Verdi - Aida / Freni ? Carreras ? Baltsa ? Cappuccilli ? Raimondi ? van Dam ? Ricciarelli ? Moser ? Wiener Phil. ? Karajan
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: EMI Classics
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Aida: Preludio
- Aida: Act One - Scene One : Si, Corre Voce Che l'Etiope Ardisca (Ramfis, Radames)
- Aida: Act One - Scene One : Se Quel Guerriero Io Fossi (Radames)
- Aida: Act One - Scene One : Celeste Aida (Radames)
- Aida: Act One - Scene One : Quale Insolita Gioia Nel Tuo Sguardo (Amneris, Radames)
- Aida: Act One - Scene One : Vieni, O Diletta Appressati (Amneris, Aida, Radames)
- Aida: Act One - Scene One : Alta Cagion V'aduna (Il Re, Messaggero, Aida, Radmames, Amneris, Ministri, Capitani)
- Aida: Act One - Scene One : Su Del Nilo Al Sacro Lido (Il Re, Ramfis,, Ministri, Capitani,, Aida, Radames, Amneris, Sascerdoti, Messaggero)
- Aida: Act One - Scene One : Ritorna Vincitor! (Aida)
- Aida: Act One - Scene Two : Possente Ftha...Tu Che Dal Nulla Hai Tratto (Sacerdotessa, Ramfis, Sacerdoti, Sacerdotesse)
- Aida: Act One - Scene Two : Immenso Ftha...Mortal Diletto Ai Numi (Sacerdotese, Ramfis, Sacerdoti)
- Aida: Act One - Scene Two : Nume Custode E Vindice (Ramfis, Radames, Sacerdoti, Sacerdotesse, Sacerdotessa)
- Aida: Act Two - Scene One : Chi mai fra gl'inni e i plausi (Sciave, Amneris)
- Aida: Act Two - Scene One : Dance Of The Moorish Slaves
- Aida: Act Two - Scene One : Vieni, sul crin ti piovano (Schiave, Amneris)
- Aida: Act Two - Scene One : Fu la sorte dell'armi a' tuoi funesta (Amneris, Aida)
- Aida: Act Two - Scene One : Pieta ti prenda del mio dolor (Aida, Amneris)
- Aida: Act Two - Scene One : Su! del Nilo al sacro lido . . . Numi, pieta (Aida, Amneris, Coro)
- Aida: Act Two - Scene One : Glorai all' Egirro, ad Iside (Sacerodoti)
- Aida: Act Two - Scene One : Triumphal March
- Aida: Act Two - Scene One : Ballet
- Aida: Act Two - Scene One : Vieni, o guerriero vindice (Sacerdoti)
- Aida: Act Two - Scene One : Salvator della patria (Il Re, Radames, Ramfis, Sacerdoti)
- Aida: Act Two - Scene One : Che veggo! Egil> Mio padre! .... Ma tu, Re tu signore possente (Aida, Amneris, Amonasro, Il Re, Ramfis)
- Aida: Act Two - Scene One : Il dolor che in quel volto favella...Na tu, o Re, tu dignore possente (Radames, Amneris, Amonasro, Il Re, Aida, Ramfis)
- Aida: Act Two - Scene One : O Re, pei sacri Numi Gloria all Egitto... (Radames, Ramfis, Il Re, Amneris, Aida, Amonasro)
- Aida: Act Three : O tu she sei d'Osiride
- Aida: Act Three : Vieni d'Iside al Tempio (Ramfis, Amneris)
- Aida: Act Three : Qui Ramames verra! (Aida)
- Aida: Act Three : O partia mia (Aida)
- Aida: Act Three : Ciel! mio padre (Aida, Amonasro)
- Aida: Act Three : Rivedrai le foreste imbalsamante (Aida, Amonasro)
- Aida: Act Three : Pur ti riveggo, miz dolve Aida (Radames, Aida)
- Aida: Act Three : Nel fiero anelito di nuova guerra (Radames, Aida)
- Aida: Act Three : Fuggiam gli ardor inospiti . . . La, tra foreste vergini (Aida, Radames)
- Aida: Act Three : Ma, dimmi: per qia via (Aida, Radames, Amonasro, Amneris, Ramfis)
- Aida: Act Four - Scene One : L'abborrita rivale a me sfuggia (Amneris)
- Aida: Act Four - Scene One : Gia i sacerdoti adunansi (Amneris, Radames)
- Aida: Act Four - Scene One : Ohime! morir me sento (Amneris)
- Aida: Act Four - Scene One : Spirto del Nume (Ramfis, Sacerdoti, Amneris)
- Aida: Act Four - Scene One : A lui vivo, lu tomba! . . . Sacerdoti: compister un delitto!(Amneris, Ramfis, Sacerdoti)
- Aida: Act Four - Scene Two : La fatal pietra sovra me si chiuse (Radames, Aida) - Immenso ftha (Sacerdotesse, Sacerdoti, Aida, Radames)
- Aida: Act Four - Scene Two : O terra addio (Aida, Radames, Coro, Amneris)
Free Music Notes for Verdi - Aida / Freni ? Carreras ? Baltsa ? Cappuccilli ? Raimondi ? van Dam ? Ricciarelli ? Moser ? Wiener Phil. ? Karajan
Free Music Review: Wonderful recording
Hit: 5 Stars
I think this a a really interesting recording. Aida so often gets recorded by big sopranos (early Callas, Price, Milanov, Tebaldi) and big heavyweight tenors (del Monaco, Baum, Vickers) and these wonderful artists bring something special to their respective parts no doubt. Yet, I don't think Aida will every really be defined as an opera that requires massive voices. It does require some balance, insight and, I think lyricism otherwise it just sounds a bit loud and one-dimensional. Now, all the singers I listed above are guilty of this of course, and even then they often brought some moments of high drama and excitement to compensate, but we do need a bit of balance and light relief. So here Freni, Carreras and Baltsa offer us something different. Carreras will be critised I guess for being a light-voiced tenor struggling to fill the shoes of a role built for bigger singers. Maybe. But he adds a wonderful emotional, lyric and thoughtful dimension to the role with what was still a beautiful (and powerful) voice. He is thoughful throughtout and let's face it, for such a dim-witted character as Radames, a bit of character development is a welcome relief. As for Mirella Freni, well I am a big fan. She brings along her beautiful voice coupled with that desire she always has to be completely emotionally involved. I guess she never quite had the top notes or the vocal heft to really impress the masses, but her instrument was wonderful in its own right and it's not a small voice. I think she handles the role admirably and anyway, did we need another massive Aida? Perhaps the ideal Aida is a beautifully voiced, powerful singer in the vein of Price, Tebaldi or Caballe but I think the lighter voiced Freni provides a little more contrast to the darker, heavier voice of Amneris. Ok, so Amneris, well I am also a fan of Baltsa. I think she gives a fine performance here full of rage and fury and so on but also involved in the duets and ensembles. After that you have the fabulous Cappuccilli and Raimondi and Karajan knitting it all together.
We are lucky to have so many great recordings of Aida, ultimately it all comes down to personal preference with respect to soprano, tenor, mezzo and/or conductor.
For me, this is the performance that leave me most moved but there are so many others - Milanov-Bjoerling, Callas in Mexico (just for the top E flat!), Domingo-Arroyo (great involved live performance) not to mention Price, Caballe and so on. Take your pick, but don't dismiss this one and after all it is a little different with two of the greatest singers of the last 30 years.
Verdi - Aida / Freni ? Carreras ? Baltsa ? Cappuccilli ? Raimondi ? van Dam ? Ricciarelli ? Moser ? Wiener Phil. ? Karajan Poster
For many fans, this opera is mostly about grandeur--it is, of course, the grandest grand opera still in the standard repertoire--and you will want to hear what Herbert von Karajan and the glorious Vienna Philharmonic do with the triumphal music. Curiously, the recording that has the strongest claims to grandeur also achieves significant results in the intimate moments. Mirella Freni and Jos? Carreras have pleasant voices and a wide-ranging array of skills based on long and varied experience, but theirs are not big voices, as Montserrat Caball? and Pl?cido Domingo's are. One expects Freni and Carreras to perform with a certain polish in their love music, but one wonders how well they could handle the big moments outside of a recording studio. Not that it matters in terms of this fine recording. Their partnership, with von Karajan's very able assistance, works like magic. What you hear is what you get. When the opera and chorus take the spotlight, this Aida is an epic about international conflicts that dwarf and doom two lovers from different worlds. But Freni and Carreras react to the story of personal tragedy with a heartbreaking musical and theatrical sensitivity. --Joe McLellanClassical Music CDs
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