Ponchielli: La Gioconda / Bartoletti, Scotto, Pavarotti, et al

Amilcare Ponchielli (Composer, Conductor), Stefania Toczyska (Performer), San Francisco Opera Orchestra (Orchestra, Performer), Renata Scotto (Performer), Luciano Pavarotti (Performer), Boris Martinovich (Performer), Richard Haille (Performer), Bruno Bartoletti (Artist), Renata Scotto (Artist), Luciano Pavarotti (Artist), Margarita Lilowa (Artist), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Artist), Winter Anderson (Artist), Norman Mittelmann (Artist), John Del Carlo (Artist), Tonio Di Paolo (Artist), Stefania Toczyska (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Stefania Toczyska, San Francisco Opera Orchestra, Renata Scotto, Luciano Pavarotti, Boris Martinovich, et al.
• Orchestra: San Francisco Opera Orchestra
• Conductor: Amilcare Ponchielli
• Composer: Amilcare Ponchielli
• Audio CD (June 6, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Gala
• ASIN: B00000JWHM
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #508,015 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. La Gioconda, opera in 4 acts: Preludio/Prelude

2. La Gioconda, opera in 4 acts: Feste! Pane! Feste!/Festivities! Food! Festivities!

3. La Gioconda, opera in 4 acts: E cantan su lor tombe!/They are singing over their graves!

4. La Gioconda, opera in 4 acts: Figlia, che reggi il tremulo pie/Daughter, support of my trembling feet

5. La Gioconda, opera in 4 acts: L'ora non giunse ancor/It is early yet for vespers

6. La Gioconda, opera in 4 acts: Polso di cerro!/Wrist of Oak!

7. La Gioconda, opera in 4 acts: Suo cove è un tugurio.../Her lair is a hovel

8. La Gioconda, opera in 4 acts: Che? La plebe or qui si arroga.../What? Do the people assume

9. La Gioconda, opera in 4 acts: Voce di donna/A woman's voice

10. La Gioconda, opera in 4 acts: Enzo Grimaldo, Principe di Santafior/Enzo Grimaldo, Prince of Santafior

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Disc: 2

1. La Gioconda, opera in 4 acts: Maledizion! Ha preso il vol!/Damnation! She's taken flight!

2. La Gioconda, opera in 4 acts: Vedi là, nel canal morto/There in the dead canal

3. La Gioconda, opera in 4 acts: Sì, morir ella de'!/Yes, she must die!

4. La Gioconda, opera in 4 acts: Ombre di mia prosapia/Shades of my forefathers

5. La Gioconda, opera in 4 acts: Qui chiamata m'avete?/You summoned me here?

6. La Gioconda, opera in 4 acts: Morir! È troppo orribele!/To die! It is too horrible!

7. La Gioconda, opera in 4 acts: La gaia canzone fa al'eco languir/The gay song to an echo dies

8. La Gioconda, opera in 4 acts: O madre mia, nell'isola fatale.../O mother, on that fateful island

9. La Gioconda, opera in 4 acts: Benvenuti, messeri!/Welcome, good sirs!

10. La Gioconda, opera in 4 acts: La danza delle ore/The dance of the hours

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful jem even with a slight flaw., April 6, 2000

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Brian A. Alhadeff (LA, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ponchielli: La Gioconda / Bartoletti, Scotto, Pavarotti, et al (Audio CD)

This CD set is an affordable and enjoyable way to get aquainted with Ponchielli's masterpiece, however there is a catch to it's unusual price: you should be aware that it is a live recording of a 1979 San Fransisco Opera Production which unfortunatly produces a recording quality that sounds like it was done in 1939. I recommend the recording because of the fact that it "is" live. There is a certain sence of excitment to hear the stage action (i.e. footsteps, doors slaming, etc...). In addition, to the best of my knowledge, there is no formal recording with this all star cast, and as one would expect, the performers are fantastic - just be for-warned that the recording quality is not good.