Plácido Domingo – Verdi (2013)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:09:59 minutes | 1,12 GB | Genre: Classical
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Before automatically dismissing the idea of the 72-year-old tenor Plácido Domingo reincarnated as a baritone, consider that he started out as one on the zarzuela stage many moons ago. In this selection of Verdi baritone arias, he sounds like the same Domingo so many millions of people have known and loved, just taken down a few scale degrees. That’s both a good thing and a bad thing. You don’t necessarily want a baritone to sound like a tenor, and in a few of these arias, which move the action along more than a tenor aria would, you feel that he’s not really digging into the lyrics. But let’s face it: who else among Domingo’s tenor contemporaries could have pulled this off? The voice is not just recognizably Domingo but pleasingly Domingo, with the characteristic mixture of power and relaxed flexibility that has endeared him to listeners who have never heard any other opera singer, or any other opera singers than the Three Tenors. Domingo sounds terrific. He gets dry, competent support from the Orquesta de la Comunitat Valenciana and its associated chorus under Pablo Heras-Casado; the orchestra keeps the focus on Domingo’s voice, right where it belongs. If this album were by anyone else, it would hardly work; from Domingo it is something to prize.
Tracklist
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Macbeth, Act IV, Scene and Aria
1 Perfidi! All’anglo contro me v’unite! … Pietà, rispetto, amore 05:21
Rigoletto, Act I, Scene 3, Scena
2 Pari siamo! Io la lingua 03:52
Rigoletto, Act II, Scene 2, Aria
3 Sì la mia figlia! … Cortigiani, vil razza dannata 05:00
Un ballo in maschera, Act III, Scene 1, Aria
4 Alzati! LÃ tuo figlio … Eri tu che macciavi quell’anima 06:22
La traviata, Act II, Scene 1, Aria
5 La traviata, Act II, Scene 1, Aria: 04:30
Simon Boccanegra, Act I, Scene 2
6 Abbasso le spade! … Plebe! Patrizi! Popolo dalla feroce storia! 05:17
7 Simon Boccanegra, Act I, Scene 2: Ecco la spada 04:32
Ernani, Act III, Scene and Cavatina
8 È questo il loco? 03:31
Ernani, Act III, Scene and Cavatina
9 Oh, de’ verd’anni miei 03:26
Il trovatore, Part II, Scene 2, Scena ed Aria
10 Tutto è deserto 01:30
Il trovatore, Part II, Scene 2, Scena ed Aria
11 Il balen del suo sorriso 03:10
Il trovatore, Part II, Scene 2, Scena ed Aria
12 Qual suono! Oh ciel! … Per me, ora fatale 02:56
Don Carlo, Act IV, Scene 2
13 Son io, mio Carlo 03:36
Don Carlo, Act IV, Scene 2
14 Per me giunto è ll dì supremo 02:42
Don Carlo, Act IV, Scene 2
15 Che parli tu di morte? 05:55
La forza del destino, Act III, Scene 2, Scena ed Aria
16 Morir! Tremenda cosa 02:24
La forza del destino, Act III, Scene 2, Scena ed Aria
17 Urna fatale del mio destino 03:00
La forza del destino, Act III, Scene 2, Scena ed Aria
18 E s’altra prova rinvenir potessi? … Egli è salvo! Gioia immensa 02:58
Personnel
Placido Domingo, baritone
Orquestra de la Comunítat Valencíana
Pablo Heras-Casado, Dirigent
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