Verdi: I Lombardi Alla Prima Crociata / Gavazzeni, Pavarotti, Scotto, et al

Verdi: I Lombardi Alla Prima Crociata / Gavazzeni, Pavarotti, Scotto, et al

Verdi: I Lombardi Alla Prima Crociata / Gavazzeni, Pavarotti, Scotto, et al
List Price: $13.98
Our Price: $8.70
You Save: $5.28 (38%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $3.99 (click here)
Category: Music CD
See more CD details
Listen soundtracks from this album


(Click here)
Buy this Music CD at online store in your country
Canadian Music Store

CD Details

Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor: Giuseppe Verdi
Orchestra: Rome Opera Orchestra
Performer: Rome Opera Orchestra
Performer: Alfredo Colella
Performer: Anna di Stasio
Performer: Fernando Jacopucci
Performer: Luciano Pavarotti
Performer: Mario Rinaudo
Performer: Renata Scotto
Performer: Ruggero Raimondi
Performer: Sofia Mazzetti
Performer: Umberto Grilli
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1998-11-17
Music Label: Opera D'oro
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Oh Nobile Esempio - Chorus Of The Rome Opera
  2. A Te Nell'ora Infausta - Chorus Of The Rome Opera
  3. Sciagurata! Hai Tu Creduto - Ruggero Raimondi
  4. Tutta Tremante Ancor - Anna Di Stasio
  5. Salve Maria! - Renata Scotto
  6. Vieni! Gia Posa Arvino - Mario Rinaudo
  7. E Dunque Vero! - Chorus Of The Rome Opera
  8. O Madre Mia... La Mia Letizia Infondere... Como Poteva Un Angelo - Luciano Pavarotti
  9. E Ancor Silenzio - Hermit
  10. Sei Tu L'uom Della Caverna? - Umberto Grilli
  11. Stolto Allah! - Chorus Of The Rome Opera
  12. La Bella Straniera - Chorus Of The Rome Opera
Music CD 2
  1. O Madre Dal Cielo - Renata Scotto
  2. Gerusalem! Gerusalem! - Hermit
  3. Dove Sola M'inoltro... Teco Io Fuggo - Renata Scotto
  4. Che Vid'io Mai? Si! Del Ciel Che Non Punisce - Umberto Grilli
  5. Qui Posa Il Fianco - Renata Scotto
  6. Qual Volutta Trascorrere - Renata Scotto
  7. Componi, O Cara Vergine - Chorus Of The Rome Opera
  8. In Cielo Benedetto - Luciano Pavarotti
  9. Qual Prodigio... Non Fu Sogno! In Fondo All'Alma! - Renata Scotto
  10. O Signore, Del Tetto Natio - Hermit
  11. Al Siloe... Quali Voci! - Renata Scotto
  12. Guerra! Guerra! - Chorus Of The Rome Opera
  13. Questa E Mia Tenda - Umberto Grilli
  14. Te Lodiamo - Chorus Of The Rome Opera

Music reviews of Verdi: I Lombardi Alla Prima Crociata / Gavazzeni, Pavarotti, Scotto, et al

Music Review: Good performance at low cost
Rating: 5 Stars

Source: Live performance in Rome, 1969.

Sound: Pretty good for a live recording made 35-plus years ago. The audience is generally quiet. Coughs are muffled and outbursts of enthusiastic applause do not excessively overlap the music.

Format: Disc 1, Act I and most of Act II, 12 tracks, approximately 56 minutes. Disc 2, conclusion of Act II, Act III and Act IV, 14 tracks, approximately 67 minutes. Opera d'Oro is at its most perverse here. A single track, less than 11 minutes in length, starts off disc 2 with the end of Act II. Why it is not included on disc 1, where there is plenty of space to accommodate it, I cannot fathom.

Documentation: No libretto. Nothing on the performers, conductor or circumstances of the recording. Two short pages on the history of the opera and two pages devoted to a summary of the plot by act. The track listing does not identify who is singing, nor does it give timings.

"I Lombardi alla Prima Crociata" is Verdi's fourth opera and the follow-up to his great success with "Nabucco." It achieved considerable acclaim and became the first of his operas to be performed in the United States. His second opera, the excellent, Donizetti-inspired comedy, "Un giorno di regno." had inexplicably failed. For his fourth attempt, he took inspiration from a far more powerful composer, one G. Verdi. While "I Lombardi" is very much "Nabucco-lite," it is on the path that leads straight through "Ernani" to reach its apotheosis in "Il trovatore." Verdi, himself, was not happy with this opera. Years later he came back to it for a major re-write with a new libretto in French, creating "Jerusalem," which comes close to being an entirely separate work.

This set provides a good performance of "I Lombardi" by the Rome Opera. It features Renata Scotto, who offers the sort of all-out soprano assault on the Verdian heights that was common up to the end of the sixties and all too rare now. My wife thinks Scotto lets her vibrato get away from her in some of the harder-driving passages. I can't say that it bothers me at all.

Luciano Pavarotti was just about at his vocal prime when this recording was made and his voice is well-captured. For those unfamiliar with "I Lombardi," be forewarned that his character, Oronte, appears first in Act II and dies in Act III, thus leaving half the opera Luciano-free. His performance is basic Pavorotti 101. He sounds like a superstar tenor firmly placed downstage to stand and deliver. For all of you who love Luciano Pavorotti, this is just the sort of thing you'll adore. For myself, I prefer a tenor who can provide the impression that he might have some notion of the plot of the opera in which he is singing, but that is a matter of personal taste.

The third principal singer is Ruggero Raimondi, far the best of the three in this performance. His big, full, dark, focused voice is dramatically dead-on from beginning to end and he provides the backbone of the whole affair.

The orchestra and chorus are good enough, but not as well-captured sonically as the lead singers.

Gavazzeni's conducting is brisk and offers the kind of snap and crackle that fits this early Verdi work.

This is a good performance of "I Lombardi" at a bargain price and worth five stars to anyone not over-concerned with bells and whistles.
More Verdi: I Lombardi Alla Prima Crociata / Gavazzeni, Pavarotti, Scotto, et al free music reviews:
1

Description of Verdi: I Lombardi Alla Prima Crociata / Gavazzeni, Pavarotti, Scotto, et al

All products are BRAND NEW and factory sealed. Fast shipping and 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed.

Classical CDs
Music Genres
Bestsellers in Classical CDs
Winterscapes ImageWinterscapes
by London Philharmonic
Prophetic Voice; Published: 2000-07; Audio CD; Book
Best price: $2.75
Price in other shops: $6.99
The Queen, the Bear, & the Bumblebee ImageThe Queen, the Bear, & the Bumblebee
by Dini Petty
Children's Group; Published: 2001-03; Audio CD; Book
Best price: $13.38
Price in other shops: $13.98
Beethoven Lives Upstairs Cdr ImageClassical Kids - Beethoven Lives Upstairs Cdr
Release date: 2000-04-05; Music CD
Best price: $24.98
Tchaikovsky (Life and Works (Naxos)) ImageTchaikovsky (Life and Works (Naxos))
by Malcolm Sinclair, Jeremy Siepmann
Naxos; Published: 2003-11; Audio CD; Book
Best price: $35.99
Jose Carreras - Jubileum Concert [VHS] ImageJose Carreras - Jose Carreras - Jubileum Concert [VHS]
Sling Shot; Release date: 2000-04-18; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $5.86
Price in other shops: $9.99
Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker / Nureyev, Park, Royal Ballet [VHS] ImageTchaikovsky - The Nutcracker / Nureyev, Park, Royal Ballet [VHS]
Kultur Video; Release date: 1997-09-09; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $29.89
Price in other shops: $29.95
Lonely Town Lonley Street / Sergeant's Early Dream [VHS] ImageRambert Dance Company - Lonely Town Lonley Street / Sergeant's Early Dream [VHS]
Kultur Video; Release date: 1997-10-28; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $14.99
Price in other shops: $29.95
Winter Music: Composing the North ImageWinter Music: Composing the North
by John Luther Adams
Wesleyan; Published: 2004-11-10; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $21.93
Price in other shops: $25.95
Puccini - La Fanciulla del West / Santi, Domingo, Neblett, Royal Opera Covent Garden [VHS] ImagePuccini - La Fanciulla del West / Santi, Domingo, Neblett, Royal Opera Covent Garden [VHS]
Kultur Video; Release date: 1999-05-25; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $6.38
Price in other shops: $29.95
Verdi - Falstaff / Giulini, Bruson, Ricciarelli, Nucci, Royal Opera Covent Garden [VHS] ImageVerdi - Falstaff / Giulini, Bruson, Ricciarelli, Nucci, Royal Opera Covent Garden [VHS]
Kultur Video; Release date: 1999-05-25; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $12.95
Price in other shops: $29.95
Similar CDs
Verdi: Nabucco ImageVerdi: Nabucco
Universal Studios; Release date: 2005-03-08; Published: 2011-10-24; DVD
Best price: $11.03
Price in other shops: $29.98
Donizetti - La Fille du Régiment / Sutherland, Pavarotti, Malas, Sinclair, ROH Covent Garden, Bonynge ImageDonizetti - La Fille du Régiment / Sutherland, Pavarotti, Malas, Sinclair, ROH Covent Garden, Bonynge
Release date: 1990-10-25; Music CD
Best price: $19.11
Price in other shops: $33.98
Verdi: Otello (Metropolitan Opera) ImageVerdi: Otello (Metropolitan Opera)
Release date: 2011-08-16; DVD
Best price: $11.17
Price in other shops: $19.98
Mascagni:Cavalleria Rusticana/Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (Metropolitan Opera) ImageMascagni:Cavalleria Rusticana/ Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (Metropolitan Opera)
Release date: 2011-08-16; DVD
Best price: $11.66
Price in other shops: $19.98
Verdi: Nabucco ImageVerdi: Nabucco
Release date: 1984-03-12; Music CD
Best price: $22.91
Price in other shops: $33.98
Il Corsaro ImageIl Corsaro
Release date: 2005-08-09; Music CD
Best price: $20.82
Price in other shops: $23.98
Books | DVD Video | VHS Video | Health and Personal Care | Digital Cameras and Photo | Kitchen and Housewares | Tools and Hardware | Sports Equipment | Dresses shirts shoes apparel pants
Copyright © 2004-2007 music-hills.com
Google
 
Web music-hills.com
Compare prices and find music notes for more than one million Music CD titles