The Verdi Tenor
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
The Verdi Tenor
Marcelo Alvarez (tenor) / Giuseppe Verdi Orchestra, Daniel Oren
[ Decca / CD ]
Release Date: Thursday 16 September 2010
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"Throughout, Álvarez offers open-hearted, open-throated vocalism, founded on impeccable breath control and a textural attention that binds the consonants carefully into the line. …there's some fine caressing of the line (Ballo), immaculately shaped cantilena (Luisa Miller), impetuous heroism (thrilling in Trovatore) and an intelligent highlighting of the dramatic context throughout, but especially in Macbeth, Forza and Otello." BBC Music Magazine, December 2009
From one of the greatest Verdi singers on today's operatic stage, a disc of the most glorious music Verdi wrote for the tenor voice.
"Alvarez performs with generosity and compassion, throwing himself into the high emotions demanded. He scales his high notes joyfully, boldly, never indulgently. This is familiar Pavarotti territory, but in Alvarez's hands a more tormented and impassioned experience." (Evening Standard, London (on Il Trovatore at Covent Garden))
Marcelo Álvarez showcases the voice that has made him THE Verdi tenor on today's operatic stage, in his first disc for Decca.
Tracks:
Se quel guerrier io fossi! (from Aida)
Di' tu se fedele (from Un ballo in maschera)
Forse la soglia attinse (from Un ballo in maschera)
Oh! fede negar potessi (from Luisa Miller)
Quando le sere al placido (from Luisa Miller)
L'ara, o l'avello apprestami (from Luisa Miller)
La vita è inferno … O tu che in seno (from La Forza del Destino)
Quale d'armi fragor poc'anzi intesi? (from Il Trovatore)
(feat. Annalisa Raspagliosi as Leonora)
Ah sì ben mio (from Il trovatore)
(feat. Anna Raspagliosi as Leonora and Arturo Chacon Cruz as Ruiz)
Di quella pira (from Il trovatore)
(feat. Annalisa Raspagliosi as Leonora)
La mia letizia infondere (from I lombardi)
Mercè, diletti amici (from Ernani)
Dell'esilio nel dolore (from Ernani)
Io l'ho perduta (from Don Carlos)
O figli … Ah, la paterna mano (from Macbeth)
