Verdi per due: opera duets

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Tenor and soprano bring meltingly beautiful tone and impeccable legato — BBC Music Magazine, January 2010 More…

Catalogue No: 5567172
Label: Warner Classics
Length: 70 minutes

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Verdi: Don Carlos, Act 5: "E dessa!...Un detto, un sol..." (Elisabetta, Carlo)

Work length5:57

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Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), Roberto Alagna (tenor)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Claudio Abbado
Recorded: 1998-02-25
Recording Venue: 16/20/22/23/25 February 1998, Jesus Christus Kirche, Dahlem Dahlem

Verdi: Don Carlos: Act V: Ma lassù ci vedremo (Elisabetta / Carlo)

Work length4:25

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Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), Roberto Alagna (tenor)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Claudio Abbado
Recorded: 1998-02-25
Recording Venue: 16/20/22/23/25 February 1998, Jesus Christus Kirche, Dahlem Dahlem

Excerpt, Verdi: I Lombardi alla prima crociata

Work length5:07

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Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), Roberto Alagna (tenor)
Berliner Philharmoniker, London Voices
Claudio Abbado
Recorded: 1998-02-25
Recording Venue: 16/20/22/23/25 February 1998, Jesus Christus Kirche, Dahlem Dahlem

Act III: Oh belle, a questa misera... (Crociati / Oronte / Giselda

Track length3:36

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Act III: All'armi!...Che ascolto! (Crociati / Oronte / Giselda)

Track length1:31

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Excerpt, Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

Work length5:22

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Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), Roberto Alagna (tenor)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Claudio Abbado
Recorded: 1998-02-25
Recording Venue: 16/20/22/23/25 February 1998, Jesus Christus Kirche, Dahlem Dahlem

Act I: Cielo di stelle orbato...(Amelia / Gabriele)

Track length2:31

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Act I: Vieni a mirar la cerula (Amelia / Gabriele)

Track length2:51

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Verdi: Otello, Act 1: "Già nella notte densa" (Otello, Desdemona)

Work length10:54

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Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), Roberto Alagna (tenor)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Claudio Abbado
Recorded: 1998-02-25
Recording Venue: 16/20/22/23/25 February 1998, Jesus Christus Kirche, Dahlem Dahlem

Verdi: I vespri siciliani: Act IV - Pensando a me!...E dolce raggio celeste dono (Arrigo / Elena)

Work length3:47

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Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), Roberto Alagna (tenor)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Claudio Abbado
Recorded: 1998-02-25
Recording Venue: 16/20/22/23/25 February 1998, Jesus Christus Kirche, Dahlem Dahlem

Excerpt, Verdi: Rigoletto

Work length8:12

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Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), Roberto Alagna (tenor), Sara Mingardo (mezzo-soprano), Brian Parsons (tenor), Rodney Gibson (baritone)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Claudio Abbado
Recorded: 1998-02-25
Recording Venue: 16/20/22/23/25 February 1998, Jesus Christus Kirche, Dahlem Dahlem

Act I: Giovanna, ho dei rimorsi...

Track length2:56

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Act I: E il sol dell'anima...(Giovanna / Gilda / Duca / Ceprano / Borsa)

Track length3:03

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Act I: Che m'ami, deh, ripetimi...(Giovanna / Gilda / Duca / Ceprano / Borsa)

Track length0:58

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Act I: Addio!, speranza ed anima (Giovanna / Gilda / Duca / Ceprano / Borsa)

Track length1:15

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Excerpt, Verdi: Aida

Work length11:20

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Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), Roberto Alagna (tenor), Sara Mingardo (mezzo-soprano)
Berliner Philharmoniker, London Voices
Claudio Abbado
Recorded: 1998-02-25
Recording Venue: 16/20/22/23/25 February 1998, Jesus Christus Kirche, Dahlem Dahlem

Act IV: La fata pietra sovra me si chiuse...Immenso Fthà...(Radames / Aida / Sacerdoti e Sacerdotesse / Amneris)

Track length6:29

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Act IV: O terra, addio (Radames / Aida / Sacerdoti e Sacerdotesse / Amneris)

Track length4:51

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Excerpt, Verdi: I Masnadieri

Work length6:49

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Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), Roberto Alagna (tenor)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Claudio Abbado
Recorded: 1998-02-25
Recording Venue: 16/20/22/23/25 February 1998, Jesus Christus Kirche, Dahlem Dahlem

Act III: Qual mare, qual terra da me t'ha diviso...(Amalia / Carlo)

Track length3:42

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Act III: Qui nel bosco? solinga? smarrita?...(Amalia / Carlo)

Track length0:44

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Act III: Lassù, risplendere più lieta e bella (Amalia / Carlo)

Track length2:23

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Verdi: Il trovatore: Miserere...Quel suon, quelle preci (Fraty / Leonora / Manrico - Act IV)

Work length5:30

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Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), Roberto Alagna (tenor)
Berliner Philharmoniker, London Voices
Claudio Abbado
Recorded: 1998-02-25
Recording Venue: 16/20/22/23/25 February 1998, Jesus Christus Kirche, Dahlem Dahlem

Verdi: Libiamo, ne' lieti calici (from La Traviata)

Work length2:57

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Angela Gheorghiu (soprano), Roberto Alagna (tenor)
Berliner Philharmoniker, London Voices
Claudio Abbado
Recorded: 1998-02-25
Recording Venue: 16/20/22/23/25 February 1998, Jesus Christus Kirche, Dahlem Dahlem

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January 2010

Tenor and soprano bring meltingly beautiful tone and impeccable legato

2010

This long, fascinating, highly ambitious recital is nothing less than a conspectus of Verdi's soprano-tenor duets, and is executed with distinction on all sides. Gheorghiu deserves particular plaudits. It seems that nothing in Verdi (and indeed in much else) is beyond her capabilities. Her singing here, especially as Gilda, Aida and Desdemona, is so exquisite, the tone so warm and limpid, the phrasing so shapely as surely to melt any heart. Take, for example, Gilda's touching exchanges with Giovanna, herself sung by the superb mezzo Sara Mingardo, the whole of Aida's solo beginning 'Presago il core', with the soprano's warm lower register coming into play and that ultimate test, Desdemona's poised 'Amen'. Throughout, both musically and interpretatively, she simply can't be faulted.
Neither she nor her husband is backward in coming forward with less hackneyed pieces, those from the early operas – try the section starting 'Ma un' iri di pace' in the Masnadieri duet, the two voices in ideal blend, phrases and tone sweetly shaded with the following cabaletta all light eagerness on both sides. Then there's plangent singing on both sides in the sad little piece from Vespri, though it's a pity they did not attempt this in the original French. Here and throughout Alagna is his customary self, assured (a few over-pressed high notes, some unwritten, apart), impassioned, thoughtful and accurate in his phraseology, nowhere more so than in the parts he's unlikely as yet to take on stage – Radames and Otello. Even more important in so many passages, Alagna finds the right mezzopiano, where heavier tenors have to sing forte , notably in the closing phrases where Otello wafts his love of Desdemona on to the night air – a moment of sheer magic.
Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra are at their peak of achievement and the recording catches these voices in their full glory, making this a most desirable issue.

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