Jonas Kaufmann: Nessun Dorma: The Puccini Album

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Although he does not sound very Italian, Kaufmann draws strength from staying true to himself, a gloriously bronze-voiced German tenor, welding musicianship with smouldering emotion...Pappano... — Financial Times, 18th September 2015, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 11th Sep 2015
Catalogue No: 88875092492
Label: Sony
Length: 60 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

11th September 2015
Gramophone Awards

2016

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Opera

November 2015

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Excerpt, Puccini: Manon Lescaut

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Antonio Pirozzi (bass), Kristine Opolais (soprano), Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano

"Donna non vidi mai"

Track length2:28

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"Oh, sarò la più bella!... Tu, tu, amore? Tu?"

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"Ah! Manon mi tradisce"

Track length2:39

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"Presto! In fila!... Non v'avvicinate! No, pazzo son!"

Track length3:34

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Excerpt, Puccini: Le Villi

Work length7:24

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano

"Ei giunge!... Torna ai felici dì"

Track length7:24

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Excerpt, Puccini: Edgar

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano

"Orgia, chimera dall'occhio vitreo"

Track length5:07

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Excerpt, Puccini: La Bohème

Work length4:11

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Kristine Opolais (soprano)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano

"O soave fanciulla"

Track length4:11

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Excerpt, Puccini: Tosca

Work length2:54

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Antonio Pirozzi (bass)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano

"Recondita armonia"

Track length2:54

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Excerpt, Puccini: Madama Butterfly

Work length1:47

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Massimo Simeoli (baritone), Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano

"Addio, fiorito asil"

Track length1:47

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Excerpt, Puccini: La fanciulla del West

Work length8:05

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Massimo Simeoli (baritone), Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano

"Una parola sola!... Or son sei mesi"

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"Risparmiate lo scherno... Ch'ella mi creda libero"

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Excerpt, Puccini: La Rondine

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano

"Parigi! È la città dei desideri"

Track length2:56

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Excerpt, Puccini: Il tabarro

Work length2:28

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano

"Hai ben ragione"

Track length2:28

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Excerpt, Puccini: Gianni Schicchi

Work length2:57

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano

"Avete torto!... Firenze e come un albero fiorito"

Track length2:57

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Excerpt, Puccini: Turandot

Work length5:47

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Antonio Pirozzi (bass), Kristine Opolais, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano

"Non piangere, Liù!"

Track length2:37

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"Nessun Dorma"

Track length3:10

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Recording of the Week, Jonas Kaufmann sings Puccini

11th September 2015

Katherine enjoys the star tenor's hotly-awaited collection of Puccini arias, including - of course - the immortal Nessun Dorma.

Described by The Daily Telegraph as “The world’s greatest tenor”, Jonas Kaufmann dedicates his new album to the most popular Italian opera composer of all time, Giacomo Puccini. Featuring the most loved aria of all time, ‘Nessun Dorma’, alongside stunning pieces from Manon Lescaut, La Boheme, Tosca and more. Together with Jonas Kaufmann, this album includes celebrated Royal Opera House conductor Antonio Pappano and his renowned orchestra and choir of the Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia.

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18th September 2015

Although he does not sound very Italian, Kaufmann draws strength from staying true to himself, a gloriously bronze-voiced German tenor, welding musicianship with smouldering emotion...Pappano and his Santa Cecilia orchestra fire up every track with native Italian passion.

November 2015

Kaufmann's reassuringly expensive-sounding voice finding luxurious and ardent support from Antonio Pappano and his Santa Cecilia Orchestra…Dick Johnson suits his poetico-heroic manner well…and there are few quibbles with Kaufmann in the title track, delivered (as the disc's finale) with his trademark purring, mahogany-tinged tone and rising to a ringing top B

Kaufmann may be an artist capable of immense interpretative subtlety, but as with his earlier discs of Verismo and Verdi he never short-changes in terms of the heart-on-sleeve theatricality that so much of this music demands...You'd have to try pretty hard, I think, not to enjoy this disc immensely, at least if you modify your memory to erase any traces of Pavarotti...Puccini's tenor writing is often associated with a rather more 'golden' sound than Kaufmann's essentially coppery one, but once you adjust to that everything's glorious.

6th September 2015

All the operas (except the all-female Suor Angelica) are represented, ending with a pinging, thrilling Nessun Dorma. It’s as far from Pavarotti as you can get, yet still captures the essence of Puccini.

11th September 2015

On stage he is remarkably invested in character and text, in other words in being somebody else rather than himself. The best of Nessun Dorma — and Kaufmann’s best is peerless — shows how well he can do that even on record, assisted by the vivid playing of the Santa Cecilia Orchestra in Rome under Antonio Pappano.

New York Times 11th December 2015

With its smoky sheen, earthy colorings and heft, the German tenor Jonas Kaufmann’s voice may not seem born to the red-sauce Puccini idiom. But he brings abundant lyricism and exciting ardor to this intelligent program.

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