ... Ernani! Ernani, involami (Ernani) [5.58]
Leontyne Price (soprano) - Carlo Franci (conductor)
rec. 27 January 1968, Kongresssaal das Deutschen Museums, Munich

2. Mercè, diletti amici (Ernani) [6.02]
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Neil Shicoff (tenor) - Heinz Walberg (conductor)
rec. 12 March 1978, Kongresssaal das Deutschen Museums, Munich

3. La luce langue (Macbeth) [4.15]
Julia Varady (soprano) - Heinz Walberg (conductor)
rec. 5 November 1979, Studio 1, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich

4. Tutto parea sorridere (Il Corsaro) [4.28]
Jose Carreras (tenor) - Lamberto Gardelli (conductor)
rec. 6 July 1982, Kongresssaal das Deutschen Museums, Munich

5. Cortigiani, vil razza dannata (Rigoletto) [4.25]
Piero Cappuccilli (baritone) - Kurt Eichhorn (conductor)
rec. 11 January 1970, Kongresssaal das Deutschen Museums, Munich

6. La donna è mobile (Rigoletto) [2.02]
Nicolai Gedda (tenor) - Kurt Eichhorn (conductor)
rec. 10 March 1968, Kongresssaal das Deutschen Museums, Munich

7. Ah sì ben mio (Il trovatore) [3.41]
Carlo Bergonzi (tenor) - Kurt Eichhorn (conductor)
rec. 11 January 1970, Kongresssaal das Deutschen Museums, Munich

8. Di quella pira (Il trovatore) [3.42]
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Franco Bonisolli (tenor) - Hermann Hildebrandt (conductor)
rec. 15 September 1973, Kongresssaal das Deutschen Museums, Munich

9. È strano! è strano! ... Ah! fors è lui (La traviata) [6.37]
Anneliese Rothenberger (soprano) - Arnold Quennet (conductor)
rec. 10 November 1963, Kongresssaal das Deutschen Museums, Munich

10. Di Provenza il mar (La Traviata) [4.28]
Renato Bruson (baritone) - Giuseppe Patané (conductor)
rec. 4 November 1984, Kongresssaal das Deutschen Museums, Munich

11. Saper vorreste (Un Ballo in Maschera) [1.57]
Arleen Auger (soprano) - Kurt Eichhorn (conductor)
rec. 3 July 1979, Studio 1, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich

12. Tu che le vanità (Don Carlo) [9.59]
Sena Jurinac (soprano) - Horst Stein (conductor)
rec. 11 November 1962, Kongresssaal das Deutschen Museums, Munich

13. Ritorna vincitor! … Numi pieta (Aida) [6.57]
Margaret Price (soprano) - Heinz Walberg (conductor)
rec. 29 March 1981, Kongresssaal das Deutschen Museums, Munich

14. Niun mi tema (from Otello) [5.14]
Wladimir Atlantow (tenor) - Heinz Walberg (conductor)
rec. 12 July 1980 Studio 1, Bayerischer Rundfunk, Munich

15. Ehi! Paggio! ... L'onore! Ladri! (Falstaff) [4.06]
Giuseppe Taddei (baritone) - Kurt Eichhorn (conductor)
rec. 19 May 1968, Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg