Highlights From Famous Operas - CD 5 - Verdi, Monteverdi, Gluck, Tchaikovsky, Bizet, Saint-Saens, Mussorgsky / Brilliant Classics Audio CD 1994 / 280739

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Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco Verdi (Italian: [dʒuˈzɛppe ˈverdi]; 9 or 10 October 1813 – 27 January 1901) was an Italian opera composer. He was born near Busseto to a provincial family of moderate means, receiving a musical education with the help of a local patron. Verdi came to dominate the Italian opera scene after the era of Gioachino Rossini, Gaetano Donizetti, and Vincenzo Bellini, whose works significantly influenced him.

Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, string player, choirmaster, and priest. A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the development of opera, he is considered a crucial transitional figure between the Renaissance and Baroque periods of music history.

Christoph Willibald (Ritter von) Gluck (German: [ˈkʁɪstɔf ˈvɪlɪbalt ˈɡlʊk]; 2 July 1714 – 15 November 1787) was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period. Born in the Upper Palatinate and raised in Bohemia, both part of the Holy Roman Empire, he gained prominence at the Habsburg court at Vienna. There he brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices for which many intellectuals had been campaigning. With a series of radical new works in the 1760s, among them Orfeo ed Euridice and Alceste, he broke the stranglehold that Metastasian opera seria had enjoyed for much of the century. Gluck introduced more drama by using simpler recitative and cutting the usually long da capo aria. His later operas have half the length of a typical baroque opera.

Tracklist:

1.  G. Verdi - Uh ballo in maschera ''Re del'abisso''   5:42

2.  G. Verdi - Il Trovatore ''Raconto Condotta''   4:58

3.  G. Verdi - Il Trovatore ''Stride la vampa''   2:50

4.  A. Ponchielli - La Gioconda ''Voce di donna''   3:12

5.  C. Montverdi - L' Incoronazione di Poppea ''Addio Roma''   4:38

6.  M. Mussorgsky - Skutschno Marine   2:28

7.  Ch. W. Gluck - Orpheus ''Che puro ciel''   5:00

8.  Ch. W. Gluck - Orpheus ''Che Faro''   4:54

9.  P. I. Tchaikovsky - Pique Dame - Aria of the countess, Act II   6:21

10. C. Saint-Saens - Samson and Dalila ''Printemps qui commence''   5:30

11. C. Saint-Saens - Samson and Dalila ''Samson recherchant ma presence''   5:20

12. C. Saint-Saens - Samson and Dalila ''Mon coer s' ouvre a ta voix''   5:50

13. G. Bizet - Carmen - Habanera   2:51

14. G. Bizet - Carmen - Aria with the cardsv   3:50