Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (complete opera) EMI's Great Recordings of the Century with Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Tito Gobbi, Tullio Serafin
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Composer: Gaetano DonizettiConductor: Tullio Serafin
Orchestra: Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra
Performer: Anna Maria Canali
Performer: Gino Sarri
Performer: Giuseppe di Stefano
Performer: Maria Callas
Performer: Raffaele Arie
Performer: Tito Gobbi
Performer: Valiano Natali
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2004-04-06
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Preludio
- Act 1. Scene 1. Percorrete le spiagge vicine
- Act 1. Scene 1. Tu sei turbato!... E n'ho ben donde
- Act 1. Scene 1. Cruda, funesta smania
- Act 1. Scene 1. Il tuo dubbio ? omai certezza
- Act 1. Scene 1. La pietade in suo favore
- Act 1. Scene 2. Maestoso
- Act 1. Scene 2. Ancor non giunse?
- Act 1. Scene 2. Regnava nel silenzio
- Act 1. Scene 2. Quando rapito in estasi
- Act 1. Scene 2. Egli s'avanza
- Act 1. Scene 2. Sulla tomba che rinserra
- Act 1. Scene 2. Qui di sposa eterna fede
- Act 1. Scene 2. Ah, talor del tuo pensiero
- Act 1. Scene 2. Verranno a te sull'aure
- Act 2. Scene 1. Moderato... / Lucia fra poco a te verr?
- Act 2. Scene 1. Appressati, Lucia
- Act 2. Scene 1. Il pallor funesto, orrendo... A ragion mi fe' spietato
- Act 2. Scene 1. Nobil sposo... Cessa, cessa!
- Act 2. Scene 1. Soffriva nel pianto
- Act 2. Scene 1. Che fia?... Suonar di giubilo
- Act 2. Scene 1. Se tradirmi tu potrai
- Act 2. Scene 2. Per te d'immenso giubilo... Per poco fra le tenebre
- Act 2. Scene 2. Dove'? Lucia?... Qui giungere or la vedrem
- Act 2. Scene 2. Ecco il tuo sposo
- Act 2. Scene 2. Chi mi frena in tal momento
- Act 2. Scene 2. T'allontana, sciagurato... Rispettate in me di Dio
- Act 2. Scene 2. Sconsigliato! In queste porte chi ti guida?
- Act 3. Scene 1. D'immenso giubilo
- Act 3. Scene 1. Ah!... Deh, cessate quel contento!... Dalle stanze ove Lucia
- Act 3. Scene 1. Oh! Qual funesto avvenimento!
- Act 3. Scene 1. Oh giunto cielo!... Il dolce suono
- Act 3. Scene 1. Ohim?! Sorge il tremendo
- Act 3. Scene 1. Ardon gli incensi; splendon le sacre faci
- Act 3. Scene 1. Spargi d'amaro pianto
- Act 3. Scene 2. Maestoso... / Tombe degli avi miei
- Act 3. Scene 2. Fra poco a me ricovero
- Act 3. Scene 2. Dove corri, sventurato?
- Act 3. Scene 2. Tu che a Dio spiegasti l'ali
- Act 3. Scene 2. Che facesti?
Music reviews of Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor (complete opera) EMI's Great Recordings of the Century with Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Tito Gobbi, Tullio Serafin
Music Review: Sextetless!
Rating: 3 Stars
This recording ought to come with a warning label: it has been butchered beyond belief! Not only does is cut the end of the mad-scene (as the program notes remark) but it also omits "Che mi frena!" (an omission that the program notes ignore). "Lucia" without the Sextet (no matter how much of a warhorse some may find it) is like Damon without Pythias; Holmes without Watson; bacon without eggs.
The sound quality is also disturbing enough to occlude Callas' diction (although her voice in "Ardon l'incensi" and "Spargi d'amaro pianto" shines through in its limpidity). I was also very disappointed that Giuseppe di Stefano did not use his sublime mezza voce in the heartrending "Tu che a Dio spiegasti l'ali," which he did in a cassette recording with Callas that I bought in Italy (Infuriatingly, I lost it in moving!).
As one reviewer remarked, this disc is a "reference" recording; a footnote, as it were. But without the Sextet, the citation remains incomplete.
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