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Offer,Vittorio Gui conducts Mozart

Sesto Bruscantini (Figaro), Graziella Sciutti (Susanna), Franco Calabrese (Count), Sena Jurinac (Countess), Risë Stevens (Cherubino), Monica Sinclair (Marcellina), Ian Wallace (Bartolo), Hugues Cuénod (Basilio), Daniel McCoshan (Curzio), Gwyn Griffiths (Antonio), Jeannette Sinclair (Barbarina)

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A 1953 'wish-list' cast, but some voices past their prime, and Sena Jurinac (the Countess) dark and beautiful but rather Straussian. — BBC Music Magazine, March 2009, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 8th Sep 2008
Catalogue No: 2126812
Label: Warner Classics
Series: Great Recordings of the Century
Length: 3 hours 39 minutes

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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro K492 [uncut Gui] (2000 Digital Remaster), Act I

Work length43:57

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Glyndebourne Festival Chorus, Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra
Vittorio Gui

Le nozze di Figaro K492 [uncut Gui] (2000 Digital Remaster): Overture (orchestra)

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Duet: Cinque...dieci....venti (Figaro / Susanna)

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Recit: Cosa stai misurando (Susanna / Figaro)

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Duet: Se a caso madama (Figaro / Susanna)

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Recit: Or bene, ascolta e taci (Susanna / Figaro)

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Cavatina: Se vuol ballare (Figaro)

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Recit: Ed aspettaste il giorno (Bartolo / Marcellina)

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Aria: La vendetta, oh, la vendetta (Bartolo)

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Recit: Tutto ancor non ho perso (Marcellina / Susanna)

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Duet: Via, resti servita (Marcellina / Susanna)

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Recit: Va là, vecchia pedante (Susanna / Cherubino)

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Aria: Non so più cosa son, cosa faccio (Cherubino)

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Recit: Taci, vien gente (Susanna / Conte / Basilio)

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Terzet: Cosa sento! (Conte / Basilio / Susanna)

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Recit: Basilio, in traccia tosto di Figaro volate (Conte / Susanna / Cherubino / Basilio)

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Chorus: Giovani liete, fiori spargete (Peasants)

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Recit: Cos'è questa commedia? (Conte / Figaro / Susanna)

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Chorus: Giovani liete, fiori spargete (Peasants)

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Recit: Evviva! Evviva! (Figaro / Susanna / Basilio / Cherubino / Conte)

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Aria: Non più andrai (Figaro)

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Mozart: Symphony No. 38 in D major, K504 'Prague'

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Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra
Vittorio Gui

I. Adagio - Allegro

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II. Andante

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III. Presto

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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro K492 [uncut Gui] (2000 Digital Remaster), Act II

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Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra
Vittorio Gui

Cavatina: Porgi, amor (Contessa)

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Recit: Vieni, cara Susanna (Contessa / Susanna / Figaro)

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Recit: Quanto duolmi, Susanna (Contessa / Susanna / Cherubino)

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Canzona: Voi che sapete (Cherubino)

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Recit: Bravo! Che bella voce! (Contessa / Susanna / Cherubino)

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Aria: Venite inginocchiatevi (Susanna)

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Recit: Quante buffonerie! (Contessa / Susanna / Cherubino / Conte)

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Recit: Che novità! (Conte / Contessa)

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Terzet: Susanna, or via sortite (Conte / Contessa / Susanna)

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Recit: Dunque voi non aprite? (Conte / Contessa)

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Duet: Aprite, presto, aprite (Susanna / Cherubino)

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Recit: Oh guarda il demonietto (Susanna / Conte / Contessa)

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Finale: Esci ormai, garzon malnato (Conte / Contessa) -

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Signore! Cos'è quel stupore? (Susanna / Conte / Contessa) -

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Signori, di fuori...Conoscete, signor Figaro (Figaro / Conte / Susanna / Contessa) -

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Ah! Signor, signor!...Cosa è stato? (Antonio / Conte / Susanna / Contessa / Figaro) -

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Voi signor, che giusto siete (Marcellina / Basilio / Bartolo / Susanna / Contessa / Figaro / Conte)

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Mozart: Symphony No. 39 in E flat major, K543

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Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra
Vittorio Gui

I. Adagio - Allegro

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II. Andante con moto

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III. Menuetto & Trio

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IV. Allegro

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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro K492 [uncut Gui] (2000 Digital Remaster), Act III

Work length40:53

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Sesto Bruscantini/Graziella Sciutti/Ian Wallace/Monica Sinclair/Risë Stevens/Franco Calabrese/Hugues Cuénod/Sena Jurinac/Gwyn Griffiths/Jeannette Sinclair/Daniel McCoshan/Glyndebourne Chorus/Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra/Vittorio Gui, Risë Stevens (mezzo-soprano), Franco Calabrese (baritone), Daniel McCoshan (tenor), Jeannette Sinclair (soprano), Gwyn Griffiths (bass), Graziella Sciutti (soprano), Ian Wallace (bass), Raymond Leppard (harpsichord), Sena Jurinac (soprano), Sesto Bruscantini (baritone), Monica Sinclair (mezzo-soprano)
Glyndebourne Festival Chorus, Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra
Vittorio Gui

Recit: Che imbarazzo è mai questo! (Conte / Contessa / Susanna)

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Duet: Crudel! Perché finora farmi languir così? (Conte / Susanna)

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Recit: E perché fosti meco (Conte / Susanna / Figaro)

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Recit: Hai già vinta la causa! (Conte)

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Aria: Vedrò, mentr'io sospiri (Conte)

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Recit: È decisa la lite (Don Curzio / Marcellina / Figaro / Conte / Bartolo)

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Sextet: Riconosci in quest'amplesso (Marcellina / Figaro / Bartolo / Don Curzio / Conte / Susanna)

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Recit: Eccovi, o caro amico (Marcellina / Bartolo / Susanna / Figaro)

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Recit: Andiam, andiam, bel paggio (Barbarina / Cherubino)

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Recit: E Susanna non vien! (Contessa)

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Aria: Dove sono (Contessa)

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Recit: Io vi dico signor (Antonio / Conte)

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Recit: Cosa mi narri? (Contessa / Susanna)

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Duet: Sull'aria...Che soave zeffiretto (Susanna / Contessa)

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Recit: Piegato è il foglio (Susanna / Contessa)

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Chorus: Ricevete o padroncina (Peasant Girls)

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Recit: Queste sono, Madama (Barbarina / Contessa / Susanna / Antonio / Conte / Cherubino / Figaro)

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Finale: Ecco la marcia, andiamo! (Figaro / Susanna / Conte / Contessa) -

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Amanti costanti (Two girls / Peasants / Conte / Figaro) -

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Eh, già si sa, solita usanza (Conte / Figaro / Peasants)

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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro K492 [uncut Gui] (2000 Digital Remaster), Act IV

Work length35:03

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Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra
Vittorio Gui

Cavatina: L'ho perduta, me meschina! (Barbarina)

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Recit: Barbarina, cos'hai? (Figaro / Barbarina / Marcellina)

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Recit: Nel padiglione a manca (Barbarina / Figaro / Bartolo / Basilio)

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Aria: In quel'anni, in cui val poco (Basilio)

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Recit: Tutto è disposto (Figaro)

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Aria: Aprite un po' quelgli occhi (Figaro)

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Recit: Signora, ella mi disse (Susanna / Marcellina / Contessa / Figaro)

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Recit: Giunse alfin il momento (Susanna)

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Aria: Deh vieni, non tardar (Susanna)

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Recit: Perfida! E in quella forma meco mentia? (Figaro / Cherubino / Contessa)

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Finale: Pian, pianin, le andrò più presso (Cherubino / Contessa / Conte / Susanna / Figaro) -

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Partito è alfin l'audace (Conte / Contessa / Figaro / Susanna) -

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Tutto è tranquillo e placido (Figaro / Susanna) -

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Pace, pace, mio dolce tesoro (Figaro / Susanna / Conte) -

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Gente, gente, all'armi, all'armi! (Tutti)

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In his detailed and elegant note, Richard Osborne relates how this recording of Figaro was made in July 1955 for release during the 1956 Mozart bicentenary. Based on a 1950 stage production by the artistic director, Carl Ebert, it was the first Glyndebourne recording to be made in stereo. The producer was Lawrance Collingwood, a Gramophone Company veteran from the Gaisberg era. Collingwood was already a master of aural perspective even when working in mono; for this set he enlisted Ebert’s help in deciding how best to ‘stage’ the production for the gramophone. In the end, even the original sound effects were used.

The conductor Vittorio Gui (1885–1975) was a much loved figure in post-war Glyndebourne. A composer in his youth and a pioneering Rossini scholar, Gui was a leading member of a celebrated generation of Italian opera conductors who knew down to the last demisemiquaver the scores they conducted and the capabilities of the singers they engaged. Gui brought with him some outstanding Italian artists, notably the stylish and affable Figaro of Sesto Bruscantini, who was married at the time to the lovely Sena Jurinac, another Glyndebourne regular who here plays the Countess for the first time, nobly and sympathetically. (Osborne goes on to relate the winding path by which the final starry cast was finally arrived at.)

The opera is virtually complete, with just a little recitative and Marcellina’s Act IV aria cut. (It was HMV’s original intention to cut Basilio’s Act IV aria until it was discovered that the Basilio was the incomparable Swiss tenor and character actor Hugues Cuénod. A Glyndebourne institution, Cuénod would still be appearing there in 1987 aged 85.)

The necessity of three discs to accommodate this recording complete for the first time on CD afforded not only the opportunity to present each act unbroken, but also space to include the considerable bonus of the two Mozart symphonies that Gui recorded in 1953 with the same orchestra. (It is not intended that the symphonies be listened to in the course of the opera.)

All tracks are newly transferred and remastered to ART standard at Abbey Road Studios.

Artists

Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra and Chorus, Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra, Vittorio Gui

Reviews

March 2009

A 1953 'wish-list' cast, but some voices past their prime, and Sena Jurinac (the Countess) dark and beautiful but rather Straussian.

Awards Issue 2011

This is an early stereo recording and it sounds very fine. Graziella Scuitti, who had not at the time sung the part at Glyndebourne itself, makes an effervescent Susanna. Gui's steady tempo enables Sesto Bruscantini to articulate Figaro's anti-women diatribe without the usual scramble...Sena Jurinac makes a believably youthful Countess.

2010

It remains a classic set with a cast which has seldom been bettered. Just as Sesto Bruscantini is the archetypal Glyndebourne Figaro, Sena Jurinac is the perfect Countess...The sound for the opera is mightily impressive for 1955 stereo, warm and superbly balanced, and pretty good too for the earlier symphonies

Offer,Vittorio Gui conducts Mozart

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