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Maria Cebotari sings Mozart, Verdi,
Puccini, Strauß and Gounod


Recorded 1932, 1935, 1936, 1941, 1947, 1948
Download ID: 265032
(Duration 66'35")

Restoration by HTS Studio for Hänssler Classic

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Air de Bijoux (Juwelen-Arie) - Gounod - Faust

Discussing the last recordings made by singers who died much too young is always a tricky matter. One listens, willy-nilly,with different ears and is inclined to react subjectively, especially when words are involved. »There is a realm where everything is pure. It has a name: the realm of the dead.« Can one listen to those lines in Maria Cebotari's recording of
Ariadne's monologue without being moved by the fact that the soprano died of cancer at the age of 39, especially if one knows that the recording was made only months before her
death?

Speaking on radio, German musicologist Helmut Reinold said he detected in Cebotari's recording a profundity that perhaps exceeded the intentions of both Richard Strauss and Hugo von HofmannsthaL A subjective interpretation? Or is not a certain »Orphic« tone to be heard there, like the one we sense in Kathleen Ferrier's last recordings and FritzWunderlich's last lieder recital?...

Her strength lay in her rich middle register. When required. she was able to sing with the tone and intensity of a genuine dramatic soprano, yet was also capable of performing the exalted flights of Sophie,
Aminta and Daphne with ease. In his book on »the great voices«, Fischer describes »her true trademark« as an »aura of nervous tension, of the highest degree of vibrant intensity«. And anyone who can think further than the evenly balanced German soprano voice (Berger,Lemnitz, Reining, Eipperle) will be able to imagine vividly how Cebotari's voice must have had a similarly electrifying effect on her audiences
that generated later by singers like Welitsch and Rysanek. That »vibrant intensity« added an erotic dimension to her singing which many other singers lacked.

Excerpted from enclosed sleevenotes, Thomas Voigt © 2004

 

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  1. Un bel di vedremo - Puccini - Madama Butterfly
  2. Con onor muore - Puccini - Madama Butterfly
  3. Man nennt mich jetzt Mimi (Mi chiamano Mimi) - Puccini - La Bohème
  4. O du süßestes Mädchen (O soave fanciulla) - Puccini - La Bohème
  5. Will ich allein (Quando m'en vo) - Puccini - La Bohème
  6. Nur der Schönheit (Vissi d'arte) - Puccini - Tosca
  7. Es ist seltsam (E strano) - Verdi - La Traviata
  8. Lebt wohl jetzt (Addio del passato) - Verdi - La Traviata
  9. Air de Bijoux (Juwelen-Arie) - Gounod - Faust
  10. Martern aller Arten - Mozart - Die Entführung aus dem Serail
  11. E Susanna non vien / Dove sono - Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro
  12. Schlage, schlage dein Zerlinchen (Batti, batti) - Mozart - Don Giovanni
  13. Ich weiß ein Mittel (Vedrai carino) - Mozart - Don Giovanni
  14. Es gibt ein Reich - R. Strauss - Ariadne auf Naxos
  15. Frühlingsstimmen-Walzer - J. Strauß

 

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