Souvenirs (Deluxe Edition)
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Composer: Emmerich KalmanComposer: Richard Heuberger
Composer: Franz Lehar
Composer: Gustave Charpentier
Composer: Jacque Offenbach
Composer: Richard Strauss
Composer: Edward Grieg
Composer: Andre Messager
Composer: Antonin Dvorak
Composer: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Conductor: Emmanuel Villaume
Orchestra: Prague Philharmonia
Performer: Prague Philharmonic Choir
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Limited Edition
CD Release Date: 2008-11-11
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
- Kálmán: Die Csárdásfürstin - Heia in den Bergen
- Heuberger: Der Opernball - Geh'n wir ins Chambre séparée
- Lehár: Giuditta - Meine Lippen, sie küssen so hei�
- Charpentier: Louise - Depuis le jour
- Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann - Barcarolle
- R. Strauss - Cäcilie, op. 27 no. 2
- Grieg: Peer Gynt - Solveig's song
- Messager: Fortunio - Lorsque je n'étais qu'une enfant
- Dvořák: Gypsy Melodies - Songs My Mother Taught Me
- R. Strauss - Wiegenlied, op. 41 no. 1
- Rimsky-Korsakov - Not the wind, blowing from the heights, op. 43 no. 2
- Rimsky-Korsakov - Eastern Song: Enslaved by the rose, the nightingale, op. 2 no. 2
- Traditional: Schlof sche, mein Vögele
- Lloyd Weber: Requiem - Pie Jesu
- Hahn - L'enamourée
- Guastavino - La rosa y el sauce
- Giménez: La tempranica - La Tarántula
- Arditi - Il Bacio
Music reviews of Souvenirs (Deluxe Edition)
Music Review: A refreshing recital with mass appeal
Rating: 4 Stars
Behind the Vogue magazine cover photo and the fan-based DVD and promotionals, we have a vocal recital to deal with. The best thing about Anna Netrebko is that she isn't all image, lovely as hers is. She's bidding to join Angela Gheorghiu as a permanent opera star with a lasting legacy. One requirement in that ascendency is to release an album of crossover mass apeal while still remaining respectably opratic.
This refreshing CD sets out to accomplish that and generally succeeds. The listener is softened up with three operetta lollipops to start off. Like Gheorghiu, Netrebko was trained to have a Slavic voice. Both sopranos work hard to ovrcome the drawbacks of the Slavic sound, which is darker, more throaty and chesty than Western opera voices. I don't know if Netrebko has gotten all the way -- her Lehar and Kalman heroines sound as if they are from Eastern Europe more than Vienna or Paris. She has yet to find light-hearted charm.
"Depuis le jour" puts in a bid for comparison with famous accounts from the young Leontyne Price and Kiri Te Kanawa, who were knockouts in this aria. Netrebko isn't -- she lacks that thrilling, ethereal extension on top that makes the listener float away. But she's certainly lovely to listen to in her own right. The Barcarolle from "Tales of Hoffmann" suits her better; it's soulful and dreamy, a good combination for her temperament.
As the program unfolds, we hit all the right beats for a mass-appeal album but with sidelong glances to the more knowing. Richard Strauss's "Caecille" is one of his most sumptuous orchestrated songs, and here Netrebko is thrilling, beyond reproach even if her German is sketchy. And so it goes. "Solveig's Song" is close enough to Slavic in mood that it brings out her best side, as do the items by Dvorak and (naturally) Rimsky-Korsakov.
What does it all add up to? I think the public will continue to love their new diva, but eveen for us grumpy connoisseurs, who have been holding out a bit, there's a bright light. When Netreboko stops being all things to all people, what she actually is is a fine Slavic soprano with potential in French and German music. DG pushed Netrebko into Verdi and Puccini because that's where the limelight shines. In the end, however, they will do full justice by showing off her strongest suit, not her most glamorous (and profitable).
Description of Souvenirs (Deluxe Edition)
On her fourth album for Deutsche Grammophon, opera superstar Anna Netrebko gives a very personal and intimate performance of cherished lighter works. From sparkling operetta classics to seductive salon songs, each selection comes with a special memory for Netrebko. Netrebko is joined by some friends, El?¯na Garanc?a and Piotr Beczala-- her joy of collaboration is heard in these magnificent selections. Anna Netrebko is one of DG's best-selling artists and consistently performs in sold-out opera houses and concert halls around the world. She returns to the Metropolitan Opera in January 2009 in Lucia di Lammermoor. Available in a special, deluxe limited edition package! The beautiful cap box includes the CD; a DVD of behind-the-scenes footage, interviews and musical excerpts; beautiful booklet; three postcards and one poster of Netrebko. A must-have for Netrebko fans and the perfect holiday gift!Classical CDs
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