Margaret Price In Recital

A song recital new to CD from a peerless lyric soprano, coupled with classic recordings of Ravel and Verdi. In 1971 Andrew Porter wrote that Margaret Price’s voice was among the things that make one ‘glad to be alive’. In the 1960s she had recorded for a small Welsh label a recital of Welsh, German and Italian songs that would become signature items for her over the coming decades. Reissued in 1969 by L’Oiseau-Lyre, the album makes it to CD for the first time in this compilation. In favourites such as Schubert’s Heidenröslein, Verdi’s Ave maria and five Welsh folksongs, Price is on sovereign form, with a gleaming upper register and engagingly fresh phrasing. Also from the early 70s is a rare foray into contemporary music inspired by her Welsh heritage, with Alun Hoddinott’s setting of a text by Emyr Humphries, Roman Dream. She recorded this for Argo along with a set of Gaelic folksongs by Phyllis Tate; these, too, are transferred to CD for the first time. More familiar delights are offered on CD2, with Deutsche Grammophon capturing her voice in full and glorious maturity in a 1987 album of Verdi songs and a recording of Ravel’s opulent, oriental song-cycle Shéhérezade, in which she is sensitively partnered by the London Symphony Orchestra under a long-time musical partner, Claudio Abbado; together in 1971 they had recorded the Altenberg-Lieder of Berg which fill out CD1. Thus Price sings in five languages through the course of the compilation, and shows herself a gifted wordp

Tracks

1~1~Bellini Almen Se Non Possio**First Cd Release On Decca
1~2~Donizetti La Conocchia**First Cd Release On Decca
1~3~Verdi Ave Maria**First Cd Release On Decca
1~4~Rossini Linvito**First Cd Release On Decca
1~5~Du Bist Die Ruh, D.774* (Franz Schubert) *First Cd Release On Decca
1~6~Heidenröslein, D. 257* (Franz Schubert) *First Cd Release On Decca
1~7~Gretchens Bitte, D.564* (Franz Schubert) *First Cd Release On Decca
1~8~Die Forelle, D.550* (Franz Schubert) *First Cd Release On Decca
1~9~Y Bore Glas* (Traditional Welsh Folk Songs) *First Cd Release On Decca
1~10~Bugeilior Gwenith Gwyn* (Traditional Welsh Folk Songs) *First Cd Release On Decca
1~11~Wrth Fynd Efo Deio I Dowyn* (Traditional Welsh Folk Songs) *First Cd Release On Decca
1~12~Dafydd Y Garreg Wen* (Traditional Welsh Folk Songs) *First Cd Release On Decca
1~13~Y Deryn Pur* (Traditional Welsh Folk Songs) *First Cd Release On Decca
1~14~Tate Three Gaelic Ballads* (Traditional Welsh Folk Songs) *First Cd Release On Decca
1~15~Tate Three Gaelic Ballads* (Traditional Welsh Folk Songs) *First Cd Release On Decca
1~16~Tate Three Gaelic Ballads* (Traditional Welsh Folk Songs) *First Cd Release On Decca
1~17~Hoddinott Roman Dream, Op. 54* (Traditional Welsh Folk Songs) *First Cd Release On Decca
1~18~Berg Altenberger Lieder (Traditional Welsh Folk Songs) *First Cd Release On Decca
1~19~Berg Altenberger Lieder (Traditional Welsh Folk Songs) *First Cd Release On Decca
1~20~Berg Altenberger Lieder (Traditional Welsh Folk Songs) *First Cd Release On Decca
1~21~Berg Altenberger Lieder (Traditional Welsh Folk Songs) *First Cd Release On Decca
1~22~Berg Altenberger Lieder (Traditional Welsh Folk Songs) *First Cd Release On Decca
2~1~Il Tramonto (Giuseppe Verdi)
2~2~La Seduzione (Giuseppe Verdi)
2~3~Ad Una Stella (Giuseppe Verdi)
2~4~Lo Spazzacamino (Giuseppe Verdi)
2~5~Perduta Ho La Pace (Giuseppe Verdi)
2~6~Deh, Pietoso, Oh Addolorata (Giuseppe Verdi)
2~7~Chi I Bei Dì Madduce Ancora (Giuseppe Verdi)
2~8~L

Details

Format: CD
Artist: Margaret Price
Release Date: 16 August 2019
Genre: Classical Music
Label: ELOQUENCE / DECCA
Distributor: Universal Music