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Pumeza: Arias | Decca 4788964

Pumeza: Arias

Label: Decca

Cat No: 4788964

Barcode: 0028947889649

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Opera

Release Date: 6th May 2016

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Contents

Works

Catalani, Alfredo

La Wally
» Ebben? Ne andro lontana

Dvorak, Antonin

Rusalka, op.114
» Song to the Moon

Faure, Gabriel

Songs (3), op.7
» no.1 Apres un reve

Gluck, Christoph Willibald

Orfeo ed Euridice (Orpheus and Eurydice)
» Che fiero momento (Act 3)

Hahn, Reynaldo

A Chloris

Montsalvatge, Xavier

Canciones negras (5)
» no.2 Punto de Habanera (Siglo XVIII)

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K492
» Deh vieni non tardar

Puccini, Giacomo

La Boheme
» Si. Mi chiamano Mimi (Act 1)
Suor Angelica
» Senza mamma, o bimbo, tu sei morto
Turandot
» Tu che di gel sei cinta

Purcell, Henry

Dido and Aeneas
» Dido's Lament

Ravel, Maurice

L'Heure espagnole
» Oh! la pitoyable aventure!

Sarti, Giuseppe

Lungi dal caro bene

Tosti, Paolo

Si tu le voulais

Yradier, Sebastian de

La Paloma

Artists

Pumeza Matshikiza (soprano)
Aarhus Symfoniorkester

Conductor

Tobias Ringborg

Works

Catalani, Alfredo

La Wally
» Ebben? Ne andro lontana

Dvorak, Antonin

Rusalka, op.114
» Song to the Moon

Faure, Gabriel

Songs (3), op.7
» no.1 Apres un reve

Gluck, Christoph Willibald

Orfeo ed Euridice (Orpheus and Eurydice)
» Che fiero momento (Act 3)

Hahn, Reynaldo

A Chloris

Montsalvatge, Xavier

Canciones negras (5)
» no.2 Punto de Habanera (Siglo XVIII)

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), K492
» Deh vieni non tardar

Puccini, Giacomo

La Boheme
» Si. Mi chiamano Mimi (Act 1)
Suor Angelica
» Senza mamma, o bimbo, tu sei morto
Turandot
» Tu che di gel sei cinta

Purcell, Henry

Dido and Aeneas
» Dido's Lament

Ravel, Maurice

L'Heure espagnole
» Oh! la pitoyable aventure!

Sarti, Giuseppe

Lungi dal caro bene

Tosti, Paolo

Si tu le voulais

Yradier, Sebastian de

La Paloma

Artists

Pumeza Matshikiza (soprano)
Aarhus Symfoniorkester

Conductor

Tobias Ringborg

About

Pumeza’s second album Arias is a collection of many of the great opera roles in which Pumeza has blossomed: Mimi in La bohème; Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro; Liù in Turandot; Dido in Dido & Aeneas; Concepción in L’Heure espagnole together with such operatic greatest hits as the ‘Song to the Moon’ from Rusalka and ‘Ebben, ne andro lontano’ from La Wally.

The album also features new arrangements of art songs such as Fauré’s Après un rêve and Reynaldo Hahn’s À Chloris as well as a Rosa Ponselle favourite, Tosti’s Si tu le voulais.

Also included are arrangements of Sarti’s famous aria Lungi del caro bene made by Decca for Renata Tebaldi in the 1970s and recorded here for the first time since then, and an arrangement of the classic song La Paloma originally made for Victoria de los Angeles.

Reviews

The South African lyric soprano Pumeza Matshikiza, now enjoying an international reputation, has versatility, range and huge personality. Her voice is rich without heaviness, capable of teasing lightness and flexibility, as the selection here demonstrates. She opens with a tender Si, mi chiamano Mimi from Puccini’s La bohème (Mimi is one of her signature roles) and travels via Hahn, Fauré and Ravel back to Mozart, Gluck and, in an anguished Dido’s Lament, Purcell. The African Cuban Punto de habanera shows her in playful mood.  Fiona Maddocks
The Observer 15 April 2016

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