Licia Albanese
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Label: Testament
Cat No: SBT1414
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 30th June 2008
Contents
Works
La WallyArtists
Licia AlbaneseRobert Merrill
Rca Victor Orchestra
Conductors
Frieder WeissmanDick Marzello
Jean Morel
Victor Trucco
Leopold Stokowski
Works
La WallyArtists
Licia AlbaneseRobert Merrill
Rca Victor Orchestra
Conductors
Frieder WeissmanDick Marzello
Jean Morel
Victor Trucco
Leopold Stokowski
About
Lauri-Volpi had his own way of putting things (that adjective ‘sighing’ surprises us, not so much in itself as in its placing, second among the primary characteristics of the singer he is describing, and one may well object that records, however ‘fixed’, can at least sing to us, which is more than fossils and mummies can do). There is still something in what he says. He is thinking of Albanese’s particular kind of art: that delicate, ‘sighing’ quality which he hears inwardly, summoned up in a memory that is visual as well as aural and which is scarcely to be ‘fixed’, held still. Its essence lies in the moving, breathing individual. He speaks of her strong intuitive faculties. She knew what she was going to do next, vocally and dramatically – but what the audience experienced was the sense of an assured spontaneity. In the theatre you felt that her singing and her movements might take any number of forms: in a recording it will always take one. The living being is caught, pinned-down, captured; and that’s not the way she was.
Extract from the booklet note © John Steane, 2008
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