Lily Pons - Coloratura Assoluta(Original recording remastered)

Classical | Cover LQ | 2 CDs, 476 MB | Easy CD-DA Extractor, APE, CUE, No Log

CD: October 20, 1998 | Label: Sony Classical

“In many respects, Lily Pons was the Galli-Curci of her generation: a winning combination of good looks, charm, an appealing and non-confrontational timbre, and easy facility in the stratosphere. Those who learned the "Mad Scene" from Lucia di Lammermoor or the "Bell Song" from Lakmé via the original 78s back in the 40s will be bowled over by the vivid detail and lack of background noise in these stunning Sony restorations. First-time listeners will marvel at her effortless passagework and high notes (she often transposed her arias up on records); but may be put off by a slight thinness in the middle register (not evident in her Odeon recordings from the late 20s), sketchy intonation at times, and expedient aspirating in downward scales. Although these selections encompass a gamut of stylistic and emotional contrasts, you'd scarcely know it from the singer's pleasant but characterless interpretations, which tickle the ear without quite racking the brain. --Jed Distler ”

Performer: Lily Pons, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Conducted by Pietro Cimara

Composer:

Vincenzo Bellini, Henry Rowley Bishop, Claude Debussy, Leo Delibes, Gaetano Donizetti

Tracks - Composer - Title

CD1

01 - Donizetti: 'Chacun le sait' from 'La Fille du regiment'

02 - Donizetti: 'Il faut partir' from 'La Fille du regiment'

03 - Donizetti: 'Et mon coeur va changer' from 'La Fille du regiment'

04 - Donizetti: 'Salut a la France' from 'La Fille du regiment'

05 - Rimsky-Korsakov: 'Song of India' from 'Sadko'

06 - Delibes: 'Pourquoi dans les grands bois?' from 'Lakme'

07 - Meyerbeer: 'Ombre legere' (Shadow Song) from 'Dinorah'

08 - Donizetti: 'Regnava nel silenzio... Quando rapita in estasi' from 'Luciadi ...

09 - Donizetti: 'Il dolce suono mi colpi... Ardon gl'incensi' from 'Lucia diLamm...

10 - Verdi: 'Caro nome' from 'Rigoletto'

11 - Delibes: 'Ou va la jeune hindoue?' (Bell Song) from 'Lakme'

12 - Gounod: 'O legere hirondelle' from 'Mireille'

13 - Gounod: 'Je veux vivre' from 'Romeo et Juliette'

14 - Verdi: 'Ah, fors'e lui... Sempra libera' from 'La traviata'

CD2

01 - Rimsky-Korsakov: 'Hymne au soleil' from 'Le coq d'or'

02 - Offenbach: 'Les oiseaux dans la charmille' from 'Les Contes d'Hoffman'

03 - Gretry: 'La Fauvette' from 'Zemire et Azor'

04 - Thomas: 'Je suis Titania' from 'Mignon'

05 - Bellini: 'Son vergin vezzosa' from 'I puritani'

06 - Donizetti: 'O luce di quest'anima' from 'Linda di Chamounix'

07 - Bellini: 'Ah, non credea... Ah, non giunge' from 'La somnambula'

08 - Gershwin: 'Summertime' from 'Porgy and Bess'

09 - Alaviev: 'The Russian Nightingale'

10 - Strauss: 'Fledermaus Fantasy'

11 - Faure: 'Les Roses d'Ispahan'

12 - Dupare: 'L'invitation au voyage'

13 - Milhaud: 'Chansons de Ronsard': 'A une Fountaine'

14 - Milhaud: 'Chansons de Ronsard': 'A Cupidon'

15 - Milhaud: 'Chansons de Ronsard': 'Tais-toi, babillarde'

16 - Milhaud: 'Chansons de Ronsard': 'Dieu vous gard'

17 - Debussy: 'Clair de lune' (Frank La Forge, piano)

18 - Debussy: 'Fantoches' (Frank La Forge, piano)

19 - Martini: 'Plaisir d'amour'

20 - Bishop: 'Home, Sweet Home'

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