Description
Matti Salminen (bass) - Opera Arias - Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Eri Klas / BIS Audio CD 1991 Stereo / BIS-CD-520
UPC 7318590005200
Matti Kalervo Salminen (born 7 July 1945) is a Finnish operatic bass, now retired, who has sung at the most important opera houses of the world, including the Metropolitan and Bayreuth Festival. He is distinguished by an imposing figure and height (6' 5"), a cavernous, heavy, dark voice with an expansive upper register, and an expressive face. According to one reviewer, in his prime Salminen was "... simply the largest bass voice in captivity. It is not just its roar in powering over Wagner's maximum orchestra, but the way he carves the sonority and forms the color."
Salminen has a special gift for playing menacing, threatening characters. He performed as Fafner and Hagen in the PBS video broadcast Ring Cycle from the Metropolitan Opera, for the largest viewing-audience of the Ring in history.
| Label: | BIS – BIS-CD-520 |
|---|---|
| Format: |
CD, Stereo
|
| Country: | Sweden |
| Released: |
1991 |
| Genre: | Classical |
| Style: | Opera |
Tracklist:
| Die Zauberflöte, K.V. 620 |
| 1 | No. 10: 'O Isis Und Osiris' (Sarastro) | 3:15 |
| 2 | No. 15: 'In Diesen Heil'gen Hallen' (Sarastro) | 3:43 | |
|
Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail, K.V. 384 |
| 3 | No. 2: 'Wer Ein Liebchen Hat Gefunden' (Osmin) | 2:32 |
| 4 | No. 3: 'Solche Hergelauf'ne Laffen' (Osmin) | 5:07 |
| 5 | No. 19: 'Ha! Wie Will Ich Triumphieren' (Osmin) | 3:20 | |
|
Fidelio, Op. 72 |
| 6 | No. 4: 'Hat Man Nicht Auch Gold' (Rocco) | 2:42 | |
|
Macbeth |
| 7 | No. 10: 'Come Dal Ciel Precipita' (Banco) | 4:02 | |
|
Simone Boccanegra |
| 8 | No. 1b: 'Il Lacerato, Spirito' (Fiesco) | 4:19 | |
|
Don Carlo |
| 9 | Act II, Opening: 'Ella Giammai M'amo' (Filippo) | 9:10 | |
|
Il Barbiere Di Siviglia |
| 10 | No. 5: 'La Calunnia' (Basilico) | 4:37 | |
|
La Bohème |
| 11 | No. 19: 'Vecchia Zimarra' (Colline) | 2:03 | |
| Eugene Onegin |
| 12 | No. 20a: 'Lyubvi Vsye' (Gremin) | 5:47 | |
|
Der Fliegende Holländer |
| 13 | No. 6: 'Mögst Du, Mein Kind' (Daland) | 4:30 | |
|
Die Schweigsame Frau |
| 14 | Final Scene: 'Wie Schön Ist Doch Die Musik' (Morosus) | 4:59 |
- Bass Vocals – Matti Salminen (2)
- Conductor – Eri Klas
- Edited By [Digital] – Robert von Bahr
- Engineer – Robert von Bahr
- Liner Notes – Tero-Pekka Henell
- Liner Notes [English Translation] – Andrew Barnett, Kyllikki Barnett
- Liner Notes [French Translation] – Arlette Lemieux-Chené
- Liner Notes [German Translation] – Christiane Saloranta
- Orchestra – Lahti Symphony Orchestra
- Photography By [Center Spread - Church] – Markku Lehtinen (2)
- Photography By [Center Spread - Musicians] – Hannu Miilus
- Photography By [Front & Back Cover] – Matti Kolho
- Producer – Robert von Bahr
- Typography, Layout – Andrew Barnett, Kyllikki Barnett
