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Special offer. Balada: Cristóbal Colón (Christopher Columbus)

José Carreras, Montserrat Caballé, Carlos Chausson, Luis Álvarez, Stefano Palatchi & Victoria Vergara

Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, Theo Alcántara

Balada: Cristóbal Colón (Christopher Columbus)
Carreras and Caballé…both impress with their strongly flavoured lyricism, while Carlos Chausson is bold and abrasive as Columbus's financial partner, Pinzón

BBC Music Magazine, April 20103 out of 5 stars

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Special offer. Balada: Cristóbal Colón (Christopher Columbus)

José Carreras, Montserrat Caballé, Carlos Chausson, Luis Álvarez, Stefano Palatchi & Victoria Vergara

Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, Theo Alcántara

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Carreras and Caballé…both impress with their strongly flavoured lyricism, while Carlos Chausson is bold and abrasive as Columbus's financial partner, Pinzón

BBC Music Magazine, April 20103 out of 5 stars

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Libretto by Antonio Gala.

From one of the world’s great opera houses, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, comes Leonardo Balada’s richly melodic opera about one of the world’s great explorers, Christopher Columbus, commissioned by the Spanish government for the 5th Centennial of the Discovery of America.

A superb cast, headed by José Carreras as Columbus and Monsterrat Caballé as Queen Isabella of Spain, gained critical acclaim for their performances in what The Washington Times described as “a masterpiece…a landmark score in the lyric theater of our time”.

  • Release date: 27th Jul 2009
  • Label: Naxos
  • Series: Opera Classics
  • Catalogue number: 8660237-38
  • Length: 1 hour 52 minutes

Contents and tracklist

Balada: Cristóbal Colón (Christopher Columbus)
Work length1:52:21
  • José Carreras (tenor), Carlos Chausson (baritone), Montserrat Caballé (soprano), Stefano Palatchi (bass), Miguel Sola (baritone), Luis Alvarez (baritone), Victoria Vergara (mezzo-soprano), Jesus Sanz Remiro (bass), Gregorio Poblador (bass), Miguel Lopez Galindo (bass), Antonio Lluch (tenor), Juan Pedro Garcia Marquez (bass)
  • Liceu Grand Theatre Chorus, Liceu Grand Theatre Orchestra
  • Theo Alcantara
  • Recorded: 24-29 September 1989
  • Recording Venue: Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, Spain
Act I Scene 1: Salve, salve … (Women, Sailors, Columbus, Pinzon)
Track length7:17
Act I Scene 2a: Es voluntad de Dios (Marchena) - Aria: Es mi nombre Cristobal (Columbus)
Track length5:13
Act I Scene 2b: Con Portugal firmamos capitulaciones que marcan sus derechos (Fernando, Isabella) - Aria: Espana ensimismada (Isabella)
Track length7:51
Act I Scene 2c, "La Comision de Salamanca" (The Commission of Salamanca): Como el sol y la luna (Columbus, Advisor, Treasurer, General, Scientist, Bishop)
Track length8:04
Act I Scene 2d: Comprendo vuestra pena (Marchena, Pinzon, Columbus)
Track length4:46
Act I Scene 3: Cuando yo sea rico, comprare una (Choir of Sailors)
Track length0:47
Act I Scene 4a: La flechas de Fernando y el yugo de Isabella (Fernando, Isabella, Columbus)
Track length1:34
Act I Scene 4b: Aria: Ahora comprendo que a un hombre nunca es (Isabella)
Track length7:04
Act I Scene 4c: Demasiado sensata (Fernando, Isabella)
Track length0:47
Act I Scene 4d: Duet: Caballero, sereis vos y los que os hereden (Isabella, Columbus)
Track length4:01
Act I Scene 5: Tenemos miedo! (Sailors, Pinzon)
Track length1:35
Act I Scene 6, "En el Puerto de Palos (At the Port of Palos): Todo empezo, todo empezo una clara (Pinzon, Neighbours, Columbus, Marchena)
Track length15:46
Act II Scene 1: Algum antardecer vuelvo el rostro hacia atras (Pinzon, Columbus)
Track length1:57
Act II Scene 2: Adios, adios (Judeans, Columbus, Women, Pinzon)
Track length7:38
Act II Scene 3: Grande tiene que ser nuestra esperanza porque (Columbus, Pinzon)
Track length1:11
Act II Scene 4: Duet: Te conoci una tarde (Beatriz, Columbus)
Track length5:11
Act II Scene 5: Capitan! Quiero hablar de hombre a hombre (Pinzon, Columbus)
Track length2:40
Act II Scene 6: Aria: Almirante! (Isabella, Pinzon)
Track length6:42
Act II Scene 7, "Mutin" (Riot): Libremonos del extranjero! (Sailors, Pinzon, Columbus)
Track length6:08
Act II Scene 8a: Aria: En donde esta la voluntad de Dios (Columbus)
Track length4:33
Act II Scene 8b, "Cancion de cuna" (Sleeping Song): El padre de mi nino (Beatriz)
Track length1:34
Act II Scene 8c: Tierra! (Columbus, Beatriz, Sailors, Pinzon, Rodrigo)
Track length2:03
Act II Scene 9: "Epilogo: En las Indians" (Epilogue: In the Indies): Ayaje, ayajo, wehnya … (Indios, Isabella, Columbus, Marchena, Sailors)
Track length7:59

Awards and reviews

April 2010

Carreras and Caballé…both impress with their strongly flavoured lyricism, while Carlos Chausson is bold and abrasive as Columbus's financial partner, Pinzón
3 out of 5 stars

18th September 2009

It's all artfully put together and expertly scored
2 out of 5 stars
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