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Grace Bumbry - Lugano Recital

Bumbry,Grace
Release Date: 09/25/2007 
Label:  Videoland   Catalog #: 163  
Composer:  Gioachino Rossini,  Giuseppe Verdi,  Luigi Cherubini,  Modest Mussorgsky,   ... 
Performer:  Grace Bumbry
Conductor:  Massimo Pradella
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Italian Switzerland Radio/TV Orchestra
Number of Discs: 1 
Recorded in: Stereo 
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GIOACCHINO ROSSINI (1792 – 1868): Semiramide, overture; GIUSEPPE VERDI (1813 – 1901): La Forza del Destino: “Pace, pace mio dio”; La Traviata: Prelude Act III; Don Carlos: “Tu che la vanità” & “O Don Fatale”; LUIGI CHERUBINI (1760 – 1842): Medea, overture; MODEST MUSSORGSKY (1839 – 1881): Kovancina, overture; FRANCESCO CILEA (1866 – 1950): Adriana Lecouvreur: “Io son l’umile ancella”; JULES MASSENET (1842 – 1912): Herodiade: “Il est doux, il est bon”; GIACOMO PUCCINI (1858 – 1924): Manon Lescaut: Intermezzo Act III; CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS (1835 – 1921): Samson et Dalila: “Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix”; GEORGES BIZET (1838 – 1875): Carmen: “Seguidilla”

Grace Bumbry, soprano
Orchestra della Svizzera Read more Italiana/Massimo Pradella

Recorded live in Lugano, Palazzo dei Congressi, 1991
NTSC All Region; Stereo; Approx. 93 mins.
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Works on This Recording

1.
Semiramide: Overture by Gioachino Rossini
Conductor:  Massimo Pradella
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Italian Switzerland Radio/TV Orchestra
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1823; Italy 
2.
La forza del destino: Pace, pace, mio Dio by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer:  Grace Bumbry (Mezzo Soprano)
Conductor:  Massimo Pradella
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Italian Switzerland Radio/TV Orchestra
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1862/1869; Italy 
3.
La traviata: Act 3 Prelude by Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor:  Massimo Pradella
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Italian Switzerland Radio/TV Orchestra
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1853; Italy 
4.
Don Carlos: Tu, che la vanitá conoscesti del mondo by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer:  Grace Bumbry (Mezzo Soprano)
Conductor:  Massimo Pradella
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Italian Switzerland Radio/TV Orchestra
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1867/1884; Italy 
5.
Don Carlos: O don fatale by Giuseppe Verdi
Performer:  Grace Bumbry (Mezzo Soprano)
Conductor:  Massimo Pradella
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Italian Switzerland Radio/TV Orchestra
6.
Medea: Overture by Luigi Cherubini
Conductor:  Massimo Pradella
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Italian Switzerland Radio/TV Orchestra
Period: Classical 
Written: 1797; France 
7.
Khovanshchina: Act 1 Prelude "Dawn on the Moscow River" by Modest Mussorgsky
Conductor:  Massimo Pradella
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Italian Switzerland Radio/TV Orchestra
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1872-1880; Russia 
8.
Adriana Lecouvreur: Io son l'umile ancella by Francesco Cilèa
Performer:  Grace Bumbry (Mezzo Soprano)
Conductor:  Massimo Pradella
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Italian Switzerland Radio/TV Orchestra
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1902; Italy 
9.
Hérodiade: Il est doux, il est bon by Jules Massenet
Performer:  Grace Bumbry (Mezzo Soprano)
Conductor:  Massimo Pradella
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Italian Switzerland Radio/TV Orchestra
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1881; France 
10.
Manon Lescaut: Act 3 Intermezzo by Giacomo Puccini
Conductor:  Massimo Pradella
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Italian Switzerland Radio/TV Orchestra
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1893; Italy 
11.
Samson et Dalila, Op. 47: Mon coeur s'ouvre à ta voix by Camille Saint-Saëns
Performer:  Grace Bumbry (Mezzo Soprano)
Conductor:  Massimo Pradella
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Italian Switzerland Radio/TV Orchestra
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1877; France 
12.
Carmen: Près des ramparts de Seville "Seguidilla" by Georges Bizet
Performer:  Grace Bumbry (Mezzo Soprano)
Conductor:  Massimo Pradella
Orchestra/Ensemble:  Italian Switzerland Radio/TV Orchestra
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1873-1874; France 

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