Puccini - Turandot / Marton · Carreras · Ricciarelli · Maazel [Highlights]

Giacomo Puccini (Composer), Lorin Maazel (Conductor), Choir & Orch of Vienna State Opera (Orchestra), Kurt Rydl (Performer), Helmut Wildhaber (Performer), Eva Marton (Performer), Waldemar Kmentt (Performer), John-Paul Bogart (Performer), Jose Carreras (Performer), Katia Ricciarelli (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Kurt Rydl, Helmut Wildhaber, Eva Marton, Waldemar Kmentt, John-Paul Bogart, et al.
• Orchestra: Choir & Orch of Vienna State Opera
• Conductor: Lorin Maazel
• Composer: Giacomo Puccini
• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B0000026ET
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #406,200 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Turandot: Act I: Popolo Di Pekino!

2. Turandot: Act I: Gira La Cote, Gira, Gira!

3. Turandot: Act I: Perche` Tarda La Luna?

4. Turandot: Act I: Signore, Ascolta!

5. Turandot: Act I: Non Piangere, Liu`!

6. Turandot: Act I: Ah! Per L'ultima Volta!

7. Turandot: Act II: Ola` Pang! Ola`, Pong!

8. Turandot: Act II: Ho Una Casa Nell'Honan

9. Turandot: Act II: In Questa Reggia

10. Turandot: Act II: Gelo Che Ti Da Foco

11. Turandot: Act II: La Mia Vittoria

12. Turandot: Act III: Nessun Dorma!

13. Turandot: Act III: Quel Nome!

14. Turandot: Act III: Tu Che Di Gel Sei Cinta

15. Turandot: Act III: Principessa Di Morte!

16. Turandot: Act III: Che E` Mai Di Me?

17. Turandot: Act III: C'era Negli Occhi Tuoi

Customer Reviews

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5.0 out of 5 stars the definitive version, August 30, 2011

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arlh (Ramallah, Palestine) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Puccini - Turandot / Marton · Carreras · Ricciarelli · Maazel [Highlights] (Audio CD)

EM is the definitive contemporary Turandot & Carreras' steals the show w his sensitive & nuanced voice as the perfect complement to the role of Calaf as humble/triumphant, beggar/hero. Sumptuous scoring.

3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Eva Marton Beats Other Sopranos(Even Sutherland and Nilsson), February 19, 2004

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Josh Rappaport (Harrisburg PA, 17110) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Puccini - Turandot / Marton · Carreras · Ricciarelli · Maazel [Highlights] (Audio CD)

If I'd want any highlights edition from a Puccini Turandot album, this one would be it. There is no better recording of any of these tracks, not even Zubin Mehta, and these are not "woefully sluggish" excerpts, as one of the reviewers of the complete recording said. This is how the opera should be conducted, and Puccini was a master of slow paces when writing this opera. There are no better Puccini Turandot sopranos than Eva Marton, and no better Wiener Philharmoniker performance than this one. This performance has what I call "ultimate everything:ultimate singing and ultimate orchestra, which does not miss a beat which is even louder here than on any other recording of it". I think anyt of the Eva Marton recordings of In Questa Reggia is the best one there is. Eva Marton is the ONLY Turandot out there and her singing of "In Questa Reggia" is even better than any of Giovanna Cassola's recordings, and her voice cracks just as much as Eva Marton's. Marton is the better one and the recording of "In Questa Reggia" on this highlights edition is the absolute best one out there. Marton's voice is so loud and so passionate that she is totally flawless. If I saw her today I'd give her a big hug. She's even better and louder than Birgit Nillsson or Katia Ricciarelli or Joan Sutherland and cuter than the three of them. Yes! I love Eva Marton so much that if I saw her, I'd give her that, oh, I would! Period!

1 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I wish I could Hear Real Rejoicing from Alfano's Ending, February 19, 2004

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Josh Rappaport (Harrisburg PA, 17110) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Puccini - Turandot / Marton · Carreras · Ricciarelli · Maazel [Highlights] (Audio CD)

This is the only recording of Puccini's Turandot that has the new "Harold Prince Ending". That probably substitutes the "O Sole, O Vita, O Eternita" ending and is even better than the original Alfano ending. I bet it sounds very similar to that one brief theme with a five-beat thunderdrum rhythm, which happens toward the beginning of the second act(on the complete recording). It reprises itself with the chorus singing, I think, in English. The song is probably "We are Rejoicing to the Beat of the Thunderdrum". I think that song which ends this recording was written by Harold Prince and recycles that one brief theme from Act 2, Scene 2. That kind of ending is only founjd on this recording and is much better than Alfano's ending.