Arturo Toscanini, Vol 12 - Verdi: Falstaff
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Performer: Frank GuarreraPerformer: Giuseppe Valdengo
Performer: Norman Scott
Composer: Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor: Arturo Toscanini
Performer: Cloe Elmo
Performer: Nan Merriman
Orchestra: NBC Symphony Orchestra
Performer: Herva Nelli
Performer: Teresa Stich-Randall
Performer: Antonio Madasi
Performer: Gabor Carelli
Performer: John Carmen Rossi
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2000-04-18
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Falstaff: Act I, Scene 1: Falstaff!
- Falstaff: Act I, Scene 1: Ssss. Sei polli: sei scellini
- Falstaff: Act I, Scene 1: So che se andiam
- Falstaff: Act I, Scene 1: V'e noto un tal
- Falstaff: Act I, Scene 1: L'Onore! Ladri!
- Falstaff: Act I, Scene 1: Ma, per tornare a voi
- Falstaff: Act I, Scene 2: Alice - Meg
- Falstaff: Act I, Scene 2: Fulgida Alice! Amor t'offro
- Falstaff: Act I, Scene 2: Quell'otre! quel tino!
- Falstaff: Act I, Scene 2: E un ribaldo, un furbo, un ladro
- Falstaff: Act I, Scene 2: Pst, pst, Nannetta
- Falstaff: Act I, Scene 2: Falstaff m'ha canzonetta
- Falstaff: Act I, Scene 2: Torno all'assalto
- Falstaff: Act I, Scene 2: Udrai quanta egli sfoggia
- Falstaff: Act I, Scene 2: Del tuo barbaro diagnostico
- Falstaff: Act I, Scene 2: Qui piu non si vagoli
- Falstaff: Act II, Scene 1: Siam pentiti e contriti
- Falstaff: Act II, Scene 1: Alice e mia!
- Falstaff: Act II, Scene 1: Padron; si la c'e un certo Mastro Fontana
- Falstaff: Act II, Scene 1: Signore, v'assista il cielo!
- Falstaff: Act II, Scene 1: Io l'amo e lei non m'ama
- Falstaff: Act II, Scene 1: Il diavolo se lo porti all'inferno
- Falstaff: Act II, Scene 1: E sogno? o realta?
- Falstaff: Act II, Scene 1: Eccomi qua
- Falstaff: Act II, Scene 2: Presenteremo un bill, per una tassa
- Falstaff: Act II, Scene 2: Giunta all'Albergo della Giarrettiera
- Falstaff: Act II, Scene 2: Nannetta, e tu non ridi?
- Falstaff: Act II, Scene 2: Gaie comari di Windsor!
- Falstaff: Act II, Scene 2: Alfin t'ho colto
- Falstaff: Act II, Scene 2: Quand'ero paggio
- Falstaff: Act II, Scene 2: Mia signora!
- Falstaff: Act II, Scene 2: Il diavolo cavalca
- Falstaff: Act II, Scene 2: Vien qua
- Falstaff: Act II, Scene 2: Al ladro!
- Falstaff: Act II, Scene 2: Se t'agguanto!
- Falstaff: Act II, Scene 2: Ned! Will! Tom! Isaac!
- Falstaff: Act III, Scene 1: Ehi! Taverniere!
- Falstaff: Act III, Scene 1: Reverenza
- Falstaff: Act III, Scene 1: Legge
- Falstaff: Act III, Scene 1: Quando il rintocco
- Falstaff: Act III, Scene 1: Provvedi le lanterne
- Falstaff: Act III, Scene 2: Dal labbro il canto
- Falstaff: Act III, Scene 2: Nossignore!
- Falstaff: Act III, Scene 2: Una, due, tre, quattro
- Falstaff: Act III, Scene 2: Odo un soave passo!
- Falstaff: Act III, Scene 2: Ninfe! Elfi! Silfi!
- Falstaff: Act III, Scene 2: Sul fil d'un soffio etesio
- Falstaff: Act III, Scene 2: Alto la! - Ci va la?
- Falstaff: Act III, Scene 2: Ruzzola, ruzzola
- Falstaff: Act III, Scene 2: Naso vermiglio!
- Falstaff: Act III, Scene 2: Cavaliero - Reverenza
- Falstaff: Act III, Scene 2: Ogni sorta di gente dozzinale
- Falstaff: Act III, Scene 2: Ah! Ah! Ah! Ah!
- Falstaff: Act III, Scene 2: Tutto nel mondo e burla
Free Music Notes for Arturo Toscanini, Vol 12 - Verdi: Falstaff
Free Music Review: A bouquet to Valdengo
Hit: 5 Stars
The other revieewers have already praised the revitalized sound of this 1950 Falstaff, which brings the performance into a soft, warm, human dimension. Toscanini conducts without a trace of the hardness and hectic tempos associated with his old age. He paces the opera with utmost flexibility, bending every phrase to Verdi's mercurial imagination. We find ourselves in a world as sparkling as that of Midsummer Night's Dream.
But above eall this opera needs a great vocal actor to protray Falstaff himself. From the first words he utters, Giuseppe Valdengo makes some things abundantly clear: Sir John is fat and gross, but still proud. He is sly and degraded, hot-headed and witty. Valdengo makes us believe that the higher morality is to flout convention and sail through the world a free spirit, but always with the melancholy awareness that flights come to earth with crashing shards of self-delusion. Jack Falstaff is a world unto himself, so both Shakespeare and Verdi intended, and both see him with worldly compassion. Valdengo manages to hold the center of gravity every moment, something that Tito Gobbi, for all his artistry, had to strain to achieve, and then only partially. Togeehter, Valdengo and Toscanini inspire everyone else. For two hours the magic spell holds, from a slovenly tavern hangover to a fairy night's enchantment. Bravo!
Arturo Toscanini, Vol 12 - Verdi: Falstaff Poster
According to Toscanini's biographer Harvey Sachs, the Maestro viewed Falstaff as the most successful marriage of words and music in the history of the lyric theater. The same can be said about his 1950 NBC broadcast performance of Verdi's final opera. Karajan's EMI traversal from the '50s has the advantage of stereo and stronger solo singers, yet Toscanini achieves a remarkable synergy among pit, stage, and text that honors the composer's ensemble values with heartfelt brilliance at every turn. The orchestra not only sings: it talks, weaving incisive yet never obtrusive commentary around the vocalists, while sailing effortlessly through a maze of mood and tempo changes. By all accounts, Toscanini coached his cast to the extreme, and it shows. The excellent mono recording is well-balanced and still vivid after all these years. If I had to choose but one recording to demonstrate Toscanini's unique artistry, it would be this. --Jed DistlerClassical Music CDs
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