VERDI Opera Arias
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Composer or Director: Giuseppe Verdi
Genre:
Opera
Label: Orfeo
Magazine Review Date: 05/2014
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 74
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: C885 141A
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
---|---|
Aida, Movement: ~ |
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer Krassimira Stoyanova, Soprano Munich Radio Orchestra Pavel Baleff, Conductor |
(Il) trovatore, Movement: ~ |
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer Krassimira Stoyanova, Soprano Munich Radio Orchestra Pavel Baleff, Conductor |
Giovanna d'Arco, 'Joan of Arc', Movement: O faticida foresta |
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer Krassimira Stoyanova, Soprano Munich Radio Orchestra Pavel Baleff, Conductor |
(Un) ballo in maschera, '(A) masked ball', Movement: ~ |
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer Krassimira Stoyanova, Soprano Munich Radio Orchestra Pavel Baleff, Conductor |
Luisa Miller, Movement: ~ |
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer Krassimira Stoyanova, Soprano Munich Radio Orchestra Pavel Baleff, Conductor |
(La) traviata, Movement: ~ |
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer Krassimira Stoyanova, Soprano Munich Radio Orchestra Pavel Baleff, Conductor |
Don Carlo, Movement: ~ |
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer Krassimira Stoyanova, Soprano Munich Radio Orchestra Pavel Baleff, Conductor |
(La) forza del destino, '(The) force of destiny', Movement: Pace, pace, mio Dio |
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer Krassimira Stoyanova, Soprano Munich Radio Orchestra Pavel Baleff, Conductor |
Don Carlo, Movement: Tu che le vanità |
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer Krassimira Stoyanova, Soprano Munich Radio Orchestra Pavel Baleff, Conductor |
Otello, Movement: Ave Maria |
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer Krassimira Stoyanova, Soprano Munich Radio Orchestra Pavel Baleff, Conductor |
Author: Mike Ashman
That said, although this Bulgarian soprano has been singing an increasing amount of Verdi in recent seasons, there is not (yet) here the fluency of those earlier discs. The Italian is naturally well studied but the idiom feels more foreign to the artist than the French and Slavic arias of the other recitals.
Some of this repertoire – tightly chosen thematically to concentrate on farewells – seems not so suitable for her. She sounds mature for Violetta’s goodbye to life (and the reading of Germont père’s letter sounds, as so often, like addressing a ship in fog). The exact emotional state of Elisabetta’s adieu in Don Carlo – wonderfully caught by Baleff and the orchestra in the introduction – is lost in an unnecessarily grand public statement of the opening phrases. Here however, as in Amelia’s request to see her children and in the Otello excerpt, Stoyanova audibly warms up before our ears to the emotion of the scene. And, in the final analysis – and in final place here – Desdemona’s unwitting farewell to life achieves a satisfying and carefully graded emotional response and climax to the disc.
The singer is in good voice throughout and her technique as enviable as ever. The recording quality is most natural, placing Verdi’s copious wind solos clearly but naturally in perspective. There’s true class here but you may want to sample before committing.
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