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Great Singers: Rosa Ponselle - American Recordings 4 | Naxos - Historical 8111141

Great Singers: Rosa Ponselle - American Recordings 4

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Label: Naxos - Historical

Cat No: 8111141

Barcode: 0747313314126

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 1st October 2007

Contents

Works

Verdi
La forza del destino: Pace, pace, mio Dio

Verdi
La forza del destino: Pace, pace, mio Dio

Verdi
Ernani: Ernani! Ernani, involami

Verdi
La forza del destino: Io muoio!

Verdi
La forza del destino: Non imprecare, umiliati

Verdi
ida: Ritorna vincitor

Verdi
Il trovatore: Miserere

Verdi
La forza del destino: La vergine degli angeli

Dvorak
Songs My Mother Taught Me

Rubinstein
Since I First Met Thee

Bellini
Norma: Casta diva: Sediziose voci

Bellini
Norma: Casta diva: Ah! bello a me ritorna

Bellini
Norma: Mira, o Norma

Artists

Rosa Ponselle (soprano)
Lennartz (cello)
Giovanni Martinelli (tenor)
Ezio Pinza (bass)
Marion Telva (contralto)
Metropolitan Opera Chorus

Conductors

Rosario Bourdon
Giulio Setti

Works

Verdi
La forza del destino: Pace, pace, mio Dio

Verdi
La forza del destino: Pace, pace, mio Dio

Verdi
Ernani: Ernani! Ernani, involami

Verdi
La forza del destino: Io muoio!

Verdi
La forza del destino: Non imprecare, umiliati

Verdi
ida: Ritorna vincitor

Verdi
Il trovatore: Miserere

Verdi
La forza del destino: La vergine degli angeli

Dvorak
Songs My Mother Taught Me

Rubinstein
Since I First Met Thee

Bellini
Norma: Casta diva: Sediziose voci

Bellini
Norma: Casta diva: Ah! bello a me ritorna

Bellini
Norma: Mira, o Norma

Artists

Rosa Ponselle (soprano)
Lennartz (cello)
Giovanni Martinelli (tenor)
Ezio Pinza (bass)
Marion Telva (contralto)
Metropolitan Opera Chorus

Conductors

Rosario Bourdon
Giulio Setti

About

Described by Maria Callas as ‘the greatest singer of us all’, the American-born Rosa Ponselle is acknowledged as one of the outstanding dramatic sopranos of the twentieth century. Without any previous experience of the operatic stage, she made her Metropolitan début in Verdi’s La forza del destino opposite Caruso in 1918.

With the revival of Bellini’s Norma in the Met’s 1927-28 season Ponselle achieved perhaps the greatest triumph of her career. After the first performance on 16th November, Olin Downes, writing in The New York Times, remarked that the opera’s success was due to Ponselle, ‘probably the most beautiful voice of any soprano of her generation.’

This fourth and final disc of Ponselle’s 1923-1929 American recordings includes two sublime sets of takes of the Trio Finale from La forza del destino recorded with Giovanni Martinelli and Ezio Pinza in 1928. The 1929 Norma recordings are Ponselle’s last commercial recordings before her retirement from the stage, and capture her voice in its prime.

Previously unpublished on 78rpm:
VERDI: La forza del destino: Pace, pace, mio Dio
VERDI: La forza del destino: Io muoio!
VERDI: La forza del destino: Non imprecare, umiliati

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