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Virginia Zeani: The Decca Recitals | Australian Eloquence ELQ4820172

Virginia Zeani: The Decca Recitals

Label: Australian Eloquence

Cat No: ELQ4820172

Barcode: 0028948201723

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 1st April 2016

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Contents

Works

Bellini, Vincenzo

I Puritani
» Qui la voce sua soave ...Vien, diletto
La Sonnambula
» Ah! non credea mirarti

Donizetti, Gaetano

Lucia di Lammermoor
» Il dolce suono - Ardon gl'incensi
» Regnava nel silenzio

Puccini, Giacomo

Gianni Schicchi
» O mio babbino caro
La Boheme
» Donde lieta usci
» Quando me'n vo (Musette's Waltz) (Act 2)
» Si. Mi chiamano Mimi (Act 1)
La Rondine
» Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (Act 1)
Madama Butterfly
» Tu, tu, piccolo iddio (Act 2)
» Un bel di vedremo (Act 2)
Manon Lescaut
» In quelle trine morbide (Act 2)
» Sola, perduta, abbandonata (Act 4)
Suor Angelica
» Senza mamma, o bimbo, tu sei morto
Tosca
» Vissi d'arte (Act 2)
Turandot
» Signore, ascolta (Act 1)
» Tu che di gel sei cinta

Verdi, Giuseppe

La Traviata
» Addio del passato

Artists

Virginia Zeani (soprano)
Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Conductors

Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Franco Patane

Works

Bellini, Vincenzo

I Puritani
» Qui la voce sua soave ...Vien, diletto
La Sonnambula
» Ah! non credea mirarti

Donizetti, Gaetano

Lucia di Lammermoor
» Il dolce suono - Ardon gl'incensi
» Regnava nel silenzio

Puccini, Giacomo

Gianni Schicchi
» O mio babbino caro
La Boheme
» Donde lieta usci
» Quando me'n vo (Musette's Waltz) (Act 2)
» Si. Mi chiamano Mimi (Act 1)
La Rondine
» Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (Act 1)
Madama Butterfly
» Tu, tu, piccolo iddio (Act 2)
» Un bel di vedremo (Act 2)
Manon Lescaut
» In quelle trine morbide (Act 2)
» Sola, perduta, abbandonata (Act 4)
Suor Angelica
» Senza mamma, o bimbo, tu sei morto
Tosca
» Vissi d'arte (Act 2)
Turandot
» Signore, ascolta (Act 1)
» Tu che di gel sei cinta

Verdi, Giuseppe

La Traviata
» Addio del passato

Artists

Virginia Zeani (soprano)
Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino

Conductors

Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Franco Patane

About

The Romanian soprano Virginia Zeani, who celebrated her 90th birthday in 2015, made only two studio recordings with a major label: these recordings for Decca of coloratura arias conducted by Gianandrea Gavazzeni, and Puccini arias conducted by Franco Patanè.

Generally, she favoured the spontaneity of live recordings. She did not have an agent and was not an active self-promoter, which may account for the fact that she is less well known today than other great singers. However, there was never any doubt as to her mastery. Richard Bonynge once remarked: ‘Apart from Joan [Sutherland], who will always be number one on my list, the voices I most remember are Flagstad, Virginia Zeani and Renata Tebaldi. Zeani, whom I heard in the early fifties, had, at that time, a voice that was very beautiful all the way up to the E flat, and the low register was phenomenal, Ponsellian in a way.’

Now, her two Decca recitals are available together as a 2-CD set.

‘… above all, with a dark, warm, chesty quality throughout its range […] she phrases meaningfully; she has an excellent sense of rhythm (witness the finale to the Traviata Act I) and she has what all too few sopranos even attempt on more than an occasional phrase: a steady legato’ - Gramophone, July 1957

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