Composer: Vincenzo Bellini, Antonín Dvořák, Edvard Hagerup Grieg, Emmerich Kalman, Franz Lehár, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jacques Offenbach, Giacomo Puccini, Sergey Rachmaninov, Richard Strauss, Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky, Giuseppe Verdi
Performer: Anna Netrebko, Yusif Eyvazov, Saimir Pirgu
Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Session Orchestra London
Conductor: Claudio Abbado, Ben Foster
Number of Discs: 2
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Catalogue: 4797679
Release: 2017
Size: 733 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
CD 01
01. Krutoy: Forse non fu
02. Krutoy: Cantami
03. Krutoy: Mi fa male
04. Krutoy: Credo
05. Krutoy: L’amour Russe
06. Krutoy: Gioia
07. Krutoy: Il nastro blu
08. Krutoy: La fantasia
09. Krutoy: Odna Lyubov
10. Krutoy: Ricomincero
11. Krutoy: Tango mio
12. Krutoy: Pioggia d’aprile
13. Krutoy: Se tu almeno fossi qui
14. Krutoy: Seguire me
15. Krutoy: Unico
16. Krutoy: L’istante prima dell’amore
17. Krutoy: Angels pass away
18. Krutoy: Musica con noi
CD 02
Puccini: Gianni Schicchi
01. O mio babbino caro
Verdi: La Traviata / Act I
02. “Sempre libera”
Puccini: La Bohème / Act 1
03. “Sì. Mi chiamano Mimì” (Live)
Kalman: Die Csárdásfürstin / Act I
04. “Heia, heia, in den Bergen ist mein Heimatland”
Lehár: Giuditta / Act IV
05. Meine Lippen, die küssen so heiss
Grieg: Peer Gynt, Op. 23
06. Solveig’s Song
Dvořák: Rusalka, Op. 114, B.203 / Act 1
07. Mesicku na nebi hlubokém
Rachmaninov: 12 Songs, Op. 21 – Arr. By Michael Rot
08. VII. Zdes′ khorosho
Dvořák: Ciganské melodie, Op. 55, B. 104 – Arr. by Jiri Teml
09. IV. Kdyz mne stara matka
Strauss: Fünf Lieder, Op. 41, TrV 195
10. I. Wiegenlied
Puccini: Madama Butterfly / Act II
11. “Un bel dì vedremo”
Puccini: Tosca / Act II
12. “Vissi d’arte, vissi d’amore”
Offenbach: Les Contes d’Hoffmann / Act II
13. Barcarolle
Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi / Act 1
14. Vieni, ah! vieni, e in me riposa (Live)
Mozart: Don Giovanni, ossia Il dissoluto punito, K. 527 / Act II
15. “Là ci darem la mano”
Verdi: Giovanna d’Arco / Prologo
16. “Sempre all’alba ed alla sera” (Live)
Tchaikovsky: Iolanta Op. 69, TH 11
17. “Otčego ėto prežde ne znala” (Live)
Star soprano Anna Netrebko and her husband, tenor Yusif Eyvazov, are releasing a new duet album of love songs, Romanza, on September 1, 2017. Eighteen original romantic love songs were written and composed specially for the couple by Russian producer Igor Krutoy.
Romanza is not only Anna Netrebko’s first duet album with husband Yusif, but also her first foray out of the realm of traditional core repertoire. Producer Igor Krutoy wrote all 18 album tracks with Anna and Yusif in mind. Many years of working together closely and a one of a kind friendship that stems from his collaboration with Anna and Yusif allowed Igor to write love songs that not only perfectly match their voices, but also are an homage to love in general.
On her previous album Verismo (released on September 2, 2016) Anna Netrebko led her listeners through the revolutionary opera style of the 1890s to the 1920s and performed the works of musical masters such as Francesco Cilea, Umberto Giordano, and Giacomo Puccini. The album earned Netrebko a German Echo Klassik award for “Vocalist of the Year” and a Grammy nomination for “Best Classical Solo Vocal Album.”
Anna met her husband, tenor Yusif Eyvazov, when they starred together in Manon Lescaut at the Rome Opera in March 2014. Since their wedding in December 2015, the couple has appeared in concert and on the opera stage together worldwide. She and Yusif open La Scala’s season on December 7, 2017 in Andrea Chénier; it will be her role debut as Maddalena.
In the first part of this double album Anna Netrebko and her tenor husband Yusif Eyvazov sing romantic romances (super-duper-romantic romances to be precise), from works by the Russian star of popular orchestral music Igor Krutoy – let’s simply inform the listener that it is very, very far from a great opera, even from a melody or a Lied. They are more akin to a bowl of sweets, not complex but undeniably popular – allegedly. The second part of the album is entirely dedicated to Anna Netrebko, in particular to older recordings made (for the most part live on stage, as opposed to Krutoy’s part, which is pure studio recording) with Abbado, Gergiev, Pappano or Luisi, but exclusively opera hits – Puccini, Verdi, Kálmán, Lehár, Dvořák, Bellini, Tchaikovsky, in other words, all the works with which the soprano star has excelled in the last few years, both on stage and in her records. An album for true enthusiasts, with a booklet as a bonus containing a few outrageously romantic pictures of both singers!