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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Verdi: Songs for Voice and Piano
A real rarity, this. Verdi, famous for his operatic masterpieces, also found time to scale down his stage sentiments to the recital hall (or, in his time, the salon) to write songs. Throughout the 19th century, Italian opera composers wrote songs for the salon as part of their stock-in-trade. The texts were mostly conventional, harping more often than not on the string of unrequited love, sometimes venturing into the naively picturesque; while the accompaniment would be confined to simple thrummings suggestive of a guitar or an orchestral reduction. The settings would vary in scale from the strophic ‘romanza’, to the full length ‘scena ed aria’. In Italy, the salon was never far from the theatre. One of the 20th-century’s greatest singers – Margaret Price – went into the studio with Australian-born pianist Geoffrey Parsons to record music relatively neglected by recording companies, then, as now. And the results are at once, charming and revelatory. A considerable rarity, the disc returns to circulation on Eloquence. “Salon songs to treasure - and spot the flickering echoes of Verdi's operas through them. Exquisitely sculpted performances, including Verdi's setting of Goethe's Gretchen songs.” BBC Music Magazine, March 2013 **** “the simple accompaniments are mercifully free from wilful inflation on the part of the pianist’” Gramophone Magazine | | | (Sorry, download not available in your country) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Verdi: Canzoni
Diana Damrau (soprano), César Augusto Gutiérrez (tenor), Paul Armin Edelmann (baritone), Friedrich Halder (piano) “Damrau bring both these vignettes to vivid life, trilling and waltzing through 'Lo spazzacamino' with gleeful abandon, and softening her natural diamantine brilliance when the gypsy girl momentarily reflects on an uncertain future. She's just as captivating as the proto-feminist protagonist of Stornello...[Freidrich Haider] matches Damrau all the way in devil-may-care zest.” Gramophone Magazine, July 2011 “[Damrau] has the more exuberant songs, in which she is fully home, tossing off the sprightliness...of 'Lo spazzacamino' and the bolero rhythm of 'La zingara' but holding the line of the more serious 'Perduta ho la pace'...Edelmann does not use a vast range of vocal colours in his singing...but I did not find him a dull interpreter. Perhaps 'storyteller' would be a more appropriate word than 'interpreter', and his tone is not one of hue or weight only.” International Record Review, May 2011 | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Verdi: Complete Songs
Renata Scotto (soprano), Paolo Washington (bass), Vincenzo Scalera (piano) | | | (also available to download from $10.50) | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Renato Bruson sings Favourite Songs
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“O’Neill’s Italianate credentials are operatically well-rehearsed and lend urgency whenever the grand manner beckons.” (BBC Music Magazine) “O'Neill's Italianate credentials are operatically well-rehearsed and lend urgency whenever the grand manner beckons.” BBC Music Magazine, February 2006 *** | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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