Nick Kimberley: Discover Opera

Nick Kimberley: Discover Opera

Nick Kimberley: Discover Opera
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Composer: Orazio Vecchi
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
Composer: Francesco Cavalli
Composer: Henry Purcell
Composer: George Frederick Handel
Composer: Jean-Philippe Rameau
Composer: Christoph Willibald Gluck
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer: Richard [Classical] Wagner
Composer: Gioachino Rossini
Composer: Gaetano Donizetti
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Composer: Giacomo Puccini
Composer: Hector Berlioz
Composer: Georges Bizet
Composer: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky
Composer: Claude Debussy
Composer: Alban Berg
Composer: Leos Janacek
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-10-31
Music Label: Naxos
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Act II, Scene 2: Vien'a Qua - Sergio Vartolo
  2. Toccata - Sergio Vartolo
  3. Act I: Rosa Del Ciel - Sergio Vartolo
  4. Act II: Ahi Caso Acerbo - Sergio Vartolo
  5. Act III, Scene 7: Dolcissimi Baci - Gloria Banditelli
  6. Act III, Scene 2: Thy Hand, Belinda; Darkness Shades Me - Scholars Baroque Ensemble
  7. Act III, Scene 2: When I Am Laid In Earth - Scholars Baroque Ensemble
  8. Act II, Scene 4: Lascia Ch'io Pianga - Charles Medlam
  9. Act II, Scene 2: Tristes Apprets - Kevin Mallon
  10. Act III, Scene 1: Che Faro Senza Euridice? - Arnold Ostman
  11. Act IV, Scene 10: Giunse Al Fin Il Momento - Deh, Vieni, Non Tardar - Michael Halasz
  12. Act I, Scene 15: Fin Ch'han Dal Vino - Michael Halasz
  13. Act II, Scene 3: Deh, Vieni Alla Finestra - Michael Halasz
  14. Act I, Scene 6: O Zitt're Nicht, Mein Lieber Sohn! - Hellen Kwon
  15. Act I Scene 9: Abscheulicher! Wo Eilst Du Hin? - Michael Halasz
  16. Prelude - Leif Segerstam
  17. Act III, Scene 3: Mild Und Leise ('Liebestod') - Leif Segerstam
  18. Act I, Scene 3: Zitto, Zitto, Piano, Piano - Martina Borst
  19. Act III, Scene 2: Ardon Gli Incensi - Slovak Symphony Orchestra
Music CD 2
  1. Prelude - Alexander Rahbari
  2. Act III, Scene 3: Bella Figlia Dell'amore - Alexander Rahbari
  3. Act III, Scene 2: Facciamo Il Parentado - Tutto Nel Mondo E Burla - Domenico Trimarchi
  4. Act I: Vogliatemi Bene - Alexander Rahbari
  5. Act V, Scene 2: Adieu, Fiere Cite - London Symphony Orchestra
  6. Prelude - Alexander Rahbari
  7. Act IV, Scene 2: Viva! - Alexander Rahbari
  8. Act I, Scene 2: Tatyana's Letter Scene - Michael Halasz
  9. Act IV, Scene 1: A Room In The Castle - Mireille Delunsch
  10. Act III, Scene 2: Forrest Path By A Pool - Leif Segerstam
  11. Act III, Scene 11 - Wieslaw Ochman
  12. Bluebeard's Domain - Peter Eotvos
  13. Prologue (Opening) - Martyn Hill
  14. I. Dawn - London Symphony Orchestra
  15. Act I, Scene 2: Now The Great Bear And Pleiades - London Symphony Orchestra
  16. Act II: One Last Look At The Angel In Your Eyes - Klaus Simon
  17. Act III, Scene 2: Third Song Of Magic (A) - Andrew Davis
  18. Eurydice Puppet/Eurydice Singer - Andrew Davis

Music reviews of Nick Kimberley: Discover Opera

Music Review: It Might Have Its Uses But ...
Rating: 3 Stars

I wanted very much to like this set more than I did. It is a compilation of operatic excerpts coupled with a booklet containing Nick Kimberley's fine and extensive essay on opera. But I'm afraid that many of the tracks (most of them taken from complete opera sets on the Naxos label) are below par, and certainly below what is available in various reissues featuring better singers. There are some real gems here (e.g., Bo Skovhus as Don Giovanni singing 'Finch'han dal vino', Michelle de Young singing 'Adieu, fière cité' from Berlioz's Les Troyens, Gabriela Benackova and Leonie Rysanek in a scene from Janácek's Jenufa, Marina Mescheriabkova singing Tatiana's letter scene from 'Yevgeniy Onegin'). On the whole, though, I came away thinking that anyone buying this set because they want to become familiar with opera might well be put off by some of the unsteady singing on display here.

Advantages: Kimberley's fine essay. A multi-page chart called 'Four Centuries of Opera: a Timeline' which, decade by decade beginning in 1580 and concluding with the present, correlates operatic premieres with concurrent historical events, art, architecture and literature. (Did you know that Monteverdi's 'Orfeo' premiered within a year of the invention of the telescope?, or that Beethoven's 'Fidelio' is roughly contemporaneous with Mary Shelley's 'Frankenstein' and Géricault's painting, 'The Raft of the Medusa'?)

Unlike what one might have expected, the two CDs contain music only. There is no narration. One must read the booklet to garner details about the tracks as they play. This is probably to the good; listening repeatedly to a spoken narration could become tiresome. Neither the original languages nor translations of sung texts are provided.

As for the inclusion of an excerpt from meretricious claptrap like John Adams's 'I was looking at the ceiling and then I saw the sky' and the omission of examples from French lyric operas (such as those by Massenet or Gounod), the less said the better.

The price, one must admit, is right.

Scott Morrison

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