London Records ffss Stereo
Matrix ZAL-5756-3G With Booklet
1962 double LP album Command Performance
All of this album shows Dame Joan singing excellently. The only snag is that most of this repertoire doesn't really show off her strengths. The excerpts from Oberon, Le Cid, I Pagliacci, I masnardieri, and Luisa Miller, while engaging, give only glimmers of the magic Sutherland could bring to music. The Shadow Song from Meyerbeer's Dinaorah is rather nice though.
Side 1.
Weber: Oberon: 'Ocean! thou mighty monster'
Massenet: Le Cid: 'Pleurez mes yeux'
Meyerbeer: Dinorah: 'Ombre légère' ('Shadow Song')
Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci: 'Stridono lassù'
Side 2.
Verdi: I masnadieri 'Tu del mio Carlo' (with John Dobson, tenor)
Verdi: Luisa Miller 'Che! e segnar questa mano potrebbe l'onta mia?'
Rossini: La Cambiale di matrimonio: 'Vorrei spiegarvi'
Bellini: Beatrice di tenda: 'Eccomi pronta... Deh, se un'urna' (with The Ambrosian Singers)
Side 3.
Benedict: 'The Gipsy and the Bird'
Arditi: 'Parla!'
Ricci: Crispino e la comare: 'Io non sono più l'Annetta'
Tosti: 'Ideale' (with Richard Bonynge, piano)
Arditi: 'Il Bacio'
Tosti: La Serenata' (with Richard Bonynge, piano)
Leoncavallo: 'Mattinata'
Side 4.
Bishop: 'Lo! here the gentle lark'
Flotow: Martha: 'The last rose of summer'
Wallace: Maritana: 'Scenes that are brightest'
Balfe: Bohemian Girl: I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls'
Bishop: Clari: 'Home sweet home'
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