Italian Opera Arias
| Italian Opera Arias | |
|---|---|
| 📅 Released | 1979 |
| Studio | National Arts Centre, Ottawa |
| ⏳ Length | 51:08 |
| Language | Italian |
| 🏷️ Label | CBS Masterworks |
| 🤑 Producer | Paul Myers |
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Italian Opera Arias is a 51-minute studio album of music performed by Frederica von Stade, Janice Taylor and the Orchestra of the National Arts Centre, Ottawa, under the direction of Mario Bernardi. It was released in 1979.[1]
Recording
The album was recorded using analogue technology in the National Arts Centre, Ottawa in August 1977 and July 1978.[1]
Packaging
The cover of the album was designed by Henrietta Condak, and features a photograph of von Stade taken by Valerie Clement.[1]
Critical reception
Reviews
Alan Blyth reviewed the album in Gramophone in January 1980. Frederica von Stade, he wrote, proved herself fully capable of encompassing the eclectic choice of pieces on this recital. This attractive, thoughtful artist convinced the listener that she was each of the characters, most of them unhappy in love, in turn. The Broschi da capo aria was the real "find" of this recital, an insinuating piece with a kind of trumpet obbligato in the Handelian vein. Von Stade dispatched it with élan. Neither the orchestral support nor the recording, with more forward presence than CBS usually permitted, could be bettered. Another desirable record, then, from a singer who never made a bad one.[2]
The album was also favourably reviewed in the 1982 edition of The new Penguin stereo record and cassette guide.[3]
CD track listing[1]
Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643)
- 1 (13:06) Di misera regina...Torna, torna from Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
Gioacchino Rossini (1792 - 1868), realized by Randolph Mickelson
- 2 (7:31) O patria...Di tanti palpiti from Tancredi
Giovanni Paisiello (1740 - 1816), realized by Randolph Mickelson
- 3 (8:26) Il mio ben quando verrà from Nina, o sia La pazza per amore
Gioacchino Rossini, realized by Randolph Mickelson
- 4 (7:04) Bel raggio lusinghier from Semiramide
Riccardo Broschi (circa 1698 - 1756), realized by Randolph Mickelson
- 5 (8:54) Ombra fedele, anch'io from Idaspe
Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857 - 1919)
- 6 (6:05) È destin! Debbo andarmene from La Bohème
Personnel[1]
Musical
- Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano
- Janice Taylor, mezzo-soprano (1)
- National Arts Centre Orchestra
- Mario Bernardi, conductor
Other
- Paul Myers, producer
- Bud Graham, engineer
Release history
On 1 October 1979, CBS Masterworks issued the album on LP (catalogue number M 35138), with sleeve notes by Robert Jacobson and an insert with texts and translations.[1] The album was also issued on cassette.
In 2012, Newton Classics issued the album on CD with a 16-page biographical booklet by David Patrick Stearns in their 4-CD collection Frederica von Stade: Duets, Arias, Scenes & Songs (catalogue number 8802125).[4]. In 2016, Sony issued the album on CD (in a miniature replica of the sleeve of the original LP) with a 52-page booklet in their 18-CD collection Frederica von Stade: The Complete Columbia Recital Albums (catalogue number 88875183412).[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Frederica von Stade: The Complete Columbia Recital Albums, Sony CD, 88875183412, 2016
- ↑ Gramophone, January 1980, pp. 1195 - 1196
- ↑ The new Penguin stereo record and cassette guide, Penguin, 1982, p. 972
- ↑ Frederica von Stade: Duets, Arias, Scenes & Songs, Newton Classics CD, 8802125, 2012
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