Release Date: 10 January 2007
Label: Naxos - Historical / Naxos Historical
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 747313327225
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Verdi
Description
Having already recorded La Traviata for CETRA (Naxos 8110300-01), Maria Callas was contractually barred from taking part in this 1955 recording of the opera, which featured, instead, the emerging Italian soprano Antonietta Stella, who went on to become an acclaimed interpreter of Verdi's and Puccini's romantic heroines and to record extensively for a variety of labels. When the recording was released in Britain in 1956, the 'Gramophone' reviewer thought \Stella sings with a good deal of fine intention... Di Stefano is much better [than his rivals] ...Gobbi is a really impressive vocal actor. Hugely admired by singers, the conductor Tullio Serafin embodies all the finest qualities of the Italian maestro.""
Tracklisting
Furtwangler
William Primrose
William Primrose
Vinay:Nbc So&Chorus:Toscanini
Vienna Po:Knappertsbusch
Vienna Po:Furtwangler
Vienna&Berlin Po:Furtwangler
Various Composer
Richard Cook, St Edmundsbury Cathedral Choir, Claudia Grinnell
Mvsica Perdvta
Iker Munduate
Gunta Smirnova, Mikayel Balyan
Young Artists of the Rome Chamber Music Festival/Flavio Emilio Scogna
Toby Carr
Tobias Tietze
The Choir of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge; Andrew Lawrence-King (psaltery & harp); David Skinne
