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| ARTIST: | Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, Wilfred Pelletier, Rose Bampton, Arthur Carron, Leonard Warren, Lydia Summers, Norman Cordon |
| CATEGORY: | Music |
| MANUFACTURER: | Video Arts Int'l |
| TYPE: | Classical, Classical Artists, Classical Music, Classical Vocals, German/Austrian Romantic Opera, Italian Romantic Opera, Opera |
| MEDIA: | Audio CD |
| TRACKS: | Aida: Ritorna vincitor!, Aida: Rivedrai le foreste imbalsamate, Aida: Odimi, Aida, Aida: La fatal pietra.... O terra addio!, Lohengrin: Einsam in truben Tagen, Lohengrin: Das susse Lied verhallt, Tannhauser: Dich, teure Halle, Tristan und Isolde: Wohl kenn' ich Irlands Konigin, Tristan und Isolde: O sink' hernieder, Tristan und Isolde: Wohin nin Tristan scheidet, Tristan und Isolde: Mild und liese |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 089948108429 |
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Customer Reviews of Rose Bampton Sings Verdi And Wagner
Beautiful singing from opera's Golden Era Though hardly a household name, Rose Bampton made her Met debut in 1932 at the age of 23, and went on to sing there for 17 seasons. This CD contains over 70 minutes of arias from "Aida", "Lohengrin", "Tannhauser", and "Tristan und Isolde". Bampton's voice was well-suited to this demanding repertoire, not only in terms of being able to hit all the notes, but in the emotional involvement she shows.
According to the notes, the unnamed orchestra was composed of "New York and Philadelphia's top players", conducted by Wilfrid Pelletier (Bampton's husband), and William Steinberg, who went on to become the music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
The recordings were made in 1940, but the sound is quite good for that time, with the main problem being periodic surface noises. Fortunately, the sound is not compromised by distortion in the upper ranges, nor is there the compressed, boxy sound that often limits the listener's enjoyment of other historic recordings.
But the best part of this collection is the clarity and beauty of Bampton's voice, which equals or surpasses that of many of today's opera superstars. I find myself going back to Bampton as often as I do modern digital recordings simply to hear these arias sung with the sort of style and beauty that one does not often find in today's singers.