Verdi: Don Carlo

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From the day that Giulini conducted the now legendary production of Don Carlo at Covent Garden in 1958, a recording of the opera by him looked a must. In fact, it was to be 12 years before EMI... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: 5674012
Label: EMI
Series: Great Recordings of the Century
Length: 3 hours 27 minutes

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Verdi: Don Carlo (2000 Digital Remaster)

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John McCarthy (director), Plácido Domingo (tenor), Montserrat Caballé (soprano), Delia Wallis (mezzo-soprano), Ryland Davies (tenor), Simon Estes (bass), Sherrill Milnes (baritone), Shirley Verrett (contralto), Ruggero Raimondi (baritone), John Noble (baritone), Maria Rosa del Campo (soprano), Giovanni Foiani (bass), Shirley Verrett (mezzo-soprano)
Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Ambrosian Singers
Carlo Maria Giulini
Recorded: 1970-08-31
Recording Venue: 18-31 August 1970 / Walthamstow Town Hall

Su Cacciator! pronti o la belva (Coro)

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Fontainebleau! foresta immensa e solitaria!

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Io la vidi e al suo sorriso (Carlo)

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Il suon del corno alfin nel bosco tace (Carlo / Tebaldo / Elisabetta)

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Al mio pie', perchè?

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Di qual amor, di quanto ardor (Elisabetta / Carlo)

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Al fedel ch'ora viene, o signora (Tebaldo / Elisabetta / Carlo)

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L'ora fatale è suonata (Elisabetta / Carlo)

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Inni di festa lieti echeggiate (Coro / Elisabetta / Carlo)

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Il glorioso Re di Francia (Conte di Lerma / Coro / Elisabetta)

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Vi benedica, Iddio dal ciel! (Coro / Elisabetta / Carlo)

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Preludio (Orchestra)

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Carlo, il sommo Imperatore (Coro / Un Frate)

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Al chiostro di San Giusto (Carlo / Un Frate)

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E lui! desso! I'Infante!

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Questo arcano dal Re non fu sorpreso ancora? (Rodrigo / Carlo)

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Don Carlo, Act 1: "Dio, che nell'alma infondere amor" (Carlo, Rodrigo, Coro, Un Frate)

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Sotto ai folti, immensi abeti (Coro di Dame / Tebaldo)

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Tra queste mura pie la Regina (Eboli / Dame)

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Nei giardin del bello (Eboli / Tebaldo / Dame)

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La Regina!...Un'arcana mestizia...(Dame / Eboli / Elisabetta / Tebaldo / Rodrigo)

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Che mai si fa nel suol francese

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Carlo, ch'è sol il nostro amore (Eboli / Rodrigo / Elisabetta)

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Io vengo a domandar

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Perduto ben, mio sol tesor

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Oh! Carlo! oh! Carlo! (Carlo / Elisabetta)

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Il Re!...Perchè sola è la Regina? (Tebaldo / Filippo / Coro)

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Don Carlo (2000 - Remaster): Non pianger, mia compagna (Elisabetta / Rodrigo / Coro / Filippo)

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Restate!...Al mio regal cospetto

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O Signor, di Fiandra arrivo

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Quest'è la pace che voi date al mondo?

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Osò lo sguardo tuo penetrar il mio soglio (Filippo / Rodrigo)

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VII: Preludio (Orchestra)

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A mezzanotte, ai giardin della Regina

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Ciel! Non è la Regina! (Carlo / Eboli)

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Che disse mai? (Rodrigo / Eboli)

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Al mio furor sfuggite invano

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Ed io, che tremava al suo aspetto!

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Tema per te, falso figliuolo (Eboli / Rodrigo / Carlo)

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Carlo! se mai su te fogli importanti serbi (Rodrigo / Carlo)

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Spuntato ecco il dì d'esultanza (Coro)

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Il corteggio reale (Orchestra / Coro)

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Schiusa or sia la porta del tempio! (L'Araldo / Coro)

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Nel posar sul mio capo la corona (Filippo / Coro / Elisabetta / Carlo / Rodrigo / Deputati)

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A Dio voi foste infidi, infidi al vostro Re (Filippo / Coro / Elisabetta / Tebaldo / Carlo / Rodrigo / Deputati)

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Sire! egli è tempo ch'io viva! (Carlo / Filippo / Elisabetta / Tebaldo / Rodrigo / Coro)

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O ciel! Tu! Rodrigo! (Carlo / Coro / Elisabetta / Filippo / Voce dal Cielo / Deputati)

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Introduzione (Orchestra)

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Ella giammai m'amò!

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Dormirò sol nel manto mio regal (Filippo)

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Il Grand' Inquisitor! (Conte di Lerma / L'Inquisitore / Filippo)

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Nell' ispano suol mai l'eresia dominò

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Mio padre, che tra noi la pace alberghi ancor (L'Inquisitore / Filippo)

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Giustizia, giustizia, Sire! (Elisabetta / Filippo)

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Ardita troppo voi favellate!

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Ah! si maledetto, sospetto fatale (Filippo / Elisabetta / Eboli / Rodrigo)

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Pietà! Pietà! perdon! (Eboli / Elisabetta)

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Ah! più non vedrò la Regina! O don fatale, o don crudel

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O mia Regina, io t'immolai (Eboli)

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Son io, mio Carlo (Rodrigo / Carlo)

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Per me giunto è il dì supremo (Rodrigo)

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Che parli tu di morte? (Carlo / Rodrigo)

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O Carlo, ascolta, la madre....

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Io morrò, ma lieto in core (Rodrigo)

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Mio Carlo, a te la spade io rendo (Filippo / Carlo / Conte di Lerma / Eboli / L'Inquisitore)

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Introduzione (Orchestra)

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Don Carlo (2000 - Remaster): Tu che le vanità

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Carlo qui verrà! Sì!

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Addio! Addio, bei sogni d'ôr

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Tu che le vanità (Elisabetta)

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E dessa!...Un detto, un sol

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Vago sogno m'arrise!

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Ma lassù ci vedremo (Carlo / Elisabetta)

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Sì, per sempre! (Filippo / L'Inquisitore / Elisabetta / Carlo / Un Frate / Familiari)

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From the day that Giulini conducted the now legendary production of Don Carlo at Covent Garden in 1958, a recording of the opera by him looked a must. In fact, it was to be 12 years before EMI took the plunge, but the set was worth waiting for: it's the five-act version in Italian, without the cuts made at the Royal Opera, and well recorded and handsomely cast.
Giulini himself had slowed down since the live performances, but the blend of majesty and lyric beauty that he brings to the opera is hard to resist.
The music glows warmly in his hands, as befits one of Verdi's most human dramas.
His cast gathers together five of the leading singers of the 1970s. In particular, the trio of Caballé, Domingo and Milnes seemed to be rather predictably the names on almost every Italian opera recording at the time, but how glad we would be to have young singers like them today. Caballé, though occasionally sounding blowsy, is exquisite whenever quiet singing is called for, and Domingo is at his golden best throughout. Their murmured farewells at the monastery of San Giusto in Act 5 have never been surpassed. Verrett is a fiery Eboli (although it's a shame Giulini did not give her more pace in 'O don fatale'), and Milnes provides generoushearted singing as Rodrigo. It's good to have an Italian bass as Philip II, but Raimondi lacks the black tone and fearsome presence of his notable predecessor in the role, Boris Christoff. Lovers of the opera will want to investigate the four-act version under Santini and also the five-act version in French under Pappano, both on EMI (which has more or less cornered the market for this opera). Otherwise, 30 years on, Giulini's splendid performance is as satisfying as any, probably still the number one recommendation.

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