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Special offer. Verdi: Il Trovatore

Jussi Bjorling (Manrico), Zinka Milanov (Leonora), Leonard Warren (Il Conte di Luna), Fedora Barbieri (Azucena), Nicola Moscona (Ferrando), Margaret Roggero (Ines), Paul Franke (Ruiz), George Cehanovsky (Un vecchio zingaro), Nathaniel Sprinzena (Un messo)

RCA Victor Orchestra, Robert Shaw Chorale,...

Verdi: Il Trovatore
among the very finest recorded versions. The transfers by Mark Obert-Thorn bring out the full beauty and character of all four principals very vividly...Bjorling is, as ever, superb in his heroic...

Penguin Guide, 2010 edition3 out of 4 stars

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Special offer. Verdi: Il Trovatore

Jussi Bjorling (Manrico), Zinka Milanov (Leonora), Leonard Warren (Il Conte di Luna), Fedora Barbieri (Azucena), Nicola Moscona (Ferrando), Margaret Roggero (Ines), Paul Franke (Ruiz), George Cehanovsky (Un vecchio zingaro), Nathaniel Sprinzena (Un messo)

RCA Victor Orchestra, Robert Shaw Chorale,...

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among the very finest recorded versions. The transfers by Mark Obert-Thorn bring out the full beauty and character of all four principals very vividly...Bjorling is, as ever, superb in his heroic...

Penguin Guide, 2010 edition3 out of 4 stars

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Studio recording, 1952

Artists

Jussi Bjorling (Manrico), Zinka Milanov (Leonora), Leonard Warren (Il Conte di Luna), Fedora Barbieri (Azucena), Nicola Moscona (Ferrando), Margaret Roggero (Ines), Paul Franke (Ruiz), George Cehanovsky (Un vecchio zingaro), Nathaniel Sprinzena (Un messo)

RCA Victor Orchestra, Robert Shaw Chorale, Renato Cellini

Contents and tracklist

Verdi: Il Trovatore
Work length1:56:40
Act I: The Duel: Scene 1: All'erta, all'erta!
Track length2:52
Act I: The Duel: Scene 1: Di due figli vivea
Track length5:46
Act I: The Duel: Scene 1: Sull'orlo dei tetti alcun l'ha veduta!
Track length1:08
Act I: The Duel: Scene 2: Che più t'arresti?
Track length2:34
Act I: The Duel: Scene 2: Tacea la notte placida
Track length4:09
Act I: The Duel: Scene 2: Di tale amor che dirsi
Track length1:32
Act I: The Duel: Scene 3: Tace la notte!
Track length2:04
Act I: The Duel: Scene 3: Deserto sulla terra
Track length3:20
Act I: The Duel: Scene 3: Di geloso amor sprezzato
Track length2:27
Act II: The Gypsy: Scene 1: Vedi! Le fosche notturne spoglie
Track length2:40
Act II: The Gypsy: Scene 1: Stride la vampa!
Track length4:37
Act II: The Gypsy: Scene 1: Soli or siamo
Track length0:54
Act II: The Gypsy: Scene 1: Condotto ell'era in ceppi
Track length4:26
Act II: The Gypsy: Scene 1: Non son tuo figlio?
Track length2:26
Act II: The Gypsy: Scene 1: Mal reggendo
Track length4:06
Act II: The Gypsy: Scene 1: Perigliarti ancor languente
Track length1:48
Act II: The Gypsy: Scene 2: Tutto è deserto
Track length1:26
Act II: The Gypsy: Scene 2: Il balen del suo sorriso
Track length3:13
Act II: The Gypsy: Scene 2: Quel suono! Oh, ciel!...Per me ora fatale
Track length2:38
Act II: The Gypsy: Scene 2: Ah! Se l'error t'ingombra
Track length1:56
Act II: The Gypsy: Scene 2: Perchè piangete?
Track length2:13
Act II: Tye Gypsy: Scene 2: E deggio e posso crederlo?
Track length3:49
Act III: The Gypsy's Son: Scene 1:Or co' dadi
Track length1:55
Act III: The Gypsy's Son: Scene 1: Squilli, echeggi la tromba guerriera
Track length2:22
Act III: The Gypsy's Son: Scene 1: In braccio al mio rival!
Track length1:58
Act III: The Gypsy's Son: Scene 1: Giorni poveri vivea
Track length4:40
Act III: The Gypsy's Son: Scene 2: Quale d'armi fragor poc'anzi intesi?
Track length2:06
Act III: The Gypsy's Son: Scene 2: Ah, sì, ben mio
Track length4:23
Act III: The Gypsy's Son: Scene 2: Di quella pira
Track length2:10
Act IV: The Ordeal: Scene 1: Siam giunti
Track length2:57
Act IV: The Ordeal: Scene 1: D'amor sull'ali rosee
Track length3:38
Act IV: The Ordeal: Scene 1: Miserere d'un alma già vicina
Track length4:24
Act IV: The Ordeal: Scene 1: Udiste?
Track length1:38
Act IV: The Ordeal: Scene 1: Mira, di acerbe lagrime
Track length3:16
Act IV: The Ordeal: Scene 1: Vivrà! Contende il giubilo
Track length2:09
Act IV: The Ordeal: Scene 2: Madre, non dormi
Track length6:18
Act IV: The Ordeal: Scene 2: Ai nostri monti
Track length2:02
Act IV: The Ordeal: Scene 2: Che! Non m'inganno!
Track length4:03
Act IV: The Ordeal: Scene 2: Ti scosta
Track length4:37
trad.: Appendix: Zinka Milanov in 'Song Gems of Yugoslavia': Na Bembasi (By Bembasha Waters)
Work length3:04
Na Bembasi
Track length3:04
Jenko: Ukor (Maiden's Reproach)
Work length3:02
Ukor
Track length3:02
Tijardović: Daleko m'e moj Split (Split, my hometown, so far away)
Work length3:08
Daleko m'e moj Split
Track length3:08
Zajc: Domovini i ljubavi (To my homeland and to my love)
Work length2:57
Domovini i ljubavi
Track length2:57
trad.: Gor' cez jezero (By the lake)
Work length3:08
Gor' cez jezero
Track length3:08
trad.: Ko lani sem (When last year I passed by)
Work length3:03
Ko lani sem
Track length3:03

Awards and reviews

2010 edition

among the very finest recorded versions. The transfers by Mark Obert-Thorn bring out the full beauty and character of all four principals very vividly...Bjorling is, as ever, superb in his heroic projection...A recording to treasure and not to be missed at the Naxos price.
3 out of 4 stars
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