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Montserrat Caballe - The Ultimate Collection (1999) 2CDs

Posted By: Designol
Montserrat Caballe - The Ultimate Collection (1999) 2CDs

Montserrat Caballé - The Ultimate Collection (1999) 2CDs
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 643 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 256 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Opera, Vocal | Label: RCA Red Seal | # 74321 63464 2 | Time: 02:33:02

Double disc anthology of the best recordings of the late great Spanish soprano. She had one of the most unique voices that ever recorded opera and her legacy lives on with this beautiful compendium of her most famous arias and performances.

Montserrat Caballé's career, which began with a legendary lucky break, would eventually make her one of Spain's greatest sopranos – equaled in status and reputation only by her fellow Barcelonian, Victoria de los Angeles.

Her full birth name is Maria de Montserrat Viviana Concepción Caballé i Folch. She is named after the famous Catalan monastery of Montserrat. It is said that her parents feared that they would lose her and vowed that if she were born alive and well they would christen her with the monastery's name.

She learned singing at her convent school; at the age of eight, she entered the Conservatorio del Liceo in Barcelona. Her most important teachers were Eugenia Kenny, Conchita Badea, and Napoleone Annovazzi. When she graduated in 1954, she won the Liceo's Gold Medal.

Caballé made her professional debut in Madrid in the oratorio El pesebre (The Manger) by the great Catalan cellist Pau (Pablo) Casals. She then went to Italy, where she received a few minor roles at various houses.

In 1956, she joined the Basle Opera; she was working her way through the smaller roles when one of the principal singers took ill and she took over the role of Mimì in Puccini's La Bohéme. Her unqualified success in that part led to promotion to starring roles, including Pamina (The Magic Flute), Puccini's Tosca, Verdi's Aïda, Marta in Eugene d'Albert's Tiefland, and the Richard Strauss roles of Arabella, Chrysothemis (Elektra), and Salome.

She steadily gained a European reputation, singing in Bremen, Milan, Vienna, Barcelona, and Lisbon, taking such diverse roles as Violetta (La Traviata), Tatiana (Yevgeny Onegin), Dvorák's Armida and Rusalka, and Marie in Berg's Wozzeck. She debuted at La Scala in 1960 as a Flower Maiden in Parsifal. She sang in Mexico City in 1964 as Massenet's Manon.

In April 20, 1965, on extremely short notice, she substituted for the indisposed Marilyn Horne in a concert performance in Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia, achieving a thunderous success and "overnight" super-stardom. She became one of the leading figures in the revival of interest in the bel canto operas of Bellini and Donizetti, many of which were staged especially for her. Caballé's performances as Elizabeth I (Roberto Devereaux) and that monarch's rival Mary Queen of Scots (Maria Stuarda) are legendary. In 1971, she sang a memorable concert performance of Maria Stuarda in which her fellow Barcelonian José Carreras made his London debut, and after that she helped advance his career. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1965 as Marguerite in Faust.

Caballé's career has centered around Verdi's important dramatic roles, but has also embraced the Marschallin (Rosenkavalier), the Countess (Marriage of Figaro), and Queen Isabella (in the premiere of Leonardo Balada's Cristobál Colón in Barcelona in 1989).

Caballé has had unusual crossover success. In addition to singing on two tracks on an album by New Age composer Vangelis, she is famous for collaborating with the late Freddie Mercury of the rock group Queen, who wrote Exercises in Free Love for her. She appeared on his hit album Barcelona. That album and its primary single rose high on the pop charts.

In 1964, she married Spanish tenor Bernabé Marti. They have two children, Bernabé Marti, Jr. and Montserrat Marti, who is herself a succesful soprano. In 1997, Caballé co-founded an important annual vocal competition in the Principality of Andorra, the Concurs Internacional de Cant Montserrat Caballé. She conducts master classes in conjunction with that competition.

Joseph Stevenson, Allmusic.com

Montserrat Caballe - The Ultimate Collection (1999) 2CDs



Tracklist:

CD1 (01:17:12)

01. La Bohème - Si. Mi Chiamano Mimi (4:46) - Giacomo Puccini
02. Norma - Casta Diva (6:49) - Vincenzo Bellini
03. Assedio di Corinto - Giusto Ciel! In Tal Periglio (3:35) - Gioachino Rossini
04. Sappho - O Ma Lyre Immortalle (8:23)- Charles Gounod
05. Semiramide - Serbami ognor… Alle più calde immagini (8:05) - Gioachino Rossini
06. Otello - Piangea Cantando (Willow Song) (9:20) - Giuseppe Verdi
07. Otello - Ave Maria (5:47) - Giuseppe Verdi
08. Salomé - Il Est Doux, Il Est Bon (5:07) - Jules Massenet
09. Lucrezia Borgia - Tranquillo Ei Posa… Com'e Bello! (9:08) - Gaetano Donizetti
10. Suor Angelica - Senza Mamma (5:01) - Giacomo Puccini
11. Rigoletto - Caro Nome (6:29) - Giuseppe Verdi
12. La Sonnambula - Ah! Non Credea Mirarti (4:43) - Vincenzo Bellini


CD2 (01:15:50)

01. E strano, e strano! (La Traviata) (6:11) - Giuseppe Verdi
02. Follie! Follie! (La Traviata) (1:08) - Giuseppe Verdi
03. Sempre libera degg'io (La Traviata) (3:45) - Giuseppe Verdi
04. Vissi d'arte (Tosca) (3:24) - Giacomo Puccini
05. Egli non riede ancora! (Il Corsaro) (2:10) - Giuseppe Verdi
06. Non so le tetre immagini (Il Corsaro) (3:45) - Giuseppe Verdi
07. D'amore al dolce impero (Armida) (7:12) - Gioachino Rossini
08. Qual fiamma avea nel guardo! (I Pagliacci) (4:56) - Ruggero Leoncavallo
09. E Sara in questi… Vivi, ingrato (Roberto Devereux) (7:14) - Gaetano Donizetti
10. D'amor sull'ali rosee (Il Trovatore) (5:41) - Giuseppe Verdi
11. Inflammuatus et accensus (Stabat Mater) (5:20) - Gioachino Rossini
12. Io son l'umile ancella (Adriana Lecouvreur) (4:05) - Francesco Cilèa
13. Al dolce guidami (Anna Bolena) (10:08) - Gaetano Donizetti
14. Dopo l'oscuro nembo (Adelson e Salvini) (6:02) - Vincenzo Bellini
15. Arrigo! Ah, parli a un core (I Vespri Siciliani) (4:49) - Giuseppe Verdi


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Montserrat Caballe - The Ultimate Collection (1999) 2CDs

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