Eleanor Steber In Concert (1956-1958)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer), Hector Berlioz (Composer), Vincenzo Bellini (Composer), Richard [1] Strauss (Composer), Samuel Barber (Composer), Giuseppe Verdi (Composer), Edwin Biltcliffe (Composer), Gustave Charpentier (Composer), Giacomo Puccini (Composer), Franz [Vienna] Schubert (Composer), Hugo [Composer] Wolf (Composer), Johann II [Junior] Strauss (Composer), Joseph Canteloube (Composer), Gian Carlo Menotti (Composer), Aaron Copland (Composer), Anonymous (Composer), Irish Traditional (Composer), Edwin Biltcliffe (Performer), Eleanor Steber (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Edwin Biltcliffe, Eleanor Steber
• Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Hector Berlioz, Vincenzo Bellini, Richard [1] Strauss, Samuel Barber, et al.
• Audio CD (December 12, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Video Artists Int'l
• ASIN: B000003LIG
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #349,276 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Die Frau Ohne Schatten: Act Two: Vater, Bist Du's? Through Zeige Dich, Vater!

Disc: 2

1. Knoxville: Summer Of 1915

2. Ernani: Ernani, Involami

3. Song

4. Louise: Depuis Le Jour

5. Tosca: Vissi D'arte

6. Madama Butterfly: Un Bel Di

7. Standchen

8. Im Abendrot

9. Elfenlied

10. Freundliche Vision

See all 19 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars The "Monster" Concert Live, March 27, 2000

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This review is from: Eleanor Steber In Concert (1956-1958) (Audio CD)

Those of us who are Stebermaniacs know that the October,1958 Carnegie Hall concert preserved in this live recording captured Eleanor Steber at the height of her popularity and vocal artistry. In her autobiography, she admits that she planned the most spectacular program she could conceive, and she blows away the enthusiastic audience with her stamina, technique, versatility and emotion coupled with control and musicality. Every review of this concert I have ever read selects a different "high point;" the spectacular Strauss segment from "The Woman without a Shadow," "Qui la Voce" from I Puritani, the multiple aria encores, Barber's "Knoxville," the Berlioz song cycle: the sheer quantity of glorious singing makes this a collector's item. An additional bonus is a more subdued, but warm 1956 song recital containing selections never before available. The sonic values are excellent in the 1958 concert, a bit less so in the earlier concert. Nevertheless, these are treasures, especially in the light of the few Steber concert recordings in existence.