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Margaret Price - Margaret Price In Recital (CD DOUBLE (SLIMLINE CASE)) 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 mariaand 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 AlunHoddinott'ssetting 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 Grammophoncapturing 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 word-painter in each of them: it's a comprehensive tribute to the art of a soprano esteemed by Sir Georg Solti as 'a musician's singer and a conductor's singer'. 'The attraction is the voice, warm, with a mezzo quality still evident, beautifully even in texture, nobly full-bodied on high, generous in phrasing.' Gramophone, April 1976 (L'Oiseau-Lyre recital) 'The real prize is the haunting AltenbergLieder, sung to perfection by Margaret Price-and the sound is excellent.' High Fidelity, December 1988 (Berg) Tracklistings: CD 1 1 BELLINIAlmense non poss'io- 2 DONIZETTILa Conocchia- 3 VERDIAve Maria- 4 ROSSINIL'Invito- FRANZ SCHUBERT 5 Du bistdie Ruh', D.774- 6 Heidenröslein, D. 257- 7 GretchensBitte, D.564- 8 Die Forelle, D.550- TRADITIONAL WELSH FOLK SONGS 9 Y bore glas- 10 Bugeilio'rGwenithGwyn- 11 WrthFyndEfoDeioI Dowyn- 12 Dafyddy GarregWen- 13 Y DerynPur- 14 16TATEThree Gaelic Ballads- 17 HODDINOTTRoman Dream, Op. 54- 18 22BERGAltenbergerLieder CD 2 GIUSEPPE VERDI 1 Il tramonto 2 La seduzione 3 Ad una stella 4 Lo spazzacamino 5 Perdutaho la pace 6 Deh, pietoso, oh Addolorata 7 Chi ibeidìm'adduceancora 8 La zingara 9 L'esule 10 Non t'accostareall'urna 11 In solitariastanza 12 Nell'orrordi notteoscura 13 Il poveretto 14 Stornello 15 Ave Maria 16 18RAVEL Shéhérazade Margaret Price, soprano James Lockhart, piano (CD1: 1 17) Geoffrey Parsons, piano (CD2: 1 15) London Symphony Orchestra / Claudio Abbado(CD1: 18 22, CD2: 16 18) -FIRST CD RELEASE ON DECCA
