CD 1. Drei Petrarca-Sonette / Franz Liszt -- La corrispondenza amorosa ; Amore e morte ; La dernière nuit d'un novice ; Le crèpuscule / Gaetano Donizetti -- Drei Arietten. La tua stella ; Pena d'amore ; Rosa / Pietro Mascagni -- Notte ; Stornellatrice, Nr. 2 ; Ma come potrei ; Nebbie ; Tanto bella / Ottornio Respighi -- Aus 6 Romanzen. No. 3, Ad una stella ; No. 1, Il tramonto ; No. 4, Lo spazzacamino / Giuseppe Verdi -- CD 2. Don Giovanni, KV 527. "Madamina, il catalogo è questo" ; "La ci darem la mano" / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Le nozze di Figaro, KV 492. "Hai gia vinta la causa" / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Don Sebastiano. "Gioco di rea fortuna...O Lisbona" ; Gemma di Vergy. "Qui un pugnale!...Ah! nel cuor" ; Caterina Cornaro. "Non turbati a questi accenti" ; La favorita [i.e. favorite]. "Ma de' malvagi...Vien, Leonora" / Gaetano Donizetti -- La traviata. "Di provenza il mar, il sol" ; Macbeth. "Perfidi! All' anglo contra me v'unite!" ; I Vespri Siciliani. "In braccio alle dovizie" ; Simon Boccanegra. "Plebe! Patrizi! Popolo" [und] "Ecco la spada...Sia maledetto" / Giuseppe Verdi -- CD 3. I Puritani. "Son vergin vezzosa" ; I Capuleti e i Montecchi. "Eccomi in lieta vesta...Oh! quante volte" / Vincenzo Bellini -- Don Pasquale. "La morale in tutto questo" [und] "Tornami a dir che m'ami" ; Anna Bolena. "Come, innocente giovane" ; La figlia del reggimento. "Convien partir" [und] "Deciso à dunque...Vien, diletto" / Gaetano Donizetti -- I Puritani. "O rendetemi la speme" / Vincenzo Bellini.
Note
Capriccio: 7036--7038 (on container: C7035).
Songs and opera excerpts exemplifying vocal techniques known collectively as "bel canto" that were characteristic of Italian art music during the final years of the 18th and the first half of the 19th centuries. (The term as it is applied to earlier music of the baroque era is not illustrated on the present recording.)
Event (note)
CD 1 recorded at RIAS Berlin, 1989 ; CD 2 recorded at the Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin, August 1988, and Tokyo's Suntory Hall, January 1989 and January-February 1990; CD 3 recorded at the Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin, August 2-10 1988.
CD 1 recorded at RIAS Berlin, 1989 ; CD 2 recorded at the Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin, August 1988, and Tokyo's Suntory Hall, January 1989 and January-February 1990; CD 3 recorded at the Jesus-Christus-Kirche, Berlin, August 2-10 1988.