Verdi: La forza del destino
Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, Ettore Bastianini, Giulietta Simionato, Cesare Siepi, Silvio Maionica, Gabriella Carturan & Piero di Palma
Orchestra e coro dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
Awards:
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
This sprawling epic has a very fine cast, with Renata Tebaldi as an almost ideal Leonora, and the loud impressive del Monaco as the hero. The early stereo sound is good, but the conducting...
Verdi: La forza del destino
Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, Ettore Bastianini, Giulietta Simionato, Cesare Siepi, Silvio Maionica, Gabriella Carturan & Piero di Palma
Orchestra e coro dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
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Awards:
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
This sprawling epic has a very fine cast, with Renata Tebaldi as an almost ideal Leonora, and the loud impressive del Monaco as the hero. The early stereo sound is good, but the conducting...
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Contents and tracklist
- Silvio Maionica (bass), Gabriella Carturan (mezzo-soprano), Renata Tebaldi (soprano), Mario del Monaco (tenor), Ezio Giordano (bass), Ettore Bastianini (baritone), Giulietta Simionato (mezzo-soprano), Piero de Palma (tenor), Fernando Corena (bass), Cesare Siepi (bass), Eraldo Coda (tenor)
- Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia
- Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
- Recorded: 1955-07-02
- Recording Venue: Santa Cecilia, Roma
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Awards and reviews
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Presto FavouritesRecommended Recording
December 2007
This sprawling epic has a very fine cast, with Renata Tebaldi as an almost ideal Leonora, and the loud impressive del Monaco as the hero. The early stereo sound is good, but the conducting is listless; the work drags, as it need not.
2010 edition
the recording is outstanding for its time. Tebaldi, as always, makes some lovely sounds and the mezza voce in the soaring theme (first heard in the overture) in Madre madre pietosa Vergine is exquisite
No Verdi discography would be complete without at least one appearance from Renata Tebaldi, and this 1955 Forza under Francesco Molinari-Pradelli captures so much of what makes her such a special interpreter of this repertoire; Mario del Monaco's ringing Alvaro and Giulietta Simionato's lusty Preziosilla are equally treasurable.
