Best Of Verdi - 3 CD / Die schonsten Werke / Edel Records 3x Audio CD 2000 / 0120932ERE

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Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian opera composer. He was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, and developed a musical education with the help of a local patron. Verdi came to dominate the Italian opera scene after the era of Vincenzo Bellini, Gaetano Donizetti, and Gioachino Rossini, whose works significantly influenced him.

In his early operas, Verdi demonstrated a sympathy with the Risorgimento movement which sought the unification of Italy. He also participated briefly as an elected politician. The chorus "Va, pensiero" from his early opera Nabucco (1842), and similar choruses in later operas, were much in the spirit of the unification movement, and the composer himself became esteemed as a representative of these ideals. An intensely private person, Verdi, however, did not seek to ingratiate himself with popular movements and as he became professionally successful was able to reduce his operatic workload and sought to establish himself as a landowner in his native region. He surprised the musical world by returning, after his success with the opera Aida (1871), with three late masterpieces: his Requiem (1874), and the operas Otello (1887) and Falstaff (1893).

His operas remain extremely popular, especially the three peaks of his 'middle period': Rigoletto, Il trovatore and La traviata, and the 2013 bicentenary of his birth was widely celebrated in broadcasts and performances.

Tracklist:

CD 1

OTELLO
1.  Fuoco di gioia   2:37

AIDA
2.  Ritorna vincitor   6:31
3.  O wäre ich erkoren-   4:48
     Holde Aida
4.  Heil dir, Ägypten, Isis Heil   7:50
5.  A te grave cagion
     m’adduce, Aida   8:58

UN BALLO IN MASCHERA
Ein Maskenball
6.  Ecco l’orrido campo   9:46
7.  Volta la terrea frinte   1:43
     alle stelle

LA TRAVIATA
8.  Auf, trinket, ja,   2:47
     trinket in vollen Zügen
9.  Ist sie nicht bei mir/   3:42
     Sie hat mein ungestümes Blut
10.Hat dein heimatliche   4:23
     Land keinen Reiz für deinen Sinn?
11.Aus Madrid sind wir   2:52
     kühnen Toreros/War Piquill
     ein muntrer Fechter
12.Vorspiel zum dritten Akt   4:06
13.Nimm, hier,   4:01
     das ist ein Bild von mir

CD 2
RIGOLETTO
1.  Tochter! - Mein Vater!   5:05
2.  Leise, stille,   1:30
     wir schreiten zur Rache
3.  O wie so trügerisch   2:05
     sind Weiberherzen
4.  Als Tänzerin erschienst   5:44
     du mir erschienst du mir
5.  Mitternacht/Wer ist statt   8:39
     seiner im Sacke?
6.  Gualtier Malde -   6:04
     Caro nome

DON CARLOS
7.  Einleitung/Der Welt   4:42
     entsag’ ich/ Nie werd’ ich
     den Tag vergessen
8.  Gerechtigkeit, mein König   9:30
9.  Mein Carlos, noch Eines   3:43

SIMONE BOCCHANEGRA
10.Favella il Doge   11:15
     ad Amelia Grimaldi?

NABUCCO
11.Va, pensiero,   4:19
     sull’ali dorate

CD 3
IL TROVATORE
Der Troubadour
1.  Or co’ dadi, ma fra poco   3:59
2.  Loderndes Feuer,   3:08
     das ihr entzündet

LA FORZA DEL DESTINO
Die Macht des Schicksals
3.  Rataplan, rataplan   3:06
4.  Holla, holla, holla ...   2:52
     Das Tagwerk ist vollbracht/
     Ein Student bin ich
     und heiße Pereda
5.  Die Himmelsjungfrau   3:18
     gnadenvoll den Mantel
     um dich breite
6.  Schwer ruht auf mir   7:30
     der Fluch des Schicksals/
     Du stiegst empor zur Seligkeit
7.  Gnade, Gnade, mein Heiland,   5:55
     schenke mir Gnade

REQUIEM
Nr. 2 Dies irae
8.  Ingemisco   3:33
9.  Confutatis   4:06
10.Dies irae   1:27
11.Lacrymosa   6:21
12.Nr. 4 Sanctus   2:37
     Nr. 7 Libera me
13.Libera me   2:25
14.Dies irae   2:30
15.Requiem aeternam   3:10
16.Libera me   3:39

• Composed By - Giuseppe Verdi