Verdi: Aida / Abbado, Teatro alla Scala

Verdi: Aida / Abbado, Teatro alla Scala

Verdi: Aida / Abbado, Teatro alla Scala
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Edition: Music CD
Format: Box set
CD Release Date: 1983-12-08
Music Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Preludio
  2. Act 1. Scene 1.: "S?: corre voce che l'Etiope ardisca"
  3. Act 1. Scene 1.: "Se quel guerrier io fossi!... Celeste Aida"
  4. Act 1. Scene 1.: "Quale insolito gioia nel tuo sguardo"
  5. Act 1. Scene 1.: "Vieni, o diletta, appressati"
  6. Act 1. Scene 1.: "Alta cagion v'aduna'
  7. Act 1. Scene 1.: "Su! del Nilo al sacro lido"
  8. Act 1. Scene 1.: "Ritorna vincitor!"
  9. Act 1. Scene 2.: "Possente Fth?... Tu che dal nulla"
  10. Act 1. Scene 2.: "Immenso Fth?!..."
  11. Act 1. Scene 2.: "Nume, custode e vindice"
Music CD 2
  1. Act 2. Scene 1.: "Chi mai fra gl'inni e i plausi"
  2. Act 2. Scene 1.: "Vieni: sul crin ti piovano"
  3. Act 2. Scene 1.: "Fu la sorte dell'armi a' tuoi funesta"
  4. Act 2. Scene 1.: "Piet? ti prenda nel mio dolor..."
  5. Act 2. Scene 2.: "Gloria all'Egitto, ad Iside"
  6. Act 2. Scene 2.: Triumphal March
  7. Act 2. Scene 2.: Ballet
  8. Act 2. Scene 2.: "Vieni, o guerriero vindice"
  9. Act 2. Scene 2.: "Salvator della partria"
  10. Act 2. Scene 2.: "Che veggo! Egli? Mio padre!... Anch'io pugnai"
  11. Act 2. Scene 2.: "Il dolor che in quel volto favella...Ma tu, o Re"
  12. Act 2. Scene 2.: "O Re: pei sacri Numi... Gloria all' Egitto"
Music CD 3
  1. Act 3.: "O tu che sei d'Osiride..."
  2. Act 3.: "Qui Radam?s verr?! ..... O patria mia"
  3. Act 3.: "Ciel! mio padre!... Rivedrai le foreste imbalsamate"
  4. Act 3.: "Pur ti riveggo, mia dolce Aida... Nel fiero anelito"
  5. Act 3.: "Fuggiam gli ardori inospiti... L?, tra foreste vergini"
  6. Act 3.: "Ma dimmi; per qual via"
  7. Act 4. Scene 1.: "L'aborrita rivale a me sfuggia"
  8. Act 4. Scene 1.: "Gi? i Sacerdoti adunansi"
  9. Act 4. Scene 1.: "Ohim?! morir mi sento!... Spirto del nume"
  10. Act 4. Scene 1.: "A lui vivo la tomba... Sacerdoti: compiste un delitto!"
  11. Act 4. Scene 2.: "La fatal pietra sovra me si chiuse"
  12. Act 4. Scene 2.: "Immenso Fth?... O terra, addio"

Free Music Notes for Verdi: Aida / Abbado, Teatro alla Scala

Free Music Review: A major disappointment from Abbado
Hit: 3 Stars

Claudio Abbado, who I believe was head of La Scala when this Aida was made, is capable of exciting Verdi readings, but this isn't one. I don't know if he was trying to make the score sound less like a warhorse by smoothing it out and reducing the melodrama, but Aida isn't a warhorse: it's a masterpiece. His staid tempos and underpowered climaxes frustrated me from beginning ot end.

Not the their is any huge losss when it comes to the singing. Domingo was much more powerful in hhis two other studio recordings opposite Leontyne Price for RCA and Monserratt Caballe for EMI. Here he seems to have been subdued by Abbado's understated interpreatation. As Aida, Katia Ricciarelli is severely over-parted. She was a fill-in during a time when no credible dramatic sopranos were at ahdn, and therefore she landed roles like Tosca, Turandot, and this Aida that even close placement of the microphone can't boost enough. Her tone wobbles severely in climaxes, although I must admit that she tries to inject some dramatic fervor into her phrasing.

By contrast, Obrazova chews up the scenery as Amneris and has a clotted Slavic vocal tone that doesn't suit Verdi. The orhcestra nad chorus sound less than enthusiastic. In sum, a big disappointment and one of the least convincing Aidas ever to emerge from a major label.
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