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Marilyn Horne: The Complete Decca Recitals | Decca 4780165

Marilyn Horne: The Complete Decca Recitals

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Label: Decca

Cat No: 4780165

Barcode: 0028947801658

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 11

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 3rd March 2008

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Artists

Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano)

Artists

Marilyn Horne (mezzo-soprano)

About

The great American mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne celebrated her her 70th birthday in January 2004 and that year also marked 50 years since her professional debut.

Horne’s debut in 1954 was in in Los Angeles. That same year her name and voice were brought to many more people than could ever hear her in the opera house, through the 1954 film Carmen Jones in which she sang the dubbed voice of Dorothy Dandridge. Her Covent Garden debut was as Marie in Wozzeck (sung in English at that time) in 1964 – she had made her San Francisco debut in 1960 with the same role. It was with Joan Sutherland that Marilyn Horne found the perfect vocal partner and their performances in the great bel canto operas by Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti took the opera world by storm in the 1960s and early 1970s.

By the time she retired in 1998, Marilyn Horne’s long and distinguished career embraced an enormous variety of operatic roles, as well as a wide variety of solo song ranging from Schubert, Schumann and Mahler through to modern American songs. Such a wide repertory was due to the sheer range of her voice and its remarkable flexibility, a voice that could sustain long lines of melody as well as negotiate the most florid vocal pyrotechnics.

Marilyn Horne participated in a number of complete opera recordings (among them classic recordings of Norma and Semiramide with Joan Sutherland) for Decca and also made ten recital programmes.

The complete recitals are now reissued in their entirety as a Collector Edition on 11 CDs and preserve the original sequence of music as presented on vinyl; the original LP cover art is reproduced for the CD sleeves.

Contents:

Souvenirs of a Golden Era
CD 1 [43:53]
[1] Una voce poco fa (Rosina) (Il barbiere di Siviglia Rossini)
[2] Se Romeo t’uccise un figlio … La tremenda altrice spada (Romeo) ( I Capuleti e i Montecchi Bellini)
[3] Abscheulicher! Wo eilst du hin? (Leonore) (Fidelio Beethoven)
[4] Assisa a pie d’un salice (Desdemona) Otello Rossini
[5] Di tanti palpiti (Tancredi) (Tancredi Rossini)
[6] Bel raggio lusinghier (Semiramide) (Semiramide Rossini)

CD 2 [38:01]
[1] Pronti abbiamo e ferri e mani … Pensa alla patria (Isabella) ( L’italiana in Algeri Rossini)
[2] J’ai perdu mon Eurydice (Orphée et Eurydice Gluck)
[3] Où suis-je? … O ma lyre immortelle (Sapho) (Sapho Gounod)
[4] Ah! mon fils, soit béni! (Fidès) (Le Prophète Meyerbeer)
[5] Divinités du Styx (Alceste) (Alceste Gluck)
[6Stride la vampa … Condotta ell’ era in ceppi (Azucena) (Il trovatore Verdi)

CD 3 Bach & Handel Arias [57:31]
[1] Et exultavit
[2] Esurientes (J.S. Bach: Magnificat in D)
[3] Schlafe mein Liebster (J.S. Bach: Weihnachts-oratorium)
[4] Erbarme dich mein Gott (J.S.Bach: Mattäus-passion)
[5] Bist du bei mir (arr.Smith)
[6] O thou that tallest
[7] I know that my redeemer liveth (Handel: Messiah)
[8] Scacciata dal suo nido
[9] Dove sei
[10] Vivi tiranno (Handel: Rodelinda)

CD 4 Opera Arias [50:08]
[1] Eccomi alfine in Babilonia … Ah! quel giorno ognor rammento (Arsace) (Semiramide Rossini)
[2] Ô prêtres de Baal … Ô toi qui m’abandonnes (Fidès) (Le Prophète Meyerbeer)
[3] Parto, parto, ma tu, ben mio (Sesto) ( La clemenza di Tito Mozart)
[4] Nobles seigneurs, salut! (Urbain) ( Les Huguenots Meyerbeer)
[5] Cruda sorte! amor tiranno! (Isabella) (L’italiana in algeri Rossini)
[6] Deciso è dunque … le ricchezze ed il grado (Maria) (La figlia del reggimento Donizetti)
[7] Nacqui all’affanno e al pianto … Non più mesta accanto al fuoco (Cenerentola) (La Cenerentola Rossini)

CD 5 Rossini Arias [51:45]
[1] Avanziam … Non temer, d’un basso affetto … I destini trader ogni speme! … Signor, che tutto puoi … sei tu che stendi, O dio (Neocle)
[2] L’ora fatal s’appressa … Giusto ciel (Pamira) (L’assedio di Corinto)
[3] Mura felici (Malcolm) 10:51• [4] Tanti affetti (Elena) (La donna del lago)

CD 6 Arias from French Opera [44:41]
[1] Air des letters … Werther! Werther!
[2] Va! Laisse couler mes larmes (Werther Massenet)
[3] Connais tu le pays?
[4] Gavotte — C’est moi … Me voici dans son boudoir
[5] Elle est là! Près de lui! ( Mignon Thomas)
[6] L’amour est un oiseau rebelle (Habañera)
[7] Près des remparts de Séville (Seguidilla) 4:13 (Carmen Bizet)
[8] Printemps qui commence
[9] Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix (Samson et Dalila Saint-Saëns)

CD 7 Mahler Lieder [37:27]
5 Lieder nach Rückert
[1] Ich bin atamet’ einen linden Duft
[2] Liebst du um Schönheit
[3] Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder
[4] Um Mitternacht
[5] Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen

Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
[6] Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht
[7] Ging heut’ Morgen übers Feld
[8] Ich hab’ ein glühend’ Messer
[9] Die zwei blauen Augen

CD 8 Mahler & Wagner Lieder [51:58]
Kindertotenlieder
[1] Nun will die Sonn’ so hell aufgeh’n!
[2] Nun she’ ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen
[3] Wenn dein Mütterlein
[4] Oft denk’ ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen!
[5] In diesem Wetter!

Wesendonk-Lieder
[6] Der Engel 3:15
[7] Stehe still! 4:15
[8] Im Treibhaus 6:48
[9] Schmerzen 3:44
[10] Träume 5:51

CD 9 German Lieder [60:38]
[1] Schubert: Im Frühling, D882
[2] Schubert: Nacht und Träume, D827
[3] Schubert: Die junge Nonne, D828
[4] Schubert: Fischerweise, D881
[5] Schumann: Die Lotusblume, op.25 no.7
[6] Schumann: Aus den henräischen Gesängen
[7] Schumann: Die Kartenlegerin, op.31 no.2
[8] Schumann: Abendlied
[9] Wolf: Auf einer Wanderung
[10] Wolf: Der Genese an die Hoffnung
[11] Wolf: Mein Liebster
[12] Wolf: Mignon
[13] R.Strauss: Schön sind, doch kalt
[14] R.Strauss: Für fünfzehn Pfennige 2
[15] R.Strauss: Befreit, op.39 no.4 [original version]

CD 10 French & Spanish Songs [52:15]
[1] Bizet: Chanson d’Avril
[2] Bizet: Adieux de l’Hôtesse arabe
[3] Bizet: Vieille Chanson
[4] Bizet: Absence

Debussy: Chansons de Bilitis
[5] La Flûte de Pan
[6] Chevelure
[7] Le Tombeau des Naiades

Falla: 7 Canciones populares españolas
[8] 1 El paño moruno
[9] 2 Seguidilla murciana
[10] 3 Asturiana
[11] 4 Jota
[12] 5 Nana
[13] 6 Canción
[14] 7 Polo

[15] Nin: Villancico Castellano
[16] Nin: Jesus de Nazareth
[17] Nin: Villancico Asturiano
[19] Nin: Villancico Andaluz

CD 11 The Great American Songbook [60:01]
[1] Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
[2] Beautiful Dreamer
[3] If You’ve Only Got a Moustache
[4] Camptown Races
[5] Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
[6] I’ve Just Come from the Fountain
[7] The Lord’s Prayer
[8] Shenandoah
[9] Billy Boy
[10] Go ‘Way from my Window

Five Songs from ‘Old American Songs’ (arr.Copland)
[11] I Simple Gifts
[12] II Ching-a-ring-Chaw
[13] III Long Time Ago
[14] IV I Bought Me a Cat
[15] V At the River

[16] You’re a Grand Old Flag
[17] When Johnny Comes Marching Home
[18] God Bless America 3:01
[19] I Didn’t Raise my Boy to be a Soldier
[20] Battle Hymn of the Republic

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