Essential Verdi

Tracklist

• CD 1
• 1
  Rigoletto: “La donna è mobile”
  2:25
• 2
  Nabucco: Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves “Va pensiero”
  4:07
• 3
  La forza del destino: Overture
  3:11
• 4
  La traviata: “Un dì felice”
  3:32
• 5
  I vespri siciliani: Bolero “Mercè, dilette amiche”
  3:37
• 6
  La traviata: Brindisi “Libiamo ne'lieti calici”
  3:02
• 7
  Il trovatore: “Di quella pira”
  1:59
• 8
  Il trovatore: Anvil Chorus “Vedi! le fosche notturne spoglie”
  2:46
• 9
  Il trovatore: “Stride la vampa!”
  2:33
• 10
  Aida: “Ritorna vincitor!”
  7:33
• 11
  Don Carlo: “Dio, che nell'alma infondere”
  4:41
• 12
  La traviata: Preludio
  3:57
• 13
  Rigoletto: “Caro nome”
  5:59
• 14
  Don Carlo: “O don fatale”
  4:46
• 15
  Aida: “Se quel guerrier io fossi... Celeste Aida”
  5:05
• 16
  Ernani: “Ernani! Ernani, involami”
  2:44
• 17
  Un ballo in maschera: “Di tu se fedele”
  3:25
• 18
  Un ballo in maschera: “Morrò, ma prima in grazia”
  4:45
• 19
  Luisa Miller: “Quando le sere al placido”
  3:42
• 20
  Aida: Grand March “Gloria all'Egitto”
  5:01
• CD 2
• 1
  Requiem: "Dies irae" (extract)
  2:29
• 2
  La forza del destino: "Pace, pace, mio Dio!"
  5:42
• 3
  Rigoletto: "Questa o quella"
  2:01
• 4
  Rigoletto: Quartet "Bella figlia dell'amore"
  4:03
• 5
  Otello: "Ave Maria"
  4:56
• 6
  La traviata: "Parigi, o cara"
  4:24
• 7
  Macbeth: "Ah, la paterna mano"
  2:33
• 8
  Il trovatore: "Squilli, echeggi la tromba guerriera"
  2:52
• 9
  Don Carlo: Morte di Rodrigo "O Carlo, ascolta"
  4:17
• 10
  Requiem: "Ingemisco"
  3:37
• 11
  Simon Boccanegra: "Come in quest'ora bruna"
  3:41
• 12
  Macbeth: Brindisi "Salve, o Re!... Si colmi il calice"
  3:30
• 13
  Aida: "O patria mia"
  5:31
• 14
  I lombardi: "La mia letizia infondere"
  2:26
• 15
  I masnadieri: "Lo sguardo avea degli angeli"
  3:59
• 16
  La forza del destino: "Solenne in quest'ora"
  4:19
• 17
  Macbeth: "Patria oppressa"
  4:58
• 18
  Il trovatore: "Tacea la notte"
  3:46
• 19
  I due Foscari: "Dal più remoto esilio ... Odio solo, ed odio atroce"
  5:01
• 20
  Don Carlo: Auto-da-fé Chorus "Spuntato ecco il dì d'esultanza" (extract)
  3:35

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Release credits

• Alberto Erede
  conductor [17]
• Ambrosian Singers
  choir vocals [13]
• Angela Gheorghiu
  soprano vocals [2, 6]
• Bernard Haitink
  conductor [1.14, 2.9]
• Carlo Bergonzi
  tenor vocals [2.3, 1.4, 1.6, 1.11, 1.15]
• Chicago Symphony Chorus
  choir vocals [1.2, 1.8, 1.20, 2.8, 2.17]
• Chicago Symphony Orchestra
  performing orchestra [2.8, 2.17, 1.2, 1.8, 1.20]
• Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin
  choir vocals [12]
• Chor der Wiener Staatsoper
  choir vocals [1]
• Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
  choir vocals [7, 11, 14]
• Christian du Plessis
  baritone vocals [13]
• Christopher Raeburn
  producer [10]
• Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
  choir vocals [6]
• Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano
  choir vocals [20]
• Coro del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma
  choir vocals [13]
• David Harvey
  producer [1]
• Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau
  baritone vocals [11]
• Frank Lopardo
  tenor vocals [6]
• Gabriele Santini
  conductor [20]
• Gegham Grigorian
  tenor vocals [16]
• Giuseppe Sinopoli
  conductor [12]
• Gordon Parry
  balance [10]
• Herbert von Karajan
  conductor [15]
• Huguette Tourangeau
  mezzo-soprano vocals [4]
• James Brown
  balance [15]
• Joan Sutherland
  soprano vocals [2.4, 1.4, 1.6, 1.13, 1.16]
• John Culshaw
  producer [1.15, 2.10]
• John Gibbs
  bass vocals [13]
• José Carreras
  tenor vocals [1.7, 2.19]
• Jussi Björling
  tenor vocals [17]
• Katia Ricciarelli
  soprano vocals [18]
• Kenneth Wilkinson
  sound [1]
• Kiri Te Kanawa
  soprano vocals [11]
• Lamberto Gardelli
  conductor [14-15], performer [19]
• Leontyne Price
  soprano vocals [2.13, 1.10]
• Lewis Layton
  engineer [10]
• London Symphony Orchestra
  performing orchestra [1.1, 1.13, 2.4-5]
• Lucia Aliberti
  soprano vocals [12]
• Luciano Pavarotti
  tenor vocals [2.4, 2.7, 2.10, 1.1, 1.19]
• Luigi Ricci
  additional [10]
• Mara Zampieri
  soprano vocals [12]
• Margaret Hillis
  chorus master [8]
• Margaret Price
  soprano vocals [18]
• Maria Chiara
  soprano vocals [5]
• Michael Woolcock
  producer [1]
• Mieczyslaw Antoniak
  tenor vocals [19]
• Montserrat Caballé
  soprano vocals [15]
• National Philharmonic Orchestra
  performing orchestra [18]
• Neil Shicoff
  tenor vocals [12]
• Nello Santi
  conductor [2.3, 1.5, 1.16]
• ORF Radio‐Symphonieorchester Wien
  performing orchestra [19]
• Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin
  performing orchestra [12]
• Orchester der Wiener Volksoper
  performer [19], performing orchestra [7]
• Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi
  performing orchestra [2]
• Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
  performing orchestra [4, 6, 12, 17]
• Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano
  performing orchestra [11, 20]
• Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera di Roma
  performing orchestra [2.13, 1.10]
• Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
  performing orchestra [2.6, 2.9, 2.18, 1.5, 1.7, 1.9, 1.11, 1.14]
• Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire
  performer [16]
• Philharmonia Orchestra
  performing orchestra [3, 15]
• Plácido Domingo
  tenor vocals [14]
• Ray Minshull
  producer [5]
• Renato Bruson
  baritone vocals [12]
• Renée Fleming
  soprano vocals [5]
• Ricardo Cassinelli
  tenor vocals [13]
• Riccardo Chailly
  conductor [2]
• Richard Bonynge
  conductor [1.1, 1.13, 2.4]
• Richard Mohr
  producer [10]
• Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  performing orchestra [14]
• Sherrill Milnes
  baritone vocals [4]
• Sir Colin Davis
  conductor [2.18, 1.7, 1.9]
• Sir Edward Downes
  conductor [2.7, 1.19]
• Sir Georg Solti
  conductor [2.1, 2.5-6, 2.8, 2.10-11, 2.13, 2.17, 1.2, 1.8, 1.10, 1.18, 1.20]
• Sir John Pritchard
  conductor [4, 6, 12]
• Stanley Goodall
  sound [1]
• Stefania Toczyska
  mezzo-soprano vocals [9]
• Tugomir Franc
  bass vocals [11]
• Wiener Philharmoniker
  performing orchestra [1.15, 2.1, 2.10]
• Валерий Гергиев
  conductor [2.16, 1.3]
• Дмитрий Хворостовский
  baritone vocals [9]
• Николай Путилин
  baritone vocals [16]
• Ольга Бородина
  mezzo-soprano vocals [14]
• Симфонический оркестр Мариинского театра
  performing orchestra [2.16, 1.3]
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Issues

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  E
  Essential Verdi

  2x CD
  2001
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  E
  Essential Verdi

  2x CD (us release)
  2001