The Voice of Pilar Lorengar

Voice and temperament seemed entirely apt and one reflected on what a lovely Elsa she might be on stage — Gramophone Magazine, August 1980 More…

Release Date: 28th Apr 2017
Catalogue No: ELQ4807840
Label: Eloquence
Length: 75 minutes

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Mozart: Don Giovanni K.527 / Act 1

Work length6:35

Pilar Lorengar (soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Jesús López Cobos
Recorded: 1978-12-06
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

"Don Ottavio... son morta! ..Or sai chi l'onore"

Track length6:35

Puccini: Tosca / Act 2

Work length3:16

Pilar Lorengar (soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Jesús López Cobos
Recorded: 1978-12-06
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

"Vissi d'arte, vissi d'amore"

Track length3:16

Puccini: Manon Lescaut / Act 4

Work length5:32

Pilar Lorengar (soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Jesús López Cobos
Recorded: 1978-12-06
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

"Sola, perduta, abbandonata"

Track length5:32

Verdi: Don Carlo / Act 5

Work length10:35

Pilar Lorengar (soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Jesús López Cobos
Recorded: 1978-12-06
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

"Tu che le vanità"

Track length10:35

Excerpt, Falla: La vida breve

Work length10:03

Pilar Lorengar (soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Jesús López Cobos
Recorded: 1978-12-06
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

Vivan los que rien!

Track length5:27

Allí está! Riyendo, junto á esa mujé

Track length4:36

Excerpt, Puccini: Suor Angelica

Work length4:00

Pilar Lorengar (soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Jesús López Cobos
Recorded: 1978-12-06
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

"Senza mamma"

Track length4:00

Puccini: Madama Butterfly / Act 3

Work length2:14

Pilar Lorengar (soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Jesús López Cobos
Recorded: 1978-12-06
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

"Tu, tu, piccolo iddio"

Track length2:14

Wagner: Lohengrin, WWV 75 / Act 1

Work length7:07

Pilar Lorengar (soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Jesús López Cobos
Recorded: 1978-12-06
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

"Einsam in trüben Tagen"

Track length7:07

Excerpt, Granados: Goyescas (piano suite)

Work length7:01

Pilar Lorengar (soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Jesús López Cobos
Recorded: 1978-12-06
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

La maja y el ruiseñor

Track length7:01

Turina: Canto a Sevilla (7), Op. 37

Work length19:35

Pilar Lorengar (soprano)
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Jesús López Cobos
Recorded: 1983-03
Recording Venue: Victoria Hall, Geneva

1. Semana Santa

Track length8:08

2. Las Fuentecitas del Parque

Track length4:19

3. El Fantasma

Track length3:41

4. La Giralda

Track length3:27

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The ‘fresh, beautiful and critically underpraised’ voice (Gramophone) of Pilar Lorengar is celebrated here on an album of operatic arias, originally issued in 1980 by Decca as a portrait of the Spanish soprano who had entranced audiences on both sides of the Atlantic for three decades. ‘Our Pilar’, she was known affectionately at the Deutsche Oper, Berlin, where she had been a member of the company, and then a jewel in its crown, since her debut at the house in 1958.

There she settled for life and sang her signature roles, several of them immortalized on this recital which exhibits her facility in four languages and the special light and warmth of a voice ‘not soon forgotten, especially in an era so heavily populated by cookie-cutter singers’ (Peter G. Davis, New York magazine, 1987). There is Elsa’s principal aria from Lohengrin, sung in Lorengar’s ‘exotically accented but potently expressive’ German (Opera magazine) and one of the Mozart roles (Zerlina in Don Giovanni) that originally made her name. She had a natural gift for portraying Puccini heroines (Tosca, Manon Lescaut, Angelica), and a native’s delight and fresh, eager delivery of Falla (La vida breve) and Granados (Goyescas).

This invaluable reissue of a much-missed soprano is Canto a Sevilla: a substantial and heartfelt tribute to the city from its leading poet, Muñoz San Román, and pre-eminent composer, Joaquín Turina. Like the operatic recital, this cycle of four songs is accompanied by the sympathetic baton of her fellow Spaniard Jesus Lopez-Cobos.

The release complements a 2CD set of ‘Spanish Romances’ with Lorengar also available on Eloquence (ELQ4825944).

Reviews

August 1980

Voice and temperament seemed entirely apt and one reflected on what a lovely Elsa she might be on stage

August 1984

Pilar Lorengar makes a lovely sound and sings with intensity.

The Voice of Pilar Lorengar

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