Great Singers: Rosa Ponselle - American Recordings 4
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Label: Naxos - Historical
Cat No: 8111141
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 1st October 2007
Contents
Works
VerdiLa forza del destino: Pace, pace, mio Dio
Verdi
La forza del destino: Pace, pace, mio Dio
Verdi
Ernani: Ernani! Ernani, involami
Verdi
La forza del destino: Io muoio!
Verdi
La forza del destino: Non imprecare, umiliati
Verdi
ida: Ritorna vincitor
Verdi
Il trovatore: Miserere
Verdi
La forza del destino: La vergine degli angeli
Dvorak
Songs My Mother Taught Me
Rubinstein
Since I First Met Thee
Bellini
Norma: Casta diva: Sediziose voci
Bellini
Norma: Casta diva: Ah! bello a me ritorna
Bellini
Norma: Mira, o Norma
Artists
Rosa Ponselle (soprano)Lennartz (cello)
Giovanni Martinelli (tenor)
Ezio Pinza (bass)
Marion Telva (contralto)
Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Conductors
Rosario BourdonGiulio Setti
Works
VerdiLa forza del destino: Pace, pace, mio Dio
Verdi
La forza del destino: Pace, pace, mio Dio
Verdi
Ernani: Ernani! Ernani, involami
Verdi
La forza del destino: Io muoio!
Verdi
La forza del destino: Non imprecare, umiliati
Verdi
ida: Ritorna vincitor
Verdi
Il trovatore: Miserere
Verdi
La forza del destino: La vergine degli angeli
Dvorak
Songs My Mother Taught Me
Rubinstein
Since I First Met Thee
Bellini
Norma: Casta diva: Sediziose voci
Bellini
Norma: Casta diva: Ah! bello a me ritorna
Bellini
Norma: Mira, o Norma
Artists
Rosa Ponselle (soprano)Lennartz (cello)
Giovanni Martinelli (tenor)
Ezio Pinza (bass)
Marion Telva (contralto)
Metropolitan Opera Chorus
Conductors
Rosario BourdonGiulio Setti
About
With the revival of Bellini’s Norma in the Met’s 1927-28 season Ponselle achieved perhaps the greatest triumph of her career. After the first performance on 16th November, Olin Downes, writing in The New York Times, remarked that the opera’s success was due to Ponselle, ‘probably the most beautiful voice of any soprano of her generation.’
This fourth and final disc of Ponselle’s 1923-1929 American recordings includes two sublime sets of takes of the Trio Finale from La forza del destino recorded with Giovanni Martinelli and Ezio Pinza in 1928. The 1929 Norma recordings are Ponselle’s last commercial recordings before her retirement from the stage, and capture her voice in its prime.
Previously unpublished on 78rpm:
VERDI: La forza del destino: Io muoio!
VERDI: La forza del destino: Non imprecare, umiliati
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