Margaret Price in Recital

 
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TRADITIONAL / SCHUBERT / VERDI / RAVEL / etc
Margaret Price in Recital
Margaret Price (soprano), London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado, with James Lockhart & Geoffrey Parsons (piano)

[ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Friday 6 September 2019

A song recital new to CD from a peerless lyric soprano, coupled with classic recordings of Ravel and Verdi.

In 1971 Andrew Porter wrote that Margaret Price's voice was among the things that make one 'glad to be alive'. In the 1960s she had recorded for a small Welsh label a recital of Welsh, German and Italian songs that would become signature items for her over the coming decades. Reissued in 1969 by L'Oiseau-Lyre, the album makes it to CD for the first time in this compilation. In favourites such as Schubert's Heidenröslein, Verdi's Ave maria and five Welsh folksongs, Price is on sovereign form, with a gleaming upper register and engagingly fresh phrasing.

Also from the early 70s is a rare foray into contemporary music inspired by her Welsh heritage, with Alun Hoddinott's setting of a text by Emyr Humphries, Roman Dream. She recorded this for Argo along with a set of Gaelic folksongs by Phyllis Tate; these, too, are transferred to CD for the first time.

Tracks:

CD 1
BELLINI Almen se non possio*
DONIZETTI La Conocchia*
VERDI Ave Maria*
ROSSINI LInvito*
Du bist die Ruh, D.774* (FRANZ SCHUBERT) *
Heidenröslein, D. 257* (FRANZ SCHUBERT) *
Gretchens Bitte, D.564* (FRANZ SCHUBERT) *
Die Forelle, D.550* (FRANZ SCHUBERT) *
Y bore glas* (TRADITIONAL WELSH FOLK SONGS) *
Bugeilior Gwenith Gwyn* (TRADITIONAL WELSH FOLK SONGS) *
Wrth Fynd Efo Deio I Dowyn* (TRADITIONAL WELSH FOLK SONGS) *
Dafydd y Garreg Wen* (TRADITIONAL WELSH FOLK SONGS)
Y Deryn Pur* (TRADITIONAL WELSH FOLK SONGS) *
TATE Three Gaelic Ballads*
HODDINOTT Roman Dream, Op. 54*
BERG Altenberger Lieder
* FIRST CD RELEASE ON DECCA

CD 2
Il tramonto (GIUSEPPE VERDI)
La seduzione (GIUSEPPE VERDI)
Ad una stella (GIUSEPPE VERDI)
Lo spazzacamino (GIUSEPPE VERDI)
Perduta ho la pace (GIUSEPPE VERDI)
Deh, pietoso, oh Addolorata (GIUSEPPE VERDI)
Chi i bei dì madduce ancora (GIUSEPPE VERDI)
La zingara (GIUSEPPE VERDI)
Lesule (GIUSEPPE VERDI)
Non taccostare allurna (GIUSEPPE VERDI)
In solitaria stanza (GIUSEPPE VERDI)
Nellorror di notte oscura (GIUSEPPE VERDI)
Il poveretto (GIUSEPPE VERDI)
Stornello (GIUSEPPE VERDI)
Ave Maria (GIUSEPPE VERDI)
RAVEL Shéhérazade