Adam: Mes amis, écoutez l'histoire (from Le Postillon de Lonjumeau) (Ronde de Chapelou)

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The Very Best of Nicolai Gedda

The Very Best of Nicolai Gedda


Adam:

Mes amis, écoutez l'histoire (from Le Postillon de Lonjumeau)

Beethoven:

Adelaide, Op. 46

Bellini:

Prendi l'anel ti dono (from La Sonnambula)

Berlioz:

La gloire etait ma seule idole (from Benvenuto Cellini)

Bizet:

Au fond du temple saint (from Les Pêcheurs de Perles)

La fleur que tu m'avais jetée (from Carmen)

Donizetti:

Quanto è bella, quanto è cara! (from L'Elisir d'amore)

Una furtiva lagrima (from L'elisir d'amore)

Fra poco a me ricovero...Tu che a Dio spiegasti l'ali (from Lucia di Lammermoor)

Flotow:

Ach, so fromm (from Martha)

Glinka:

Souvenir

Goldmark:

Magische Töne, berauschender Duft (from Die Königin von Saba)

Gounod:

L'amour, l'amour... Ah, lève-toi soleil (from Roméo et Juliette)

Lehár:

Gern hab' ich die Frau'n geküßt (from Paganini)

Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (from Das Land des Lächelns)

Massenet:

Pourquoi me reveiller (from Werther)

Instant charmant … En fermant les yeux (from Manon)

Mozart:

Il mio tesoro intanto (from Don Giovanni)

Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön (from Die Zauberflöte)

Mussorgsky:

Boris Godunov: Dmitry! Tsarevich

Offenbach:

Va pour Kleinzach...Il était une fois à la cour (from Les Contes d'Hoffmann)

Puccini:

Donna non vidi mai (from Manon Lescaut)

Rachmaninov:

Sing not, O lovely one (Ne poi, krasavitsa, pri mne), Op. 4 No. 4

How fair this spot, Op. 21 No. 7

Rossini:

Asile héréditaire (from Guillaume Tell)

Strauss, J, II:

Ja, das alles auf Ehr' (from Der Zigeunerbaron)

Strauss, R:

Heimliche Aufforderung, Op. 27 No. 3

Ständchen, Op. 17 No. 2

Tchaikovsky:

Kuda, Kuda 'Lensky's Aria' (from Eugene Onegin)

In this moonlight, Op.73, No.3

Sred' shumnogo bala (Amid the din of the ball), Op. 38 No. 3

Serenada Don-Zhuana (Don Juan's Serenade), Op. 38 No. 1

Thomas, Ambroise:

Elle ne croyait pas, dans sa candeur naïve (from Mignon)

Verdi:

Di' tu se fedele (from Un ballo in maschera)

La donna è mobile (from Rigoletto)

Wagner:

In fernem Land (from Lohengrin)


Nicolai Gedda, the most recorded tenor in history, is an exceptionally versatile artist who has excelled in a wide variety of operatic roles as well as in the art song. With a magnificent lyric tenor voice and extraordinary range, Gedda makes the notorious top D at the end of ‘Mes amis, écoutez l’histoire’ sound positively effortless. This collection offers a wealth of repertoire that has helped to cement Gedda’s reputation as one of the greatest tenors of his generation.

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Nicolai Gedda sings Arias and Lieder

Nicolai Gedda sings Arias and Lieder


Adam:

Mes amis, écoutez l'histoire (from Le Postillon de Lonjumeau)

SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Ernest Bour

Carnevali:

Stornelli capricciosi

Erik Werba (piano)

Casella:

La storia della fanciulla rapita dal pirate

Erik Werba (piano)

Debussy:

Beau Soir

Erik Werba (piano)

Mandoline (Verlaine)

Erik Werba (piano)

Glinka:

A Life for the Tsar: Bratsï! V metel', v nevedomoy glushi

sung in German as 'Bruder, im Sturm'

SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Ernest Bour

Gluck:

Calchas, d'un trait mortel percé (from Iphigénie en Aulide)

sung in German as 'Auf Kalchas falle diese Schwert'

SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Ernest Bour

Ô moments délicieux!...Bannis les craintes et les alarmes (from Alceste)

sung in German as 'Welch Gefuhlt schwellt meine Brust'

SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Ernest Bour

Mozart:

Fuor del mar ho un mar in seno (Idomeneo)

SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Ernest Bour

Nin:

Granadina (from Cantos populares españoles)

Erik Werba (piano)

Poulenc:

Metamorphoses: Paganini

Werner Singer (piano)

Airs chantés: Air Champêtre

Werner Singer (piano)

Airs chantés: Air grave

Werner Singer (piano)

Pratella:

La strada bianca

Erik Werba (piano)

Respighi:

Notte, P. 97 No. 1

Erik Werba (piano)

Stornellatrice

Erik Werba (piano)

Rimsky Korsakov:

The clouds begin to scatter (Elegy), Op. 42 No. 3

sung in German as 'Die fliegende Wolkenbank lichtet sich'

Werner Singer (piano)

Die Tanne und die Palme, Op. 3, No. 1

sung in Swedish as 'El i pal'ma'

Werner Singer (piano)

Plus sonore que le chant de l’alouette, Op.43, No.1

sung in German as 'Klingender ist das Lied der Lerche'

Werner Singer (piano)

In der Stille der Nacht, Op. 4 No. 3

Werner Singer (piano)

Fragment von A. de Musset, Op. 21 No. 6

Werner Singer (piano)

Rossini:

Que les destins prospères (from Le Comte d'Ory)

SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Ernest Bour

Schubert:

Im Frühling, D882

Werner Singer (piano)

Die Liebe hat gelogen D751 (Platen)

Werner Singer (piano)

Nacht und Träume, D827

Werner Singer (piano)

Der Schiffer, D536 (Mayrhofer)

Werner Singer (piano)


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Joseph Schmidt: Opera

Joseph Schmidt: Opera


Adam:

Mes amis, écoutez l'histoire (from Le Postillon de Lonjumeau)

Sung in German

Donizetti:

Una furtiva lagrima (from L'elisir d'amore)

Halévy:

Rachel, quand du Seigneur (from La Juive)

Meyerbeer:

O Paradiso! (from L'Africana)

Mozart:

Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön (from Die Zauberflöte)

Puccini:

Che gelida manina (from La Bohème)

Marcello, finalmente...Mimì è una civetta (from La Boheme)

Recondita armonia (from Tosca)

E lucevan le stelle (from Tosca)

Amaro sol per te (from Tosca)

Or son sei mesi (from La fanciulla del West)

Ch'ella mi creda libero e lontano (from La Fanciulla del West)

Non piangere, Liù! (from Turandot)

Nessun dorma (from Turandot)

Smetana:

Komm mein Söhnchen (Die verkaufte Braut)

Verdi:

Questa o quella (from Rigoletto)

La donna è mobile (from Rigoletto)

Deserto sulla terra (from Il trovatore)

Sung in German

Ah sì ben mio (from Il trovatore)

Sung in German

De' miei bollenti spiriti (from La traviata)

Forse la soglia attinse (from Un ballo in maschera)


Joseph Schmidt (tenor)

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Amore, sublime amore: Tenor Arias

Amore, sublime amore: Tenor Arias


Adam:

Mes amis, écoutez l'histoire (from Le Postillon de Lonjumeau)

Giordano, U:

Come un bel dì di maggio (from Andrea Chénier)

Glinka:

A Life for the Tsar: Bratsï! V metel', v nevedomoy glushi

Puccini:

Nessun dorma (from Turandot)

Rossini:

Ah, non mi lasciar…O speme di vendetta (from Guglielmo Tell)

Strauss, R:

Di rigori armato il seno (from Der Rosenkavalier)

Verdi:

Qual sangue sparsi (from La Forza del Destino)

Ah sì ben mio (from Il trovatore)

Datemi ancor l'eburnea mano (from Otello)

Niun mi tema (from Otello)

Forse la soglia attinse (from Un ballo in maschera)


Janez Lotric (tenor)

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Welch Unbekannter Zauber...

Welch Unbekannter Zauber...

Songs for Tenor


Adam:

Mes amis, écoutez l'histoire (from Le Postillon de Lonjumeau)

Boieldieu:

Viens, gentille dame (from La Dame blanche)

Capua:

O sole mio

Curtis, E:

Ti voglio tanto bene

Sung in German

Donizetti:

Una furtiva lagrima (from L'elisir d'amore)

Engel-Berger:

Stern von Rio

Gounod:

Quel trouble inconnu me pénètre… Salut! Demeure chaste et pure (from Faust)

Heymann:

Heute Nacht oder nie

Künneke, Eduard:

Ich bin nur ein armer Wandergesell (from Der Vetter aus Dingsda)

Lara, Augustin:

Granada

Lehár:

Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (from Das Land des Lächelns)

Freunde, das Leben ist lebenswert (from Giuditta)

Leoncavallo:

Mattinata - 'L'aurora di bianco vestita'

Mario:

Santa Lucia luntana

Marschner, H A:

Gonne mir ein wort der Liebe (from Hans Heiling)

Millöcker:

Ich hab' kein Geld, bin vogelfrei (from Der Bettelstudent)

Ich knüpfte manche zarte Bande (from Der Bettelstudent)

Rossini:

Languir per una bella (from L'Italiana in Algeri)

Strauss, J, II:

Ach, wie so herrlich zu schau'n (from Die Fledermaus)

Tauber:

You are the world to me from Der singende Traum

Sung in German

Toselli:

Serenata Op. 6


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William Matteuzzi - Ferme tes yeux

William Matteuzzi - Ferme tes yeux


Adam:

Mes amis, écoutez l'histoire (from Le Postillon de Lonjumeau)

Auber:

Ferme tes yeux (from La Muette de Portici)

Carafa:

Traditor! paventa: al campo! (from Gabriella di Vergi)

Donizetti:

Freme ondeggia irresolotu (from Il Castello del Kenilworth)

Pour me rapprocher de Marie (from La Fille du régiment)

Offenbach:

Ah! qu'il était doux mon beau rêve! (from Le pont des soupirs)

Pacini:

Ciel! d'una misera (from Alessandro nell' Indie)

Rossini:

A la faveur de cette nuit obscure (from Le Comte d'Ory)

Di Che Son Reo?… D’alma Celeste from Il viaggio a Reims


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Nicolai Gedda: Lyric Poet of the Tenor Voice

Nicolai Gedda: Lyric Poet of the Tenor Voice

85th Birthday


Includes

Adam:

Mes amis, écoutez l'histoire (from Le Postillon de Lonjumeau)

Auber:

Du pauvre seul ami fidèle (from La Muette de Portici)

Bach, J S:

Cantata BWV189 'Meine Seele ruhmt und preist'

Cantata BWV55 'Ich armer Mensch, ich Sündenknecht'

Cantata BWV160 'Ich weiß, daß mein Erloeser lebt'

St Matthew Passion, BWV244: Geduld, Geduld

Mass in B minor: Benedictus

Beethoven:

Christus am Ölberge: Jehova, du mein Vater...Meine Seele ist erschüttert

Adelaide, Op. 46

An die ferne Geliebte (To the distant beloved), Op. 98

Bellini:

Prendi l'anel ti dono (from La Sonnambula)

Berlioz:

Une heure encore (from Benvenuto Cellini)

Seul pour lutter, seul avec mon courage (from Benvenuto Cellini)

Bizet:

Au fond du temple saint (from Les Pêcheurs de Perles)

A cette voix quel trouble… Je crois entendre encore (from Les Pêcheurs de Perles)

La fleur que tu m'avais jetée (from Carmen)

Cilea:

È la solita storia 'Lamento di Federico' (from L'Arlesiana)

Delibes:

Lakmé! Lakmé! Ah! Viens dans la forêt profonde (from Lakmé)

Donizetti:

Quanto è bella, quanto è cara! (from L'Elisir d'amore)

Una furtiva lagrima (from L'elisir d'amore)

Tombe degl'avi miei … Fra poco a me ricovero...Tu che a Dio spiegasti l'ali (from Lucia di Lammermoor)

Povero Ernesto...cercherò lontano terra (from Don Pasquale)

Com'é gentil…Tornami a dir (from Don Pasquale)

Spirto gentil ne' sogni miei (from La Favorita)

Flotow:

Jungfrau Maria (from Alessandro Stradella)

Ach, so fromm (from Martha)

Glinka:

A Life for the Tsar: Bratsï! V metel', v nevedomoy glushi

Gluck:

Alceste : Air d'Admete 'Bannis la crainte et les alarmes

Unis des la plus tendre enfance (from Iphigénie en Tauride)

Divinité des grandes âmes (from Iphigénie en Tauride)

Che puro ciel (Orfeo ed Euridice)

French version

J'ai perdu mon Eurydice (from Orphée et Eurydice)

Goldmark:

Magische Töne, berauschender Duft (from Die Königin von Saba)

Gounod:

Quel trouble inconnu me pénètre… Salut! Demeure chaste et pure (from Faust)

Mon cœur est plein d'un noir soucis... Anges du Paradis (from Mireille)

L'amour, l'amour... Ah, lève-toi soleil (from Roméo et Juliette)

Kalman:

Tanzen Möcht' ich (from Die Csárdásfürstin)

Wenn es Abendd … Grüß mir mein Wien (from Gräfin Mariza)

Auch ich war einst ein feiner Csárdákavalier … Komm, Zigan (from Gräfin Mariza)

Heut' Nacht hab' ich geträumt von Dir (from Das Veilchen von Montmartre)

Lalo:

Vainement, ma bien-aimée (from Le roi d’Ys)

Lehár:

Gern hab' ich die Frau'n geküßt (from Paganini)

Allein, wieder allein (from Der Zarewitsch)

Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (from Das Land des Lächelns)

O Mädchen, mein Mädchen (from Friederike)

Lortzing:

Lebe wohl, mein flandrisch Mädchen (from Zar und Zimmermann)

Massenet:

Instant charmant … En fermant les yeux (from Manon)

Je suis seul, seul enfin... Ah fuyez douce image (from Manon)

Un autre est son époux! Traduire! (from Werther)

Mendelssohn:

Elijah: Ye people, rend your hearts

Elijah: If with all your hearts

Meyerbeer:

Beauté Divine (from Les Huguenots)

Ô Paradis (from L'Africaine)

Millöcker:

Ich hab' kein Geld, bin vogelfrei (from Der Bettelstudent)

Mozart:

Konstanze, Konstanze...O wie ängstlich (from Die Entführung aus dem Serail)

In Mohrenland gefangen war (from Die Entführung aus dem Serail)

Un'aura amorosa del nostro tesoro (from Così fan tutte)

Se all' Impero (from La Clemenza di Tito)

Per pieta, non ricercate KV 420

Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön (from Die Zauberflöte)

Dalla sua pace (from Don Giovanni)

Il mio tesoro intanto (from Don Giovanni)

Mussorgsky:

At midnight, in the garden, by the fountain (from Boris Godunov)

That wily Jesuit has firmly seized me (from Boris Godunov)

Why my sad heart? (from Sorochinsky Fair)

Nicolai, C O:

Horch, die Lerche singt im Hain! 'Romance' (from Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor)

Offenbach:

Va pour Kleinzach...Il était une fois à la cour (from Les Contes d'Hoffmann)

Ponchielli:

Cielo e mar! (from La Gioconda)

Puccini:

Donna non vidi mai (from Manon Lescaut)

Che gelida manina (from La Bohème)

Recondita armonia (from Tosca)

E lucevan le stelle (from Tosca)

Bimba dagli occhi pieni di malia (from Madama Butterfly)

Nessun dorma (from Turandot)

Rimsky Korsakov:

Solynshko nizko, vecher uzh blisko (The sun is low, the evening is approaching) (from May Night)

Kak tikho, kak prokhladno tut! (How peaceful, how fresh it is here!) (from May Night)

Song of the Hindu Guest (from Sadko)

Rossini:

Asile héréditaire (from Guillaume Tell)

Ecco, ridente in cielo (from Il Barbiere di Siviglia)

Rousseau, J-J:

Je vais revoir ma charmante maîtresse... Quand on sait (from Le Devin du Village)

Schubert:

Die schöne Müllerin, D795

Straus, O:

Ich hab' mit Freuden angehört (from Ein Walzertraum)

Strauss, J, II:

Eine Nacht in Venedig: Komm in die Gondel

Als flotter Geist (from Der Zigeunerbaron)

Tchaikovsky:

Kuda, Kuda 'Lensky's Aria' (from Eugene Onegin)

Forgive me, loveliest of creatures (from Pique Dame)

What is our life? A game! (from Pique Dame)

Thomas, Ambroise:

Adieu, Mignon! Courage! (Mignon)

Verdi:

Ella mi fu rapita! (from Rigoletto)

Parmi veder le lagrime (from Rigoletto)

La donna è mobile (from Rigoletto)

Di' tu se fedele (from Un ballo in maschera)

Forse la soglia attinse (from Un ballo in maschera)

Se quel guerrier io fossi!…Celeste Aida (from Aida)

Ingemisco (from Requiem)

Wagner:

In fernem Land (from Lohengrin)

Mein lieber Schwan (from Lohengrin)

Weber:

Nein! länger trag' ich nicht die Qualen…Durch die Wälder (from Der Freischütz)

Von Jugend auf in dem Kampfgefild (from Oberon)

Vater! Hör' mich flehn zu dir! (from Oberon)

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“Gedda's standard of vocalisation and his grasp of many styles are uniformly excellent...his humour is always special, as is the technique which sees quite a light voice safely through "Nessun Dorma" and the Butterfly duet.” Gramophone Magazine, June 2010

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