"Remembering Tebaldi"

© Bronson Pate, Bauman Photographers
© Bronson Pate, Bauman Photographers

Remembering Tebaldi
Studio recording
Jun/July 2022 // Cluj, Romania
featuring Melody Moore, Transylvania State Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra and conductor Lawrence Foster

© PENTATONE
© PENTATONE

Released on August 18, 2023
PENTATONE / PTC 5187070
1 SACD

Remembering Tebaldi

Early period

Arrigo Boito (1842-1918)
L'altra notte in fondo al mare (from Mefistofele)

Pietro Mascagni (1863-1945)
Son pochi fiori (from L’amico Fritz)

Umberto Giordano (1867-1948)
La mamma morta (from Andrea Chénier) 

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
Sì, mi chiamano Mimì (from La Bohème)

Toscanini and La Scala period

Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Dal tuo stellato soglio (from Mosè in Egitto)

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Dignare, Domine – In te, Domine
(excerpt from Te Deum from Quattro pezzi sacri)

Giuseppe Verdi
Ritorna vincitor (from Aida)

Alfredo Catalani (1854-1893)
Ebben? Ne andrò lontana (from La Wally)

Metropolitan Opera period

Giuseppe Verdi
Pace, pace, mio Dio (from La forza del destino)

Giacomo Puccini
In quelle trine morbide (from Manon Lescaut)

Giuseppe Verdi
Addio, del passato (from La Traviata)

Francesco Cilea (1866-1950)
Io son l’umile ancella (from Adriana Lecouvreur)

Giacomo Puccini
Senza mamma (from Suor Angelica)

Last concert of Italian Art Songs at Carnegie Hall

Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Sento nel core (Arr. by Job Maarse for soprano, oboe and strings)

 

Cast/Artists

Melody Moore, Soprano
Transylvania State Philharmonic Choir
Choir Soloists:
Melinda Duffner, Mezzo-Soprano
Radu Cîmpan, Tenor
Ştefan Muţ, Bass
Cornel Groza (Chorus Master)
Transylvania State Philharmonic Orchestra
Néstor Bayona, Assistant to the conductor
Lawrence Foster, Conductor

Production Team

Executive & Recording Producer: Job Maarse (SFCRC)
Production Management: Christina Gembaczka (for SFCRC)
Balance Engineer & Editing: Jean-Marie Geijsen (Polyhymnia International B.V.)
Recording Engineer: Tilman Dasbach (for Polyhymnia International B.V.)

Italian Language Coach: Matelda Cappelletti

A San Francisco Classical Recording Company Production

Recording Location

Radio studio of Radio Cluj, Cluj, Romania
July 1-5, 2022