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Johann Sebastian Bach, Ernest Chausson, Gustav Mahler
Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
Genres: Pop, Classical

Track Listings (43) - Disc #1
1. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Prologo. Toccata
2. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Prologo. Dal mio Permesso amato a voi ne vegno
3. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 1. Vieni, Imeneo, deh, vieni
4. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 1. Lasciate i monti, lasciate i fonti
5. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 1. Rosa del ciel, vita del mondo e degna
6. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 1. Io non dirò qual sia
7. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 1. Ma se il nostro gioir dal ciel deriva
8. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 1. Chè, poi che nembo rio gravido il seno
9. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 1. Ecco Orfeo, cui pur dianzi
10. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 2. Sinfonia
11. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 2. Ecco pur ch'a voi ritorno
12. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 2. Qui Pan, dio dei pastori
13. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 2. Vi ricorda, o baschi ombrosi
14. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 2. Ahi, caso acerbo!
15. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 2. In un fiorito prato
16. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 2. Tu sei morta, mia vita, ed io respiro?
17. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 2. Ahi, caso acerbo!
18. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 2. Ma io, che in questa lingua
19. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 3. Sinfonia
20. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 3. Scorto da te, mio nume
21. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 3. Ecco l'atra palude, ecco il nocchiero
22. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 3. Dove, ah, dove te'n vai
23. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 3. O tu, ch'innanzi morte a queste rive
24. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 3. Sinfonia
25. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 3. Possente spirto e formidabil nume
26. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 3. Ben mi lusinga alquanto
27. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 3. Ahi, sventurato amante!
28. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 3. Sinfonia
29. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 4. Signor, quell'infelice
30. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 4. Benchè severo ed immutabil fato
31. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 4. Trarrà da queste orribili caverne
32. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 4. Pietade, oggi, e amore
33. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 4. Ecco il gentil cantore
34. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 4. Qual onor di te fia degno
35. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 4. Ahi, vista troppo dolce e troppo amora
36. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 4. E la virtute un raggio
37. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 5. Questi i campi di Tracia, e quest'è il loco
38. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 5. Sinfonia
39. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 5. Perchè a lo sdegno ed al dolor in preda
40. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 5. Padre cortese, al maggior uopo arrivi
41. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 5. Saliam contando al cielo
42. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 5. Vanne Orfeo, felice a pieno
43. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 5. Moresca
Track Listings (15) - Disc #2
1. Mass in B minor, for soloists, chorus & orchestra, BWV 232 (BC E1): Credo (Symbolum Nicenum). Aria. Et in Spiritum Sanctum
2. Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492: Act 3. Recitativo. Hai già vinta la causa! / Aria. Vedrò mentr'io sospiro
3. Don Giovanni, opera, K. 527: Act 1. Aria. Finch'han dal vino
4. Don Giovanni, opera, K. 527: Act 2. Canzonetta. Deh, vieni alla finestra
5. Don Quichotte à Dulcinée, song cycle for voice & orchestra (or piano): No. 1. Chanson romanesque
6. Don Quichotte à Dulcinée, song cycle for voice & orchestra (or piano): No. 2. Chanson épique
7. Don Quichotte à Dulcinée, song cycle for voice & orchestra (or piano): No. 3. Chanson à boire
8. Poème de l'amour et de la mer, for voice & orchestra, Op. 19: No. 1. La Fleur des eaux
9. Poème de l'amour et de la mer, for voice & orchestra, Op. 19: Interlude
10. Poème de l'amour et de la mer, for voice & orchestra, Op. 19: No. 2. La Mort de l'amour
11. Kindertotenlieder, song cycle for voice & piano (or orchestra): Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgehn
12. Kindertotenlieder, song cycle for voice & piano (or orchestra): Nun seh ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen
13. Kindertotenlieder, song cycle for voice & piano (or orchestra): Wenn dein Mütterlein
14. Kindertotenlieder, song cycle for voice & piano (or orchestra): Oft denk ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen
15. Kindertotenlieder, song cycle for voice & piano (or orchestra): In diesem Wetter, in diesem Braus

CD Details

All Artists: Johann Sebastian Bach, Ernest Chausson, Gustav Mahler, Claudio Monteverdi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Maurice Ravel, Charles Münch, Herbert von Karajan, John Hopkins, Joseph Rosenstock, Leopold Stokowski, Reinhard Peters, Thomas Scherman, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Little Orchestra Society of New York, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Frierson, Doris Yarick
Title: Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Ponto [Mitridate]
Original Release Date: 1/1/2006
Re-Release Date: 9/26/2006
Album Type: Import
Genres: Pop, Classical
Styles: Vocal Pop, Opera & Classical Vocal, Historical Periods, Baroque (c.1600-1750), Classical (c.1770-1830), Modern, 20th, & 21st Century
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPCs: 675754939823, 8717202250462

CD Reviews

The Gerard Souzay Show

postupano | Arlington VA | 01/19/2009

(4 out of 5 stars)

"It's not apparent from the listing, but this two-disc set is mainly a tribute to the late French baritone Gerard Souzay. Disc one is a live 1960 performance of a severely abridged (75 minutes in all)"Orfeo" from the New York City Opera conducted by Stokowski featuring Souzay in the title role with Judith Raskin (Euridice)and other cast members including Doris Yarick, Regina Sarfaty, and Joy Clements. My guess is that Stokowski and Souzay fans will be intrigued, while hard-core Monteverdi afficionados will be scandalized. Certainly not a first choice for someone coming to "L'Orfeo" for a reference recording,but there are those of us who are perfectly happy with a greatest-hits condensation of a Monteverdi opera and the sound and performance are fine.

The second disc features Souzay in arias and song cycles, which should be interesting to the casual operaphile who remembers him primarily as a lieder singer. We get "Et in spiritum sanctum" from Bach's B-minor mass with Karajan and the Vienna Philharmonic; a Metropolitan Opera performance of "Vedro metr'io sospiro" from "Le Nozze di Figaro;" two arias from "Don Giovanni;" Ravel's "Don Quichotte a Dulcinee" with Munch and the Boston Symphony; Chausson's "Poeme de l'amour et de la mer" (Thomas Scherman conducting the Little Orchestra Society), and Mahler's "Kindertotenlieder" with John Hopkins and the National Symphony Orchestra. Recording dates range from 1959 to 1967. The booklet includes notes on Souzay and his career but no libretto or song texts."