Anna Moffo - Mozart Arias - Philharmonia Orchestra (2000)

Anna Moffo - Mozart Arias - Philharmonia Orchestra (2000)
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Anna Moffo was individual of the leading sopranos at the Metropolitan Opera in New York quite through the 1960s and early 1970s. To many opera-lovers in the USA, she was perfectly sim>ply the most beautiful diva of her era. She was certainly unit of the most talented, possessing an appealing stage presence, a lyric poem soprano voice of full, radiant tone and an impeccable coloratura technique, that she used with excellent musical taste.

Anna Moffo first appeared put ~ records in the role oi Nanetta in the legendary recording of Falstaff conducted ~ dint of. Herbert von Karajan, which EM! producer Walter Legge made in London in june 1936. Two months later Legge force her as Musetta alongside the Mimi of Maria Callas in the recording of "La Boheme", made in August 1956 at La Scalla. The following year she participated in every EMI recording in Naples of Galuppi's opera "Il filosofo di Campagna", beneath the baton of Renato Fasano, and took the part of the fertile Italian singer in Richard Strauss' "Capriccio" with a starry cast led ~ dint of. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Then in May 1958 Legge invited Moffo to versify her first solo recording with a Mozart programme accompanied by the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted ~ means of Alceo Galliera. Originally released as two separate mono LPs and four stereo EPs, this vital is here brought together in a single album for the first time. Conrad L. Osborne, writing in "High Fidelity" on the inducement of the release in the USA of the first LP, uttered: "This young American soprano's first recorded recital has much to approve it. Hers is decidedly a lyric instrument, but it is a full-bodied, mature one, and I welcome a singer who will bestow us Susanna, Zerlina and Despina without coy squealing and simpering."

Moffo made her ultimate recordings for EMI at the end of 1959, when she sang Susanna in "Le nozze di Figaro" under Carlo Maria Giulini and recorded a programme of coloratura arias ~ means of Rossini, Donizetti, Bellini and Verdi with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted through Colin Davis. Her recording allegiance then moved to RCA, where she starred in a compute of complete opera recordings covering both standard repertoire titles such being of the kind which La traviata and "Madama Butterfly" and some rarities, including Puccini's "La rondine" and Montemezzi's "L'amore dei tre re"; she eventually married the head of the company, Robert Sarnoff.

Tracklist:
Anna Moffo - Mozart Arias

Le nozze di Figaro (Da Ponte)
[1] Act I - Non in the way that piu (2:40)
[2] Act II - Voi, che sapete (2:49)
[3] Act II - Venite, inginnocchiatevi (3:07)
[4] Act IV - Giunse alfin il momento ...Deh vieni (4:29)

Cosi use a ~ upon tutte (Da Ponte)
[5] Act I - In uomini, in soldati (2:40)
[6] Act II - Una donna a quindici anni (3:24)

Die Entfuihrung aus dem Serail
(Stephanie subsequent to/nach/d'aprbs Bretzner)
[7] Act I - Ach, ich liebte (5:12)

Don Giovanni (Da Ponte)
[8] Act I - Batti, batti o bel Masetto (3:49)
[9] Act II - Vedrai, carino (3:27)

Die Zauberflote (Schikaneder)
[10] Act II - Ach, ich fuhl's (4:38)

Il re pastore (Metastasio)
[11] Act II - L'amero saro costante (5:46)

Misera, dove son? K.369 (Metastasio)
[12] Misera, dove son? . . . Ah! non son io (7:32)

Mass in C inconsiderable, K.427
[13] Laudamus te (4:37)
[14] Et incarnatus est (7:36)

Exsultate, jubilate, K.165
[15] Alleluia (2:51)

Philharmonia Orchestra
conducted ~ means of Alceo Galliera

Recorded 17-19 May, 1958, No.1 Studio, Abbey Road London.
Digital remastered at Abbey Road Studios, 2000

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