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NC 190216-2  ©2001
1 CD
ADAGIO

Edita Gruberova

Camille Saint-Saëns: Le rossignol et la rose
Vocalise from Parysatis
Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra / Friedrich Haider

Jacques Offenbach: Belle nuit
Barcarole from Les Contes d’Hoffmann
Natela Nicoli, mezzo-soprano
Münchner Rundfunkorchester / Ondrej Lenard

Léo Delibes: Viens Mallika
Duet from Lakmé
Natela Nicoli, mezzo-soprano
Münchner Rundfunkorchester / Ondrej Lenard

Gabriel Fauré: Berceuse from Dolly op.56
Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra / Friedrich Haider

Alexander Alabieff: Die Nachtigall
Russian folk song (arr.: Aglaja Orgeni)
Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra / Friedrich Haider

Nikolaj Rimskij-Korsakov: Ivan Sergéitch...
Scene and aria from The Tzar's Bride
Münchner Rundfunkorchester / Fabio Luisi

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: It Is Already Evening
Duet from Pique Dame
Natela Nicoli, mezzo-soprano
Münchner Rundfunkorchester / Ondrej Lenard

Sergej Rachmaninov: 'Tis Pleasant Here op.21/4
Friedrich Haider, piano

Nikolaj Rimskij-Korsakov: Not the wind, blowing from the heights op.43/2
Friedrich Haider, piano

Antonin Dvorák: Songs My Mother Taught Me op.55/4
Friedrich Haider, piano

Johannes Brahms: Die Meere (duet op.20/3)
Vesselina Kasarova, mezzo-soprano / Friedrich Haider, piano

Robert Schumann: Sommerruh (duet WoO 9); An den Abendstern (duet op.103/4)
Vesselina Kasarova, mezzo-soprano / Friedrich Haider, piano

Engelbert Humperdinck: Abends will ich schlafen geh’n
from Hänsel und Gretel
Natela Nicoli, mezzo-soprano
Münchner Rundfunkorchester / Ondrej Lenard

Johann Strauß: Wo die Citronen blüh’n
Walzer op.364 (arr.: Schönherr/Bibl)
Münchner Rundfunkorchester / Rudolf Bibl

Carl Zeller: Als geblüht der Kirschenbaum
from Der Vogelhändler
Münchner Rundfunkorchester / Rudolf Bibl


Sound sign (gif)Excerpt from "Viens Mallika"
(in .ra format - you can obtain a free player here)

 
Reviews: 

"Gruberova sings ravishingly. (...) Listen to the trills and the perfect, delicate upper-register ascents in Saint-Saens's 'Rossignol et la Rose', or the haunting colors of Dvorak's famous 'Songs My Mother Taught Me' (...). Gruberova made her name as a coloratura, but she's no less adept at spinning out long-breathed cantilena." 
(American Record Guide) 

"Auf der "Adagio"-CD kommen alle Vorzüge der Gruberova bestens zur Geltung: Differenzierte Dynamik, gefühlvoller Vortrag, technische Brillanz, unverwechselbares Timbre und schier endlos scheinender Atem sind zu bewundern. Ebenso der Mut zu wohldosierter Sentimentalität, wovor manche Kolleginnen zurückschrecken. Doch die Gruberova ist furchtlos. Auch das wird ihr vom Publikum honoriert." 
(Karl Löbl in "Kurier") 

 
 
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