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Maria Callas - Verdi: Il trovatore (2014) [Hi-Res]

Maria Callas - Verdi: Il trovatore (2014) [Hi-Res]

BAND/ARTIST: Maria Callas

  • Title: Giuseppe Verdi: Il trovatore
  • Year Of Release: 1956 / 2014
  • Label: Warner Classics
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks, booklet) [96kHz/24bit]
  • Total Time: 2:09:39
  • Total Size: 1.31 GB
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Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901)

Il trovatore - opera in four acts

Act 1
01. "All'erta! All'erta!" (Ferrando, Chorus) (3:02)
02. "Di due figli vivea padre beato" (Ferrando, Chorus) (0:45)
03. "Abbietta zingara, fosca vegliarda!" (Ferrando, Chorus) (3:35)
04. "Brevi e tristi giorni visse" (Ferrando, Corus) (1:57)
05. "Sull'orlo dei tetti" (Ferrando, Chorus) (1:21)
06. "Che piu t'arresti?" (Ines, Leonora) (2:17)
07. "Tacea la notte placida" (Leonora) (3:34)
08. "Quanto narrasti di turbamento m'ha piena I'alma!" (Ines, Leonora) (0:50)
09. "Di tale amor" (Leonora, Ines) (1:41)
10. "Tace la notte!" (Count di Luna) (1:49)
11. "Il Trovator! lo fremo!...Deserto sulla terra" (Count di Luna, Manrico) (1:45)
12. "Anima mia!....Piu dell'usato" (Leonora, Count di Luna, Manrico) (1:59)
13. "Di geloso amor sprezzato" (Count di Luna, Leonora, Manrico) (2:41)

Act 2
14. "Vedi le fosche notturne" (Chorus) (2:59)
15. "Stride la vampa!" (Azucena) (2:41)
16. "Mesta è la tua canzon!" (Chorus, Azucena, Manrico, Old Gypsy) (2:02)
17. "Soli or siamo" (Manrico, Azucena) (1:01)
18. "Condotta all'era in ceppi" (Azucena, Manrico) (4:51)
19. "Non son tuo figlio!" (Manrico, Azucena) (2:28)
20. "Mal reggendo all'aspro assalto" (Manrico, Azucena) (3:09)
21. "L'usato messo Ruiz invia! ... Mi vendica!" (Manrico, Azucena, Messenger) (1:26)
22. "Perigliarti ancor languente" (Azucena, Manrico) (2:30)
23. "Tutto è deserto" (Count di Luna, Ferrando) (1:34)
24. "Il balen del suo sorriso" (Count di Luna) (3:15)
25. "Qual suono! Oh ciel!" (Count di Luna, Ferrando, Coro) (0:50)
26. "Per me ora fatale" (Count di Luna, Ferrando, Chorus) (2:51)
27. "Ah! se l'error t'ingombra" (Chorus, Count di Luna, Ferrando) (2:01)
28. "Perché piangete?...O dolci amiche" (Leonora, Ines, Count di Luna, Chorus) (2:17)
29. "E deggio e posso crederlo?" (Leonora, Count di Luna, Manrico, Ines, Chorus, Ferrando, Ruiz) (4:51)

Act 3
30. "Or co'dadi, mi fra poco" (Chorus, Ferrando) (4:28)
31. "In braccio al mio rival!" (Count di Luna, Ferrando, Chorus, Azucena) (2:12)
32. "Giorni poveri vivea" (Azucena, Count di Luna, Ferrando, Chorus) (3:08)
33. "Deh! rallentate, o barbari" (Azucena, Count di Luna, Ferrando, Chorus) (2:07)
34. "Quale d'armi fragor" (Leonora, Manrico) (2:02)
35. "Ah si, ben mio, coll'essere io tuo" (Manrico) (2:53)
36. "L'onda de'suoni mistici pura discenda al cor! (Leonora, Manrico, Ruiz) (1:29)
37. "Di quella pira l'orrendo foco" (Manrico, Ruiz, Chorus) (3:21)

Act 4
38. "Siam giunti; ecco la torre" (Ruiz, Leonora) (3:06)
39. "D'amor sull'ali rosee" (Leonora) (4:02)
40. "Miserere...Quel suon, quelle preci" (Chorus, Leonora, Manrico) (4:54)
41. "Di te! Di te! scordami di te" (Leonora) (2:33)
42. "Udiste?" (Count di Luna, Leonora) (1:47)
43. "Mira, d'acerbe lagrime" (Leonora, Count di Luna) (2:19)
44. "Conte!...Ne bastil!" (Leonora, Count di Luna) (1:14)
45. "Colui vivra ... Vivra, contende il giubilo" (Leonora, Count di Luna) (2:25)
46. "Madre, non dormi?" (Manrico, Azucena) (5:29)
47. "Si, la stanchezza m'opprime" (Azucena, Manrico) (1:18)
48. "Ai nostri monti ritorneremo" (Azucena, Manrico) (2:05)
49. "Che! Non m'inganna!" (Manrico, Leonora) (1:08)
50. "Parlar non vuoi!...Ha quest'infame l'amor venduto" (Manrico, Leonora) (3:01)
51. "Ti scosta!" (Manrico, Leonora) (1:06)
52. "Prima che d'altri vivere" (Leonora, Manrico, Count di Luna, Azucena) (3:32)

Like Norma, the role of Leonora in Il trovatore demands both bel canto finesse and considerable vocal and dramatic weight, but Callas sang it only some 20 times. This recording – in which she, Fedora Barbieri, Giuseppe di Stefano and Roland Panerai constitute a suitably impressive quartet of principals – marked her farewell to the complete role and also her final collaboration with Herbert von Karajan.

“Callas and Karajan took the world by the ears in the 1950s with this Il trovatore. Leonora was one of Callas's finest stage roles, and this recording is wonderfully intense, with a dark concentrated loveliness of sound in the principal arias that puts one in mind of Muzio or Ponselle at their best. Walter Legge always managed to team Callas with the right conductor for the work in question. Often it was Serafin, but Karajan in Il trovatore is utterly compelling.

This opera, like Beethoven's Seventh Symphony and Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, is one of music's great essays in sustained rhythmic intensity; dramatically it deals powerfully in human archetypes. All this is realised by the young Karajan with that almost insolent mastery of score and orchestra which made him such a phenomenon at this period of is career. There are some cuts, but, equally, some welcome inclusions (such as the second verse of 'Di quella pira', sung by di Stefano with his own unique kind of slancio). Although the EMI sound is very good, one or two climaxes suggest that in the heat of the moment, the engineer, Robert Beckett, let the needle run into the red and you might care to play the set in mono to restore that peculiar clarity and homogeneity of sound which are the mark of Legge's finest productions of the mono era. But whatever you do don't miss this set.” (Gramophone Classical Music Guide)

Maria Callas, soprano (Leonora)
Giuseppe di Stefano, tenor (Manrico)
Rolando Panerai, baritone (Il Conte di Luna)
Nicola Zaccaria, bass (Ferrando)
Luisa Villa, soprano (Ines)
Renato Ercolani, tenor (Ruiz, Un messo)
Giulio Mauri, bass (Un vecchio zingaro)
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan
Herbert von Karajan, conductor

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