Verdi - Aida / Caballé ˇ Domingo ˇ Cossotto ˇ Ghiaurov ˇ Cappuccilli ˇ Roni ˇ NPO ˇ Muti

Verdi - Aida / Caballé ˇ Domingo ˇ Cossotto ˇ Ghiaurov ˇ Cappuccilli ˇ Roni ˇ NPO ˇ Muti

Verdi - Aida / Caballé · Domingo · Cossotto · Ghiaurov · Cappuccilli · Roni · NPO · Muti
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Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set, Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-09-11
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Prld
  2. Act 1, Scene 1: Si, Corre Voce Che L'Etiope Ardisca
  3. Act 1, Scene 1: Se Quel Guerrier Io Fossi!
  4. Act 1, Scene 1: Celeste Aida
  5. Act 1, Scene 1: Quale Insolita Gioia Nel Tuo Sguardo!
  6. Act 1, Scene 1: Vieni, O Diletta, Appressati
  7. Act 1, Scene 1: Alta Cagion V'aduna
  8. Act 1, Scene 1: Su! De Nilo Al Sacro Lido
  9. Act 1, Scene 1: Ritorna Vincitor!
  10. Act 1, Scene 1: I Sacri Nomi Di Padre, D'amante
  11. Act 1, Scene 2: Possente, Possente Ftha
  12. Act 1, Scene 2: Danza Sacra Delle Sacerdotesse
  13. Act 1, Scene 2: Mortal, Diletto Ai Numi
  14. Act 1, Scene 2: Nume, Custode E Vindice
Music CD 2
  1. Act 2, Scene 1: Chi Mai Fra Gl'Inni E I Plausi
  2. Act 2, Scene 1: Danza Degli Schiavi Mori
  3. Act 2, Scene 1: Vieni, Sul Crin Ti Piovano
  4. Act 2, Scene 1: Fu La Sorte Dell'armi A' Tuoi Funesta
  5. Act 2, Scene 1: Ebben, Qual Nuovo Fremito T'Assal, Gentile Aida?
  6. Act 2, Scene 1: Pieta Ti Prenda Del Mio Dolor
  7. Act 2, Scene 1: Su! Del Nilo Al Sacro Lido
  8. Act 2, Scene 2: Gloria All'Egitto, Ad Iside
  9. Act 2, Scene 2: Marcia Trionfale
  10. Act 2, Scene 2: Ballabile
  11. Act 2, Scene 2: Vieni, O Guerriero Vindice
  12. Act 2, Scene 2: Salvator Della Patria
  13. Act 2, Scene 2: Che Veggo! Egli? Mio Padre!
  14. Act 2, Scene 2: Ma Tu, Re, Tu Signore Possente
  15. Act 2, Scene 2: Il Dolor Che In Quel Volto Favella
  16. Act 2, Scene 2: O Re, Pei Sacri Numi
  17. Act 2, Scene 2: Gloria All'Egitto, Ad Iside
Music CD 3
  1. Act 3: O Tu Che Sei D'Osiride
  2. Act 3: Vieni D'Iside Al Tempio
  3. Act 3: Qui Radames Verra!
  4. Act 3: O Patria Mia
  5. Act 3: Ciel! Mio Padre!
  6. Act 3: In Armi Ora Si Desta Il Popol Nostro
  7. Act 3: Padre, A Costoro Schiava Non Sono
  8. Act 3: Pur Ti Riveggo, Mia Dolce Aida
  9. Act 3: Nel Fiero Anelito Di Nuova Guerra
  10. Act 3: Fuggiam Gli Ardori Inospiti... La, Tra Foreste Vergini
  11. Act 3: Aida!... Tu Non M'Ami
  12. Act 3: Ma, Dimmi: Per Quale Via
  13. Act 3: Traditor!... La Mia Rival!
  14. Act 4, Scene 1: L'Aborrita Rivale A Me Sfuggia
  15. Act 4, Scene 1: Gia I Sacerdoti Adunansi
  16. Act 4, Scene 1: No, Vive Aida!... Vive!
  17. Act 4, Scene 1: Ohime! Morir Mi Sento!
  18. Act 4, Scene 1: Spirto Del Nume, Sovra Noi Discendi!
  19. Act 4, Scene 1: Radames, Radames, Radames
  20. Act 4, Scene 1: A Lui Vivo, La Tomba!
  21. Act 4, Scene 2: La Fatal Pietra Sovra Me Si Chiuse
  22. Act 4, Scene 2: Presago Il Core Della Tua Condanna
  23. Act 4, Scene 2: Vedi? Di Morte L'Angelo
  24. Act 4, Scene 2: O Terra, Addio

Music reviews of Verdi - Aida / Caballé ˇ Domingo ˇ Cossotto ˇ Ghiaurov ˇ Cappuccilli ˇ Roni ˇ NPO ˇ Muti

Music Review: Is there any Aida without pluses and minuses?
Rating: 4 Stars

It's peculiar that no single performance of Aida on records has ever attained consensus as 'the one', the closest candidate being the RCA-Decca performance with Leontyne Price and Jon Vickers. After decades of listening to most of the major contenders, here's how I would size them up.

Best conducting: Karajan on both his readings, the first for Decca in the early Sixties, the second for EMI in 1980. He has the glorious Vienna Phil. on both--for richness, depth, drama, and splendor nothing equals them. Karrajan himself provides a continuous outpouring of insights into Verdi's deceptively simple score.

Best Aida: For many, Leontyne Price will always be defined by this role, her signature for two decades and perfectly suited to her voice, with its dusky low range and incredible floated high notes. She sounds much fresher in her first RCA recording with Solti than in the remake with Leinsdorf. For other listeners there is no replacement for Callas and her intense involvement with the role, while Tebadi stands out for sheer lusciousness of voice.

Best Rhadames: Bjorling really didn't have the heft to sing this role onstage, but pairing Milanov in a classic RCA mono recording (now very much showing its age) he sounds, as always, ravishing in style and tone. Vickers attacks the role with incredible intensity but is singularly un-Italian despite his glorious, heroic volume of sound. Among stylish tenors with smaller voices, Bergonzi under Karajan, paired with Tebaldi, wins high critical praise. Domingo, for all his virtues, always seems to come in second best -- he can be a bit generic, perhaps catching fire more under Abbado than elsewhere.

Let's say we stop there; it's easy to see why the Price-Vickers-Solti set has such a strong following, and also the Tebaldi-Bergonzi-Karajan set. But complaints have always arisen about both, that Vickers has no Italian style and Solti conducts with brazen vulgarity. In the other set, the grouse is that Tebaldi wasn't in best voice and sounds too imperious, while Bergonzi, for all his polish, isn't a viscerally exciting Rhadames.

This carping opened the way for the 70's EMI set with Caballe and Domingo in their vocal prime. Muti conducts skilfully, moving the drama along quickly and with a refreshing lack of overdone sentimentality. Caballe isn't a spinto-dramatic soprano as called for, but she sings for the microphone with wonderful nuance and pathos (I find her less droopy than she often was). Domingo exhibits perfect tone and style, but his reading is a bit callow compared ot what he would achieve later in his career. In other words, there's no true greatness in any part, but the whole hangs together nicely. It must be noted, though, that the bland Capuccilli as Amonasro ruins the drama of the Nile scene.

My review, such as it is, stops here, since other reviewers listed below have detailed the specifics of this recording. But I'd like to offer some notes about all the Aidas I've encountered over the years.

--Aida was Birgit Nilsson's best Italian role, and in her EMI recording she softens her steely tone and makes quite a nice success for herself. She is partnered with Corelli, whose vulgar bawling makes him unlistenable to my ears, but if you admire him, this performance led by a young Zubin Mehta ranks with the Caballe-Domingo one.

--Callas must be listened to on her own, or with Gobbi when he enters as her father in Act 3. Their Nile scene is incomparable, not to be missed. Too bad it's ruined by the entrance of the horribly stentorian, unstylish Richard Tucker, a huge blemish on this recording.

--Abbado should have come through with Aida from La Scala when he was musical director there, but his reading for DG is cautious and bland (the same goes for a live performance on Opera d'Oro with Arroyo and Domingo--they aren't great, either, though very good).

--Aidas who can't really manage the part include Katia Ricciarelli for Abbado and Freni for Karajan in his EMI remake (she's wildly overparted but moving and artistic nonetheless). Aprile Millo for Levine from the Met (Sony) can sing the notes but has nothing interesting to tell us. Heresy to say, but I feel the same way about the revered Zinka Milanov with Bjorling on RCA.

--A Rhadames who can't really sing the part is Carreras under Karajan, but he gives his all trying. Pavarotti sang the role both on stage and on disc (with an unknown and forgettable Aida), but his lyric tenor isn't right. Having said that, I was surprised at how enjoyable his Decca performance is. Domingo has sung the role for Muti, Leinsdorf, Abbado, and Levine. All are very good; probably the best is with Leinsdorf, a shame since the conducting is prosaic and the bloom was off Price's voice by then.

--Uninspired condcuting honors go to Leinsdorf, but I get little out of Levine's hectic, impesonal work on Sony, and the sainted Tulio Serafin on the Callas set is authentic but rather workaday. When it comes down to it, Solti for all his vulgarisms threw himself into his preformance, while Karajan is the greatest maestro to take on the opera, pace the fans of Toscanini, whose fiery reading isn't to my taste, even if it didn't have a second-rate cast and boxy, wooden sonics.
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Description of Verdi - Aida / Caballé ˇ Domingo ˇ Cossotto ˇ Ghiaurov ˇ Cappuccilli ˇ Roni ˇ NPO ˇ Muti

Behind the pyramids and the elephants, the long lines of prisoners of war and of slaves carrying booty, the choral shouts of "Glory to Egypt," and the splendid brass sounding the Triumphal March, Aida is the story of a love triangle: Aida, an Ethiopian princess who has become a slave in Egypt; Amneris, an Egyptian princess; and Radamčs, the Egyptian general they both love (Aida secretly). There are ironies and conflicts: How can she love a man who is the enemy of her country, but who says he has fought and conquered for the sake of her love? It is suitable only for the biggest opera houses and therefore demands voices capable of great power as well as emotional expressiveness. Montserrat Caballé, Plácido Domingo, and Fiorenza Cossotto provide such voices, and Ricardo Muti conducts with a sense of drama and dynastic glory. --Joe McLellan

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