Christmas with Leontyne Price (Includes Silent Night, Ave Maria & We Three Kings)
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Leontyne Price (soprano) with the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Herbert von Karajan
Christmas with Leontyne Price (Includes Silent Night, Ave Maria & We Three Kings)
[ Decca Records / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 5 November 2004
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Decca's recorded leagacy is dominated by a huge number of complete opera recordings and vocal recitas. In additon, some of Decca's star singers have recorded Christmas albums in the past. Here is the original Christmas album of soprano Leontyne Price.
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African American Soprano. Won a scholarship to Juilliard in 1949. In 1952 Ms. Price was chosen by Virgil Thomson for a Broadway revival of his Four Saints in Three Acts, and then starred as Bess in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess on a world tour. A concert career including first performances of works by Barber and Sauguet was interrupted by a television performance of Tosca. This success along with other operatic appearances set the course of her career. She achieved fame as one of the world's foremost sopranos, mainly through her roles in Verdi's operas. Her voice is a true lirico-spinto, a voice that can sound powerful and incisive at dramatic climaxes. A subtle interpreter of many of the great women's operatic roles.
(All Music Guide)
Tracks:
1. Silent night holy night
2. Hark the herald angels sing
3. We three Kings of Orient are
4. Angels we have heard on high
5. O Tannenbaum
6. God rest ye merry gentlemen
7. It came upon the midnight clear
8. Von himmel hoch da komm ich her (Bach)
9. Sweet li'l Jesus
10. Ave Maria (Schubert)
11. O holy night (Adam)
12. Ave Maria (Bach, Gounod)
13. Alleluja (Exsultate, jubilate) (Mozart)
