Cesare Siepi – Alto CD https://altocd.com Classical Music and Nostalgia CDs Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:42:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Lucia di Lammermoor (donizetti) complete opera https://altocd.com/product/lucia-di-lammermoor-donizetti-complete-opera/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:41:50 +0000 https://amuletts.com/altocd/?post_type=product&p=51730 Lucia di Lammermoor (donizetti) complete opera Joan Sutherland; Renato Cioni; Robert Merrill; Kenneth Macdonald; Cesare Siepi Chorus and Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome conductor John Pritchard Catalogue Number: ALC 2025 Number of Discs: 1 Date/Runtime: Stereo 146:44 mins 1961]]>
“full of fresh innocence, Sutherland’s coloratura virtuosity remains breathtaking, and the cast is a strong one, with a most understanding conductor” (Penguin Guide 3 stars) “Sutherland’s miraculous singing is not the only virtue of this set … There is hardly an operatic centre left which has not acclaimed Sutherland’s Lucia … (she) is without rival today in her command of the vocal arts – trills, scales and arpeggios, messa di voce, glissando. Her tone is beautiful, and each year becomes sweeter, rounder and fuller, in both gentle and brilliant passages. Her interpretation of Lucia is a fully conceived study … In this performance, passage after passage is melting, exquisite, dazzling, breathtaking … Cioni, currently Sutherland’s favoured partner, was a first-rate choice for Edgardo.” (Gramophone) Time 146:44 ADD, 1961

    CD One (78:31)
    Act One, Scene One

  • 1. Percorrete le spiagge vicine 4.51
  • 2. Tu sei turbato! 2.55
  • 3. Cruda, funesta, smania 2.02
  • 4. Il tuo dubbio è omai certezza 2.05
  • 5. La pietade in suo favore 3.46

    • Act One, Scene Two

  • 6. Introduzione 2.50
  • 7. Ancor non giunse ! 1.53
  • 8. Regnava nel silenzio 4.09
  • 9. Quando, rapito in estasi 5.01
  • 10. Egli s’avanza! 2.45
  • 11. Sulla tomba che rinserra 2.52
  • 12. Qui di sposa eterna fede …
    Verranno a te sull’aure 6.40

    • Act Two, Scene One

  • 13. Lucia fra poco a te verrà 4.17
  • 14. Il pallor funesto 4.38
  • 15. Soffriva nel pianto 3.24
  • 16. Che fia? …
    Suonar di giubilo, senti la riva? 1.23
  • 17. Se tradirmi tu potrai 3.24
  • 18. Ebben? … Di tua speranza 8.00

    • Act Two, Scene Two

  • 19. Per te d’immenso giubilo 3.32
  • 20. Dov’è Lucia? 4.06
  • 21. Chi mi frena in tal momento? 3.47

    • CD Two (68:13)

  • 1. T’allontana, sciagurato 5.30

    • Act Three, Scene One

  • 2. Orrida è questa notte 8.59
  • 3. D’immenso giubilo …
    Deh, cessate quel contento! 2.30
  • 4. Dalle stanze ove Lucia 2.41
  • 5. Oh, qual funesto avvenimento! 2.22
  • 6. Eccola! … Oh, giusto cielo! … Il dolce suono 4.22
  • 7. Sparsa è di rose! … Ardon gl’incensi 7.26
  • 8. S’avanza Enrico! 3.06
  • 9. Spargi d’amaro pianto 4.06
  • 10. Si tragga altrove, Alisa! 1.44

    • Act Three, Scene Two

  • 11. Tombe degli avi miei 4.03
  • 12. Fra poco a me ricovero 3.06
  • 13. Oh, meschina! Oh, fato orrendo! 4.20
  • 14. Tu che a Dio spiegasti l’ali 4.30
  • 15. Ancor non giunse … Perchè non ho del vento 9.19 (alternative recit/aria)
]]> Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro https://altocd.com/product/mozart-le-nozze-di-figaro/ https://altocd.com/product/mozart-le-nozze-di-figaro/#respond Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:37:42 +0000 https://amuletts.com/altocd/?post_type=product&p=51092 Mozart Le Nozze di Figaro Lisa della Casa / Cesare Siepi / Hilde Gueden Erich Kleiber / Vienna Philharmonic Catalog Number: ALC 2501 Number of Discs: 2]]> “another of the classics of the gramophone, beautifully played by the VPO, conducted with poise and vitality and a real sense of the drama unfolding through the music. It’s very much a Viennese performance…warm, sensuous and alive to the interplay of character – ”Gramophone

A legendary cast of Vienna State Opera stars and the Vienna Philharmonic under the direction of Erich Kleiber at the peak of his career were the essential ingredients in the making of this 1955 recording of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro that is regarded as one of the greatest opera recordings ever made. Alto is pleased to make this essential recording available in a newly remastered edition at super-value price.

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ALC 1097 - Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro - Highlights
ALC 1097 - Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro - Highlights

Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro – Highlights

Cesare Siepi / Hilde Guede / Alfred Poell / Lisa Della Casa / Hilde Rössel-Majdan / Fernando Corena / Suzanne Danco / Erick Kleiber / Wiener Philharmoniker und Staatsoperchor

Catalogue Number: ALC 1097
Number of Discs: CD
Released: June 2010

Highlights from a landmark Mozart opera recording – newly remastered and available at value price.



“another of the classics of the gramophone, beautifully played by the VPO, conducted with poise and vitality and a real sense of the drama unfolding through the music. It’s very much a Viennese performance…warm, sensuous and alive to the interplay of character – Gramophone

A legendary cast of Vienna State Opera stars and the Vienna Philharmonic under the direction of Erich Kleiber at the peak of his career were the essential ingredients in the making of this 1955 recording of Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro that is regarded as one of the greatest opera recordings ever made. Alto is pleased to make highlights from this essential recording available in a newly remastered edition at super-value price.

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