Sunday, April 24, 2016

Sergio A. Mims: Soprano Pumeza Matshikiza has a new album of opera arias including the works of Mozart, Ravel and Gluck to be released by Decca Classics in June

Pumeza Matshikiza: Arias
Decca (2016)

Sergio A. Mims:

I know you and your readers would love to know that soprano Pumeza Matshikiza has a new album of opera arias including the works of Mozart, Ravel and Gluck to be released by Decca Classics in June

http://www.mdt.co.uk/pumeza-arias-decca.html


Sergio
 
MDT.co.uk

PUMEZA MATSHIKIZA Arias
[1] Puccini: Si mi chiamano Mimì (La Bohème)
[2] Catalani: Ebben! Ne andro lontana (La Wally)
[3] Puccini: Senza mamma (Suor Angelica)
[4] Dvorak: Song to the Moon (Rusalka)
[5] Puccini: Tu che di gel sei cinta (Turandot)
[6] Ravel: Oh! la pityoable aventure! (L'heure espagnole)
[7] Yradier: La Paloma
[8] Montsalvatge: Punto da Habanera
[9] Faure: Après un rêve
[10] Tosti: Si tu le voulais
[11] Hahn: A chloris
[12] Sarti: Lungi dal caro bene
[13]-[14]Mozart: Deh vieni non tardar (Le Nozze di Figaro)
[15] Gluck: Che fiero momento (Orfeo ed Euridice)
[16] Purcell: Dido's Lament (Dido & Aeneas)


Pumeza's second album ARIAS is a collection of many of the great opera roles in which Pumeza has blossomed: Mimi in La Boheme; Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro; Liu in Turandot; Dido in Dido & Aeneas; Concepcion in L'heure espagnole together with such operatic greatest hits as 'The Song to the Moon' from Rusalka and 'Ebben, ne andro lontano' from La Wally.
The album also features new arrangements of art songs such as Faure's 'Après un rêve' and Reynaldo Hahn's A Chloris as well as a Rosa Ponselle favourite, Tosti's 'Si tu le voulais'

Also included are arrangements of Sarti's famous aria 'Lungi del caro bene' made by DECCA for Renata Tebaldi in the 1970s and recorded here for the first time since then and an arrangement of the classic song 'La Paloma' originally made for Victoria de los Angeles.

Decca 4788964
 
 

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