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CD88563 Margaret Price
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CD88563 Margaret Price
Margaret Price who sadly died some weeks ago today would have celebrated her seventieth birthday! She is one of the singers I admired most. In my first happy years as a teen opera visitor at Cologne she and Lucia Popp were the much adored stars in Jean Pierre Ponelle´s famous cycle of all the major Mozart operas. Cosi fan tutte over the years had the stellar Fiordiligi casting of Margaret Price, Kiri te Kanawa and Julia Varady (who was a wonderful Donna Elvira to Price´s Donna Anna, too). Of the three Margaret Price by far was the biggest. But as soon she moved on the stage and began to sing you forgot all about a massive corpus and only could marvel about the facility, the grace and depth of her personality. It didn´t matter how beautiful the other two ladies might have been how well she sang. They always lost the comparison with Margaret Price. And the voice has been a unique one: with this nearly vibrato less and instrumental but at the same time infinitely womanly timbre. And how big this voice could be! Listening to these recordings I fall in love again with this unique artist.
The compilation is sampled over the last weeks from different German and Austrian broadcasts. The files are mp3 320 kb
Margaret Price, soprano sings:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Le Nozze di Figaro
01. Porgi amor
02. Gente, gente all´armi, all´armi
Catherine Malfitano (Susanna) Claudio Nicolai (Conte Almaviva) Stafford Dean (Figaro) Carlos Feller (Bartolo) u.a. Gürzenichorchester der Stadt Köln Sir John Pritchard (11.06. 1978)
Cosi fan tutte
03. "Ah, guarda, sorella" bis "Sento, o Dio"
04. "Come scoglio"
Yvonne Minton (Dorabella) David Kuebler (Ferrando) Claudio Nicolai (Guglielmo) Carlos Feller (Don Alphonso) Gürzenichorchester der Stadt Köln Sir John Pritchard (25.05. 1978)
05. Per pietà Bayerisches Staatorchester Wolfgang Sawallisch (1978)
06. Finale 2. Akt
Yvonne Minton (Dorabella) David Kuebler (Ferrando) Claudio Nicolai (Guglielmo) Carlos Feller (Don Alphonso) Gürzenichorchester der Stadt Köln Sir John Pritchard (25.05. 1978)
Don Giovanni
07. "Don Ottavio, son morta.. Or chi sai l´onore"
Hermann Winkler (Don Ottavio) Gürzenichorchester der Stadt Köln Sir John Pritchard (17.06. 1978)
08. Concert aria „Vorrei, spiegarvi, o Dei", KV 418 English Chamber Orchestra James Lockart (1975)
Giuseppe Verdi
Aida
09. Ritorna vincotor Münchner Rundfunkorchester Heinz Wallberg (1981, Kongresssaal, Deutsches Museum, München)
La forza del destino
10. Pace, pace
Münchner Rundfunkorchester Thomas Fulton (1986, Kongresssaal, Deutsches Museum, München)
Otello
11. Gia nella notte densa
Placido Domingo (Otello) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden Carlos Kleiber (1981)
Johannes Brahms
Ein Deutsches Requiem
12. Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit Kölner Rundfunkchor Kölner Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (?, Cologne)
PLEASE CLICK BELOW FOR A SAMPLE OF THIS RECORDING
Margaret Price who sadly died some weeks ago today would have celebrated her seventieth birthday! She is one of the singers I admired most. In my first happy years as a teen opera visitor at Cologne she and Lucia Popp were the much adored stars in Jean Pierre Ponelle´s famous cycle of all the major Mozart operas. Cosi fan tutte over the years had the stellar Fiordiligi casting of Margaret Price, Kiri te Kanawa and Julia Varady (who was a wonderful Donna Elvira to Price´s Donna Anna, too). Of the three Margaret Price by far was the biggest. But as soon she moved on the stage and began to sing you forgot all about a massive corpus and only could marvel about the facility, the grace and depth of her personality. It didn´t matter how beautiful the other two ladies might have been how well she sang. They always lost the comparison with Margaret Price. And the voice has been a unique one: with this nearly vibrato less and instrumental but at the same time infinitely womanly timbre. And how big this voice could be! Listening to these recordings I fall in love again with this unique artist.
The compilation is sampled over the last weeks from different German and Austrian broadcasts. The files are mp3 320 kb
Margaret Price, soprano sings:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Le Nozze di Figaro
01. Porgi amor
02. Gente, gente all´armi, all´armi
Catherine Malfitano (Susanna) Claudio Nicolai (Conte Almaviva) Stafford Dean (Figaro) Carlos Feller (Bartolo) u.a. Gürzenichorchester der Stadt Köln Sir John Pritchard (11.06. 1978)
Cosi fan tutte
03. "Ah, guarda, sorella" bis "Sento, o Dio"
04. "Come scoglio"
Yvonne Minton (Dorabella) David Kuebler (Ferrando) Claudio Nicolai (Guglielmo) Carlos Feller (Don Alphonso) Gürzenichorchester der Stadt Köln Sir John Pritchard (25.05. 1978)
05. Per pietà Bayerisches Staatorchester Wolfgang Sawallisch (1978)
06. Finale 2. Akt
Yvonne Minton (Dorabella) David Kuebler (Ferrando) Claudio Nicolai (Guglielmo) Carlos Feller (Don Alphonso) Gürzenichorchester der Stadt Köln Sir John Pritchard (25.05. 1978)
Don Giovanni
07. "Don Ottavio, son morta.. Or chi sai l´onore"
Hermann Winkler (Don Ottavio) Gürzenichorchester der Stadt Köln Sir John Pritchard (17.06. 1978)
08. Concert aria „Vorrei, spiegarvi, o Dei", KV 418 English Chamber Orchestra James Lockart (1975)
Giuseppe Verdi
Aida
09. Ritorna vincotor Münchner Rundfunkorchester Heinz Wallberg (1981, Kongresssaal, Deutsches Museum, München)
La forza del destino
10. Pace, pace
Münchner Rundfunkorchester Thomas Fulton (1986, Kongresssaal, Deutsches Museum, München)
Otello
11. Gia nella notte densa
Placido Domingo (Otello) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden Carlos Kleiber (1981)
Johannes Brahms
Ein Deutsches Requiem
12. Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit Kölner Rundfunkchor Kölner Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (?, Cologne)
PLEASE CLICK BELOW FOR A SAMPLE OF THIS RECORDING
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