Klassieke muziekcd's: Andrea Chenier Carreras CBS Masterworks 2 cd box boek

Aangeboden: Andrea Chenier Carreras CBS Masterworks 2 cd box boek Prijs: € 23,50 Giordano's ANDREA CHENIER is an exciting, dramatic love story set during the French Revolution. Chenier, a Romantic poet falls in love with the aristocratic Maddalena di Coigny. Chenier runs afoul of the revolution even though eh hates the aristocracy and is sentenced to death. As he writes his farewell to life, Maddalena joins him in his cell and the pair faces the guillotine together. What love! What romance! While it makes for great opera, the true story is far less spectacular. I remember hearing a Saturday afternoon radio broadcast from the Metropolitan Opera in New York and the commentator mentioned how Chenier was a second rate poet at best, Di Coigny was an opportunist who did not join her loved one in death and when asked about him, forgot she even met the man. ANDREA CHENIER is one work that has plenty of great recordings with Corelli, Domingo, Pavarotti, and Bjorling as Chenier and Callas, Te baldi, Scotto, and Price as Maddelena. While there are many great recordings of the work, Jose Carreras is the most favorite Chenier. His voice has the qualities that make him round like a poet, and in many parts of this opera, especially ACT I, he sings with a dramatic intensity that many of his critics claimed he never had. While Marton is not my favorite Maddalena, she and Carreras make a good vocal pair. Perhaps one reason Carreras shines in this recording is Patane's conducting. So often Carreras performs with strong armed conductors who allow the orchestra to drown him out, but Patane and the Hungarian State Orchestra is performance powerful, but not to the disadvantage of the vocalists. As I mentioned earlier in the review, this is an opera that has been blessed with many wonderful recordings of the work. While the Pavarotti/Caballe pairing sis wonderful and has a strong cast, and the Corelli/Tebaldi pairing may be stronger, Carre ras adds something to th i s recording that makes it very satisfying and should give a listener a wonderful performance. Cd box and 2 cd's have been used but are well and everything is contained in a deluxe cardboardbox and there is a 212 page booklet including all lyrics.

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