The First Placido Domingo International Voice Competition
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Composer or Director: Jules (Emile Frédéric) Massenet, Charles-François Gounod, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Manuel Penella, Giuseppe Verdi, Vincenzo Bellini, Giacomo Puccini, Gaetano Donizetti, Alfredo Catalani, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Pablo Sorozábal
Label: Classical
Magazine Review Date: 6/1994
Media Format: CD or Download
Media Runtime: 70
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: SK46691
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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(I) Puritani, Movement: ~ |
Vincenzo Bellini, Composer
Eugene Kohn, Conductor Inva Mula-Tchako, Soprano Paris Opéra-Bastille Orchestra Vincenzo Bellini, Composer |
(La) Wally, Movement: Ebben?...Ne andrò lontana |
Alfredo Catalani, Composer
Alfredo Catalani, Composer Eugene Kohn, Conductor Nina Stemme, Soprano Paris Opéra-Bastille Orchestra |
(L')Elisir d'amore, 'Elixir of Love', Movement: ~ |
Gaetano Donizetti, Composer
Eugene Kohn, Conductor Gaetano Donizetti, Composer Inva Mula-Tchako, Soprano Paris Opéra-Bastille Orchestra Plácido Domingo, Tenor |
Faust, Movement: ~ |
Charles-François Gounod, Composer
Charles-François Gounod, Composer Eugene Kohn, Conductor Kwanghchul Youn, Bass Paris Opéra-Bastille Orchestra Plácido Domingo, Tenor |
Manon, Movement: ~ |
Jules (Emile Frédéric) Massenet, Composer
Aïnhoa Arteta, Soprano Eugene Kohn, Conductor Jules (Emile Frédéric) Massenet, Composer Paris Opéra-Bastille Orchestra |
(L')Africaine, '(The) African Maid', Movement: ~ |
Giacomo Meyerbeer, Composer
Eugene Kohn, Conductor Giacomo Meyerbeer, Composer Paris Opéra-Bastille Orchestra Plácido Domingo, Tenor |
Don Giovanni, Movement: Là ci darem la mano |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Eugene Kohn, Conductor Inva Mula-Tchako, Soprano Kwanghchul Youn, Bass Paris Opéra-Bastille Orchestra Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer |
(Le) nozze di Figaro, '(The) Marriage of Figaro', Movement: ~ |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Aïnhoa Arteta, Soprano Eugene Kohn, Conductor Nina Stemme, Soprano Paris Opéra-Bastille Orchestra Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer |
(Le) nozze di Figaro, '(The) Marriage of Figaro', Movement: Ricevete o padroncina |
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer
Aïnhoa Arteta, Soprano Eugene Kohn, Conductor Nina Stemme, Soprano Paris Opéra-Bastille Orchestra Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Composer |
(El) Gato Montés, Movement: Me llambas, Rafaeliyo? |
Manuel Penella, Composer
Aïnhoa Arteta, Soprano Eugene Kohn, Conductor Manuel Penella, Composer Paris Opéra-Bastille Orchestra Plácido Domingo, Tenor |
(La) Bohème, 'Bohemian Life', Movement: O soave fanciulla |
Giacomo Puccini, Composer
Aïnhoa Arteta, Soprano Eugene Kohn, Conductor Giacomo Puccini, Composer Paris Opéra-Bastille Orchestra Plácido Domingo, Tenor |
(La) Tabernera del puerto |
Pablo Sorozábal, Composer
Eugene Kohn, Conductor Pablo Sorozábal, Composer Paris Opéra-Bastille Orchestra Plácido Domingo, Tenor |
(La) forza del destino, '(The) force of destiny', Movement: ~ |
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer
Eugene Kohn, Conductor Giuseppe Verdi, Composer Kwanghchul Youn, Bass Nina Stemme, Soprano Paris Opéra-Bastille Orchestra Plácido Domingo, Tenor |
Otello, Movement: ~ |
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer
Eugene Kohn, Conductor Giuseppe Verdi, Composer Nina Stemme, Soprano Paris Opéra-Bastille Orchestra Plácido Domingo, Tenor |
(La) traviata, Movement: Libiamo, ne' lieti calici (Brindisi) |
Giuseppe Verdi, Composer
Aïnhoa Arteta, Soprano Eugene Kohn, Conductor Giuseppe Verdi, Composer Inva Mula-Tchako, Soprano Kwanghchul Youn, Bass Nina Stemme, Soprano Paris Opéra-Bastille Orchestra Plácido Domingo, Tenor |
Author: Alan Blyth
All the singers are worthy winners. The three sopranos are, in differing ways, highly promising. The Swedish Nina Stemme, who ought to have won the last Cardiff Singer of the World contest, is the most affecting among them with a warm, appealing voice of sensuous overtones, ideal for La Wally's eloquent solo to which she brings appropriate vibrancy. Then she proves a thoroughly worthy Desdemona, phrasing with Verdian breadth, for Domingo's sovereign Otello, here caught on even more heroic form than on his complete sets in a reading finely conducted by Kohn. Stemme's subtlety and individuality of phrasing is at once evident in her first, expressive solo. She is hardly less successful in the final trio from Forza, where Domingo is again superb as an anguished Alvaro. A little more flesh on the tone and Stemme will be in the front rank.
The Albanian soprano Inva Mula-Tchako sounds like the young Freni, floating line and tone tenderly in ''Qui la voce'', then joining Domingo in an engaging, astutely characterized account of the duet from Elisir, the tenor once more enlivened by one more new partner in song. Here is another talent that will go far. Ainhoa Arteta is a more French-like soprano, with a lighter, shallower tone, a slightly acid Manon, more at home in the duets from El gato montes and Boheme with Domingo, where her Spanish temperament is very much to the fore. She is also a nice foil to Stemme's Countess in the Letter duet from Figaro.
The Korean Kwanghchul Youn, rather an anonymous Mephisto and Padre Guardiano, comes into his own as a suave Giovanni to Mula-Tchako's Zerlina: he sounds to me more of a baritone than a bass. The well-filled disc is faithfully recorded: once again in a live performance a natural rather than a manufactured acoustic is caught with the Bastille orchestra present but not too prominent. Highly recommended.'
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