Performer: Kostas Paskalis, Huguette Tourangeau, Montserrat Caballe, Simon Estes
Orchestra: American Opera Society Orchestra
Composer: George Frederick Handel
Audio CD
Number of Discs: 2
Format: APE (image+cue)
Label: Gala
Size: 296 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 1
01 Overture
PART ONE
02 Introduction – Narrator
03 Presti omai l’Egizia terra/Let the land of Egypt now
04 Narrator
05 Empio, dirò, tu sei/Pitiless you are, I will say
06 Narrator
07 L’empio, sleale, indegno/This perfidious, unworthy miscreant
08 Narrator
09 Priva son d’ogni conforto/I am bereft of all comfort
10 Son nata a lagrimar/I was born to weep
PART TWO
11 Narrator
12 Alma del gran Pompeo/Spirit of great Pompey
13 Svegliatevi nel core/Wake within my breast
14 Narrator
15 Va tacito e nascosto/When intent on his prey
16 Sinfonia
17 Narrator
18 Tu la mia stella sei/You are my guiding star
19 Narrator
20 Non è si vago e bello/Not so fair and lovely
21 V’adoro, pupille/I adore you, o eyes
22 Narrator
23 Al lampo dell’armi/’Amid the flashing of arms
24 Che sento? Oh Dio.’/Wbat do 1 bear? O God!
25 Se pietà di me non senti/If for me you feel no pity
CD 2
PART THREE
01 Sinfonia
02 Narrator
03 Piangerò la sorte mia/I will lament my lot
04 Domerò la tua fierezza/I shall tame your pride
05 Narrator
06 Dall’ondoso periglio/From the perilous billows
07 Deh piangete, oh mesti lumi/Ah weep, sad eyes
08 L’angue offeso mai riposa/The angered snake never rests
09 Qual torrente, che cade dal monte/The cascade rushing down the mountainside
10 Sinfonia
11 Da tempeste il legno infranto/When a ship, ravaged by storm
12 Caro! Più amabile beltà/My dear! Never will be found
13 Ritorni ornai nel nostro corei/Let return within our hearts
BONUS TRACKS:
MONTSERRAT CABALLÉ Recital
George Frideric Handel (1685 – 1759)
14 JOSHUA: Oh, had I jubal’s lyre
15 SEMELE: Oh, sleep, why dost thou leave me?
16 OTTONE: Trema, trema, tiranno
Franz Schubert (1797- 1828)
17 Der Musensohn
18 Rastlose Liebe
19 Die junge Nonne
20 Du bist die Ruh
21Vedi quanto adoro ancora ingrato! (from Metastasio’s DIDONE)
Miguel Zanetti – piano
New York, November 24, 1970