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Great Verdi Voices

Leontyne Price (soprano), Neil Shicoff (tenor), Julia Varady (soprano), Jose Carreras (tenor), Piero Cappuccilli (baritone), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Carlo Bergonzi (tenor), Franco Bonisolli (tenor), Anneliese Rothenberger (soprano), Renato Bruson (baritone), Arleen Auger (soprano), Sena Jurinac (soprano),...

The first track immediately announces that this compilation means business. At the height of her powers, Leontyne Price launches into 'Ernani, involami' with energy, commanding authority, slightly... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2016 More…

Release Date: 29th Jan 2016
Catalogue No: 900313
Label: BR Klassik
Length: 73 minutes

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Excerpt, Verdi: Ernani

Work length11:58

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Neil Shicoff, Munich Radio Orchestra and Bavarian Radio Chorus featuring Heinz Wallberg, Leontyne Price, Neil Shicoff
Munich Radio Orchestra, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Carlo Franci, Heinz Wallberg

Surta è la notte - Ernani! Ernani, involami

Track length5:56

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Mercè, diletti amici - Come rugiada al cespite

Track length6:02

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Excerpt, Verdi: Macbeth

Work length4:14

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Julia Varady
Munich Radio Orchestra
Heinz Wallberg

Aria. La luce langue

Track length4:14

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Excerpt, Verdi: Il Corsaro

Work length4:28

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José Carreras
Munich Radio Orchestra
Lamberto Gardelli

Tutto parea sorridere

Track length4:28

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Excerpt, Verdi: Rigoletto

Work length6:27

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Piero Cappuccilli, Nicolai Gedda
Munich Radio Orchestra
Kurt Peter Eichhorn

Cortigiani, vil razza dannata

Track length4:25

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La donna è mobile

Track length2:02

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Excerpt, Verdi: Il Trovatore

Work length7:22

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Franco Bonisolli, Munich Radio Orchestra and Bavarian Radio Chorus featuring Hermann Hildebrandt, Carlo Bergonzi, Franco Bonisolli
Munich Radio Orchestra, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Kurt Peter Eichhorn, Hermann Hildebrandt

Ah, sì, ben mio, coll'essere

Track length3:40

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Di quella pira l'orrendo foco

Track length3:42

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Excerpt, Verdi: La Traviata

Work length11:05

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Anneliese Rothenberger, Munich Radio Orchestra, Renato Bruson
Arnold Quennet, Giuseppe Patanè

È strano! - Ah, fors'è lui

Track length6:37

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Di Provenza il mar, il suol

Track length4:28

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Excerpt, Verdi: Un ballo in maschera

Work length1:56

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Arleen Auger
Munich Radio Orchestra
Kurt Peter Eichhorn

Saper vorreste di che se veste

Track length1:56

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Excerpt, Verdi: Don Carlo

Work length9:59

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Sena Jurinac
Munich Radio Orchestra
Horst Stein

Tu che la vanità

Track length9:59

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Excerpt, Verdi: Aida

Work length6:57

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Dame Margaret Price
Munich Radio Orchestra
Heinz Wallberg

Ritorna vincitor - Numi, pietà

Track length6:57

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Excerpt, Verdi: Otello

Work length5:13

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Vladimir Atlantov
Munich Radio Orchestra
Heinz Wallberg

Niun mi tema

Track length5:13

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Excerpt, Verdi: Falstaff

Work length4:06

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Giuseppe Taddei
Munich Radio Orchestra
Kurt Peter Eichhorn

Ehi paggio!... L' onore! Ladri!

Track length4:06

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The radio recordings collected on the newly-released CD from BR-KLASSIK entitled Great Verdi Voices 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 and Julia Varady are the ladies presented here, and the gentlemen are 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.

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March 2016

The first track immediately announces that this compilation means business. At the height of her powers, Leontyne Price launches into 'Ernani, involami' with energy, commanding authority, slightly sketchy coloratura, and voice to spare. If this is not a great Verdi voice, then none is...Conductors, orchestral standards and recording quality are variable. The voices, though, are all worth hearing.

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