Verdi: Giovanna d'Arco (complete opera recorded in 2013)
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Giovanna d'Arco (complete opera recorded in 2013)
Anna Netrebko, Plácido Domingo, Francesco Meli / Philharmonia Chor Wien & Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Paolo Carignani
[ Deutche Grammophon / 2 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Friday 30 May 2014
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A dream team: Anna Netrebko, Plácido Domingo and Giuseppe Verdi! Giovanna d'Arco was recorded live during the critically acclaimed performances of 2013 Salzburg Festival.
Full of melodies, passion and pathos, Giovanna d'Arco, Verdi's take on the Joan of Arc story and its legendary heroine, is regarded as one of the great composer's early masterpieces. The first complete audio opera recording of Domingo as a baritone and the first complete recording of this significant Verdi work in Deutsche Grammophon's history.
Anna Netrebko is a phenomenon: quite simply, the undisputed superstar - "la prima donna assoluta" (New York Post) - of opera today. The "Verdi" album announced Netrebko's long-awaited move into the dramatic repertoire of Italian grand opera. With this Giovanna d'Arco recording she plunges completely into this deep, rich world.
Domingo is a marvel - "The King of Opera" (Die Presse). Widely hailed as the greatest Verdi tenor of his day, even as a baritone, with his distinctive "bronze" vocal timbre, musical intelligence and sense of poetry, he remains one of our most compelling Verdi interpreters.
Young Italian tenor Francesco Meli is one of the rising stars of bel canto. Renowned Verdi and bel canto maestro Paolo Carignani coaxes idiomatic style and flair from the Salzburg forces.
"Netrebko is on fire (no pun intended) as Giovanna, singing with her customary passion but also with more technical "[Domingo] sounds entirely at home in his new vocal category; his voice now fibrous in quality, he is also engaged dramatically...Netrebko's soprano has expanded to embrace the stirring warrior-maiden possibilities of the title-role...Meli's healthy and characteristically Italianate tenor creates a credibly wark but volatile Carlo...Carignani paces the score skilfully." (BBC Music)
"Netrebko's upper range delivers operatic thrills (particularly once she's warmed up), though her more dramatically vivid treatment of Joan's more introspective moments make you eager for her to explore better-known Verdi." (Gramophone)
"[Netrebko] will be the deal breaker. This greatly talented but infuriatingly erratic Russian soprano runs true to form, being blowsily approximate and all over the place in the early scenes...before striking form in the second act, where she produces passages both thrilling and beautiful, graced by floated pianissimos to rival Caballé's and underpinned by a wholehearted exuberance." (Daily Telegraph)
Tracks:
CD 1
1. Richard Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra - Introduction
2. Mahler: Symphony no.5: Adagietto
3. Beethoven: Symphony no.5: 1. Allegro con brio
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
4. Puccini: Madame Butterfly, Humming Chorus
Vienna State Opera Choir, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
5. Tchaikovsky: Waltz from String Serenade op. 48
6. Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik - 1. Satz Allegro
7. Bach: Air (Orchestral Suite no.3)
8. Prokofiev: Allegro (Classical Symphony)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
9. Mendelssohn:Violin Concerto in E minor - 3. Allegro
Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
10. Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition - Promenade
11. Franz Schmidt: Notre Dame, Intermezzo
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
12.Verdi: Requiem - Ingemisco
Jose Carreras (tenor), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
13. Pachelbel: Canon
14. Wagner: Ride of the Valkyries
15. Holst: The Planets - Jupiter
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
CD 2
1. Bizet: Carmen, Prelude Act 1
2. Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Scene
3. Smetana: The Moldau
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
4. Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana, Intermezzo sinfonico
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano
5. Vivaldi: Four Seasons - Spring, 1st movement
Michel Schwalbé (violin), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
6. Mozart: Overtüre "The Magic Flute"
Staatskapelle Berlin
7. Puccini: Turandot, Nessun dorma
Plácido Domingo (tenor), Vienna State Opera Choir, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
8. Albinoni: Adagio in G minor
David Bell (organ), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
9. Offenbach: Barcarolle
10.Beethoven: Symphony no.7 - 4. Allegro con brio
11. Massenet: Thais - Meditation
12.Brahms: Hungarian Dance no.5
13. Verdi: La Traviata, Vorspiel 1.Akt
14. Bach: Suite No.2 In B Minor, BWV 1067 - Badinerie
15. Mozart: Requiem - No 3 Sequentia Lacrimosa
16. Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite No.1, Op.46 - Morning Mood
17. J. Strauss I: Radetzky-Marsch, Op.228 (Arr. Max Schönherr)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
