Callas Rarities (Recorded 1953-1969)

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Callas Rarities (Recorded 1953-1969)
Maria Callas with various orchestras & conductors

[ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 2 CD ]

Release Date: Monday 10 November 2014

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Various orchestras & conductors The tracks on this album were recorded over a period of no less than 16 years. The earliest, the two versions of Donna Anna's 'Non mi dir', date from 1953, and were intended to test microphone placings before Callas made her first commercial recording for EMI: Lucia di Lammermoor. The latest, the Verdi arias recorded with Nicola Rescigno in 1964-1965 and 1969, were never approved for release by the soprano. When Callas Rarities was first released in 1993, Gramophone wrote: 'Each item, each phrase almost, has something to be said about it: the whole collection makes essential listening.'

Tracks:

Bellini:
Sorgete...Lo sognai ferito, esangue (from I Pirata)

Donizetti:
Tranquillo ei posa...Com'e bello (from Lucrezia Borgia)

Mozart:
Non mi dir (from Don Giovanni)

Rossini:
Bel raggio lusinghier (from Semiramide)
S'allontanano alfine...Selva opaca (from Guglielmo Tell)
Nacqui all'affanno, al pianto...Non più mesta (from La Cenerentola)

Verdi:
Una macchia è qui tutt'ora (from Macbeth)
Arrigo! ah, parli a un core (from I Vespri Siciliani)
O don fatale (from Don Carlo)
Pur ti riveggo, mia dolce Aida (from Aida)
Te, Vergin santa (from I Lombardi)
D'amor sull'ali rosee (from Il Trovatore)
Liberamente or piangi (from Attila)
Ah conforto è sol la speme (from Il Corsaro)

Weber:
Ozean, du Ungeheuer (from Oberon)