Con motivo del centenario del nacimiento del director Georg Solti, el sello discográfico Decca, ha lanzado este doble CD recopilatorio con arias y fragmentos de ópera nunca antes publicados. Todas las grabaciones proceden de teatros, ensayos y algunas curiosidades. Un CD que merece atención y que puede ser un buen regalo navideño para todos los aficionados a la música clásica y a la ópera en concreto.
La lista de obras e intérpretes es la siguiente:
CD 1 [80:00 approx]
[1] Schubert: Abschied 3:21
Recorded: 25 June 1947 [studio]
Max Lichtegg / Sir Georg Solti
[2] Mozart: Di Zauberflöte: Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen 3:57
Recorded: Salzburg Festival 1937
Willi Domgraf-Faßbaender / WP / Toscanini
Sir Georg Solti keyboard glockenspiel
[3] Richard Strauss: Elektra: Allein! Weh, ganz allein 8:42
Recorded: August 1952 [studio]
Christel Goltz / Bayerisches Staatsorchester
[4] Berg: Lulu: Wie kannst Du die Szene gegen mich aus spielen?
[Sonaten-Durchführung] 7:13
Recorded: 1961
Ernst Gutstein / Helga Pilarczyk / Frankfurt Opera
[5] Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier: Marie Theres! … Es ist ein Traum 14:10
Recorded: December 1959
Sena Jurinac / Elisabeth Schwarzkopf / Hanny Steffek / Ronald Lewis / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
[6] Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro: Hai gia vinta la causa 4:49
Recorded: 1963
Tito Gobbi / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
[7] Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro: Giunse alfin il momento 5:09
Recorded: 1963
Mirella Freni / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
[8] Verdi: Otello: Ora e per sempre addio… si pel ciel 10:37
Recorded: 1964
James McCracken / Tito Gobbi / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
[9] Mozart: Così fan tutte: Soave sia il vento 3:33
Recorded: July 1968
Pilar Lorengar / Josephine Veasey / Keith Engen / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
[10] Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust: Merci, doux crepuscule! 5:05
Recorded: August 1963
Nicolai Gedda / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
[11] Britten: A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Helena! Hermia! Demetrius! Lysander! 5:27
Recorded: March 1968 [studio]
Delme Bryn-Jones / Kenneth McDonald / Elizabeth Robson / Anne Howells
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
[12] Giordano: Andrea Chénier: Vicino a te 7:31
Recorded 10 November 1956
Renata Tebaldi, Richard Tucker / Orchestra of the Lyric Opera, Chicago
CD 2 [77:00 approx]
[1]-[3] Mozart: Concerto for 2 Pianos, K365 24:47
Recorded: 9 October 1987
Murray Perahia, Sir Georg Solti / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
[4] Verdi: Otello: Gia nella notte densa 9:47
Recorded: 9 October 1987
Plácido Domingo, Kiri Te Kanawa / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro:
3 short rehearsal sequences from the Decca recording
[5] Act 2 – Porgi amor – rehearsal of orchestral introduction 3:28
[6] Act 4 – recitative rehearsal sequence: Ebbene, il padron l’odia…
a un fischio mio correte tutti quanti 3:36
[7] Act 1 – La vendetta – rehearsal of introduction 1:44
Recorded: May 1981
[8] Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro: Porgi amor 4:01
Recorded: 1991
Margaret Price / Chamber Orchestra of Europe
[9] Britten: Billy Budd: O beauty, o handsomeness 5:59
Recorded: March 1968 [studio]
Forbes Robinson / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
[10] Wagner: Tristan und Isolde: Mild und leise 7:41
Recorded: 3 July 1971
Birgit Nilsson / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
[11] Wagner: Götterdämmerung: Grane mein Roß… selig grüßt dich dein Weib! 2:01
Recorded: July 1983
Hildegard Behrens / Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele
[12] Mozart: Così fan tutte: Come Scoglio 4:31
Recorded: May 1994
Renée Fleming / Chamber Orchestra of Europe
[13] Schubert: An die Musik 3:20
Recorded: October 1992
Hans Hotter / Jeffrey Tate
[14] Verdi: La forza del destino: Pace, pace 5:45
Recorded: January 1997 [studio] – previously unpublished
Angela Gheorghiu / London Symphony Orchestra / Sir Georg Solti