Rosa Ponselle - American Recordings Vol.3 (CD)

With works by: Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) , Gaspare Spontini (1774-1851) , Francesco Paolo Tosti (1846-1916) , Jules Massenet (1842-1912) , Charles Gounod (1818-1893) , Franz Schubert (1797-1828) , Nikolai Rimsky-Korssakoff (1844-1908) , Percy Kahn (1880-1966)

Contributors: Rosa Ponselle

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Arien & Lieder von Verdi, Spontini, Tosti, Massenet, Gounod, Schubert, Rimsky-Korssakoff, Kahn

Artists:: Rosa Ponselle
Label:: Naxos
Year of recording ca.:: 1923-29
Item number:: 7419766
UPC/EAN:: 0747313314027
Release date:: 2.7.2007

Described by Maria Callas as "the greatest singer of us all", the American-born Rosa Ponselle (1897-1981) is acknowledged as one of the outstanding dramatic sopranos of the twentieth century. Without any previous experience of the operatic stage, she made her Metropolitan début in Verdi's La forza del destino opposite Caruso in 1918. Following her enormous success, she became the Metropolitan's leading soprano, appearing in twentyone roles throughout her career. This third disc of Ponselle's 1923-1929 American recordings features solo arias from the great Verdi operas, the complete "Tomb Scene" from Aida and a number of songs that often appeared in Ponselle's recital programmes. Schubert's Ständchen is a composite of two takes unpublished on 78rpm found by a collector in Cincinnati.

Disk 1 von 1 (CD)

1 Aida: Act IV: La fatal pietra
2 Aida: Act IV: O terra addio
3 Rosa Ponselle: La vestale: Act II: Tu che invoco
4 Rosa Ponselle: La vestale: Act II: O nume tutelar
5 Rosa Ponselle: La vestale: Act II: O nume tutelar (unpublished take)
6 Rosa Ponselle: A vucchella, "Arietta di Posillipo" (version for voice and orchestra): 'A vucchella, "Arietta di Posillipo"
7 Rosa Ponselle: Luna d'estate
8 Elegie (take 1)
9 Elegie (take 3)
10 Ave Maria
11 Schwanengesang, D. 957: No. 4. Standchen (Serenade)
12 Rosa Ponselle: Aida: Act I: Ritorna vincitor
13 Rosa Ponselle: Aida: Act Iii: O Patria Mia
14 4 Songs, Op. 2: No. 2. The Nightingale and the Rose (Vostochniy romans: Plenivshis' rozoy, solovey)
15 Serenade
16 Rosa Ponselle: Goodbye
17 Rosa Ponselle: Ave Maria
18 Rosa Ponselle: Ernani: Ernani, Act I: Ernani! Ernani, involami