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Edita Gruberova sings Famous Arias | BR Klassik 900325

Edita Gruberova sings Famous Arias

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Label: BR Klassik

Cat No: 900325

Barcode: 4035719003253

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 29th June 2018

Contents

Artists

Edita Gruberova (soprano)
Regensburger Domspatzen
Munchner Rundfunkorchester

Conductors

Mark Elder
Lamberto Gardelli
Leopold Hager
Pinchas Steinberg
Marcello Viotti

Works

Bellini, Vincenzo

Beatrice di Tenda
» Ah! Se un'urna e a me

Donizetti, Gaetano

Linda di Chamounix
» Ah! tardai troppo...O luce di quest'anima
Lucia di Lammermoor
» Il dolce suono

Handel, George Frideric

Alcina, HWV34
» Ah, mio cor

Haydn, Michael

Lauft, ihr Hirten, allzugleich

Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus

Exsultate, jubilate, K165
Vesperae solennes de confessore in C major, K339 (Solemn Vespers)
» Laudate Dominum

Rossini, Gioachino

Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville)
» Una voce poco fa

Strauss II, Johann

Die Fledermaus
» Spiel' ich die Unschuld vom Lande

Artists

Edita Gruberova (soprano)
Regensburger Domspatzen
Munchner Rundfunkorchester

Conductors

Mark Elder
Lamberto Gardelli
Leopold Hager
Pinchas Steinberg
Marcello Viotti

About

Slovak soprano Edita Gruberová is undoubtedly one of today’s most well-known interpreters of coloratura opera singing, and especially of Italian bel canto. She made her debut in 1970 as Queen of the Night in Mozart’s Magic Flute at the Vienna State Opera and, ever since her performances in the same role at Glyndebourne and Salzburg in 1974, she has been a regular fixture on the world’s leading operatic stages and concert podiums. Flattering epithets such as “the Queen of Coloratura”, “the Slovak Nightingale” or “prima donna assoluta” are hardly exaggerated, for they really do represent what Edita Gruberová has embodied for almost half a century. She is celebrated all over the world for her perfect mastery of vocal technique, her astonishing ability to master even the most difficult coloraturas and highest notes, her clear and precise intonation and, most importantly, for something that overshadows and transfigures everything else: the seductive and beguiling timbre of her voice.

This CD released by BR-KLASSIK to celebrate her 50th stage anniversary (Gruberová debuted on 19 February 1968 at the age of 21 as Rosina in Rossini’s Barber of Seville at the National Theatre in her hometown of Bratislava) presents nine recordings made between October 1983 and June 2000 at Bayerischer Rundfunk concerts. In addition to well-known and well as lesser-known arias from operas by Handel (Alcina), Rossini (Il barbiere di Siviglia), Donizetti (Lucia di Lammermoor, Linda di Chamounix) and Bellini (Beatrice di Tenda), and also the Couplet of Adele from Johann Strauss’s operetta Die Fledermaus, Edita Gruberová can also be heard in interpretations from Mozart’s Exsultate, jubilate, his “Laudate Dominum” from the Vesperae solennes de confessore (performed together with the Regensburger Domspatzen), and also Michael Haydn’s far too rarely performed Christmas cantata Lauft, ihr Hirten, allzugleich.

This CD is more than a historical portrait – it offers a representative musical cross-section of Edita Gruberová’s wide-ranging repertoire, and also includes several surprises that complement and enrich her comprehensive discography.

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