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Rossini figures largely in this second Berganza compilation alongside songs from the regions of Spain as well as some zarzuela items, to which the mezzo brings her unique and inimitable artistry. — BBC Music Magazine, August 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 6th Apr 2018
Catalogue No: ELQ4826397
Label: Eloquence
Length: 2 hours 10 minutes

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Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia / Act 1

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Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Alexander Gibson
Recorded: 1959-02-20
Recording Venue: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London

"Una voce poco fa"

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Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia / Act 2

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Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Alexander Gibson
Recorded: 1959-02-20
Recording Venue: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London

No.11 Aria: "Contro un cor che accende amore"

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Rossini: L'italiana in Algeri / Act 1

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Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Alexander Gibson
Recorded: 1959-02-20
Recording Venue: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London

"Cruda sorte! Amor tiranno!"

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Rossini: L'italiana in Algeri / Act 2

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Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Alexander Gibson
Recorded: 1959-02-20
Recording Venue: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London

Per lui che adoro

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Amici...Pensa all patria

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Excerpt, Rossini: Stabat Mater

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Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Alexander Gibson
Recorded: 1959-02-20
Recording Venue: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London

7. Fac ut portem Christi mortem

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Rossini: Semiramide / Act 1

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Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Alexander Gibson
Recorded: 1959-02-20
Recording Venue: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London

Bel raggio lusinghier

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Rossini: La Cenerentola / Act 2

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Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Alexander Gibson
Recorded: 1959-02-20
Recording Venue: Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London

"Nacqui all'affanno e al pianto...Non più mesta"

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Torres Jacinto Guerrero: La Rosa del Azafrán

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Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano)
Decca Orchestra
Benito Lauret
Recorded: 1959

Sagrario's Romanza

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Pedro Miguel Marquès y Garcia: El Anillo de Hierro

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Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano)
Decca Orchestra
Benito Lauret
Recorded: 1959

Margarita's Romanza

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Padre José Antonio de Donostía, R.M. de Azcue: Ocho Canciones Vascas (Eight Basque Songs)

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Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano)
Decca Orchestra
Gerardo Gombau
Recorded: 1959
Recording Venue: --, --

No. 1, Txalopin txalo (Canción de cuna)

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No. 2, Nere maitea (Mi amada. Canción amorosa)

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No. 3, Atea tan tan (Llame a la puerta. Canción amatoria)

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No. 4, Tun, kurrun, kuntun (Onomatopeya. Canción de cuna)

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No. 5, Arranoak bartuetan (Las aguilas vuelan alteneras. Canción amorosa)

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No. 6, Ainoarra nimino (El ainoes es pequeño. Canción amoroso)

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No. 7, Anderegaya (Señorita. Canción amoroso)

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No. 8, Amak, ezkondu ninduen (Me caso mi madre. Canción humoristica)

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Joaquín Valverde Durán, Munoz Jose Juan Cadenas: Clavelitos

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Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano)
Decca Orchestra
Benito Lauret
Recorded: 1959

Lorente, R: Las Hijas del Zebedeo

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Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano)
Decca Orchestra
Benito Lauret
Recorded: 1959

Carceleras

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Cherubini: Demofonte

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Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano), Felix Lavilla (piano)
Recorded: 1962-01
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Ahi! Che forse ai miei dì

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Marc' Antonio Cesti: Orontea

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Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano), Felix Lavilla (piano)
Recorded: 1962-01
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Intorno all'idol mio

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Pergolesi: Confusa, smarrita

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Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano), Felix Lavilla (piano)
Recorded: 1962-01
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Scarlatti, A: Qual mia colpa...Se delitto è l'adorarvi

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Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano), Felix Lavilla (piano)
Recorded: 1962-01
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Scarlatti, A: Chi vuol innamorarsi

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Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano), Felix Lavilla (piano)
Recorded: 1962-01
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Scarlatti, A: La Rosaura

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Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano), Felix Lavilla (piano)
Recorded: 1962-01
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Scarlatti, A: Elitropio d’amor

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Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano), Felix Lavilla (piano)
Recorded: 1962-01
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Guridi Bidaola: Seis canzones castellanas

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Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano), Felix Lavilla (piano)
Recorded: 1962-01
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

5. Cómo quieres que adivine

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6. Mañanita de San Juan

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Lavilla Muñarriz: Cuatro canciones Vascas: Ai Isabel; Anderegeya; Loa-loa; Aldapeko Mariya

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Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano), Felix Lavilla (piano)
Recorded: 1962-01
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Turina: Saeta en forme de Salve a la Virgen de la Esperanza, Op. 60

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Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano), Felix Lavilla (piano)
Recorded: 1962-01
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Granados: Tonadillas: No. 11, El tra la la y el punteado

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Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano), Felix Lavilla (piano)
Recorded: 1962-01
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Granados: Tonadillas: No. 6, El majo timido

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Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano), Felix Lavilla (piano)
Recorded: 1962-01
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

Excerpt, Granados: Tonadillas

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Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano), Felix Lavilla (piano)
Recorded: 1962-01
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

12. La Maja Dolorosa No.3 (De aquel majo amante)

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Turina: Treptico

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Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano), Felix Lavilla (piano)
Recorded: 1962-01
Recording Venue: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London

1. Farruca

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Falla: Siete Canciones populares españolas

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Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano), Felix Lavilla (piano)
Recorded: 1959

No.1: El paño moruno

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No.2: Seguidilla murciana

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No.3: Asturiana

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No.4: Jota

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No.5: Nana

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No.6: Canción

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No.7: Polo

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Lavilla Muñarriz: Lullaby

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Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano), Felix Lavilla (piano)
Recorded: 1960-06-10
Recording Venue: Kingsway Hall, London

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A newly remastered collection of four original Decca albums featuring the Spanish mezzo-soprano at the height of her powers in the repertoire most associated with her, from Rossini to folk and popular songs from her native Spain. Born in 1935, Teresa Berganza was in her mid-twenties when she made the recordings on this album, yet she was already the darling of the opera press by June 1959, when Decca first issued the wide-ranging recital of Rossini arias which opens this anthology, moving with assured mastery from the flirtatious Isabella in L’italiana in Algeri to the grave beauty of ‘Fac ut portem’ from the Stabat mater. Later the same year she recorded a sequence of eight Basque songs with orchestra which captivatingly exploits the dark, sultry shadings within her mezzo. Although the Rossini LP has been issued piecemeal on CD, this is the first time the entire recital appears in its entirety.

A year later, Berganza was established as an artist of singular gifts who would lend distinction to the extraordinary ‘gala sequence’ inserted in the second act of the label’s new Viennese recording of Die Fledermaus, capable of standing her own alongside the likes of Björling, Nilsson, Sutherland and Tebaldi. Her contribution to that album was a Lullaby by her husband Félix Lavilla, which they recorded together not in Vienna but Kingsway Hall, London.

As her long-standing accompanist, Lavilla partnered Berganza in a 1962 recital of Spanish song that captures the mezzo-soprano on vibrant form, bringing her flaring tone, dramatic energy and captivating charisma to Baroque arias by Pergolesi and Scarlatti as well as songs by Granados and Turina, finishing with a classic account of Falla’s Siete canciones populares españolas from 1959. As Richard Wigmore remarks in his new booklet appreciation, not even the legendary Conchita Supervia gave a more thrilling, spine-tingling performance of the cycle’s concluding ‘Polo’.

‘She is equally at home in the fiendish Cenerentola finale (the best I’ve ever heard) and in the long sweeping line of

‘Fac ut portem’… I can see no obstacle to a long and brilliant career for this singer. The accompaniments are clear and

firm, and Decca’s stereo sound is bright and full. I recommend this record without hesitation.’ High Fidelity, April 1960 (Rossini)

‘In the Basque songs she immediately identifies herself with each mood from tenderness to humour… I called her performance of [the Falla songs] incomparable, and it still remains so, with her completely idiomatic interpretation, vitality, exemplary enunciation, beautifully clean melismata, and wide range of colour… If for any reason you didn’t have a copy before, make good the omission straight away.’ Gramophone, October 1972

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August 2018

Rossini figures largely in this second Berganza compilation alongside songs from the regions of Spain as well as some zarzuela items, to which the mezzo brings her unique and inimitable artistry.

Brava Berganza!

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