Margaret Price: In Recital

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In these song recitals she is undoubtedly musical and accomplished, but the balance leans more toward beautiful vocalizing than interpretation. In the Schubert group there is a perfectly sustained... — Fanfare, January/February 2020 More…

Release Date: 27th Sep 2019
Catalogue No: ELQ4825237
Label: Eloquence
Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

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Bellini: Almen se non poss'io

Work length2:44

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Dame Margaret Price (soprano), James Lockhart (piano)
Recorded: 1969

Donizetti: La conocchia

Work length1:51

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Dame Margaret Price (soprano), James Lockhart (piano)
Recorded: 1969

Verdi: Ave Maria

Work length5:08

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Dame Margaret Price (soprano), James Lockhart (piano)
Recorded: 1969

Rossini: L'invito

Work length2:45

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Dame Margaret Price (soprano), James Lockhart (piano)
Recorded: 1969

Schubert: Du bist die Ruh D776 (Rückert)

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Dame Margaret Price (soprano), James Lockhart (piano)
Recorded: 1969

Schubert: Heidenröslein, D257

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Dame Margaret Price (soprano), James Lockhart (piano)
Recorded: 1969

Schubert: Gretchen im Zwinger D564

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Dame Margaret Price (soprano), James Lockhart (piano)
Recorded: 1969

Schubert: Die Forelle, D550

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Dame Margaret Price (soprano), James Lockhart (piano)
Recorded: 1969

trad.: Y bore glas

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Dame Margaret Price (soprano), James Lockhart (piano)
Recorded: 1969

trad.: Bugeilio'r Gwenith Gywn (Idle days of summer time)

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Dame Margaret Price (soprano), James Lockhart (piano)
Recorded: 1969

trad.: Wrth Fynd Efo Deio I Dowyn

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Dame Margaret Price (soprano), James Lockhart (piano)
Recorded: 1969

trad.: Dafydd y Garreg Wen

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Dame Margaret Price (soprano), James Lockhart (piano)
Recorded: 1969

trad.: Y Deryn Pur

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Dame Margaret Price (soprano), James Lockhart (piano)
Recorded: 1969

Tate, P: Three Gaelic Ballads

Work length9:37

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Dame Margaret Price (soprano), James Lockhart (piano)
Recorded: 1971-07-23
Recording Venue: St. John's, Smith Square

1. The Lake of Coolfin

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2. Hark! The Soft Bugle

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3. Hush Song

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Hoddinott: Roman Dream, Op. 54

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Dame Margaret Price (soprano), David Watkins (harp), Tristan Fry (percussion), Keith Millar (percussion), Alan Suttie (percussion), James Lockhart (piano)
Recorded: 1971-07-23
Recording Venue: St. John's, Smith Square

Berg: 5 Orchesterlieder nach Ansichtskartentexten von Peter Altenberg, Op. 4

Work length11:36

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Dame Margaret Price (soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado
Recorded: 1970-12-08
Recording Venue: Anvill Films Studio, Denham

No. 1 Seele, wie bist du schöner

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No. 2 Sahst du nach dem Gewitterregen

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No. 3 Über die Grenzen des All

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No. 4 Nichts ist gekommen

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No. 5 Hier ist Friede

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Verdi: Songs for Voice and Piano / Seste Romanze II

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Dame Margaret Price (soprano), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
Recorded: 1986-05-01
Recording Venue: Wien, Konzerthaus, Mozartsaal

1. Il tramonto

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Verdi: Songs for Voice and Piano

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Dame Margaret Price (soprano), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
Recorded: 1986-05-01
Recording Venue: Wien, Konzerthaus, Mozartsaal

La seduzione

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Verdi: Songs for Voice and Piano / Seste Romanze II

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Dame Margaret Price (soprano), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
Recorded: 1986-05-01
Recording Venue: Wien, Konzerthaus, Mozartsaal

3. Ad una stella

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4. Lo spazzacamino

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Verdi: Songs for Voice and Piano / Seste Romanze I

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Dame Margaret Price (soprano), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
Recorded: 1986-05-01
Recording Venue: Wien, Konzerthaus, Mozartsaal

5. Perduta ho la pace

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Deh, pietoso, oh Addolorata

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Verdi: Chi i bei dì m'adduce ancora

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Dame Margaret Price (soprano), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
Recorded: 1986-05-01
Recording Venue: Wien, Konzerthaus, Mozartsaal

Verdi: Songs for Voice and Piano / Seste Romanze II

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Geoffrey Parsons, Dame Margaret Price (soprano)
Recorded: 1986-05-01
Recording Venue: Wien, Konzerthaus, Mozartsaal

2. La zingara

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Verdi: Songs for Voice and Piano

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Dame Margaret Price (soprano), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
Recorded: 1986-05-01
Recording Venue: Wien, Konzerthaus, Mozartsaal

L'esule

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Verdi: Songs for Voice and Piano / Seste Romanze I

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Dame Margaret Price (soprano), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
Recorded: 1986-05-01
Recording Venue: Wien, Konzerthaus, Mozartsaal

1. Non t'accostare all'urna

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3. In solitaria stanza

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4. Nell'orror di notte oscura

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Verdi: Songs for Voice and Piano

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Dame Margaret Price (soprano), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
Recorded: 1986-05-01
Recording Venue: Wien, Konzerthaus, Mozartsaal

Il poveretto

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Stornello

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Verdi: Ave Maria (arr. for Soprano and Piano)

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Dame Margaret Price (soprano), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
Recorded: 1986-05-01
Recording Venue: Wien, Konzerthaus, Mozartsaal

Ravel: Shéhérazade

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Dame Margaret Price (soprano), Paul Edmund-Davies (flute)
London Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado
Recorded: 1987-11-13
Recording Venue: All Saints Church, London

I. Asie

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II. La flûte enchantée

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III. L'indifférent

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A song recital new to CD from a peerless lyric soprano, coupled with classic recordings of Ravel and Verdi.

In 1971 Andrew Porter wrote that Margaret Price's voice was among the things that make one 'glad to be alive'. In the 1960s she had recorded for a small Welsh label a recital of Welsh, German and Italian songs that would become signature items for her over the coming decades. Reissued in 1969 by L'Oiseau-Lyre, the album makes it to CD for the first time in this compilation. In favourites such as Schubert's Heidenröslein, Verdi's Ave maria and five Welsh folksongs, Price is on sovereign form, with a gleaming upper register and engagingly fresh phrasing.

Also from the early 70s is a rare foray into contemporary music inspired by her Welsh heritage, with Alun Hoddinott?s setting of a text by Emyr Humphries, Roman Dream. She recorded this for Argo along with a set of Gaelic folksongs by Phyllis Tate; these, too, are transferred to CD for the first time.

More familiar delights are offered on CD2, with Deutsche Grammophon capturing her voice in full and glorious maturity in a 1987 album of Verdi songs and a recording of Ravel's opulent, oriental song-cycle Shéhérezade, in which she is sensitively partnered by the London Symphony Orchestra under a long-time musical partner, Claudio Abbado; together in 1971 they had recorded the Altenberg-Lieder of Berg which fill out CD1. Thus Price sings in five languages through the course of the compilation, and shows herself a gifted word-painter in each of them: it's a comprehensive tribute to the art of a soprano esteemed by Sir Georg Solti as 'a musician's singer and a conductor's singer'.

'The attraction is the voice, warm, with a mezzo quality still evident, beautifully even in texture, nobly full-bodied on high, generous in phrasing.? Gramophone, April 1976 (L'Oiseau-Lyre recital)

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January/February 2020

In these song recitals she is undoubtedly musical and accomplished, but the balance leans more toward beautiful vocalizing than interpretation. In the Schubert group there is a perfectly sustained line in “Du bist die Ruh” that any singer would envy.

Margaret Price: In Recital

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