Monteverdi: L'Orfeo [Import]

Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer), Ernest Chausson (Composer), Gustav Mahler (Composer), Claudio Monteverdi (Composer), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer), Maurice Ravel (Composer), Charles Münch (Conductor), Herbert von Karajan (Conductor), John Hopkins (Conductor), Joseph Rosenstock (Conductor), Leopold Stokowski (Conductor), Reinhard Peters (Conductor), Thomas Scherman (Conductor), Boston Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra), Little Orchestra Society of New York (Orchestra), Metropolitan Opera Orchestra (Orchestra), National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (Orchestra), Andrew Frierson (Performer), Doris Yarick (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Andrew Frierson, Doris Yarick
• Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Little Orchestra Society of New York, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
• Conductor: Charles Münch, Herbert von Karajan, John Hopkins, Joseph Rosenstock, Leopold Stokowski, et al.
• Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, Ernest Chausson, Gustav Mahler, Claudio Monteverdi, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, et al.
• Audio CD (September 26, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Import
• Label: Ponto [Mitridate]
• ASIN: B000HT368C
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,093,341 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Prologo. Toccata

2. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Prologo. Dal mio Permesso amato a voi ne vegno

3. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 1. Vieni, Imeneo, deh, vieni

4. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 1. Lasciate i monti, lasciate i fonti

5. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 1. Rosa del ciel, vita del mondo e degna

6. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 1. Io non dirò qual sia

7. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 1. Ma se il nostro gioir dal ciel deriva

8. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 1. Chè, poi che nembo rio gravido il seno

9. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 1. Ecco Orfeo, cui pur dianzi

10. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Act 2. Sinfonia

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Disc: 2

1. Mass in B minor, for soloists, chorus & orchestra, BWV 232 (BC E1): Credo (Symbolum Nicenum). Aria. Et in Spiritum Sanctum

2. Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492: Act 3. Recitativo. Hai già vinta la causa! / Aria. Vedrò mentr'io sospiro

3. Don Giovanni, opera, K. 527: Act 1. Aria. Finch'han dal vino

4. Don Giovanni, opera, K. 527: Act 2. Canzonetta. Deh, vieni alla finestra

5. Don Quichotte à Dulcinée, song cycle for voice & orchestra (or piano): No. 1. Chanson romanesque

6. Don Quichotte à Dulcinée, song cycle for voice & orchestra (or piano): No. 2. Chanson épique

7. Don Quichotte à Dulcinée, song cycle for voice & orchestra (or piano): No. 3. Chanson à boire

8. Poème de l'amour et de la mer, for voice & orchestra, Op. 19: No. 1. La Fleur des eaux

9. Poème de l'amour et de la mer, for voice & orchestra, Op. 19: Interlude

10. Poème de l'amour et de la mer, for voice & orchestra, Op. 19: No. 2. La Mort de l'amour

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Customer Reviews

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4.0 out of 5 stars The Gerard Souzay Show, January 19, 2009

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This review is from: Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (Audio CD)

It's not apparent from the listing, but this two-disc set is mainly a tribute to the late French baritone Gerard Souzay. Disc one is a live 1960 performance of a severely abridged (75 minutes in all)"Orfeo" from the New York City Opera conducted by Stokowski featuring Souzay in the title role with Judith Raskin (Euridice)and other cast members including Doris Yarick, Regina Sarfaty, and Joy Clements. My guess is that Stokowski and Souzay fans will be intrigued, while hard-core Monteverdi afficionados will be scandalized. Certainly not a first choice for someone coming to "L'Orfeo" for a reference recording,but there are those of us who are perfectly happy with a greatest-hits condensation of a Monteverdi opera and the sound and performance are fine.

The second disc features Souzay in arias and song cycles, which should be interesting to the casual operaphile who remembers him primarily as a lieder singer. We get "Et in spiritum sanctum" from Bach's B-minor mass with Karajan and the Vienna Philharmonic; a Metropolitan Opera performance of "Vedro metr'io sospiro" from "Le Nozze di Figaro;" two arias from "Don Giovanni;" Ravel's "Don Quichotte a Dulcinee" with Munch and the Boston Symphony; Chausson's "Poeme de l'amour et de la mer" (Thomas Scherman conducting the Little Orchestra Society), and Mahler's "Kindertotenlieder" with John Hopkins and the National Symphony Orchestra. Recording dates range from 1959 to 1967. The booklet includes notes on Souzay and his career but no libretto or song texts.