Pierre-Michel LeConte, Orchestre Lyrique et Chœur l’ORTF - Gaetano Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia (2006)
Pierre-Michel LeConte, Orchestre Lyrique et Chœur l’ORTF, Vasso Papantoniou, José Carreras - Gaetano Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 723 Mb | Total time: 68:38+48:36 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Gala | # GL 100.763 | Recorded: 1972
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 723 Mb | Total time: 68:38+48:36 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Gala | # GL 100.763 | Recorded: 1972
This live recording from Paris in 1972 has two main attraction: the chance to hear a very young - 25 years old, in fact - José Carreras at the outset of his career and, more importantly, I think, the opportunity to hear Vasso Papantoniou, an excellent soprano largely unknown outside her native Greece where she has made her career and who at times sounds uncannily like her compatriot, Maria Callas, especially in the middle of her voice and in her deployment of highly expressive downward portamenti. Her vibrato is faster and, like Callas, top notes can be shrill, be she is a complete artist who obviously impressed the Parisian audience. To hear her at her best either her opening or closing aria will do; listen to her from "M'odi, ah! mo'di" to the end of the opera, where she opts to use the virtuoso aria Donizetti wrote especially for diva Henriette Méric-Lelande and very good she is too.
Carreras is good but less impressive; he tires by the time of his duet with Orsini in the middle of Act II, perhaps because he starts off over-singing with very open tone and sounding rather "shouty". He has yet to acquire the honeyed timbre we associate with him in fresher voice a little later in his early career and at first I thought he sounded like an off-form Jaime Aragall. He is good, but not yet the artist we know from the late 70's.
There are other bonuses: another great artist, José van Dam, at only 31 - sounding more of a light bass-baritone and not really the rich bass the role of Don Alfonso demands but nonetheless singing beautifully; secondly we hear another established house artist who never had a big international career in Dutch mezzo-soprano Cora Canne-Meijer, singing wonderfully in a demanding part of Orsino, with a rich lower register and plenty of volume, decorating the second verse of her show-stopping "Il segreto per esser felici" very adventurously.
The comprimario singers are fair to middling, the conducting, ensemble and orchestral playing all very good, the sound excellent for a live recording over forty years old.
Furthermore, Gala typically gives a very worthwhile bonus in Papantoniou's Medora in "Il corsair", partnered by the vibrant Italian tenor Giorgio Catellato-Lamberti. The thin top notes notwithstanding, she was - still is, in Athens - quite an artist.– Ralph Moore
Performer:
Donna Lucrezia Borgia, Duchessa di Ferrara – Vasso Papantoniou
Don Alfonso, Duca di Ferrara – Jose van Dam
Gennaro – José Carreras
Maffio Orsini – Cora Canne-Meijer
Rustighello – Jean Mollien
Astolfo – Raymond Steffner
Jeppo Liverotto – Gerard Friedmann
Don Apostolo Gazella – Bernard Demigny
Ascanio Petrucci – Gilbert Caliero
Oloferno Vitellozzo – Bernard Plantey
Gubetta – Claude Genty
Orchestre Lyrique et Chœur l’ORTF
Conductor – Pierre-Michel LeConte
Paris, July 16, 1972
Bonus tracks: Verdi – Il Corsaro
Corrado, Capitano dei corsair – Giorgio Castellato-Lamberti
Medora, Giovane amante di Corrado – Vasso Papantoniou
Orchestra and Chorus of the Frankfurter Opera
Conductor – Jesus Lopez Cobos
Frankfurt, Oktober 10, 1971
Tracklist:
Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)
Lucrezia Borgia
CD1:
01. Prologo. Bella Venezia! (Gazella, Petrucci, Orsini)
02. Nella fatal di Rimini (Orsini, Liverotto, Vitellozzo)
03. Senti. La danza invitaci (Coro, Orsini, Liverotto, Vitellozzo)
04. Tranquillo ei posa (Lucrezia, Gubetta)
05. Com'è bello! (Lucrezia, Alfonso, Rustighello)
06. Ciel!… Che veggio? (Lucrezia, Gennaro)
07. Di pescatore ignobile (Gennaro, Lucrezia)
08. Gente appressa - io ti lascio (Lucrezia, Gennaro, Orsini)
09. Maffio Orsini, signora, son io (Orsini, Vitellozzo, Liverotto)
10. Atto I. Nel veneto corteggio (Alfonso, Rustighello, Voices)
11. Viva! Evviva! Viva! Viva! (Voices, Alfonso, Rustighello)
12. Qualunque sia l'evento (Alfonso, Rustighello)
13. Addio, Gennaro (Orsini, Liverotto, Vitellozzo, Petrucci, Gazella, Gennaro, Gubetta)
14. Qui che fai? (Rustighello, Astolfo, Coro)
15. Tutto eseguisti? (Alfonso, Rustighello, Servant)
16. Così turbata? (Alfonso, Lucrezia, Gennaro)
17. Soli noi siamo. Che chiedete? (Alfonso, Lucrezia)
18. E sì avverso a Gennaro (Lucrezia, Alfonso)
19. Oh! A te bada, a te stesso pon mente (Lucrezia, Alfonso)
CD2:
01. Traffitto tosto ei sia (Alfonso, Lucrezia, Gennaro)
02. Guai se ti sfugge un moto (Alfonso, Lucrezia, Gennaro)
03. Infelice! (Lucrezia, Gennaro)
04. Atto II. Rischiarata è la finestra (Rustighello, Coro)
05. Sei tu? (Gennaro, Orsini)
06. Minacciata è la mia vita (Gennaro, Orsini, Coro, Rustighello)
07. Onde a lei ti mostri grato (Orsini, Gennaro)
08. Va, se vuoi. Tentar m’e caro (Orsini, Gennaro, Coro, Rustighello)
09. Stolti! Ei corre alla Negroni (Rustighello, Coro)
10. Viva il Madera! Viva! Vivq! (Liverotto, Vitellozzo, Gazella, Petrucci, Gubetta, Gennaro, Orsini, Coro)
11. Il segreto per esser felici (Orsini, Liverotto, Vitellozzo, Petrucci, Gazella, Gubetta, Coro, Voices, Gennaro)
12. La gioia de’ profane (Voices, Orsini, Gennaro, Coro, Lucrezia, Liverotto, Vitellozzo, Petrucci, Gazella)
13. Tu pur qui? Non sei fuggiti? (Lucrezia, Gennaro)
14. M'odi, ah! m'odi, io non t'imploro (Lucrezia, Gennaro)
15. Maffio muore (Gennaro, Lucrezia, Alfonso)
16. Era desso il figlio moi (Lucrezia, Coro)
Bonus
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Il Corsaro
17. Atto I. Romanza: Egli non riede ancora! (Medora)
18. Non so le tetre innagini (Medora)
19. Scena e Duetto: É pur tristo, o Medora (Corrado, Medora)
20. No, tu non sai comprendere (Medora, Corrado)
21. Tornerai, ma forse spenta (Medora, Corrado)
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Pierre-Michel LeConte, Orchestre Lyrique et Chœur l’ORTF - Gaetano Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia (2006)
