TERESA BERGANZA
FALLA: 7 CANCIONES POPULARES ESPAÑOLAS;
SONGS OF MOZART, MONTSALVATGE, OBRADORS, GURIDI, SCHUBERT & DONIZETTI
MOZART: "NON SO PIÙ" & "VOI CHE SAPETE" FROM LE NOZZE DI FIGARO; "PARTO, PARTO" FROM LA CLEMENZA DI TITO;
ROSSINI: "NACQUI ALL' AFFANO" FROM LA CENERENTOLA
Filmed in London, Paris and Provence in 1960, 1964 and 1967.
Sources: BBC Archive and INA Archive
BONUS: GERALD MOORE INTRODUCES DIETRICH FISCHER DIESKAU
SCHUBERT: "GEHEIMNIS"
JULIUS PATZAK
R. STRAUSS: "ZUEIGNUNG"; J. STRAUSS: "NUR FÜR NATUR" FROM DIE LUSTIGE KRIEG
HANS HOTTER
SCHUMANN: "DIE BEIDEN GRENADIERE"
CHRISTA LUDWIG
SCHUBERT: "DER TOD UND DAS MÄDCHEN"; WOLF: "ALS ICH AUF DEM EUPHRAT; R. STRAUSS: "SCHLECHTES WETTER" & "CÄCILIE"
Filmed in London in 1959 and 1961.
Source: BBC Archive.
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You immediately sense it as soon as Tereza Berganza takes centre stage at Paris's Salle Pleyel in 1964 for "Nacqui all'affano..." from Rossini's La Cenerentola, the sheer joy of it, the feisty side-glances and inner vitality. Interesting too that her excellent conductor is Eugen Jochum, a musician more associated with Bruckner and Haydn than with Rossini. Classic archive's Berganza DVD (recorded 1964-7) combines opera and song. The same disc incorporates a valuable bonus where the 'unashamed accompanist' Gerald Moore, no less charismatic than Berganza in his own modest way, collaborates with four of the twentieth century's finest concert singers, Christa Ludwig, Julius Patzak, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Hans Hotter, recorded between 1959 and 1962.

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