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Anna Moffo - The Complete RCA Recital Albums (12CD Box Set, 2015) FLAC
Artist: Anna Moffo
Title Of Album: The Complete RCA Recital Albums
Year Of Release: 2015
Label (Catalog#): Sony Classical
Country: UK
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue, log)
Bitrate: Lossless
Time: 13:53:49
Full Size: 6.62 Gb
THE FIRST OF THE TWELVE discs in this collection of Anna Moffo’s RCA recital recordings begins with a 1960 performance of the jewel song from Gounod’s Faust, and that selection, along with the others on this disc, sets out the singer’s basic assets and liabilities. It’s a fresh lyric sound—Moffo was twenty-eight that year—even throughout the range, accurate in pitch and coloratura, with a good try at a trill. She phrases with musicality but not much nuance or variety of color. These qualities serve her and the music well in the coloratura fireworks of the shadow song from Meyerbeer’s Dinorah; “Bel raggio,” from Rossini’s Semiramide; and the bell song from Delibes’s Lakm?, all of which she tosses off with ease. Micaela’s aria from Carmen, however, demands more emotional thrust, while her Mim? and Li? are bland and anonymous.
Moffo’s career, as she admitted in later years, was damaged by too much, too soon. The essay in the printed booklet is aptly titled “The Curse of Beauty.” It didn’t help that Moffo was compared to Maria Callas, and was rashly encouraged to emulate the older diva. By 1962, Moffo recorded a disc of Verdi arias—not just lighter pieces such as the bolero from I Vespri Siciliani,but also the big stuff from Un Ballo in Maschera, Aida and Otello, in which she is plainly beyond her depth, vocally and interpretively. A year later, she was pushed in the opposite direction, recording The Dream Duet, operetta excerpts with tenor Sergio Franchi performed in a stylistic no-man’s land somewhere between bad Broadway, bad Vienna and bad Hollywood. Skip this nightmare entirely.
Contains CDs:
CD1: Anna Moffo - Rome Opera Orchestra Tullio Serafin - Arias
CD2: Anna Moffo - Sergio Franci - The Dream Duet
CD3: Anna Moffo - A Verdi Collaboration
CD4: Anna Moffo - A Portrait of Manon (CD1)
CD5: Anna Moffo - A Portrait of Manon (CD2)
CD6: Anna Moffo - Die Fledermaus
CD7: Anna Moffo - One Night of Love Anna Moffo
CD8: Anna Moffo - Canteloube Villa-Lobos Rachmaninov
CD9: Anna Moffo - Anna Moffo Songs of Debussy
CD10: Anna Moffo - Heroines From Great French Operas
CD11: Anna Moffo - Anna Moffo Selected Arias From Her RCA Opera Recordings
CD12: Anna Moffo - Great Love Duets From Opera
Tracklist:
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Artist: Anna Moffo
Title Of Album: The Complete RCA Recital Albums
Year Of Release: 2015
Label (Catalog#): Sony Classical
Country: UK
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (image + .cue, log)
Bitrate: Lossless
Time: 13:53:49
Full Size: 6.62 Gb
THE FIRST OF THE TWELVE discs in this collection of Anna Moffo’s RCA recital recordings begins with a 1960 performance of the jewel song from Gounod’s Faust, and that selection, along with the others on this disc, sets out the singer’s basic assets and liabilities. It’s a fresh lyric sound—Moffo was twenty-eight that year—even throughout the range, accurate in pitch and coloratura, with a good try at a trill. She phrases with musicality but not much nuance or variety of color. These qualities serve her and the music well in the coloratura fireworks of the shadow song from Meyerbeer’s Dinorah; “Bel raggio,” from Rossini’s Semiramide; and the bell song from Delibes’s Lakm?, all of which she tosses off with ease. Micaela’s aria from Carmen, however, demands more emotional thrust, while her Mim? and Li? are bland and anonymous.
Moffo’s career, as she admitted in later years, was damaged by too much, too soon. The essay in the printed booklet is aptly titled “The Curse of Beauty.” It didn’t help that Moffo was compared to Maria Callas, and was rashly encouraged to emulate the older diva. By 1962, Moffo recorded a disc of Verdi arias—not just lighter pieces such as the bolero from I Vespri Siciliani,but also the big stuff from Un Ballo in Maschera, Aida and Otello, in which she is plainly beyond her depth, vocally and interpretively. A year later, she was pushed in the opposite direction, recording The Dream Duet, operetta excerpts with tenor Sergio Franchi performed in a stylistic no-man’s land somewhere between bad Broadway, bad Vienna and bad Hollywood. Skip this nightmare entirely.
Contains CDs:
CD1: Anna Moffo - Rome Opera Orchestra Tullio Serafin - Arias
CD2: Anna Moffo - Sergio Franci - The Dream Duet
CD3: Anna Moffo - A Verdi Collaboration
CD4: Anna Moffo - A Portrait of Manon (CD1)
CD5: Anna Moffo - A Portrait of Manon (CD2)
CD6: Anna Moffo - Die Fledermaus
CD7: Anna Moffo - One Night of Love Anna Moffo
CD8: Anna Moffo - Canteloube Villa-Lobos Rachmaninov
CD9: Anna Moffo - Anna Moffo Songs of Debussy
CD10: Anna Moffo - Heroines From Great French Operas
CD11: Anna Moffo - Anna Moffo Selected Arias From Her RCA Opera Recordings
CD12: Anna Moffo - Great Love Duets From Opera
Tracklist:
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