Composer(s): Verdi, Giuseppe
Conductor(s): Bourdon, Rosario
Orchestra(s): Studio orchestra
Label: Naxos Historical
Genre: Opera
Period: Romantic
Catalogue No: 8.110728
Barcode: 0636943172827
Distribution Note(s):
Not available in the United States due to possible copyright restrictions
Release Date: 03/2002

PONSELLE, Rosa: Rosa Ponselle Sings Verdi (1918-1928)

Tracklist

Verdi, Giuseppe
Piave, Francesco Maria - Lyricist
Ponselle, Rosa (soprano)
Studio orchestra (Orchestra)
Bourdon, Rosario (Conductor)
1Ernani! Ernani, involami from Ernani04:24
Ponselle, Rosa (soprano)
Studio orchestra (Orchestra)
Bourdon, Rosario (Conductor)
Verdi, Giuseppe
Duveyrier, Charles - Lyricist
Scribe, Augustin-Eugène - Lyricist
2Merce, dilette amiche from I Vespri Siciliani03:21
Verdi, Giuseppe
Cammarano, Salvadore - Lyricist
3Tacea la notte placida from Il trovatore04:06
4D'amor sull'ali rosee from Il trovatore03:40
5Miserere from Il trovatore04:28
6Mira d'acerbe lagrime from Il trovatore04:10
Verdi, Giuseppe
Piave, Francesco Maria - Lyricist
7Pace, pace, mio Dio from La forza del destino04:30
8La vergine degli angeli from La forza del destino04:39
9Io muoio!...Non imprecare, umiliati from La forza del destino08:08
Verdi, Giuseppe
Ghislanzoni, Antonio - Lyricist
10Ritorna vincitor from Aida04:44
11O patria mia from Aida04:20
12Pur ti riveggo... La tra foreste verginifrom Aida07:58
13La fatal pietra... O terra addio (from Aida)09:26
Verdi, Giuseppe
Boito, Arrigo - Lyricist
14Piangea cantando nell'erma landa from Otello, Willow Song04:32
15Ave Maria from Otello04:24

Total Playing Time: 01:16:50

This splendid disc celebrating the glorious of Rosa Ponselle’s unique voice and interpretative powers bring excellent CD transfers of her most celebrated electrical recording made fro RCA in 1928, including the heroine’s big aria from Ernani, spectacularly well done, and the sequence of Forza recordings with Martinelli and Pinza—as well as Columbia recordings from the pre-electric period, made between 1918 and 1924—all chosen by Ward Marston as being the finest Ponselle versions of each item. The result is a wonderful gallery of perfection, beautifully transferred with the voice vividly caught.


"The transfers seek out the full glory, the roundness, the purity and (in the 'Miserere' particularly) the dark dramatic power."



Ponselle, Rosa
Giuseppe Verdi