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A newly remastered collection of four original Decca albums featuring the Spanish mezzo-soprano at the height of her powers in the repertoire most associated with her, from Rossini to folk and popular songs from her native Spain.
Born in 1935, Teresa Berganza was in her mid-twenties when she made the recordings on this album, yet she was already the darling of the opera press by June 1959 when Decca first issued the wide-ranging recital of Rossini arias which opens this anthology, moving with assured mastery from the flirtatious Isabella in ‘L’italiana in Algeri’ to the grave beauty of ‘Fac ut portem’ from the ‘Stabat mater’. Later the same year, she recorded a sequence of eight Basque songs with orchestra which captivatingly exploits the dark, sultry shadings within her mezzo. Although the Rossini LP has been issued piecemeal on CD, this is the first time the recital appears in its entirety.
A year later, Berganza was established as an artist of singular gifts who would lend distinction to the extraordinary ‘gala sequence’ inserted in the second act of the label’s new Viennese recording of ‘Die Fledermaus’, capable of standing her own alongside the likes of Björling, Nilsson, Sutherland and Tebaldi. Her contribution to that album was a Lullaby by her husband Félix Lavilla which they recorded together not in Vienna but Kingsway Hall, London.
As her long-standing accompanist, Lavilla partnered Berganza in a 1962 recital of Spanish songs that capture the mezzo-soprano in vibrant form, bringing her flaring tone, dramatic energy and captivating charisma to Baroque arias by Pergolesi and Scarlatti as well as songs by Granados and Turina, finishing with a classic account of Falla’s ‘Siete canciones populares españolas’ from 1959. As Richard Wigmore remarks in his new booklet appreciation, not even the legendary Conchita Supervia gave a more thrilling, spine-tingling performance of the cycle’s concluding ‘Polo’. (© Decca Music Group Limited / Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd.)
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Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Gioachino Rossini)
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - London Symphony Orchestra - Sir Alexander Gibson, Conductor - Gioacchino Rossini, Composer - Cesare Sterbini, Author - Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Original Text Author - Giuseppe Petrosellini, Original Text Author - Christopher Raeburn, Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer - Ray Minshull, Recording Producer - Recorded 20 February, 1959, Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London
℗ 1959 Decca Music Group Limited
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - London Symphony Orchestra - Sir Alexander Gibson, Conductor - Gioacchino Rossini, Composer - Cesare Sterbini, Author - Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, Original Text Author - Giuseppe Petrosellini, Original Text Author - Christopher Raeburn, Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer - Ray Minshull, Recording Producer - Recorded 20 February, 1959, Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London
℗ 1959 Decca Music Group Limited
L'Italiana in Algeri (Gioachino Rossini)
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - London Symphony Orchestra - Sir Alexander Gibson, Conductor - Gioacchino Rossini, Composer - Angelo Anelli, Author - Christopher Raeburn, Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer - Ray Minshull, Recording Producer - Recorded 20 February, 1959, Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London
℗ 1959 Decca Music Group Limited
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - London Symphony Orchestra - Sir Alexander Gibson, Conductor - Gioacchino Rossini, Composer - Angelo Anelli, Author - Christopher Raeburn, Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer - Ray Minshull, Recording Producer - Recorded 20 February, 1959, Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London
℗ 1959 Decca Music Group Limited
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - London Symphony Orchestra - Sir Alexander Gibson, Conductor - Gioacchino Rossini, Composer - Angelo Anelli, Author - Christopher Raeburn, Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer - Ray Minshull, Recording Producer - Recorded 20 February, 1959, Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London
℗ 1959 Decca Music Group Limited
Stabat Mater (Gioachino Rossini)
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - London Symphony Orchestra - Sir Alexander Gibson, Conductor - Gioacchino Rossini, Composer - Jacopone da Todi, Author - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer - Ray Minshull, Recording Producer - Recorded 20 February, 1959, Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London
℗ 1959 Decca Music Group Limited
Semiramide (Gioachino Rossini)
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - London Symphony Orchestra - Sir Alexander Gibson, Conductor - Gioacchino Rossini, Composer - Voltaire, Original Text Author - Giacomo Rossi, Author - Ray Minshull, Recording Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer - Recorded 20 February, 1959, Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London
℗ 1959 Decca Music Group Limited
La Cenerentola (Gioachino Rossini)
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - London Symphony Orchestra - Sir Alexander Gibson, Conductor - Gioacchino Rossini, Composer - Charles Perrault, Original Text Author - Jacopo G. Ferretti, Author - Ray Minshull, Recording Producer - Kenneth Wilkinson, Recording Engineer - Recorded 20 February, 1959, Walthamstow Assembly Hall, London
℗ 1959 Decca Music Group Limited
La Rosa del Azafrán (Torres Jacinto Guerrero)
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - Decca Orchestra - Benito Lauret, Conductor - Torres Jacinto Guerrero, Composer - Guillermo Fernández-Shaw, Author - Federico Romero Y Sarachaga, Author - Recorded 1959
℗ 1959 Decca Music Group Limited
El Anillo de Hierro (Pedro Miguel Marques Y Garcia)
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - Decca Orchestra - Benito Lauret, Conductor - Pedro Miguel Marquès y Garcia, Composer - Marcos Zapata, Author - Recorded 1959
℗ 1959 Decca Music Group Limited
Ocho Canciones Vascas (Eight Basque Songs) (Padre José Antonio de Donostía)
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - Decca Orchestra - Gerardo Gombau, Conductor - Padre José Antonio de Donostía, Composer - R.M. de Azcue, Composer - Jesús Arambarri, Work Arranger - Recorded 1959
℗ 1959 Decca Music Group Limited
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - Decca Orchestra - Gerardo Gombau, Conductor - Padre José Antonio de Donostía, Composer - R.M. de Azcue, Composer - Jesús Arambarri, Work Arranger - Recorded 1959
℗ 1959 Decca Music Group Limited
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - Decca Orchestra - Gerardo Gombau, Conductor - Padre José Antonio de Donostía, Composer - R.M. de Azcue, Composer - Jesús Arambarri, Work Arranger - Recorded 1959
℗ 1959 Decca Music Group Limited
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - Decca Orchestra - Gerardo Gombau, Conductor - Padre José Antonio de Donostía, Composer - R.M. de Azcue, Composer - Jesús Arambarri, Work Arranger - Recorded 1959
℗ 1959 Decca Music Group Limited
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - Decca Orchestra - Gerardo Gombau, Conductor - Padre José Antonio de Donostía, Composer - R.M. de Azcue, Composer - Jesús Arambarri, Work Arranger - Recorded 1959
℗ 1959 Decca Music Group Limited
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - Decca Orchestra - Gerardo Gombau, Conductor - Padre José Antonio de Donostía, Composer - R.M. de Azcue, Composer - Jesús Arambarri, Work Arranger - Recorded 1959
℗ 1959 Decca Music Group Limited
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - Decca Orchestra - Gerardo Gombau, Conductor - Padre José Antonio de Donostía, Composer - R.M. de Azcue, Composer - Jesús Arambarri, Work Arranger - Recorded 1959
℗ 1959 Decca Music Group Limited
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - Decca Orchestra - Gerardo Gombau, Conductor - Padre José Antonio de Donostía, Composer - R.M. de Azcue, Composer - Jesús Arambarri, Work Arranger - Recorded 1959
℗ 1959 Decca Music Group Limited
Clavelitos (Joaquín Valverde Durán)
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - Decca Orchestra - Benito Lauret, Conductor - Joaquín Valverde, Composer - Munoz Jose Juan Cadenas, Author - Recorded 1959
℗ 1959 Decca Music Group Limited
Las Hijas del Zebedeo (Ruperto Chapi (y Lorente))
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - Decca Orchestra - Benito Lauret, Conductor - Ruperto Chapi y Lorente, Composer - José Estremera, Author
℗ 1959 Decca Music Group Limited
Demofonte (Luigi Cherubini)
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - Felix Lavilla, Piano - Luigi Cherubini, Composer - Marmontel, Author - Christopher Raeburn, Producer - Michael Mailes, Balance Engineer - Recorded January 1962, Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London
℗ 1962 Decca Music Group Limited
Orontea (Antonio Cesti)
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - Felix Lavilla, Piano - Marc' Antonio Cesti, Composer - Christopher Raeburn, Producer - Michael Mailes, Balance Engineer - Recorded January 1962, Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London
℗ 1962 Decca Music Group Limited
Confusa, smarrita (Giovanni Battista Pergolesi)
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - Felix Lavilla, Piano - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Composer - Cato, Author - Christopher Raeburn, Producer - Michael Mailes, Balance Engineer - Recorded January 1962, Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London
℗ 1962 Decca Music Group Limited
Gli equivoci in amore, o vero La Rosaura (Alessandro Scarlatti)
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - Felix Lavilla, Piano - Alessandro Scarlatti, Composer - Christopher Raeburn, Producer - Michael Mailes, Balance Engineer - Recorded January 1962, Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London
℗ 1962 Decca Music Group Limited
Il Flavio (Alessandro Scarlatti)
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - Felix Lavilla, Piano - Alessandro Scarlatti, Composer - Christopher Raeburn, Producer - Michael Mailes, Balance Engineer - Recorded January 1962, Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London
℗ 1962 Decca Music Group Limited
Gli equivoci in amore, o vero La Rosaura (Alessandro Scarlatti)
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - Felix Lavilla, Piano - Alessandro Scarlatti, Composer - Christopher Raeburn, Producer - Michael Mailes, Balance Engineer - Recorded January 1962, Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London
℗ 1962 Decca Music Group Limited
Elitropio d'amor (Alessandro Scarlatti)
ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI, Composer - Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Christopher Raeburn, Producer - Felix Lavilla, Piano, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Michael Mailes, Balance Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Recorded January 1962, Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London
℗ 1962 Decca Music Group Limited
Seis canzones castellanas (Jesus Guridi)
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - Felix Lavilla, Piano - Jesus Guridi Bidaola, Composer - Traditional, Author - Christopher Raeburn, Producer - Michael Mailes, Balance Engineer - Recorded January 1962, Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London
℗ 1962 Decca Music Group Limited
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - Felix Lavilla, Piano - Jesus Guridi Bidaola, Composer - Traditional, Author - Christopher Raeburn, Producer - Michael Mailes, Balance Engineer - Recorded January 1962, Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London
℗ 1962 Decca Music Group Limited
Cuatro canciones vascas (Felix Lavilla)
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - Felix Lavilla, Composer, Piano - Christopher Raeburn, Producer - Michael Mailes, Balance Engineer - Recorded January 1962, Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London
℗ 1962 Decca Music Group Limited
Saeta en forme de Salve a la Virgen de la Esperanza, Op. 60 (Joaquín Turina)
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - Felix Lavilla, Piano - Joaquín Pérez Turina, Composer - Alvarez Serafin, Author - Joaquin Serafin, Author - Christopher Raeburn, Producer - Michael Mailes, Balance Engineer - Recorded January 1962, Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London
℗ 1962 Decca Music Group Limited
El tra la la y el Punteado (Enrique Granados)
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - Felix Lavilla, Piano - Enrique Granados, Composer - Zuaznabar Fernando Periquet, Author - Christopher Raeburn, Producer - Michael Mailes, Balance Engineer - Recorded January 1962, Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London
℗ 1962 Decca Music Group Limited
El majo timido (Enrique Granados)
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - Felix Lavilla, Piano - Enrique Granados, Composer - Zuaznabar Fernando Periquet, Author - Christopher Raeburn, Producer - Michael Mailes, Balance Engineer - Recorded January 1962, Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London
℗ 1962 Decca Music Group Limited
Tonadillas (Enrique Granados)
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - Felix Lavilla, Piano - Enrique Granados, Composer - Zuaznabar Fernando Periquet, Author - Christopher Raeburn, Producer - Michael Mailes, Balance Engineer - Recorded January 1962, Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London
℗ 1962 Decca Music Group Limited
Treptico (Joaquín Turina)
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - Felix Lavilla, Piano - Joaquín Pérez Turina, Composer - Ramon de Campoamor, Author - Christopher Raeburn, Producer - Michael Mailes, Balance Engineer - Recorded January 1962, Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London
℗ 1962 Decca Music Group Limited
7 Canciones populares españolas (Manuel de Falla)
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - Felix Lavilla, Piano - Manuel de Falla Matheu, Composer - Traditional, Author - Recorded 1959
℗ 1960 Decca Music Group Limited
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - Felix Lavilla, Piano - Manuel de Falla Matheu, Composer - Traditional, Author - Recorded 1959
℗ 1960 Decca Music Group Limited
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - Felix Lavilla, Piano - Manuel de Falla Matheu, Composer - Traditional, Author - Recorded 1959
℗ 1960 Decca Music Group Limited
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - Felix Lavilla, Piano - Manuel de Falla Matheu, Composer - Traditional, Author - Recorded 1959
℗ 1960 Decca Music Group Limited
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - Felix Lavilla, Piano - Manuel de Falla Matheu, Composer - Traditional, Author - Recorded 1959
℗ 1960 Decca Music Group Limited
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - Felix Lavilla, Piano - Manuel de Falla Matheu, Composer - Traditional, Author - Recorded 1959
℗ 1960 Decca Music Group Limited
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - Felix Lavilla, Piano - Manuel de Falla Matheu, Composer - Traditional, Author - Recorded 1959
℗ 1960 Decca Music Group Limited
Lullaby (Felix Lavilla)
Teresa Berganza, Mezzo-Soprano - Felix Lavilla, Piano, Composer - Anonymous, Author - Michael Bremner, Recording Producer - Cyril Windebank, Recording Engineer - Recorded 10 June, 1960, Kingsway Hall, London
℗ 1960 Decca Music Group Limited
Album review
A newly remastered collection of four original Decca albums featuring the Spanish mezzo-soprano at the height of her powers in the repertoire most associated with her, from Rossini to folk and popular songs from her native Spain.
Born in 1935, Teresa Berganza was in her mid-twenties when she made the recordings on this album, yet she was already the darling of the opera press by June 1959 when Decca first issued the wide-ranging recital of Rossini arias which opens this anthology, moving with assured mastery from the flirtatious Isabella in ‘L’italiana in Algeri’ to the grave beauty of ‘Fac ut portem’ from the ‘Stabat mater’. Later the same year, she recorded a sequence of eight Basque songs with orchestra which captivatingly exploits the dark, sultry shadings within her mezzo. Although the Rossini LP has been issued piecemeal on CD, this is the first time the recital appears in its entirety.
A year later, Berganza was established as an artist of singular gifts who would lend distinction to the extraordinary ‘gala sequence’ inserted in the second act of the label’s new Viennese recording of ‘Die Fledermaus’, capable of standing her own alongside the likes of Björling, Nilsson, Sutherland and Tebaldi. Her contribution to that album was a Lullaby by her husband Félix Lavilla which they recorded together not in Vienna but Kingsway Hall, London.
As her long-standing accompanist, Lavilla partnered Berganza in a 1962 recital of Spanish songs that capture the mezzo-soprano in vibrant form, bringing her flaring tone, dramatic energy and captivating charisma to Baroque arias by Pergolesi and Scarlatti as well as songs by Granados and Turina, finishing with a classic account of Falla’s ‘Siete canciones populares españolas’ from 1959. As Richard Wigmore remarks in his new booklet appreciation, not even the legendary Conchita Supervia gave a more thrilling, spine-tingling performance of the cycle’s concluding ‘Polo’. (© Decca Music Group Limited / Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd.)
Details of original recording : Recordings : Walthamstow Assembly Hall, 17–20 February 1959 (Rossini); Kingsway Hall, London, UK, 10 June 1960 (Lavilla: Lullaby); Decca Studio 3, West Hampstead, London, UK, 17–20 January 1962 (Cesti, Cherubini, Pergolesi, Scarlatti, Granados, Guridi, Lavilla, Turina); Spain, 1959 (Falla, Valverde/Muñoz, Chapí y Lorente, Guerrero, Marquès, Donostia/Azcue)
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 43 track(s)
- Total length: 02:10:58
- Main artists: Teresa Berganza
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Decca
- Genre: Classical Secular Vocal Music
- Collection: Eloquence
© 2018 Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd. ℗ 1959 Decca Music Group Limited
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