Brava Berganza: Rossini, Baroque, Spanish & Basque Songs
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Label: Australian Eloquence
Cat No: ELQ4826397
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 6th April 2018
Contents
Works
Intorno all'idol mioLas hijas del Zebedeo
Donostia, Padre Jose Antonio 'Aita'
Basque Songs (8)Canciones populares espanolas (7)
Tonadillas (12) en estilo antiguo
El anillo de hierro
Gli equivoci nel Sembiante
Il flavio
Triptico, op.45
Catone in Utica
Artists
Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano)Felix Lavilla (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Conductors
Alexander GibsonBenito Lauret
Gerardo Gombau
Works
Intorno all'idol mioLas hijas del Zebedeo
Donostia, Padre Jose Antonio 'Aita'
Basque Songs (8)Canciones populares espanolas (7)
Tonadillas (12) en estilo antiguo
El anillo de hierro
Gli equivoci nel Sembiante
Il flavio
Triptico, op.45
Catone in Utica
Artists
Teresa Berganza (mezzo-soprano)Felix Lavilla (piano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Conductors
Alexander GibsonBenito Lauret
Gerardo Gombau
About
Born in 1935, Teresa Berganza was in her mid-twenties when she made the recordings on this album, yet she was already the darling of the opera press by June 1959, when Decca first issued the wide-ranging recital of Rossini arias which opens this anthology, moving with assured mastery from the flirtatious Isabella in L’italiana in Algeri to the grave beauty of ‘Fac ut portem’ from the Stabat mater. Later the same year she recorded a sequence of eight Basque songs with orchestra which captivatingly exploits the dark, sultry shadings within her mezzo. Although the Rossini LP has been issued piecemeal on CD, this is the first time the entire recital appears in its entirety.
A year later, Berganza was established as an artist of singular gifts who would lend distinction to the extraordinary ‘gala sequence’ inserted in the second act of the label’s new Viennese recording of Die Fledermaus, capable of standing her own alongside the likes of Bjorling, Nilsson, Sutherland and Tebaldi. Her contribution to that album was a Lullaby by her husband Felix Lavilla, which they recorded together not in Vienna but Kingsway Hall, London.
As her long-standing accompanist, Lavilla partnered Berganza in a 1962 recital of Spanish song that captures the mezzo-soprano on vibrant form, bringing her flaring tone, dramatic energy and captivating charisma to Baroque arias by Pergolesi and Scarlatti as well as songs by Granados and Turina, finishing with a classic account of Falla’s Siete canciones populares españolas from 1959. As Richard Wigmore remarks in his new booklet appreciation, not even the legendary Conchita Supervia gave a more thrilling, spine-tingling performance of the cycle’s concluding ‘Polo’.
‘She is equally at home in the fiendish Cenerentola finale (the best I’ve ever heard) and in the long sweeping line of ‘Fac ut portem’... I can see no obstacle to a long and brilliant career for this singer. The accompaniments are clear and firm, and Decca’s stereo sound is bright and full. I recommend this record without hesitation.’ - High Fidelity, April 1960 (Rossini)
‘In the Basque songs she immediately identifies herself with each mood from tenderness to humour... I called her performance of [the Falla songs] incomparable, and it still remains so, with her completely idiomatic interpretation, vitality, exemplary enunciation, beautifully clean melismata, and wide range of colour... If for any reason you didn’t have a copy before, make good the omission straight away.’ - Gramophone, October 1972
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