The Plácido Domingo Story (2011)
performed by
Angelo Veccia (vocals), Carlos Alvarez (vocals), Carlos Alvarez (bass), Carlos Chausson (vocals), Catarina Ligendza (soprano), Catarina Ligendza (vocals), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (vocals), Gerd Feldhoff (vocals), Hans Sotin (vocals)
composed by
Agustín Lara, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Camille Saint-Saëns, Carl Maria von Weber, Carlos Gardel, César Franck, Ernesto de Curtis, Federico Moreno Torroba, Francisco Alonso, Franz Lehár, Georges Bizet, Giacomo Meyerbeer, Giacomo Puccini, Gioachino Rossini
The Plácido Domingo Story, a three-CD set that spans recordings from early in the tenor's career until 2010, will be a must-have for his fans. This expansive collection offers a chronological survey of Domingo's impressive career and allows the listener to map the development of his voice and the extensiveness of his repertoire and musical tastes. Few if any tenors of his generation excelled in such a diverse range of repertoire: Mozart, Italian bel canto, French grand opera, Verdi, Wagner, verismo, Spanish zarzuela, ...
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The Plácido Domingo Story, a three-CD set that spans recordings from early in the tenor's career until 2010, will be a must-have for his fans. This expansive collection offers a chronological survey of Domingo's impressive career and allows the listener to map the development of his voice and the extensiveness of his repertoire and musical tastes. Few if any tenors of his generation excelled in such a diverse range of repertoire: Mozart, Italian bel canto, French grand opera, Verdi, Wagner, verismo, Spanish zarzuela, Strauss, Neapolitan song, and the work of living composers. The selections demonstrate the extraordinary power and colorful expressiveness of his distinctive voice. They are also evidence of his dramatic gifts in conveying with intensity each character's feelings, whether heroic, ardently romantic, anguished, carefree, or ecstatic. The first two discs are devoted to operatic excerpts, including both solos and ensembles, recorded between 1968 and 2007, and the third to selections from...
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- Fedora, opera: Amor ti vieta
- Oberon, opera, J. 306: Vater! Hör mich fleh'n zu dir!
- I Lombardi alla prima Crociata, opera: La mia letizia infondere - Come poteva un angelo
- Les contes d'Hoffmann, opera in 4 acts: Il était une fois à cour d'Eisenach
- Don Carlo, opera: Io l'ho perduta!...Io la vidi e al suo sorriso
- Carmen, opera: La fleur que tu m'avais jetée
- Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, opera, WWV 96: Morgenlich leuchtend im rosigen Schein
- Samson et Dalila, opera in 3 acts, Op. 47: Arrêtez, ô mes frères
- Werther, lyric drama in 4 acts: Toute mon âme est la!...N'achevez pas!
- Rigoletto, opera: La donna è mobile
- Aida, opera: Se quel guerrier io fossi...Celeste Aida
- Turandot, opera: Nessun dorma!
- Pagliacci, opera: Recitar!...Vesti la giubba
- Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act: O Lola ch'ai di latti la cammisa
- Il Trovatore, opera: Di quella pira
- Lohengrin, opera, WWV 75: In einem fernen Land
- Luisa Miller, opera: Quando le sere al placido
- Tannhäuser, opera, WWV 70: Inbrunst im Herzen
- Tosca, opera: Dammi i colori...Recondita armonia
- L' Africaine, grand opera in 5 acts: Pays merveilleux...Ô paradis
- Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow), symphonic fantasy from the opera, o.Op. 146 (TrV 234a, AV 146): Orchestral Interlude - Falke, Falke, du wiedergefundener
- Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville), opera: Largo al factotum
- Otello, opera: Esultate! L'orgoglio musulmano
- Otello, opera: Dio! mi potevi scagliar tutti i mali / Cassio è là!
- Idomeneo, rè di Creta, opera, K. 366: Fuor del mar ho un mar in seno
- Edgar, opera: Orgia, chimera dall'occhio vitreo
- I Medici, opera: No, de l'antica Grecia
- C'è nel tuo sguardo, song for voice & piano
- Granada, for voice & orchestra (with chorus ad lib)
- Non ti scordar di me, for voice & orchestra (& chorus ad lib)
- Mi buenos aires querido, tango for voice & orchestra
- El día que me quieras (The Day When You Love Me), tango song for voice & orchestra
- Requiem for soloists, chorus & orchestra: Hosanna
- Das Land des Lächelns (The Land of Smiles), operetta in 3 acts (revision of "Die gelbe Jacke"): Dein ist mein ganzes Herz
- El Gato Montés, zarzuela: ?Hasta cuándo?
- El Gato Montés, zarzuela: Señó, q'e no me farte er való
- La del soto del parral, zarzuela: Ya mis horas felices
- Messe solennelle, for 3 voices, chorus, organ, harp, cello & double bass, Op. 12, FWV 61: Panis angelicus
- Pepita Jiménez, lyric comedy in 2 acts: Love moves by night!
- Quarant'anni
- Core 'ngrato (Catari), for voice & orchestra
- Luisa Fernanda, zarzuela: Romanza de Vidal
- Falsa moneda (Fake Coin) ("Crusaos los brazos"), song
- La Coscienza, song
- La Calesera, zarzuela: Agua que río abajo marchó
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