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Verdi: La Traviata
Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000001GGR Release Date: 1993-02-16 |
Tracks:
- La Traviata: Preludio
- La Traviata: Act I - Introduzione - 'Dell'invito trascorsa e gia l'ora' (Violetta, Alfredo)
- La Traviata: Act I - Toast - 'Libiamo ne' lieti calici' (Alfredo, Violetta)
- La Traviata: Act I - Valzer e Duetto - 'Che e cio?' (Violetta, Alfredo)
- La Traviata: Act I - Valzer e Duetto - 'Un di felice, eterea' (Alfredo, Violetta)
- La Traviata: Act I - Valzer e Duetto - 'Ebben? che diavol fate?' (Violetta, Alfredo)
- La Traviata: Act I - Stretta dell'Introduzione - 'Si ridesta in ciel l'aurora'
- La Traviata: Act I - Scena ed Aria - Finale - 'E strano!...Ah, fors'e lui' (Violetta)
- La Traviata: Act I - Scena ed Aria - Finale - 'Follie! Delirio vano e questo!...Sempre libera' (Violetta, Alfredo)
- La Traviata: Act II - Scene 1 - Scena ed Aria - 'Lunge da lei... De' miei bollenti spiriti' (Alfredo)
- La Traviata: Act II - Scene 1 - Scena ed Aria - 'Annina, donde vieni?... Oh mio rimorso!' (Alfredo)
- La Traviata: Act II - Scene 1 - Scena e Duetto - 'Alfredo?' - 'Per Parigi or or partiva' (Violetta, Germont)
- La Traviata: Act II - Scene 1 - Scena e Duetto - 'Pura siccome un angelo' (Germont, Violetta)
- La Traviata: Act II - Scene 1 - Scena e Duetto - 'Non sapete quale affetto' (Violetta, Germont)
- La Traviata: Act II - Scene 1 - Scena e Duetto - 'Un di, quando le veneri' (Germont, Violetta)
- La Traviata: Act II - Scene 1 - Scena e Duetto - 'Ah! Dite alla giovine' (Violetta, Germont)
- La Traviata: Act II - Scene 1 - Scena e Duetto - 'Imponete' - 'Non amarlo ditegli' (Violetta, Germont)
- La Traviata: Act II - Scene 1 - Scena - 'Dammi tu forza, o cielo!' (Violetta)
- La Traviata: Act II - Scene 1 - Scena - 'Che fai?' - 'Nulla' (Alfredo, Violetta)
- La Traviata: Act II - Scene 1 - Scena ed Aria - 'Ah, vive sol quel core' (Alfredo, Germont)
- La Traviata: Act II - Scene 1 - Scena ed Aria - 'Di Provenza il mar, il suol' (Germont)
- La Traviata: Act II - Scene 1 - Scena ed Aria - 'Ne rispondi d'un padre all'affetto?... No, non udrai rimproveri' (Germont, Alfredo)
Tracks:
- La Traviata: Act II - Scene 2 - Finale II - 'Avrem lieta di maschere la notte'
- La Traviata: Act II - Scene 2 - Finale II - 'Noi siamo zingarelle'
- La Traviata: Act II - Scene 2 - Finale II - 'Di Madride noi siam mattadori'
- La Traviata: Act II - Scene 2 - Finale II - 'Alfredo! Voi!' (Alfredo)
- La Traviata: Act II - Scene 2 - Finale II - 'Invitato a qui seguirmi' (Violetta, Alfredo)
- La Traviata: Act II - Scene 2 - Finale II - 'Ogni suo aver tal femmina' (Alfredo)
- La Traviata: Act II - Scene 2 - Finale II - 'Di sprezzo degno se stesso rende' (Alfredo, Germont)
- La Traviata: Act II - Scene 2 - Finale II - 'Alfredo, Alfredo, di questo core' (Violetta)
- La Traviata: Act III - Preludio
- La Traviata: Act III - Scena ed Aria - 'Annina?' - 'Comandate?' (Violetta)
- La Traviata: Act III - Scena ed Aria - 'Teneste la promessa... Attendo, ne a me giungon mai... Addio del passato' (Violetta)
- La Traviata: Act III - Baccanale - 'Largo al quadrupede'
- La Traviata: Act III - Scena e Duetto - 'Signora...' - 'Che t'accadde?' (Violetta, Alfredo)
- La Traviata: Act III - Scena e Duetto - 'Ah, non piu!... Ah! Gran Dio! Morir si giovine' (Violetta, Alfredo)
- La Traviata: Act III - Finale ultimo - 'Ah, Violetta!' - 'Voi? Signor?' (Germont, Violetta, Alfredo)
- La Traviata: Act III - Finale ultimo - 'Prendi, quest'e l'immagine' (Violetta, Alfredo, Germont)
Customer Reviews:
Fantastic.......2006-03-29
The more you know, the more you will like this set.......2005-10-05
The classic 1950s versions with Callas, form Lisbon and La Scala on EMi, are in antiquated radio air checks with a dreadful orchestra in the Lisbon case, matched by a very feeble Germont in Sereni and an intrusive stage prompter talking over the singers. La Scala has a better cast but many defects in the sound, including dorpouts into near unintelligibility. In both cases the whole show is Callas, although Giulini is a major asset on the La Scala version, and some critics hail Kraus in the Lisbon set.
Among modern recordings we have one outright winner, the Kleiber performance on DG with Domingo at his best and a very affecting Ileana Cotrubas as Violetta. Kleiber rides the score hard at times, and Sherril Milnes, as usual, tends to shout as the elder Germont. But these are quibbles considering the overall musicality being displayed in every scene.
Overall musicality and drama are important. You can't have an outstanding La Traviata just b getting together some good vocalists. Which is why Pavarotti's earlier set on Decca was so disappointing. Leaving aside that Sutherland sounds a bit mature for the role, and that she enunciates Italian horribly, the combination of her voice and Pavarotti's is spectacular. But then you have the woefully routine conducting of Bonynge. On the Caballe set you get another bad conductor, on the Muti set you get the whole score without cuts but a very wobbly, squally Scotto and the dried-up tenor of the aging Alfredo Kraus.
It's not a perfoect world, and once you summarize all the pluses and minuses, this 1992 set under Levine looks better and better. Studer has all it takes to make Violetta musically and dramaticaly convincing. I am not concerned about vocal slips here and there. Pavarotti is in very good voice for his age, and Alfredo suits that voice perfeclty. He is a model of musicianship and perfect enunciation. Pons is adequate but no better. Levine conducts from the inside, with real understanding and emotion. Altogether, this is the best La Traviata on disc since the Kleiber recording--I for one am very grateful it came along.
what are these people thinking?.......2003-10-27
Studer sings wonderfully in Acts 2 and 3 with plenty of beauty and sadness, but she has MAJOR problems in Act 1. Her singing is just dreadful, esp. in her Sempre Libera aria. Her performance in Acts 2 and 3 make up for this, which is why I gave this 5 stars instead of 4. perhaps in the future, we could transfer Callas's performance to this recording, and make it 10 stars.
Pavarotti's voice is heavier, making his performance much more dramatic and darker instead of the light, colorful sound that he had in the Sutherland version. He still sounds fantastic here, in my opinion, even better than on the Sutherland version. The color in his voice, his expression, diction and support remain marvelous as always.
Pons is the best singer of the three. his duet with Studer in Act 2 is one of the many highlights here, and his Di Provenza aria is heartbreaking, perhaps the best one I've heard.
Levine and the Met orchestra are simply the best, esp. in the string section. Def. one of the best U.S. orchestras.
supporting roles and chorus are excellent, esp. in the Gypsy theme in Act 2.
so please ignore the other reviews, and get this recording. it's everything one could ask for.
Very Disappointing.......2003-07-24
They were severely disappointed.
Pavarotti, at one time, was the one the best Alfredo's around. But in this 1992 recording his voice sounds strained and weak and is simply unable to meet the rigors of the part. Studer is at best uninspired as Violetta. At worst, her portrayal of the vibrant fun-loving playgirl is boring and lifeless. At some points I get the impression she would rather be singing a different part. And the orchestra sounds about half as big as it ought to be, an orchestra of mice rather than men (and, of course, women).
What saves this recording from a lower score is an intense Pons as the elder Germont. He "di Provenza" is actually quite good and he sounds appropriately sad and torn during the opera, as he should. His is the only worthwhile performance in the entire recording (excepting perhaps the gypsies at the beginning of Act 2, Scene 2). Many of the other minor characters are admirably filled, but the lack of strong leads ruins the entire performance.
In short, this recording is a major disappointment, and at $$$, a major waste of your money. If you really want a great recording of this opera, buy instead Giulini's 1955 La Scala production with Callas and diStephano. This is probably the hands down definitive recording of the opera; too bad the sound is less than stellar. For a more modern version, listen to Klieber's 1990 recording with Cotrubas and Domingo. Both offer a much better alternative than this train wreck of a recording.
This is a HORRIBLE recording!.......2000-05-06
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Wagner: Die Walküre (Acts 1 and 2)
Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000AE7BM Release Date: 2003-10-21 |
Album Description
In the early 1930s Bruno Walter planned to record the complete Die Walküre in Berlin, exploiting recent refinements in the electrical recording technique. However when the Nazis came to power, Jewish artists, including Walter, were immediately under threat. The location of the recording was shifted to Vienna. In 1935 the whole of Act 1 and parts of Act 2 were taken down. Melchior, the finest Heldentenor of that or any time, and Lehmann managed to sound astonishingly youthful, while Hotter was to become the leading Wotan of the next two decades. Logistical and budgetary problems made it difficult to complete Act 2 and only in 1938 was the rest of it undertaken in Berlin, under the vastly experienced leadership of Bruno Seidler-Winkler.Customer Reviews:
The Past Near-Perfect.......2006-04-09
Wow.......2005-09-27
The 2nd Act is also near-overwhelming, and both together is the reason this recording stays in the catalog: It doesn't get much better than this!
The Most Electrifying 'Walküre' Ever Recorded.......2003-10-25
But the best part is the musical performance, cobbled together as it is in some respects. The cast is a dream. Get this:
Sieglinde----------Lotte Lehmann
Brünnhilde---------Marta Fuchs
Fricka-------------Margarete Klose
Siegmund-----------Lauritz Melchior
Wotan--------------Han Hotter
Hunding------------Emanuel List
Further, each of these singers is in extraordinary voice. It is as if they sense they are involved in a history-making endeavor in this, one of the first attempts to record 'Walküre.' Lehmann, who could later sound a bit matronly, here sounds ardently young and feminine. Melchior sings as well as I've ever heard him, a bronze baritonal sound that is absolutely rock-solid, coupled with fidelity to the music as written, not always present elsewhere with Melchior. Marta Fuchs, who made few recordings, is a young-sounding and intensely dramatic Brünnhilde; the voice is like a laser. The young Hans Hotter, then only 26, is singing his first Wotan, a role he made his own in the years to come. There is a strong, rather than hectoring, Fricka from the mezzo, Margarete Klose. Hunding is manly and dramatically apt as sung by Emanuel List. The Vienna portion (more than 2/3 of the recording) is played by the Vienna Philharmonic who as the Vienna State Opera Orchestra had this music in their bones. The Berlin portion utilized the Berlin Philharmonic who are only marginally below the VPO's level in this era. This is Bruno Walter's only major Wagnerian recording. This conductor, often cited as the quintessentially gemütlich Germanic conductor, leads an intensely dramatic performance. What a pity we don't have more Wagner from him.
Individual passages of note in Act I: Melchior's 'Ein Schwert verhiess mir der Vater,' and then 'Winterstürme' followed by the rapturous duet (Melchior, Lehmann) 'Du bist der Lenz.' Act II: the argument in Scene One between Fricka (Fuchs) and Wotan (Hotter), which is often just sort of skated over but here is full of fire and spirit. Then the most dramatically engaging 'Wotan's Monolog' (where he tells Brünnhilde the history of the Ring) that I've ever heard; this passage is sometimes scorned because it is so long and recounts material that presumably the informed opera-goer already knows. Not so here; Hotter makes us, as well as Brünnhilde, hang on every word. Klose's alternately confused and brave Brünnhilde, especially at the beginning of Act II, Scene 4 ('Siegmund! Sieh auf mich!) where she tells Siegmund he must die, is simply stunning.
The marginally less effective part of the recording is in the last part of Scene 5 when two different singers (Ella Flesch and Alfred Jerger) perform that scene's confrontation between Wotan and Brünnhilde. It's not that they are bad--in fact, they're quite good--but their voices are so very different from Fuchs's and Hotter's that it is a bit jarring.
This, obviously, is not going to be anyone's only recording of 'Die Walküre.' And although there is a scene by scene synopsis, there is no libretto; Naxos probably recognizes that anyone buying this 2CD set will probably already have a modern recording and a libretto.
Still, I suspect I will be reaching for this performance in preference to a number of other more modern performances that I own. It's that good! Once again I want to thank Naxos for making this and other significant historical recordings available in clear sound at a budget price. They keep coming up with winners like this, the 1931 French 'Manon,' the early Karajan 'Meistersinger,' the recently released 'Louise,' and others.
Most heartily recommended.
CD1=73:41
CD2=70:22
TT=2:24:03
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Wiener Staatsoper Live 1933-1944
Manufacturer: Koch Schwann (Germ.) ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000006KLQ Release Date: 1994-03-22 |
Tracks:
- Carmen: Prelude, 1st act - Orch der.../Bruno Walter
- Die Walkure: Keiner ging-Wintersturme wichen dem Wonnemond - Set Svanholm
- Der Rosenkavalier: Kann mich auch an ein Madel erinnern - Viorica Ursuleac
- Don Carlo: Dio, che nell'alam infondere amor - Todor Mazaroff/Piero Pierotic
- Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg: Wach auf es nahet gen den Tag - Chor Der Wiener Staatsoper
- Le Nozze Di Figaro: Non piu andrai - Paul Schoffler
- Lohengrin: Entweihte Gotter-Ortrud, wo bist du - Margarete Klose/Maria Muller
- Der Fliegende Holler: Wirst du des Vaters Wah! nicht schelten - Hans Hotter/Helena Braun
- Furst Igor: Wenn an Igor's Stell' ich w - Alfred Jerger/Chor Der Wiener Staatsoper
- Notre Dame: Zwischenspiel - Orch der.../Wilhelm Loibner
- Aida: Celeste Aida - Max Lorenz
- Die Zauberflote: Ach, ich fuhl's, es ist verschwunden - Maria Reining
- Die Walkure: Vorspiel-Nun ze dein RoHojotoho - Walter Groann/Anny Konetzni
- Un Ballo In Maschera: Alla vita che t'arride - Matthieu Ahlersmeyer
- Gotterdammerung: Siegfrieds Rheinfahrt - Orch der.../Clemens Krauss
- Die Frau Ohne Schatten: Vater, bist du's - Hilde Konetzni
- Cavalleria Rusticana: Ah! Lo vedi, che hai tu detto?-No, no, Turiddu - Helge Rosvaenge/Maria Jeritza
- Rienzi: Ha! Rienzi hoch!-Erstehe, hohe Roma, neu - Franz Volker/Chor der Wiener Staatsoper
- Der Resenkavalier: Ist ein Traum, kann nicht wirklich sein - Eva Hadrabova/Maria Gerhard
- Lohengrin: Entweihte Gotter-Ortrud, wo bist du? - Margarete Klose/Maria Muller
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Richard Wagner: Die Walküre (Act 2)
Manufacturer: Capitol ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00000DOAT Release Date: 1992-04-14 |
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