Great Tenor Arias [Hybrid SACD] [Hybrid SACD - DSD]

Domenico Cimarosa (Composer), Gaetano Donizetti (Composer), Christoph Willibald Gluck (Composer), Fromental Halevy (Composer), Giacomo Puccini (Composer), Gioachino Rossini (Composer), Giuseppe Verdi (Composer), Carlo Rizzi (Conductor), Orchestra Sinfonica (Orchestra), Juan Diego Flórez (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Juan Diego Flórez
• Orchestra: Orchestra Sinfonica
• Conductor: Carlo Rizzi
• Composer: Domenico Cimarosa, Gaetano Donizetti, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Fromental Halevy, Giacomo Puccini, et al.
• Audio CD (November 9, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Hybrid SACD - DSD
• Label: Decca
• ASIN: B0002K6ZX4
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #282,099 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Orphée et Eurydice (French version), opera in 3 acts, Wq. 41: Act 3. Scene 1. J'ai perdu mon Euridice

2. Un Giorno di regno, opera (Il finto Stanislao): Act 2. Scene 2. Pietoso al lung pianto alfin m'arride amore ... Deh! lasciate a un'al

3. Semiramide, opera: Act 2. Scene 5. La speranza più soave già quest'alma lusingava

4. La fille du régiment, opera: Act 1. Scene 3. Eccomi finalmente ... Feste? Pompe? Omaggi? Onori?

5. La Juive, opera: Act 1. Scene 5. Serenade. Loin de son amie vivre sans plaisirs

6. L'italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers), opera: Act 1. Scene 3. Languir per una bella

7. Rigoletto, opera: Act 3. Scene 1. La donna è mobile

8. Il Matrimonio Segreto, opera: Act 2. Pria che spunti in ciel l'aurora

9. Lucrezia Borgia, opera: Act 2. (Scena e romanza). Com'è soave quest'ora di silenzio al mio dolente cor... Anch'io provai le

10. Gianni Schicchi, opera: Avete torto! ... Firenze è come un albero fiorito

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Even better on Hybrid SACD - Florez in another dazzling disc!,, December 3, 2006

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Grady Harp (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Great Tenor Arias [Hybrid SACD] (Audio CD)

Juan Diego Florez is definitely on a spin and that well-deserved journey is the product of fine training, excellent coaching, and a keen sense of pacing in a career that tends to push the gifted ones too quickly. Though Florez' crowning gifts are in the bel canto repertoire, with this recording he just starts there and pushes into the range of more lyrical arias, and to these ears he succeeds in demonstrating how special is this beautiful voice.

Even the decision about lineup of arias on this fine recording is intelligent: Florez moves from Gluck, Cimarosa and Rossini into Donizetti, Verdi and Puccini with great ease. Here is a tenor who can belt out the high notes to please the balcony but who is equally sensitive to the diminuendos and barely audible phrases that mark the true artist.

Dashingly handsome, and physically as well as vocally a fine actor on stage, this CD simply further demonstrates that Juan Diego Florez is one of the brightest tenors before us today. It is interesting to see how many Latin American tenors are suddenly becoming so important - Villazon, Calleja, Alvarez, Florez, etc. Refreshing! Grady Harp, December 06