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Placido Domingo: Verdi

Placido Domingo (baritone), Angel Joy Blue (Amelia), Gianluca Buratto (Fiesco), Fernando Piqueras (Paolo), Bonifaci Carrillo (Pietro), Aquiles Machado (Gabriele), Gianluca Buratto (Ferrando), Aquiles Machado (Carlo), Gianluca Buratto (Chirurgo)

Orquestra de la Comunítat Valencíana, Pablo Heras-Casado

Verdi himself would surely have applauded the expressivity of such singing where character is all...no one should pretend this voice is what it was: it is showing its age...Yet I can't imagine... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 19th Aug 2013
Catalogue No: 88883733122
Label: Sony
Length: 70 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

12th August 2013

Excerpt, Verdi: Macbeth

Work length5:21

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Plácido Domingo (baritone), Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana
Pablo Heras-Casado

"Perfidi! All'anglo contro me v'unite! ... Pietà, rispetto, amore"

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Excerpt, Verdi: Rigoletto

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Plácido Domingo (baritone), Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana
Pablo Heras-Casado

"Pari siamo! Io la lingua"

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"Sì, la mia figlia! ... Cortigiani, vil razza dannata"

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Excerpt, Verdi: Un ballo in maschera

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Plácido Domingo (baritone), Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana
Pablo Heras-Casado

"Alzati! Là tuo figlio ... Eri tu che macciavi quell'anima"

Track length6:22

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Excerpt, Verdi: La Traviata

Work length4:30

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Plácido Domingo (baritone), Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana
Pablo Heras-Casado

"Di Provenza il mar, il suol"

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Excerpt, Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

Work length9:49

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Plácido Domingo (baritone), Angel Joy Blue (soprano), Aquiles Machado (tenor), Gianluca Buratto (bass), Fernando Piqueras (baritone), Bonifaci Carrillo (bass), Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Cor de la Generalitat Valencia, Francesco Perales (chorus master)
Pablo Heras-Casado

"Abbasso le spade! ... Plebe! Patrizi! Popolo dalla feroce storia!"

Track length5:17

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"Ecco la spada"

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Excerpt, Verdi: Ernani

Work length6:57

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Plácido Domingo (baritone), Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana
Pablo Heras-Casado

"È questo il loco?"

Track length3:31

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"Oh, de' verd'anni miei"

Track length3:26

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Excerpt, Verdi: Il Trovatore

Work length7:36

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Plácido Domingo (baritone), Gianluca Buratto (bass), Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Cor de la Generalitat Valencia, Francesco Perales (chorus master)
Pablo Heras-Casado

"Tutto è deserto"

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"Il balen del suo sorriso"

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"Qual suono! Oh ciel! ... Per me, ora fatale"

Track length2:56

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Excerpt, Verdi: Don Carlo

Work length12:13

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Plácido Domingo (baritone), Aquiles Machado (tenor), Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana
Pablo Heras-Casado

"Son io, mio Carlo"

Track length3:36

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"Per me giunto è il dì supremo"

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"Che parli tu di morte?"

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Excerpt, Verdi: La forza del destino

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Plácido Domingo (baritone), Gianluca Buratto (bass), Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana
Pablo Heras-Casado

"Morir! Tremenda cosa"

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"Urna fatale del mio destino"

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"E s'altra prova rinvenir potessi? ... Egli è salvo! Gioia immensa"

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Recording of the Week, Verdi arias from Anna Netrebko

12th August 2013

The Russian soprano marks the composer’s bicentenary with arias and scenes from Don Carlo, Macbeth, Il trovatore, Giovanna d’Arco and I vespri siciliani in a recital which reveals a voice reaching glorious full bloom.

For the very first time, Plácido Domingo records a complete album of baritone repertoire: here he assembles Verdi´s most beloved baritone arias from Don Carlo, Rigoletto, La Traviata and Simon Boccanegra among many others. Verdi played the largest part in Domingo´s long career. His debut as an opera singer was in the part of Borsa in Rigoletto. As he has sung 22 of Verdi tenor roles and has recorded all of Verdi´s tenor arias, Domingo feels excited to now be able to explore the darker characters of Verdi’s opera. In 2009 Plácido Domingo performed his first baritone title role as Simon Boccanegra at the Royal Opera House in London, which was soon followed by leading roles as Rigoletto, Francesco Foscari and Giorgio Germont from La Traviata. This year will see Domingo debut in the leading roles of Nabucco at the Metropolitan Opera New York and Conte di Luna from Il Trovatore at the State Opera in Berlin. Considered to be THE Verdi tenor of his generation, Plácido Domingo presents now a new side of his vocal abilities, for which one may want to name him THE Verdi singer. Plácido Domingo is accompanied by the Orquestra de la Comunítat Valencíana under the direction of conductor Pablo Heras-Casado. His work in the recording studio has earned him 12 Grammy Awards, three of which are Latin Grammys, and his telecast of Tosca from the authentic settings in Rome was seen by more than one billion people in 117 different countries. His appearances around the world with his colleagues José Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti in the legendary The Three Tenors concerts are one of the great musical success stories.

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Orquestra de la Comunítat Valencíana, Pablo Heras-Casado

Reviews

December 2013

Verdi himself would surely have applauded the expressivity of such singing where character is all...no one should pretend this voice is what it was: it is showing its age...Yet I can't imagine not having this recording on the shelf. Think about Domingo's Verdi as 'late work', the distillation of a remarkable artistic life, and you may agree.

September 2013

as a baritone, he still sounds like Domingo the tenor...In some arias, one senses subtle interpretative concessions: passages that lie in the weaker parts of Domingo's voice have more brisk, sustainable tempi. No harm done...Though he has no shortage of dramatic depth, Domingo saves it for the recitatives

15th November 2013

Most of the arias on this disc also have a rather high tessitura and a tenoral brightness at the top is not unwelcome in that case...one has to marvel at the youthfulness and the freshness of his voice... There are no serious signs of deterioration, his vibrato is still fully controlled, he is even more willing to sing softly than he was in his tenor days...go out and buy the disc and spend many hours in Domingo’s company with total confidence.

16th August 2013

Habit makes the listener wish he would push the voice higher and soar as of old. But he’s an intelligent artist, and he’s 72; he knows there are now limits. And compensations lie in plenty: not perhaps in the display of an authentic baritone timbre, but certainly in psychological insights.

Placido Domingo: Verdi

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Recording of the Week, Verdi arias from Anna Netrebko

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