Cesare Siepi | Nimbus - Prima Voce NI7942

Cesare Siepi

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Label: Nimbus - Prima Voce

Cat No: NI7942

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 1st July 2007

Contents

Artists

Cesare Siepi

Artists

Cesare Siepi

About

Prima Voce has chosen for this CD compilation Siepi’s first recordings made for the Cetra Company when he was only 24 years old. They underline the amazing weight, colour and sonority of his voice, coupled with interpretations of great maturity not to be expected from a young man at the outset of his career. It should be noted that some are now very difficult to find in their original 78rpm format.

Nature would appear to dictate, that in general, tenors are short and portly, baritones are of medium height and stocky, and basses tall and rather spare. In the case of Cesare Siepi he was not only very tall but remarkably good-looking and possessed of a magnificent physique. He was the epitome of the rakish Don Giovanni that became one of his greatest roles, and never less than impressive in the dignified and sometime dominating characters allotted to the operatic bass.

His Mozart roles included Figaro and Don Giovanni: in a performance of the latter in 1952, Paul Jackson, who had predicted that Siepi would become the heir to Ezio Pinza,(1892-1957) wrote in his survey of Metropolitan broadcasts, “the basso’s Giovanni gives unequivocal pleasure. Its quality is fully apparent even in this, only the second of an amazing ninety-one portrayals of the role in the house and on tour. The voice is fully honed (no resonance blurring in pitches and line), his recitatives glisten, his legato entrances - probably more than it should when we know him to be a murderer - and his exuberance is a tonic….Siepi’s command of the role is exemplary”.

Details:

I VESPRI SICILIANI, Verdi – O tu, Palermo
DON CARLO, Verdi – Ella giammai m’amo!
NABUCCO, Verdi – Tu sul labbro dei veggenti
ERNANI, Verdi – Infelice! e tu credevi
DON GIOVANNI , Mozart – Deh vieni alla finestra
LA SONNAMBULA, Bellini – Vi ravviso O luoghi ameni
L’ITALIANA IN ALGERI, Rossini – Le femmine d’Italia
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA, Rossini – La calumnia
MEFISTOFELE, Boito – Son lo Spirito che nega
LA GIOCONDA, Ponchielli – Si, morir ella de’
Tosti – Malia
Denza – Occhi di fata
Tosti – Non t’amo più
Tosti – Serenata
Rotoli – Mi sposa sara la mia bandiera
Billi – E canta il grillo
Brogei – Visione Veneziana
Tosti – L’ultima canzone

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