The Gigli Edition: Volume 15

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Label: Naxos - Historical

Cat No: 8111104

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 29th January 2007

Works

Cesare Andrea Bixio
Mamma

Giulio Caccini
Amarilli

Eduardo di Capua
O sole mio

Vito Carnevali
Come, love with me

Frederic Chopin
Reviens, mon amour (from Étude in E major, Op. 10, No. 3)

Vincenzo Crescenzo
Rondine al nido

Alvin Curran
Life

Ernesto de Curtis
Addio bel sogno

Stefano Donaudy
O del mio amato ben

Amelita Galli-Curci
Notte a Venezia

Antonio Carlos Gomes
Lo Schiavo; All’istante partir ..; Quando nascesti tu

Edvard Grieg
Un Rêve [En dröm]

George Frideric Handel
Frondi tenere e belle … Ombra mai fu

Jules Massenet
O dolce incanto …Chiudi gli occhi (Manon); Ah! Non mi ridestar (Werther)

Giacomo Meyerbeer
L’Africaine : Mi batte il cor...O Paradiso!

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Dalla sua pace

Giacomo Puccini
E lucevan le stelle (from Tosca); La Fanciulla del West: ’Ch’ella mi creda libero e lontano’

Manlio di Veroli
Ritorna amore

Richard Wagner
Mercè, mercè, cigno gentil (Lohengrin)

Jean-Baptiste Theodore Weckerlin
Bergère légère

Artists

Beniamino Gigli

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Artists

Beniamino Gigli

About

This final volume of the Naxos Gigli Edition, released to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the great tenor’s death, is taken from his Carnegie Hall farewell concerts in April, 1955.

Making their first appearance on CD here, these recordings demonstrate that Gigli remained to the end his old, communicative self, still able to pour an immense tranche of emotion into whatever he was singing. For a man his age the overall sound is still remarkable and the honeyed mezza-voce remains a delight, untouched by the passing years. As ever in a Gigli programme, operatic titles are intertwined with more popular material.

By and large Gigli kept faith with those pieces he most enjoyed singing and that his public adored. ‘It was only through my audiences that this exercise of lungs, diaphragm and vocal cords became transmuted for me into a profound spiritual experience. Like a squirrel counting his hoard of nuts in the winter, I treasure their applause in my memory.’

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The Gigli Edition: Volume 15

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