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Montserrat Caballé: Great Operatic Recordings

Montserrat Caballé (soprano), Bernabé Martí (Raoul), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Dama), Thomas Allen (Medico), Bernabé Martí (Riccardo), Placido Domingo (Carlo), Sherrill Milnes (Rodrigo), Ruggero Raimondi (Filippo), Placido Domingo (Radames), Fiorenza Cossotto (Azucena), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Emilia),...

Montserrat Caballé: Great Operatic Recordings

Montserrat Caballé: Great Operatic Recordings

Montserrat Caballé (soprano), Bernabé Martí (Raoul), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Dama), Thomas Allen (Medico), Bernabé Martí (Riccardo), Placido Domingo (Carlo), Sherrill Milnes (Rodrigo), Ruggero Raimondi (Filippo), Placido Domingo (Radames), Fiorenza Cossotto (Azucena), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Emilia),...

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About

The famous Spanish soprano Montserrat Caballé was one of the world’s leading operatic divas during the latter part of the 20th century.

Her repertoire was wide, and went from the bel canto works of Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti, through Verdi, Puccini and the verismo operas of Leoncavallo and Mascagni to works by contemporary composers of the day.

She recorded extensively for EMI throughout the 1970s, when she made several albums of operatic arias and duets as well a number of complete operas.

This 4 CD set brings together the best of Caballé’s EMI recordings and includes highlights from all her complete operas, in which her tenor partners were fellow Spaniards Placido Domingo and José Carreras as well as her husband Bernabé Martí.

The operatic composers whose works are included in the set are Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, Meyerbeer, Verdi, Puccini, Boito, Giordano, Mascagni and Leoncavallo, and some of the operas represented are La bohème, Madama Butterfly, Tosca, Turandot, Gianni Schicchi, I puritani, Il pirata, Un ballo in maschera, La forza del destino, Aida, Don Carlo, Otello, Cavalleria rusticana, Pagliacci and Mefistofele.

As well as many outstanding operatic items, the set also includes some Spanish songs, namely ‘Las Fuentecitas del Parque’ from Canto a Sevilla by Turina and a complete performance of the delightful Cinco canciones negras by Montsalvatge.

Artists

Montserrat Caballé (soprano), Bernabé Martí (Raoul), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Dama), Thomas Allen (Medico), Bernabé Martí (Riccardo), Placido Domingo (Carlo), Sherrill Milnes (Rodrigo), Ruggero Raimondi (Filippo), Placido Domingo (Radames), Fiorenza Cossotto (Azucena), Elizabeth Bainbridge (Emilia), Placido Domingo (Des Grieux), José Carreras (Turiddu), Astrid Varnay (Mamma Lucia), Júlia Hamari (Lola), Bernabé Martí (Chenier), Alexis Weissenberg (piano)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra e Coro della RAI, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Carlo Maria Giulini, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg, Lamberto Gardelli, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Riccardo Muti, Sir Charles Mackerras, James Levine, Anton Guadagno, Carlo Maria Giulini, Julius Rudel, Bruno Bartoletti, Alain Lombard

Contents and tracklist

Rossini: Guillaume Tell (1988 - Remaster): Sombre fôret ... (Act II)
Work length4:59
Bellini: Il Pirata, Act I
Work length13:01
  • Flora Raffanelli (soprano), Giuseppe Baratti (vocals), Montserrat Caballé (soprano), Coro Della Radiotelevisione Italiana, Roma (lead vocals), Flora Rafanelli (soprano), Orchestre Della Radiotelevisione Italiana, Roma (lead vocals), Bernabé Marti (tenor)
  • Gianni Lazzari, Orchestra della Radiotelevisione Italiana, Roma
  • Gianandrea Gavazzeni
  • Recorded: 1970-07-31
  • Recording Venue: 14-31 July 1970 / RAI Studios, Rome
Sorgete...Lo sognai ferito...
Track length4:59
Quando a un tratto...Sventurata, anchi'io delirio
Track length8:02
Bellini: Il Pirata (1992 - Remaster), Act II, Scene 3
Work length7:41
  • Flora Raffanelli (soprano), Montserrat Caballé (soprano), Bernabé Marti (tenor), Flora Rafanelli (soprano), Flora Raffanelli (mezzo-soprano), Gianni Lazzari (choir director), Giuseppe Baratti (vocals), Giuseppe Barrati (tenor), Orchestra della Radiotelevisione Italiana, Roma (vocals), Orchestre Della Radiotelevisione Italiana, Roma (lead vocals), Ruggero Raimondi (bass)
  • Coro e Orchestra della Radiotelevisione Italiana, Roma
  • Gianandrea Gavazzeni
  • Recorded: 1970-07-31
  • Recording Venue: 14-31 July 1970 / RAI Studios, Rome
Oh! s'io potessi dissipar le nubi
Track length4:13
Col sorriso d'innocenza
Track length3:28
Bellini: Il Pirata, Act II: Qual suono...Oh Sole! ti vela
Work length4:11
  • Flora Raffanelli (soprano), Montserrat Caballé (soprano), Coro Della Radiotelevisione Italiana, Roma (lead vocals), Flora Rafanelli (soprano), Orchestre Della Radiotelevisione Italiana, Roma (lead vocals)
  • Gianni Lazzari, Orchestra della Radiotelevisione Italiana, Roma
  • Gianandrea Gavazzeni
  • Recorded: 1970-07-31
  • Recording Venue: 14-31 July 1970 / RAI Studios, Rome
Bellini: I Puritani (1988 - Remaster), Act I, Scena terza: Son vergin vezzosa (Elvira / Enrichetta / Arturo / Giorgio / Coro)
Work length5:28
Bellini: I Puritani (1988 - Remaster), Act II: O rendetemi la speme ... Qui la voce sua soave mi chiamava ...
Work length10:26
This work is only available as an album download.
Bellini: I Puritani (Act II)
Work length13:14
Tornò il riso...Vien diletto
Track length6:30
Finì, me lassa!...Ch' ei provò lontan da me?...
Track length6:44
Bellini: I Puritani (1988 - Remaster), Act III: Vieni, fra queste braccia (Elvira / Arturo)
Work length4:58
Donizetti: Poliuto (1995 - Remaster): Donna! ... Malvagio! (Act III)
Work length5:25
Donizetti: Poliuto, Act III: Ah fuggi da morte...Il suon dell' arpe angeliche
Work length6:35
Meyerbeer: Les Huguenots (1995 - Remaster)
Work length17:23
Oh ciel! où courez-vous? (Act IV)
Track length6:08
Tu l'as dit, oui, tu m'aimes (Act IV)
Track length5:43
Plus d'amour! plus d'ivresse! (Act IV)
Track length5:32
Verdi: Giovanna d'Arco: Oh, ben s'addice questo torbido...Sempre all'alba ed alla sera
Work length6:44
Verdi: Macbeth (1995 - Remaster), Scene 2: Vegliammo invan due notti
Work length7:57
Excerpt,Verdi: Un ballo in maschera
Work length9:09
Verdi: La forza del destino, '(The) force of destiny', Act II (1995 - Remaster): La Vergine degli angeli
Work length3:33
Verdi: La forza del destino, '(The) force of destiny' (1995 - Remaster), Act IV: Pace, pace, mio Dio
Work length5:43
Verdi: Don Carlo: Act II: Io vengo a domandar...Oh! Carlo! Oh! Carlo!
Work length10:48
This work is only available as an album download.
Verdi: Don Carlo (2000 - Remaster): Non pianger, mia compagna (Elisabetta / Rodrigo / Coro / Filippo)
Work length4:29
Verdi: Don Carlo, Act IV: Tu che le vanità
Work length11:04
This work is only available as an album download.
Verdi: Aida, Act I: Ritorna vincitor!
Work length6:35
Verdi: Aida, Act III
Work length16:54
Qui Radamès verrà...O patria mia
Track length6:58
Pur ti riveggo, mia dolce Aida...Aida!...Tu non m'ami
Track length9:56
Verdi: Aida, Act 4: "O terra, addio" (Aida, Radamès, Chorus, Amneris)
Work length4:52
Verdi: Otello, Act IV
Work length14:38
This work is only available as an album download.
Era più calma?...Mia madre aveva una povera ancella
Track length10:08
This track is only available as an album download.
Ave Maria
Track length4:30
Boito: L'altra notte in fondo al mare (from Mefistofele)
Work length6:29
Puccini: Manon Lescaut (1993 - Remaster), Act II: In quelle trine morbide (Manon)
Work length2:22
Puccini: Manon Lescaut, Act II: Oh, sarò la più bella! (Manon / Des Grieux)
Work length8:07
Puccini: Manon Lescaut Act IV: Sola, perduta, abbandonata (Manon)
Work length5:09
Puccini: La Bohème (2002 Digital Remaster): Si, mi chiamano Mimi
Work length5:18
Puccini: La Bohème (2002 Digital Remaster), ACT 3: Donde lieta uscì (Mimì's Farewell)
Work length3:25
Puccini: Vissi d'arte (from Tosca)
Work length3:41
Puccini: Un bel di vedremo (from Madama Butterfly)
Work length5:27
Puccini: Madama Butterfly Lib. Giacosa and Illica (2002 Digital Remaster): Tu? tu? piccolo iddio
Work length2:39
Puccini: Turandot (2002 Digital Remaster)
Work length5:08
Signore, ascolta
Track length2:35
Tu che di gel sei cincta
Track length2:33
Puccini: Turandot (1994 - Remaster), Act II, Scene 2: In questa reggia (Turandot, Corwd, Calaf)
Work length7:11
Puccini: O mio babbino caro (from Gianni Schicchi)
Work length2:48
Puccini: Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (from La Rondine)
Work length3:11
Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana: Regina Coeli ... Inneggiamo, il Signor non è morto
Work length5:39
Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana (1987 Digital Remaster): Voi lo sapete, o mamma (Santuzza / Mamma Lucia)
Work length5:47
Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusicana: Tu qui, Santuzza?...No, no, Turiddu
Work length12:21
This work is only available as an album download.
Giordano, U: Andrea Chénier (1995 - Remaster): Vicino a te (Act IV)
Work length7:36
Turina: Las Fuentecitas del Parque, Op. 37 No. 3 (from Canto a Sevilla)
Work length4:00
Montsalvatge: Canciones negras (5)
Work length12:22
Cuba dentro de un piano (R.Alberti)
Track length4:22
Chevère (N.Guillén)
Track length2:02
Punto de Habanera (N.Lujan)
Track length1:59
Canción de cuna para dormir a un negrito (I.P. Valdes)
Track length2:50
Canto negro (N.Guillén)
Track length1:09
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