Viva Verdi! - A 100th Anniversary Celebration Sampler ~ Carreras / Caballe,etc.

Lamberto Gardelli - Viva Verdi! - A 100th Anniversary Celebration Sampler ~ Carreras / Caballe,etc.

Viva Verdi! - A 100th Anniversary Celebration Sampler ~ Carreras / Caballe,etc.
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Artist: Lamberto Gardelli
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor: Neville Marriner
Orchestra: Hungarian State Opera Orchestra
Orchestra: New Philharmonia Orchestra
Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Orchestra: La Scala Theatre Orchestra
Orchestra: Munich Bavarian State Orchestra
Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-11-14
Music Label: Decca
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Oberto: Sinfonia - Academy Of St. Martin In The Fields
  2. Un giorno di regno: Scena e cavatina: Ah non m'hanno ingannata!...Grave a core innamorato (Marchesa) - Fiorenza Cossotto
  3. Nabucco: Coro: Va, pensiero, sull'ali dorate - Wiener Staatsopernchor
  4. I lombardi: Scena E Cavatina: La Mia Letizia Infondere... Come Poteva Un Angelo (Oronte, Sofia) - Placido Domingo
  5. Ernani: Duetto: Da qual di che t'ho veduta (Don Carlo, Elvira) - Lajos Miller
  6. I due Foscari: Atto II, preludio - Scena: Notte! perpetua notte (Jacopo) - Jose Carreras
  7. Giovanna d'Arco: Sotto una quercia parvemi (Carlo VII) - Carlo Bergonzi
  8. Alzira: Scena a cavatina: Riposa. Tutte, in suo dolor vegliante...Da Gusman (Alzira, Chorus, Zuma) - Marina Mescheriakova
  9. Attila: E' gettata la mia sorte (Ezio) - Sherrill Milnes
  10. Macbeth: Scena e cavatina: Vieni! t'affretta!...Or tutti sorgette (Lady Macbeth) - Giovanni Foiani
  11. I masnadieri: Racconto: Un ignoto (Massimiliano) - Ruggero Raimondi
  12. Jerusalem: Je veux encore entendre ta voix - Marcello Giordani
  13. Il corsaro: Cavatina: Ne sulla terra creatura alcuna (Gulnara) - Alexander Oliver
  14. la battaglia di Lagnano: Coro: Viva Italia! - Chor und Synphonieorchester des ORF
  15. Luisa Miller: Quando le sere al placido (Rodolfo) - Luciano Pavarotti
  16. Stiffelio: Scena finale: Stiffelio! - Eccomi! - Sylvia Sass
Music CD 2
  1. Rigoletto: Quartetto: Bella figlia dell'amore - Piero Cappuccilli
  2. Il Trovatore: Stride la vampa! (Azucena) - Fiorenza Cossotto
  3. La Traviata: Atto I, preludio - Bayerisches Staatsorchester
  4. La Traviata: Brindisi: Libiamo ne' lieti calici (Alfredo, Violetta) - Placido Domingo
  5. La Traviata: Scena ed aria: Finale (Violetta): E' strano!...Ah, fors'e lui - Bayerisches Staatsorchester
  6. La Traviata: Follie! Delirio vano e questo!...Sempre libera - Ileana Cotrubas
  7. Les Vepres sicilliennes: Giorno di pianto (Arrigo) - Carlo Bergonzi
  8. Simon Boccanegra: Atto I, preludio - Orchestra Del Teatro Alla Scala
  9. Aroldo: Scena e quartetto finale (excerpt): Allore che gl'anni - Neil Shicoff
  10. Un ballo maschera: Di' tu se fedele (Riccardo) - Luciano Pavarotti
  11. La forza del destino: Pace, pace mio Dio (Leonora) - Renata Tebaldi
  12. Don Carlos: Dio, che nell'alma infondere (Don Carlos, Posa) - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
  13. Aida: Se quel guerrier io fossil...Celeste Aida (Radames) - Jon Vickers
  14. Aida: Qui Radames verra...O patria mia (Aida) - Leontyne Price
  15. Otello: Ave Maria (Desdemona) - Renata Tebaldi
  16. Falstaff: Facciamo il parentado...Tutto nel mondo e burla - Renato Bruson
  17. Requiem: Requiem aeternam, Kyrie - Luciano Pavarotti

Music reviews of Viva Verdi! - A 100th Anniversary Celebration Sampler ~ Carreras / Caballe,etc.

Music Review: Not bad at all ... for what it is
Rating: 4 Stars

This two-CD set purports to celebrate the hundredth anniversary of Giuseppe Verdi's death by highlighting the whole arc of his operatic career (including his Requiem) in thirty-three tracks. This is, of course, plainly an impossible task. In general, each opera gets a single selection taken from complete performances that happened to be issued by Decca, Phillips or Deutsche Grammaphon. Since none of the three organizations had recorded either "I vespri Siciliani" or "Giovanna D'Arco," appropriate tenor arias were taken from a concert selection by Carlo Bergonzi. As the previous reviewer, Mr. Listener, pointed out, exceptions were made for "La Traviata" with four selections (all from the same recording) and "Aida" with two (ditto). In addition to those, the much more obscure "Stefellio" sneaked in the back door with a second selection from the re-written and re-named "Aroldo." The same can be said for "I Lombardi alla prima Crociata," subsequently Frenchfied as "Jerusalem."

Ten operas, "Oberto," "I Lombardi," "Ernani," "Alzira," "Macbeth," "Jerusalem," "Simon Bocanegra," "Aroldo," "Un ballo in maschera," and "Falstaff," were recorded digitally, the most recent being "Alzira" from 1999. The remaining selections were taken from digitally re-mastered analogue recordings. The oldest of them, by far, is the fabulous 1955 Tebaldi recording of "La forza del destino." Each of these recordings was made with the leading-edge technology of its day. None has lost anything in this re-issue. Their sound should be more than satisfactory to anyone except the most narrow-minded audio purist.

Among the singers, Bergonzi, Caballe, Carreras, Cortrubas, Cosotto, Domingo, Horne, Ricciarelli, Sutherland, Tebaldi and Vickers are certainly on the A-list. The others, for the most part, are also good. The conductors are uniformly strong, although none of the others was as perfectly suited to this music as the venerable Tullio Serafin, heard here only in "Il trovatore."

The set comes with the two CDs tucked away in pockets on the front and back boards of a small, bound book. The book consista of 103 pages of historical commentary, illustrations of Verdi, his wife, his collaborators, premiere productions of the operas and, just by chance, advertisements touting opera recordings from Decca, Phillips and Deutsche Grammophon.

All the original recordings were good, but only the "Otello," "Aida" and "Forza" would have any great number of fans regarding them as the best of the best, although the curiously underrated and largely forgotten "Trovatore" under Serafin is very, very good, too. As a matter of purely personal taste, I would rank only the "Forza" as without peer.

No collection that ignores the catalogues of EMI and RCA--or even the old, rough and ready CETRA, can possibly be regarded as definitive. Nevertheless, on the whole, this is a respectable attempt at its self-imposed impossible task. As I write, "Viva Verdi!" is available from various Amazon sellers at prices ranging from $8.70 to $18.68. If you are interested in a Verdi sampler, this one is a bargain.

Four sampled stars.
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It's rare for sampler albums to demonstrate originality, but Decca's Giuseppe Verdi compilation honoring the 100th anniversary of the composer's death in 1901 goes beyond putting a smorgasbord of Verdiana on your plate. Its lavishly illustrated 100-page book includes a potted bio of the composer and sections on each of his operas, along with Universal's complete Verdi catalog (but no texts or translations). The discs contain samples from each opera, arranged in chronological order, featuring most of the top singers of the past 40 years. They're all here, from the Three Tenors to their betters, like Jon Vickers, whose powerfully sung "Celeste Aida" is a demonstration of individuality at the service of character portrayal, and Carlo Bergonzi, whose two selections (arias from Giovanna del Arco and Les Vêspres siciliennes) are magnificent demonstrations of the true Verdi style. And this is not just another Great Hits compilation, for many of the operas are represented by rarely heard arias and ensemble pieces. The result: a neat introduction to Verdi's glorious music for neophytes and a nice supplement for Verdians, who will discover new aspects to the Bard of romantic opera. --Dan Davis

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