Puccini - Madama Butterfly - Freni, Pavarotti, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan (194) [24-96]

Artist: Freni, Pavarotti, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Karajan

Title: Puccini: Madama Butterfly

Year Of Release: 1974 (2014)

Label: Decca Music Group Limited

Genre: Classical, Opera

Quality: FLAC (tracks) [24Bit - 96kHz]

Total Time: 02:25:42

Total Size: 2,62 GB (d.booklet)



A 1974 recording of Puccini's classic opera Madama Butterfly, one of the most-performed operas in the world. Herbert von Karajan conducts The Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra with a compelling Mirella Freni in the title role, up-and-coming superstar Luciano Pavarotti as Pinkerton, Christa Ludwig as Suzuki and Robert Kerns as Sharpless.





Tracklist:



01 - Act 1: … E soffitto e pareti

02 - Act 1: Sorride Vostro Onore?

03 - Act 1: Dovunque al mondo

04 - Act 1: America For Ever

05 - Act 1: Ier l'altro il Consolato

06 - Act 1: Ecco. Son giunte al sommo del pendio

07 - Act 1: Gran ventura

08 - Act 1: L'Imperial Commissario

09 - Act 1: Vieni, amor mio!

10 - Act 1: Ieri son salita tutta sola in segreto alla Missione

11 - Act 1: Tutti zitti!

12 - Act 1: O Kami! O Kami!

13 - Act 1: Cio-cio-san! Cio-cio-san!

14 - Act 1: Bimba, bimba, non piangere

15 - Act 1: Viene la sera

16 - Act 1: Vogliatemi bene

17 - Act 2: E Izaghi ed Izanami, Sarundasico e Kami

18 - Act 2: Un bel di vedremo

19 - Act 2: C'e. Entrate

20 - Act 2: Si sa che aprir la parta

21 - Act 2: Udiste?

22 - Act 2: Ora a noi. Sedete qui.

23 - Act 2: Ebbene, che fareste, Madama Butterfly?

24 - Act 2: E questo? E questo?

25 - Act 2: Che tua madre dovra prenderti in braccio

26 - Act 2: Vespa! Rospo maledetto!

27 - Act 2: Una nave da guerra

28 - Act 2: Scuoti quella fronda di ciliegio

29 - Act 2: Or vienmi ad adornar

30 - Act 2: Coro a bocca chiusa (Humming Chorus)

31 - Act 2: Intermezzo

32 - Act 2: Fischi d'uccelli dal giardino

33 - Act 2: Gia il sole!

34 - Act 2: Chi sia?

35 - Act 2: Io so che alle pene

36 - Act 2: Non ve l'avevo detto?

37 - Act 2: Addio fiorito asil

38 - Act 2: Suzuki! Suzuki! Dove sei?

39 - Act 2: Tu, Suzuki, che sei tanto biona

40 - Act 2: Come una mosca prigionera

41 - Act 2: Con onor muore chi non puo serbar vita con onore



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Mirella Freni - Butterfly

Luciano Pavarotti - Pinkterton

Christa Ludwig - Suzuki

Robert Kerns - Sharpless

Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna State Opera Chorus - Conducted by Herbert von Karajan



Movingly dramatic as Renata Scotto is on the Barbirolli set, Mirella Freni is even more compelling. The voice is fresher, firmer and more girlish, with more light and shade at such points as 'Un bel dì', and there's an element of vulnerability that intensifies the communication. In that, one imagines Karajan played a big part, just as he must have done in presenting Pavarotti – not quite the super-star he is today but already with a will of his own in the recording studio – as a Pinkerton of exceptional subtlety, not just a roistering cad but in his way an endearing figure in the First Act. Significantly CD brings out the delicacy of the vocal balances in Act 1 with the voices deliberately distanced for much of the time, making such passages as 'Vienna la sera' and 'Bimba dagli occhi' the more magical in their delicacy. Karajan, in that duet and later in the Flower duet of Act 2, draws ravishing playing from the Vienna Philharmonic strings, getting them to imitate the portamento of the singers in an echt-Viennes manner, which is ravishing to the ear. Christa Ludwig is by far the richest and most compelling of Suzukis.



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