Great Arias and Ensembles From Your Favorite Operas

Great Arias and Ensembles From Your Favorite Operas

Great Arias and Ensembles From Your Favorite Operas

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Composer: Georges Bizet
Composer: Gaetano Donizetti
Composer: George Frederick Handel
Composer: Leos Janacek
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Composer: Gioachino Rossini
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor: David Parry
Conductor: Paul Daniel
Conductor: Simon Rattle
Conductor: Yehudi Menuhin
Orchestra: Bath Festival Orchestra
Orchestra: English National Opera Orchestra
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra of London
Orchestra: Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra Covent Garden
Performer: Jane Eaglen
Performer: Nicolai Gedda
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-04-26
Music Label: Chandos
Soundtracks:

Escamillo: 'You're Most Kind, And In Return I Toast You' - Philharmonic Orchestra
Carmen: 'There's An Old Bar In The City' (Seguedilla) - Philharmonia Orchestra
Belmonte: 'Constanza! Constanza' - 'Oh What Trembling, Oh What Passion' (Aria) - Nicolai Gedda
Falstaff: 'Hey, Page Boy!' - 'Your Honour? Vermin!' (Monologue) - English National Opera Orchestra
Fenton: 'From Lover's Lips A Happy Song Is Flying' (Aria) - Susan Gritton
Lucia: 'Imagine When The Breezes Sigh' (Duet) - Philharmonia Orchestra
Edgardo: 'What Restrains Me At Such A Moment?'/Enrico: 'What Restrains My Righteous Anger?' (Sextet) - Philharmonia Orchestra
Turandot: 'Within This Palace A Story Lives Forever' - 'Gentle Princess Lo-U-Ling, Pure, Serene And So Gentle' (Aria) - Philharmonia Orchestra
Liu: 'I Beg You, Hear Me, Ah My Lord, I Beg You!' (Aria) - Philharmonia Orchestra
'Through Her Soul In Endless Grieving' (Cujus Animam) - Barry Banks
Ilia: 'My Father Was Taken' (Aria) - Rebecca Evans
Forester: 'When Evening Arrives, I Welcome The Rays Of The Setting Sun!' (Final Scene) - Thomas Allen
Aida: 'We'd Leave This White Oppressive Heat' (Duet) - Dennis O'Neill
Propulace: 'Glory To Isis, Goddess Fair' (Grand March From Triumphal Scene) - Philharmonia Orchestra
'Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter Of Zion' (Aria) - London Philharmonic Orchestra

Music reviews of Great Arias and Ensembles From Your Favorite Operas

Music Review: RELAUNCH
Rating: 4 Stars

This disc can be thought of as either a sampler or a mixed recital. The title on the liner is approximately accurate. There are 15 items extracted from other Chandos discs, all sung in English by way of promoting the Opera in English project. Most of the selection is from Italian opera, but not everything is Italian and not everything is opera. Bizet and Janacek are here too, one famous piece of Italian Can Belto is Rossini's Cuius Animam, originally to a Latin text, and the disc ends with a fine stirring rendition of Rejoice Greatly from the Messiah, which of course was in English to start with.

In my own collecting I am not a snippets person, and this disc was sent to me on a complimentary basis following my response to a marketing initiative. However on its own terms the disc strikes me as distinctly good. The recordings date all the way from 1968 to 2004, although the liner does not say which were done when, and the recorded quality is never less than good. All the extracts are of sufficient length to give the listener a fair idea of the quality of whatever they were taken from, provided they are properly representative. Where the piece is genuinely self-contained it is not truncated. The main oddity from my point of view is that 2 of the 4 Verdi items are taken from Falstaff, which is as seamless and continuous as Tristan itself. In particular the second of these is Ford's aria from Act III, which has to be chopped off abruptly. This is not surprising, as Verdi himself said that he deliberately avoided giving this number a final close precisely to prevent its being used in recitals.

All the contributions are from distinguished orchestras, and the trumpeter in the grand march from Aida performs splendidly. I did not immediately recognise all the names of the soloists and conductors, but my collection has grown so large in the cd era that I should not be surprised to find that at least some of the performers are already represented in it. I certainly did recognise with pleasure the names of Nicolai Gedda, Susan Gritton and Thomas Allen, all of whom unsurprisingly come up to expectations. The name I knew among the conductors (other than Menuhin) was Simon Rattle, and I am quite sure that it was not just for that reason that I found his contribution, from Janacek's Cunning Little Vixen, to be the outstanding offering here, atmospheric and gripping. However I'm inclined to say that there was no performance here that I failed to enjoy.

The marketing initiative that I mentioned comes from Colchester Classics in the person of Liz Leatherdale (Mrs). Apparently her position as Chandos Direct Manager was abolished in a reorganisation, and she has set up a franchise arrangement with Chandos, namely of course Colchester Classics. I feel slightly hypocritical in recommending the Opera in English project, because while on the one hand I support the idea and I have been favourably impressed with what I have heard of its productions, I have in practice been very conservative and stuck with opera in the original when collecting my opera sets. Having received this sampler free gratis I hope I shall in future at least be shamed into investigating this part of the market with greater curiosity, and I can in all sincerity recommend this particular collection of favourites. Meantime I wish every success to Colchester Classics and especially to Liz Leatherdale (Mrs).

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