Palestrina: Lamentaziono per la Settimana Santa

On this CD:

1. Lamentationum Hieremiae Prophetae for 5 & 6 voices
Composed by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina


2. Lamentationum Hieremiae Prophetae for 5 & 6 voices
Composed by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina


3. Lamentationum Hieremiae Prophetae for 5 & 6 voices
Composed by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina


4. Lamentationum Hieremiae Prophetae for 5 & 6 voices
Composed by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina


5. Lamentationum Hieremiae Prophetae for 5 & 6 voices
Composed by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina


6. Lamentationum Hieremiae Prophetae for 5 & 6 voices
Composed by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina


7. Lamentationum Hieremiae Prophetae for 5 & 6 voices
Composed by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina


Palestrina: Lamentazioni per la Settimana Santa, Music, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, I Cantori di Lorenzo, Filippo Bressan, Choral, Choral Music, Classical, Classical Composers, Classical Music, Early Music / Chant
Cecilia Bartoli ~ Opera Proibita (Handel · Scarlatti · Caldara) / Les Musiciens du Louvre · Minkowski
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Only one diva, only Bartoli.
  • Amazing disc
  • Beautiful Music, but vocally unmusical.
  • Not to my taste
  • Exciting, moving, beautiful, energetic, heart-felt, fantastic...
Cecilia Bartoli ~ Opera Proibita (Handel · Scarlatti · Caldara) / Les Musiciens du Louvre · Minkowski
Cecilia Bartoli , George Frideric Handel , Alessandro Scarlatti , Antonio Caldara , Marc Minkowski , and Les Musiciens du Louvre
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ASIN: B000A6T1HC
Release Date: 2005-09-13

Tracks:

  1. All'arme si accesi guerrieri (Aria dell Pace)
  2. Mentre io godo (Aria della Speranza)
  3. Un pensiero nemico di pace
  4. Vanne pentita a piangere
  5. Sparga il senso lascivo veleno
  6. Caldo Sangue
  7. Come nembo che fugge col vento
  8. Ecco negl'orti tuoi...Che dolce simpatica
  9. Qui resta...L'alta Roma
  10. Lascia la spina cogli la rosa
  11. Ahi qual cordoglio...Doppio affetto
  12. Si piangete pupille dolente
  13. Ahi quanto cieca...Come foco allo splendore
  14. Disserratevi oh porte d'Averno
  15. Notte funesta...Ferma l'ali

Amazon.com

Cecilia Bartoli's new CD features a collection of music that could not be heard in her native Rome at the start of the 18th century due to Papal censorship. Theaters, the Church felt, were places of evil and corruption and operas led people to immorality. But some music-loving senior members of the priesthood asked composers to write oratorios and cantatas--indeed, operas without staging, essentially--for their own private entertainment. Call it what you will, the music is sensational--by turns virtuosic, gentle, and playful--and always expressive: just right, it seems, for Cecilia Bartoli's temperament. The opening aria on the CD, a call for peace in the name of Jesus, is, in fact, a dazzling martial air with trumpets blaring and the voice going through an amazing array of coloratura fireworks. It shows Bartoli at her most aggressive. The listener is practically hurled back from the speakers when she begins, with rapid-fire runs and trills and cascades of notes, all perfectly in place. Showy arias are offset by several tender ones ("Lascia la spina" from Handel's Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno returns in the composer's Rinaldo, four years later, as the now-famous "Lascia ch'io pianga"), and Bartoli exhibits again, her many, many levels of pianissimo and sensitive phrasing. Marc Minkowski and his Musiciens are just right for this repertoire and back Bartoli up superbly. This is a fascinating project, rivetingly performed and presented. --Robert Levine

Album Description

Limited Australian pressing. An extraordinary album of dramatic arias written in Rome at a time when opera performance was forbidden by the Church, and female singers were forbidden from singing in public. Decca. 2005.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Only one diva, only Bartoli........2007-06-19

Just like Farinelli was the opera phenomenon of his time, fast-forward to the 21st century, Bartoli gives once again this music of the Italian settecento a breath of new life in all its splendor and glory.

In Opera Proibita, Bartoli's repertoire not only reflects on her as a consummate vocal artist but also as the ultimate scholar. Rarely an opera singer would dig this dip and go that far to unearth great scores from total obscurity. Even more uncommonly a singer would take the challenge of singing these arias without the risk of ridiculing herself, but to the contrary establishing a new record and precedent.

Her execution of the Handel arias is truly astonishing in coloratura and melismas probably not heard for three hundred years when only the best castrati commanded the virtuosity to tackle these arias. Also surprising and refreshing was to hear works by Handel that show his wild side.

Bartoli brings this album to a high climax with the arias from Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno. This is really her realm and true medium. Her vocal runs in "Un pensiero nemico di face" sound like a first violin, and as if this was not difficult enough she ornaments the da capo melismas in tempo from allegro to presto molto vivace, and transitions into a note crescendo with great ease and certainty. Wonderful!

5 out of 5 stars Amazing disc.......2007-03-03

This disc has all the elements needed for an amazing disc. The conductor, orchestra, and music are all top notch. Bartoli's singing is amazing. I find this album energizing and a testament to how exciting baroque music can be. However, if you don't like Bartoli's voice in previous recordings, you probably won't change your opinion because of this disc.

3 out of 5 stars Beautiful Music, but vocally unmusical........2007-02-09

I owned over a dozen of Bartoli solo albums, plus other operatic albums of hers. From the early days of 'Arias Antique' I got impressed by her beautiful singing and her outstanding technique.
Alas, starting from her Vivaldi Album, I do not find her singing that beautiful any more. True, the songs picked there are technically very challenging, used to be sung by male castrato singers. The songs picked here are even more difficult.
BUT - is singing just about technique?
There are some songs in the Vivaldi Album that have the vocal musical lines broken in places. Here in Opera Proibita, almost every song has this problem, even the slow ones of Caldara. Compare her singing in the earlier part of her career, her early Mozart operas, I could not help but wonder if Ms. Bartoli has taken the correct turn in her career: her forced high notes, though squarely hit, do not sound at all pleasing; her runs and trills, though taken accurately at great tempi, is no longer truly musical. Compare her singing with the other two great baroque mezzo-sopranos Bernarda Fink and the tragically short-lived late Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, you would understand what I mean.

With the latest turn in Ms. Bartoli's singing, I am being forced to admit that this is a singer of great technical brilliance and enormous fame, but not at all pleasing to the ear.

1 out of 5 stars Not to my taste.......2006-11-05

Cecilia Bartoli has her fans, no doubt, as the other reviews on this site demonstrate, people who love her warmth of tone and her impassioned interpretations. These vocal qualities may suit the performance conventions of the nineteenth-century repertoire; however in this anthology of eighteenth century sacred arias the result is an unhappy imbalance. The problem is, in my opinion, one of clashing calls for attention, whose affect is to distract the listener from attention to the music itself. True, the god of the counter-reformation was to be worshipped ecstatically. And true, also, that I am an anti-romantic listener, who grew up with those early music performances which valued detached purity of tone. This was vaunted as the ideal means of interpretation of the rediscovered seventeenth and eighteenth-century repertoire (it protested too much its rightness, and alienated people- but I like it). However to return to the subject at hand- I find Bartoli's readings of these crypto-erotic arias overblown and self-indulgent. I guess that this sort of coloratura always offered a chance for a bit of ego to be let loose, even in church- however when the performance goes so far as to insist on attention to itself rather than deflecting attention to the music, I stop enjoying the music. This recording does not find the balance between the big romantic personality and eighteenth-century performance conventions, which, after 30 or 40 years of self-critique, have some authority. I disliked it very much. I am a great admirer of Mark Minkowski's opera interpretations, which I think find a perfect balance between these opposing impulses of warm and cool- a binary we can trace throughout aesthetics and through the ages. Here there's an overbalance in favour of warm (hot, in fact), which the performers might argue is just the sort of vivification that Baroque performance needs. Not for me. I gave it to a friend (she's still a friend).

5 out of 5 stars Exciting, moving, beautiful, energetic, heart-felt, fantastic..........2006-09-02

What more can I add?

Cecilia Bartoli just "does it" for me almost every time. She is just fantastic in my books. I love her dearly. She can give one an adrenalin rush with her bravura singing and then break one's heart with her pathos.

This is a superb collection of Baroque arias from "almost" operas! ;-))
I also liked the cheeky and none-too-subtle references to La Dolce Vita on
cover and the images inside the disc. Nice to see an opera singer with a playful sense of humour!

I am listening to this disc as I write this review and all I can say is that I love this disc and it is clearly one of the best Signorina Bartoli has released, although I like all of her recordings. Listen to track 12 and you will buy this disc.

More, please!

PS: How about DECCA getting Cecilia Bartoli and Andreas Scholl together for a musical project? I'd love to see two of my favourite singers together on the one disc.
PSPS: If you like Opera Proibita, buy Andreas Scholl's Arcadia and Arias for Senesino, too!


Lamentazioni per la Settimana Santa
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    Manufacturer: Harmonia Mundi Fr.
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    2. Vau. Et Egressus Est A Filia Sion
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      ASIN: B00005O841
      Release Date: 2001-11-13

      Album Description

      Disc 1: Donizetti Arias from L'elisir d'amore, Maria Stuarda, Lucia di Lammermoor, La Fille du Regiment, Linda di Chamounix, La Favorita, and Don Paquale

      Disc 2: Bellini/Donizetti/Verdi Includes arias from I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Norma, La Sonnambula (1976 Duet Recording), I Beatrice di Tenda, I Puritani, Don Sebastien, Il Duca d'Alba, I Lombardi, I due Foscari, Ernani, and Attila

      Disc 3: Verdi 1 Includes arias from Macbeth, Luisa Miller, Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, La Traviata, and Les Vepres Siciliennes

      Disc 4: Verdi 2 Includes arias from Un Ballo in Maschera, La Forza del Destino, Don Carlos, Aida, Otello, and Requiem

      Disc 5: Puccini Includes arias from La Boheme, Madama Butterfly, and Turandot

      Disc 6: Puccini and Verismo Includes arias from Cavalleria Rusticana, Manon Lescaut, Pagliacci, Andrea Chenier, and Tosca

      Disc 7: Arias 1 Includes arias from La Griselda, Atalanta, Orfeo ed Euridice, Don Giovanni, Cosi fan Tutte, Guillaume Tell, and more. Includes Unreleased Material.

      Disc 8: Arias 2 Includes arias from Martha, Mefistofele, La Giocanda, Adriana Lecouvreur, Rosenkavalier, Fedora, Werther, Faust, Carmen, and more

      Disc 9: Italian Songs Includes: In questa tomba oscura, Me voglio fa'na casa, Non t'amo piu, Pace non trovo, and more

      Disc 10: Neapolitan and Italian Popular Songs Includes: O sloe mio, Torna a Surriento, Core 'ngrato, Funiculi Funicula, Non ti scordar di me, Mamma and more

      Bonus CD: The 1964 EP (previously unreleased) "Che Gelida Manina," "E lucevan le stelle," "Questo o quella," "La Donna e mobile," and "Parmi veder" with Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Edward Downes conducting

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars Beyond all description..........2006-09-19

      As a boy, I heard so many hyperbolic references to the legendary Enrico Caruso that I chose to purchase a remastered copy of his "Greatest Hits" when I first began to acquire recordings as a young man. Soon after, I discovered Pavarotti and my life was changed by his music. Caruso ended up in the Goodwill Store. I am convinced that in 500 years, should the earth cool again and the Muslim hoards abate, the civilized world will still tell tales of the greatest tenor. I have often found myself grumpy when searching for recordings of Pavarotti because of the inconsistent fidelity of the recordings. That search for the definitive Pavarotti recordings, regarding both content and fidelity, has ended with the release of this extraordinary collection. Worth it's weight in gold, the Puccinni Volume (#5) alone is enough to send someone like me into hyperspace. I am astounded by the beauty and power of these performances. I will always remember the day, not long ago, when a NPR commentator glibly mentioned between the weather and the night's playlist the terrible words, "Luciano Pavarotti has announced that he is retiring from Opera." I felt as if something indescribably beautiful was fading from the world. Of course, beauty in all of its earthly forms is fleeting at best, but these discs contain a reflection of it that will surely bolster any soul.

      5 out of 5 stars An Absolute Must-Have for Any Pavarotti Fan.......2004-01-09

      ...and that certainly goes without saying. My one tiny little problem with it is that his recordings of "Santa Lucia" and "Caruso" are not on this incredible box-set. Even though I have those recordings on other CDs, I still think those are very important pieces to include on this set (assuming that this set of Pavi hits would be the only compilation that that any fan of this phenomenal tenor would have). He is probably my biggest idol, and he deserves to have been one of the biggest opera stars in history.

      5 out of 5 stars Wonderful!!!!.......2002-11-07

      This Pavarotti set; The Pavarotti Edition; is a wonderful collection of Arias and songs that cover Luciano's great career. Pavarotti is THE Voice of the 20th Century and this set does him justice. It includes 10 CDs with over 750 minutes of music; Includes Music from All of His roles; has a beautiful 76 page full color booklet; Has a wonderful write up; and includes a bonus CD of Pavarotti's fist album, a 45, from 1964, which has never been released on CD before this set. Every Song is hear, This SET is a must have for every Pavarotti Fan.
      Brava Berganza! A Birthday Tribute
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        The Complete Recordings, 1902-1920 (Box Set)
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        ASIN: B00030B92K
        Release Date: 2004-11-23

        Album Description

        The Complete Caruso: Volumes 1 - 12

        The Italian tenor Enrico Caruso holds a unique place in musical history, as the first operatic singer whose recordings sold in millions, and who created an international reputation on the strength of these. Caruso's robust tone and musical sincerity made him both an ideal stage and recording artist, whose voice the primitive acoustic recording technology of the early twentieth century was able to reproduce with startling fidelity. The Naxos Historical Caruso edition constitutes the complete cycle of all Caruso's recordings issued in chronological order. In addition, the transfers have been immaculately undertaken by top sound engineer Ward Marston, unrivalled for his knowledge of the specialized world of acoustic opera recordings, and his rare ability to retrieve all of the music lying in the grooves of the original recordings. Naxos Historical's incredible price (12 CD'S FOR THE PRICE OF 10) puts this unique legacy of great singing within the reach of all music-lovers. This! complete cycle of recordings represents a major document in the history of sound recording, and one which no collector and enthusiast of great singing will wish to be without. "There is no series of vocal records that have a greater documentary value, that meant more to the development of the phonograph record, or that are as consistently capable of providing pleasure to lovers of great singing. ...One of the most significant recording industry events of the decade." Fanfare

        Customer Reviews:

        5 out of 5 stars Get It While You Can.......2006-10-13

        This may not be easy to get in the USA for very long.....don't miss it.

        5 out of 5 stars Essential edition for opera lovers.......2005-02-01

        This set gives you the opportunity to follow the entire recording career of one of the greatest singers in Operatic History. Enrico Caruso was the first superstar of the 20th century -- and this without the benefit of mass media. His person and his records were his greatest publicity.

        The set begins with Caruso's Italian made recordings. They show a great raw talent. The artistry is lacking with many sobs, over acting and mistaken cues. The 1902 and 1903 clearly show a tenor with a lot to learn. But learn it he did. His 1904 sessions show a mature artist on par with any heard since. His voice matures before your very ears and by 1910, you wonder if you will ever listen to any other tenor the same way again.

        The engineering used for this set is wonderful. There is no attempt at all to use the soundstream process of computer sound enhancement as heard on the RCA issued sets. These are near perfect mint conditioned discs copied by engineer extraordinary Ward Marston. They sound like natural 78s, they way Caruso himself must have heard the playbacks at the (RCA) Victor studios.

        Also included are outtakes and extra takes. There is a "Celeste Aida" from 1908, complete with a broken high note, previously released by RCA in a 1973 set commemorating the tenor's centenary birthday. But there are new treasures here as well, including extra takes of two of Caruso's greatest recordings, the Italian song "L'Alba separa dalla l'uce ombra" and an aria from Rubinestine's Nerone. Listening to them, one wonders what Caruso could have possible thought inadquate in those long lost altenative takes.

        Finally, there is the simple joy of hearing so many things so well sung. Caruso was the pinnacle of the tenor art. He can be compared to no other single tenor since ... he has the brilliant ring of Bjorling, the passion of Gigli, the beauty of Gedda, the youthful enthusiasm of Lanza, the warm tonal quality of Tucker, the pure strength of Corelli, the charasma of Pavarotti and the artestry of Domingo.

        Whether you are an opera fan, a voice fan or just a music lover. This set is worth every penny.

        Todd Kosovich
        Vivaldi: Music for the Chapel of the Pietà
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        Vivaldi: Music for the Chapel of the Pietà

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        5 out of 5 stars Excellent recording........2006-07-04

        It doesn't get much better than this. This ensemble is the English counterpart to the Venice Baroque Orchestra. Its sound is luxurious and the performance is very much on the cutting edge of the historical approach of performance. Very nice quick tempi, excellent ornamentation of the violin parts, you can't miss with this one.
        Puccini Gala: Famous Arias / Caballé, Carreras, et al
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        • A very pleasant listen
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        Release Date: 1998-05-12

        Tracks:

        1. Che gelida manina
        2. Si. Mi chiamano Mimi
        3. Quando m'en vo
        4. Donde lieta usci
        5. Minnie, dalla mia case
        6. Ch'ella me creda
        7. Un bel di
        8. Addio fiorito asil
        9. Sogno di Doretta
        10. Donna non vidi mai
        11. In quelle trine morbide
        12. Senza mamma
        13. Recondita armonia
        14. Vissi d'arte
        15. E lucevan le stelle
        16. O mio babbino caro
        17. Signore, ascolta!
        18. Non piangere, Liu!
        19. Ah! Per l'ultima volta!
        20. In questa reggia
        21. Tu che di gel sei cinta
        22. Nessun dorma!

        Customer Reviews:

        5 out of 5 stars Wonderful cd.......2004-04-19

        If you love Puccini's operas, you'll love this cd. Good choice of performers and of arias. My only complaint, it's a small one, is that I think Franco Corelli's Nessun dorma is better. However, this one is good too.

        5 out of 5 stars A very pleasant listen.......2003-12-06

        I bought this CD on a trip. What a nice CD. All the singing were great. With singers like Tebaldi, Sutherland, Caballe and the like you can't go wrong with this compilation. It even comes with a libretto of all the arias. Not many compilation will give you that. Highly recommended.
        The Voice of Verdi
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          ASIN: B00006L3K5
          Release Date: 2002-10-08
          Mattia Battistini: Il re dei baritoni
          Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
          • Lotte Lehmann in her Prime
          Mattia Battistini: Il re dei baritoni

          Manufacturer: Preiser Records
          ProductGroup: Music
          Binding: Audio CD

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          1. I Puritani: Ah! Per Sempre Io Ti Perdei
          2. I Puritani: Bel Sogno Beato
          3. Maria Di Rohan: Bella E Di Sol Vestita
          4. Tannhauser: Allor Che Tu Coll'estro
          5. Tannhauser: Nel Rimirar Quest'adunanza Eletta
          6. Tannhauser: Forier Di Morte...O Tu Bell'astro
          7. La Traviata: Di Provenza Il Mar
          8. Faust: O Santa Medaglia...Dio Possente
          9. Amleto: O Vin Discaccia La Tristezza
          10. Amleto: Come Il Romito Fior
          11. Werther: Ma Come Dopo Il Nembo
          12. Werther: Ah! Non Mi Ridestar
          13. Thais: D'acqua Aspergimi - Mattia Battistini/Attilia Janni
          14. I Pagliacci: Si Puo?
          15. Tosca: Tre Sbirri, Una Carrozza
          16. Le Soir

          Tracks:

          1. Guglielmo Tell: Resta Immobile
          2. Linda Di Chamounix: Ambo Nati In Questa Valle
          3. Linda Di Chamounix: Un Buon Servo Del Visconte - Mattia Battistini/Maria Moscisca
          4. Lucia Di Lammormoor: Cruda Funesta Smania
          5. Rigoletto: O Mia Gilda - Mattia Battistini/Maria Moscisca
          6. La Traviata: Madamigella Valery? - Mattia Battistini/Maria Moscisca
          7. L'Africana: Figlia Di Regi...Quando Amor M'accende
          8. L'Africana: Averla Tanto Amata
          9. Otello: Era La Notte
          10. I Pagliacci: Decidi Il Mio Destin...E Allor Perche? - Mattia Battistini/Maria Moscisca
          11. Quo Vadis?: Errar Sull'ampio Mar
          12. Quo Vadis?: O Febea Pur Essa
          13. Quo Vadis?: Amici, L'ora Attesa E Questa
          14. Macbeth: Pieta, Rispetto, Amore
          15. Nero: Imen! Imen!
          16. Erodiade: Vision Fuggativa
          17. Trauerwalzer No.2, D 365: Delizia

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          1. Don Giovanni: Deh! Vieni Alla Finestra
          2. La Favorita: Vien, Leonora...Dei Nemici Tuoi
          3. Ernani: Vedi Come Il Buon Vegliardo - Mattia Battistini/Elvira Barbieri/Giuseppe Tommasini/Vincenzo Bettoni
          4. Il Trovatore: Mira D'acerbe Lagrime - Mattia Battistini/Elvira Barbieri
          5. Un Ballo In Maschera: Ve', Se Di Notte Qui Colla Sposa - Mattia Battistini/Elvira Barbieri/Vincenzo Bettoni
          6. Don Carlo: Per Me Giunto E Il Di Supremo
          7. Faust: Per Di Qua...Stammi Ad Udir, Margherita - Mattia Battistini/Elvira Barbieri
          8. Malia
          9. Amour, Amour!
          10. Culto
          11. Ideale
          12. O Ma Charmante
          13. Mia Sposa Sara La Mia Bandiera
          14. La Serenata
          15. La Gondola Nera
          16. Non M'ama Piu
          17. Occhi Di Fata

          Customer Reviews:

          5 out of 5 stars Lotte Lehmann in her Prime.......2006-07-08

          Lotte Lehmann is one of the great German sopranos of the Twentieth Century. For many years, from her creation of the role of the Composer in the revised version of Richard Strauss's "Ariadne auf Naxos" in 1916 up to her departure in 1937 prior to the Nazi occupation of Austria, she was a star at the Vienna State Opera and a darling of the Viennese audience. She was also enthusiatically received at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, as well as the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

          During the years of her prime Lehmann created a couple of Strauss's operatic heroines, including the Dyer's Wife in "Die Frau Ohne Schatten" and Christine in "Intermezzo." She also sang a great variety of roles ranging from Wagner's romantic heroines to the Italian verisimo parts by Giordano and Puccini. Puccini was said to have been one of her bigget admirers, especially for her renditions of Mimi in La boheme and Suor Angelica. However, her most famous roles were the Marshallin in Strauss's "Der Rosenkavalier" and Sieglinde in Wagner's "Die Walkure." This Preiser issue documents accoustic recordings of nearly all her more renowned roles, made between 1914 and 1925.

          Although Lehmann later made more amenable electrical recordings of many of the arias here, as well as excerpts from "Der Rosenkavalier" and Acts One and Two of "Die Walkure," these accoustic recordings more often than not show her in fresher voice with a joyous freedom on top. Her hallmarks as a singing-actress, such as her always vivid enunciation of the text and her great variety of tonal colors and moods, are also evident even in the earliest of these recordings.

          This set is one of the gems in Preiser's famous historic singers series and anyone interested in operatic singing should consider investing in this set. The CD transfer unavoidably contains some surface noise but the vibrancy and color of Lehmann's voice are faithfully recaptured.

          Music Track:

          1. Pavlovsk Station - Birth of Russian Orchestra
          2. Per Coro
          3. Petrassi: Flute Concerto; Poema
          4. Play Time
          5. Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 8
          6. Provenzale: Passione
          7. Pugnani: Werther Melologo
          8. Ravel: Pavane pour une infante défunte; Tombeau de Couperin
          9. Rise: The Return
          10. Robert Ackerman: Dances for Orchestra; Three Aphorisms; Suite; Etc.

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