Giocomo Puccini (1858-1924) - Turandot (1990) Cover Front Album Composer Giocomo Puccini (1858-1924) Conductor Zubin Mehta Orchestra / Ensemble I London Philharmonic Orchestra Length 117:22 Format CD Genre Vocal; Opera Chorus I John Alldis Choir Chorus Master John Alldis Index 409 Out of Print No Musicians Soloist Sutherland; Pavarotti; Caballe; Ghiaurov; Pears; Krause; Poli; de Palma; Markov Credits Producer Ray Minshull Label Decca Track List Turandot 56:13 01 Act I: "Popolo di Pekino" "Indietro, cani!" Orquetra Sinfonica da Radio de Praga Regente: Gunther von Clidows 05:34 02 Act I: "Gira la cote!" "Perchè tarda la luna?" Orquetra Sinfonica da Radio de Praga Regente: Gunther von Clidows 07:03 03 Act I: "O giovinetto! Grazia, grazia!" interprétation par les choeurs D.R 04:59 04 Act I: "Figlio, che fai?" interprétation D.R 01:39 05 Act I: "Fermo! Che fai? T'arresta" "Non indugiare!" interprétation par les choeurs D.R 06:14 06 Act I: "Signore, ascolta!" interprétation par les choeurs D.R 02:39 07 Act I: "Non piangere, Liù!" "Ah! Per l'ultima volta!" interprétation D.R 05:17 08 Act II: Scene 1: "Olà, Pang! Olà, Pong!" interprétation D.R 03:17 09 Act II: Scene 1: "Ho una casa nell 'Honan" interprétation D.R 03:41 10 Act II: Scene 1: "O mondo, o mondo..." "O tigre! O tigre!" interprétation J.Bartele, C.Bertrand et J.Stout 05:33 11 Act II: Scene 2: Introduzione interprétation José Germain, Claude Bertrand et les choeurs 01:00 12 Act II: Scene 2: "Gravi, enormi ed imponenti" interprétation par les choeurs D.R 03:27 13 Act II: Scene 2: "Un giuramento atroce mi costringe" interprétation Marie Galey 04:02 14 Act II: Scene 2: "Popolo di Pekino" interprétation Lucie Dolène 01:48 Turandot 61:09 01 Act II: Scene 2: "In questa Reggia" 06:33 02 Act II: Scene 2: "Straniero, ascolta" 06:49 03 Act II: Scene 2: "Gloria, gloria, o vincitore!" "Figlio del cielo! Padre augusto!" 04:07 04 Act II: Scene 2: "Tre enigmi m'hai proposto" 04:15 05 Act III: Scene 1: Introduzione: "Così comanda Turandot" 03:25 06 Act III: Scene 1: "Nessun dorma!" "Tu che guardi le stelle" 06:42 07 Act III: Scene 1: "Principessa divina!" "Tanto amore segreto" 07:11 08 Act III: Scene 1: "Tu che di gel sei cinta" 02:51 09 Act III: Scene 1: "Liù! Liù! Sorgi!" 04:41 10 Act III: Scene 1: "Principessa di morte" 03:17 11 Act III: Scene 1: "Che è mai di me?" 02:45 12 Act III: Scene 1: "Del primo pianto" 03:57 13 Act III: Scene 1: "So il tuo nome!" 02:13 14 Act III: Scene 2: "Diecimila anni al nostro Imperatore!" 02:23 Personal Purchase Date 8/2/1999 Value $34.50 Store BMG Condition 100% Librettist Giuseppe Adami Nationality Italian Premiere Teatro alla Scala, Milan, April 25, 1926 "Form" Opera in Three Acts Language Italian Period Romantic Details Studio Kingsway Hall, London Catalog Number 414 274-2 Live No Recording Date 11/2/2002 Spars ADD Reissue No Sound Stereo Notes Turandot: Joan Sutherland Calaf: Luciano Pavarotti Liù: Montserrat Caballe Timur: Nicolai Ghiaurov L'Imperatore Altoum: Peter Pears Ping: Tom Krause Pang: Pier Francesco Poli Pong: Piero de Palma Un Mandarino: Sabin Markov Il Principe di Persia: Pier Francesco Poli Completed by Franco Alfano Libretto after the play by Carlo Gozzi Notes, illustrations, text and translations Essay: William Weaver Gramophone review: "When Karajan's DG Vienna recording of Turandot appeared on CD, I immediately wondered how this much older Decca set would sound in the new, clearer medium. My impression then was that the 1972 recording, even on LP, was firmer and better defined, and so it proves to be. On CD this more than ever is confirmed as one of the very finest of the many opera recordings made in London's Kingsway Hall, with a vivid sense of presence and reality. Even the deep tones of the bass drum at the very start are more effectively caught here than on the digital Karajan recording, and even the detail within the heaviest tuttis and choruses has a definition one normally associates with digital recording. It is striking too how firmly placed within an identifiable acoustic each solo voice or instrument is, and if there is a limitation of frequency range compared with the latest recordings, I find it hard to detect when the atmosphere is so realistic. "As for the performance, I still count it the most satisfying of all with Sutherland an icy Princess who gives signs of human vulnerability far earlier than usual, and is the more moving for that. "Caballe and Pavarotti are both in magnificent form too. Mehta equally is challenged by his starry cast to produce an outstandingly strong and colourful reading. The Decca CD set has fewer separate bands than the DG but plentiful 'indexing', which I fear I cannot utilize on my machine. Two CDs for the Decca set as against three for the DG is another clear advantage. The second CD here begins with Turandot's entry and the big aria In questa reggia, which is just as convenient as having one CD per act."