Opis: Catalani: Loreley

This performance, recorded live at the La Scala opera house in Milan on February 13, 1968, is the only recording of this opera ever issued with complete libretto at mid-price. Alfredo Catalani (18541893) was long ignored internationally among the numerous Italian opera composers of the late nineteenth century. In recent years Catalani has become more familiar with a revival of interest in his masterpiece, La Wally, one aria from which has always had currency and which achieved even wider fame in recent years from its use in films and commercials. This has led to further explorations, including a revival of Catalanis nextbest stage work, Loreley, the first of his operas to attract attention outside of Italy. Like La Wally, Loreley has always had one excerpt which has kept the operas title in circulation, the atmospheric Dance of the Ondine (also known as Dance of the Water Spirits) from Act III, occasionally heard in concert programs and on recordings of light Romantic orchestral music. Greek soprano Elena Suliotis was a musical comet whose first appearances in the late 1960s caused considerable critical excitement a voice, the New York Times said, with the potential for greatness. After a short career, Suliotis developed vocal problems and her career was truncated. This is one of the rare recordings preserving that short period of vocal splendor that has become a modern legend.

This 1968 performance certainly makes a strong case for the opera, with a fine cast and conductor, pulling out all the stops there is much here to admire and enjoy Suliotis was a fascinating singer the Scala forces, under the inspired direction of Gianandrea Gavazzeni, play beautifully. OPERA NEWS

Szczegóły: Catalani: Loreley

Nazwa: Catalani: Loreley
Producent: Allegro Corporation
Kod paskowy: 0723721248857
Języki: angielski
Format: 14.0x12.0cm
Oprawa: Plastikowa
Waga: 0.2 kg
Wykonawca: Elena Suliotis, Piero Cappuccilli, Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala
Rodzaj nagrania: koncert
Typ głównego nośnika: AC
Ilość nośników: 2
Opis nośników:

1. CD 1 (CD-Audio)
   1. Overture (koncert - utwór 06:37)
   2. Buona preda! (koncert - utwór 03:32)
   3. Bella virtu di prodi in verita! (koncert - utwór 01:24)
   4. Da me Walter che brama? (koncert - utwór 01:43)
   5. Candida e bella gentil donzella (koncert - utwór 00:54)
   6. Nel verde maggio, un di dal bosco (koncert - utwór 03:28)
   7. Salvezza tu chiedi (koncert - utwór 02:05)
   8. Dunque tutto fini (koncert - utwór 05:19)
   9. Lascia per or che libero (koncert - utwór 01:34)
   10. Non fui da un padre mai benedetta (koncert - utwór 02:54)
   11. Maledici l'istante (koncert - utwór 01:51)
   12. Io stesso dunque Anna ho perduta (koncert - utwór 04:14)
   13. Hio! Hio! Heja hio! (koncert - utwór 03:56)
   14. Ove son?... Ma forse e un orrido sogno (koncert - utwór 08:49)

2. CD 2 (CD-Audio)
   1. Gorgheggiate, usignoli, a volo libero (koncert - utwór 05:11)
   2. Amor celeste, ebbrezza e pena (koncert - utwór 09:06)
   3. Alteri ergete le auguste cime (koncert - utwór 02:29)
   4. Danziam, danziam! (koncert - utwór 06:19)
   5. Non t'angosciar, se il riso tarda (koncert - utwór 03:07)
   6. L'altar di candidi veli e di porpora (koncert - utwór 04:49)
   7. Vuoi tu provar gli spasimi (koncert - utwór 03:57)
   8. Vieni! Sul Reno ho un'isola (koncert - utwór 02:40)
   9. Si va facendo al. Bosco il giorno fosco (koncert - utwór 12:37)
   10. Ove sono? (koncert - utwór 06:09)
   11. Dance of the Undines (koncert - utwór 06:50)
   12. Vieni al mio seno! (koncert - utwór 04:37)
   13. Deh! Ti rammenta quel di beato! (koncert - utwór 06:47)

Recenzje: Catalani: Loreley