Maria Callas, Orch del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Herbert von Karajan – Verdi: Il trovatore (1956/2014) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Maria Callas, Orch del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Herbert von Karajan – Verdi: Il trovatore (1956/2014)
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Like Norma, the role of Leonora in Il trovatore demands both bel canto finesse and considerable vocal and dramatic weight, but Callas sang it only some 20 times. This recording – in which she, Fedora Barbieri, Giuseppe di Stefano and Roland Panerai constitute a suitably impressive quartet of principals – marked her farewell to the complete role and also her final collaboration with Herbert von Karajan.

“Callas and Karajan took the world by the ears in the 1950s with this Il trovatore. Leonora was one of Callas’s finest stage roles, and this recording is wonderfully intense, with a dark concentrated loveliness of sound in the principal arias that puts one in mind of Muzio or Ponselle at their best. Walter Legge always managed to team Callas with the right conductor for the work in question. Often it was Serafin, but Karajan in Il trovatore is utterly compelling.

This opera, like Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring, is one of music’s great essays in sustained rhythmic intensity; dramatically it deals powerfully in human archetypes. All this is realised by the young Karajan with that almost insolent mastery of score and orchestra which made him such a phenomenon at this period of is career. There are some cuts, but, equally, some welcome inclusions (such as the second verse of ‘Di quella pira’, sung by di Stefano with his own unique kind of slancio). Although the EMI sound is very good, one or two climaxes suggest that in the heat of the moment, the engineer, Robert Beckett, let the needle run into the red and you might care to play the set in mono to restore that peculiar clarity and homogeneity of sound which are the mark of Legge’s finest productions of the mono era. But whatever you do don’t miss this set.” –Gramophone Classical Music Guide

Tracklist:
Giuseppe Verdi 1813–1901
Il trovatore
Opera in four acts · Libretto: Salvatore Cammarano

ACT ONE
Scene One
1 All’erta! All’erta! 3.02
2 Di due figli vivea padre beato 0.45
3 Abbietta zingara, fosca vegliarda! 3.35
4 Brevi e tristi giorni visse 1.57
5 Sull’orlo dei tetti (Ferrando/Coro) 1.20
Scene Two
6 Che più t’arresti? (Ines/Leonora) 2.17
7 Tacea la notte placida (Leonora) 3.34
8 Quanto narrasti di turbamento m’ha piena l’alma! (Ines/Leonora) 0.49
9 Di tale amor (Leonora) 1.41
10 Tace la notte! (Conte) 1.49
11 Il trovator! Io fremo!…Deserto sulla terra (Conte/Manrico) 1.45
12 Anima mia!…Più dell’usato 1.58
13 Di geloso amor sprezzato (Conte/Leonora/Manrico) 2.34

ACT TWO
Scene One
14 Vedi! le fosche notturne spoglie (Coro delle incudini) 2.58
15 Stride la vampa! (Azucena) 2.41
16 Mesta è la tua canzon! (Coro/Azucena/Manrico/Zingaro) 2.01
17 Soli or siamo 1.00
18 Condotta ell’era in ceppi 4.51
19 Non son tuo figlio! 2.27
20 Mal reggendo all’aspro assalto (Manrico/Azucena) 3.08
21 L’usato messo Ruiz invia! (Manrico/Azucena/Messo) 1.26
22 Perigliarti ancor languente (Azucena/Manrico) 2.29
Scene Two
23 Tutto è deserto (Conte/Ferrando) 1.34
24 Il balen del suo sorriso (Conte) 3.15
25 Qual suono! Oh ciel! 0.50
26 Per me ora fatale 2.51
27 Ah! se l’error t’ingombra (Conte/Ferrando/Coro) 2.01
28 Perché piangete?…O dolci amiche (Leonora/Ines/Conte/Coro) 2.17
29 E deggio e posso crederlo? (Leonora/Conte/Manrico/Ines/Coro/Ferrando/Ruiz) 4.46

ACT THREE
Scene One
30 Or co’ dadi, ma fra poco (Coro/Ferrando) 4.29
31 In braccio al mio rival! 2.12
32 Giorni poveri vivea 3.08
33 Deh! rallentate, o barbari (Conte/Ferrando/Coro/Azucena) 2.07
Scene Two
34 Quale d’armi fragor (Leonora/Manrico) 2.02
35 Ah sì, ben mio, coll’essere io tuo (Manrico) 2.53
36 L’onda de’ suoni mistici pura discenda al cor! (Leonora/Manrico/Ruiz) 1.29
37 Di quella pira, l’orrendo foco (Manrico/Leonora/Ruiz/Coro) 3.15

ACT FOUR
Scene One
38 Siam giunti; ecco la torre (Ruiz/Leonora) 3.06
39 D’amor sull’ali rosee (Leonora) 4.02
40 Miserere…Quel suon, quelle preci (Coro/Leonora/Manrico) 4.53
41 Di te, di te scordarmi! Tu vedrai che amore in terra (Leonora) 2.33
42 Udiste? 1.47
43 Mira, d’acerbe lagrime 2.19
44 Conte!…Né basti! 1.13
45 Colui vivrà…Vivrà! Contende il giubilo (Conte/Leonora) 2.24
Scene Two
46 Madre, non dormi? 5.29
47 Sì, la stanchezza m’opprime 1.18
48 Ai nostri monti ritorneremo (Azucena/Manrico) 2.04
49 Che! Non m’inganna (Manrico/Leonora) 1.08
50 Parlar non vuoi?… Ha quest’infame l’amor venduto (Manrico/Leonora/Azucena) 3.00
51 Ti scosta! (Manrico/Leonora) 1.06
52 Prima che d’altri vivere (Leonora/Manrico/Conte/Azucena) 3.33

Personnel:
Maria Callas, soprano (Leonora)
Giuseppe di Stefano, tenor (Manrico)
Rolando Panerai, baritone (Il Conte di Luna)
Nicola Zaccaria, bass (Ferrando)
Luisa Villa, soprano (Ines)
Renato Ercolani, tenor (Ruiz, Un messo)
Giulio Mauri, bass (Un vecchio zingaro)
Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala Milan
Herbert von Karajan, conductor

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