This CD is reissued by ArkivMusic.
Notes and Editorial Reviews
I would have preferred something other than the thrice-familiar Aida excerpts to fill out the CD but, otherwise, I have no particular fault to find with this collection, since the other pieces in it are usually omitted from performances of their operas. The Manhattan Center venue gives "the MET Orchestra" (as they're billed here) a big, solid sonority with discreet spotlighting picking up any difficult details. The annotations imply that the Aida selections are new recordings, not taken from the 1990 recording of the complete opera, but the performances and sound seem exactly alike to me. The performances of all the music are lively and highly polished. I wish Sony had provided some inner access to the Ballet de la Reine from Don
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-- James Miller, FANFARE [5/1994]
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Works on This Recording
1.
I vespri siciliani: Ballet Music "The Four Seasons" by Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor:
James Levine
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1855; Italy
Venue: Manhattan Center, New York City
2.
Macbeth: Ballet Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor:
James Levine
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1847/1865; Italy
Venue: Manhattan Center, New York City
3.
Don Carlos: Ballet Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor:
James Levine
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1867/1884; Italy
Venue: Manhattan Center, New York City
4.
Otello: Ballet Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor:
James Levine
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1887; Italy
Venue: Manhattan Center, New York City
5.
Aida: Ballet Music by Giuseppe Verdi
Conductor:
James Levine
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1871; Italy
Venue: Manhattan Center, New York City
Sound Samples
Macbeth, Act III: Ballabile
Don Carlos, Act III, Scene 2: Le Ballet de la Reine
Otello, Act III: Ballabile
Act II, Scene 1: Danza di piccoli schiavi mori
Act II, Scene 2: Ballabile
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