Joan Sutherland: A Portrait
RRC3013 (3 discs)
REISSUE/COMPILATION
Playing time: 70'15"/52'27"/49'49" - TT 172'31"
Tracks: 18 + 7 + 8
Booklet pages: 6
Reviewer: Gerald Fenech
Review of Joan Sutherland: A Portrait published on 22 June 2013
Listen: Handel: Happy We! (Acis and Galatea) (CD1 track 5, 0:00-0:53)
CD1 - Sutherland sings Handel
George Frideric Handel:
Acis and Galatea: 1 Accompagnato: Ye verdant plains 2 Air: Hush, ye pretty warbling quire 3 Recitative: Oh! didst thou know the pains 4 Air: As when the dove laments her love 5 Duet (with Acis): Happy we! 6 Recitative: Cease, oh cease, thou gentle youth 7 Trio (with Acis and Polyphemus): The flocks shall leave the mountain 8 Solo and Chorus: Must I my Acis still bemoan 9 Recitative: 'Tis done: thus I exert my pow'r divine 10 Air: Heart, the seat of soft delight 11 Chorus: Galatea, dry thy tears
Joan Sutherland (Galatea) Peter Pears (Acis) Owen Brannigan (Polyphemus) St Anthony Singers Philomusica of London Adrian Boult, conductor (Recording first published 1960)
The Messiah 12 Air: Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion 13 Air: How beautiful are the feet 14 Air: I know that my redeemeth [sic] liveth 15 Air: If God be for us
Joan Sutherland, soprano London Symphony Orchestra George Malcolm, harpsichord Adrian Boult, conductor (Recording first published 1960)
Alcina 14 Tornami a vagheggiar 15 Ombre pallid Joan Sutherland, soprano Philomusica of London Anthony Lewis, conductor (Recording first published 1959)
Samson 18 Let the bright seraphim (Recording first published 1960)
CD2 - Sutherland sings Verdi and Bellini
Giuseppe Verdi: 1 The Willow Song (Otello) 2 Ah, fors' è lui / Sempre libera (La traviata) 3 Recitative and Aria, Caro Nome (Rigoletto)
Vincenzo Bellini:
4 Sediziose voci ... Casta diva ... Ah! bello a me ritorna (Norma) 5 Son vergin vezzosa (Polonaise) (I Puritani) 6 O rendetemi la speme ... Qui la voce ... Vien, diletto (I Puritani) 7 Care compagne ... Come per me sereno ... Sovra il sen (La Sonnambula) (Recording first published 1960)
CD3 - The Art of the Prima Donna
Charles Gounod: 1 The Waltz Song (Romeo et Juliet)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: 2 Marten aller Arten (Die Entführung aus dem Serail)
Léo Delibes: 3 The Bell Song (Lakmé)
Giacomo Meyerbeer: 4 O beau pays (Les Huguenots)
Thomas Arne: 5 The Soldier Tir'd (Artaxerxes)
Gioacchino Rossini: 6 Bel raggio lusinghier (Semiramide)
Charles Gounod: 7 O Dieu! que de bijoux ... Ah! je ris de me voir (Fasut [sic])
Ambroise Thomas: 8 The Mad Scene (Hamlet) (Recording first published 1960)
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