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Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor [Hybrid SACD]

Natalie Dessay Audio CD
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French soprano Natalie Dessay is one the stars of today’s operatic world, thrilling audiences as both a singer and an actress.

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  • Conductor: Valery Gergiev
  • Composer: Donizetti
  • Audio CD (1 Aug 2011)
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Format: Hybrid SACD
  • Label: Mariinsky
  • ASIN: B0053SQRQK
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Disc 1:

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Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Lucia di Lammermoor: Act I, Scene 1, No 1 Preludio e coro d'Introduzione "Percorrete le spiagge vicine"Valery Gergiev, Sergei Skorokhodov, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra 4:26£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  2. Lucia di Lammermoor: Act I, Scene 1, No 2 i. Scena e Cavatina "Tu sei turbato"Valery Gergiev, Sergei Skorokhodov, Vladislav Sulimsky, Ilya Bannik, Mariinsky Orchestra 2:49£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  3. Lucia di Lammermoor: Act I, Scene 1, No 2 ii. Larghetto "Cruda, funesta smania"Valery Gergiev, Vladislav Sulimsky, Sergei Skorokhodov, Ilya Bannik, Mariinsky Orchestra 2:04£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  4. Lucia di Lammermoor: Act I, Scene 1, No 2 iii. Coro di Cacciatori "Il tuo dubbio"Valery Gergiev, Sergei Skorokhodov, Vladislav Sulimsky, Ilya Bannik, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra 2:04£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  5. Lucia di Lammermoor: Act I, Scene 1, No 2 iv. Allegro moderato "La pietade in suo favore"Valery Gergiev, Vladislav Sulimsky, Ilya Bannik, Mariinsky Orchestra 3:32£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  6. Lucia di Lammermoor: Act I, Scene 2, No 3 i. Scena e Cavatina "Ancor non giunse!"Valery Gergiev, Natalie Dessay, Zhanna Dombrovskaya, Mariinsky Orchestra 4:05£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  7. Lucia di Lammermoor: Act I, Scene 2, No 3 ii. Larghetto "Regnava nel silenzio"Valery Gergiev, Natalie Dessay, Zhanna Dombrovskaya, Mariinsky Orchestra 4:05£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  8. Lucia di Lammermoor: Act I, Scene 2, No 3 iii. Moderato "Quando rapito in estasi"Valery Gergiev, Natalie Dessay, Zhanna Dombrovskaya, Mariinsky Orchestra 4:57£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  9. Lucia di Lammermoor: Act I, Scene 2, No 4 i. Scena e Duetto - Finale I "Egli s'avanza!"Valery Gergiev, Natalie Dessay, Zhanna Dombrovskaya, Piotr Beczala, Mariinsky Orchestra 2:30£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen10. Lucia di Lammermoor: Act I, Scene 2, No. 4 ii. Larghetto "Sulla tomba"Valery Gergiev, Natalie Dessay, Piotr Beczala, Mariinsky Orchestra 5:16£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen11. Lucia di Lammermoor: Act I, Scene 2, No 4 iii. Moderato assai "Verranno a te"Valery Gergiev, Natalie Dessay, Piotr Beczala, Mariinsky Orchestra 4:29£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen12. Lucia di Lammermoor: Act II, Scene 1, No 5 Scena "Lucia fra poco a te verra"Valery Gergiev, Sergei Skorokhodov, Vladislav Sulimsky, Mariinsky Orchestra 2:55£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen13. Lucia di Lammermoor: Act II, Scene 1, No 6 i. Duetto "Appressati, Lucia"Valery Gergiev, Vladislav Sulimsky, Natalie Dessay, Mariinsky Orchestra 5:25£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen14. Lucia di Lammermoor: Act II, Scene 1, No 6 ii. Larghetto "Soffriva nel pianto"Valery Gergiev, Natalie Dessay, Vladislav Sulimsky, Mariinsky Orchestra 4:42£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen15. Lucia di Lammermoor: Act II, Scene 1, No 6 iii. Vivace "Se tradirmi tu potrai"Valery Gergiev, Vladislav Sulimsky, Natalie Dessay, Mariinsky Orchestra 2:56£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen16. Lucia di Lammermoor: Act II, Scene 1, No 7 i. Scena ed Aria "Ebben?"Valery Gergiev, Natalie Dessay, Ilya Bannik, Mariinsky Orchestra 4:01£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen17. Lucia di Lammermoor: Act II, Scene 1, No 7 ii. Moderato "Al ben de'tuoi"Valery Gergiev, Natalie Dessay, Ilya Bannik, Mariinsky Orchestra 3:31£0.69  Buy MP3 


Disc 2:

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Song TitleArtist Time Price
Listen  1. Lucia di Lammermoor: Act II, Scene 2, No 8 i. Finale II - Coro e Cavatina "Per te d'immenso"Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra 1:20£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  2. Lucia di Lammermoor: Act II, Scene 2, No 8 ii. Meno mosso "Per poco fra le tenebre"Valery Gergiev, Dmitry Voropaev, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra 2:04£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  3. Lucia di Lammermoor: Act II, Scene 2, No 9 i. Scena e Quartetto nel Finale II "Dov' e Lucia?"Valery Gergiev, Dmitry Voropaev, Natalie Dessay, Vladislav Sulimsky, Ilya Bannik, Sergei Skorokhodov, Piotr Beczala, Zhanna Dombrovskaya, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra 3:48£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  4. Lucia di Lammermoor: Act II, Scene 2, No 9 ii. Larghetto "Chi mi frena in tal momento?"Valery Gergiev, Piotr Beczala, Vladislav Sulimsky, Natalie Dessay, Ilya Bannik, Zhanna Dombrovskaya, Dmitry Voropaev, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra 3:31£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  5. Lucia di Lammermoor: Act II, Scene 2, No 10 i. Seguito e Stretta del Finale II "T'allontana, sciagurato"Valery Gergiev, Dmitry Voropaev, Vladislav Sulimsky, Piotr Beczala, Ilya Bannik, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra 1:11£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  6. Lucia di Lammermoor: Act II, Scene 2, No 10 ii. Moderato "Sconsigliato!"Valery Gergiev, Vladislav Sulimsky, Piotr Beczala, Ilya Bannik, Natalie Dessay, Dmitry Voropaev, Zhanna Dombrovskaya, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra 4:23£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  7. Lucia di Lammermoor: Act III, Scene 1, No 11 i. Uragano. Scena e Duetto "Orrida e questa notte"Valery Gergiev, Piotr Beczala, Vladislav Sulimsky, Mariinsky Orchestra 2:06£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  8. Lucia di Lammermoor: Act III, Scene 1, No 11 ii. Andante "Ashton!"Valery Gergiev, Vladislav Sulimsky, Piotr Beczala, Mariinsky Orchestra 7:45£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen  9. Lucia di Lammermoor: Act III, Scene 2, No 12 Corro "D'immenso giubilo"Valery Gergiev, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra 1:31£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen10. Lucia di Lammermoor: Act III, Scene 2, No 13 Gran Scena con Cori "Cessi, ah cessi quel contento"Valery Gergiev, Ilya Bannik, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra 4:40£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen11. Lucia di Lammermoor: Act III, Scene 2, No 14 i. Scena ed Aria "Oh giusto cielo!"Valery Gergiev, Natalie Dessay, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra 2:47£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen12. Lucia di Lammermoor: Act III, Scene 2, No 14 ii. Allegretto "Ohime!"Valery Gergiev, Natalie Dessay, Sergei Skorokhodov, Ilya Bannik, Vladislav Sulimsky, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra11:23Album Only
Listen13. Lucia di Lammermoor: Act III, Scene 2, No 14 iii. Moderato "Spargi d'amaro pianto"Valery Gergiev, Natalie Dessay, Vladislav Sulimsky, Ilya Bannik, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra 4:14£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen14. Lucia di Lammermoor: Act III, Scene 2, No 14 iv. Scena "Si tragga altrove"Valery Gergiev, Vladislav Sulimsky, Ilya Bannik, Sergei Skorokhodov, Mariinsky Orchestra 1:38£0.69  Buy MP3 
Listen15. Lucia di Lammermoor: Act III, Scene 3, No 15 i. Aria Finale "Tombe degliavi miei"Valery Gergiev, Piotr Beczala, Ilya Bannik, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra10:19Album Only
Listen16. Lucia di Lammermoor: Act II, Scene 3, No 15 ii. Moderato "Tu che a Dio"Valery Gergiev, Piotr Beczala, Ilya Bannik, Mariinsky Chorus, Mariinsky Orchestra 4:25£0.69  Buy MP3 


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Disc of the Week Here is a Lucia to match Callas or Sutherland. Natalie Dessay s light soprano gives a vivid impression of Lucia s vulnerable personality. The Mad Scene is enthralling. Piotr Beczala is a gloriously virile Edgardo, and the Italian style of the Russian cast more than acceptable. With Valery Gergiev a surprisingly sensitive conductor, this is a top-rank recording of a marvellous opera Daily Telegraph (UK) --Daily Telegraph (UK)

Editor's Choice 'The new recording from the Mariinsky brings us into another world ... Dessay's delicately thought-out heroine, [is] well captured in this new Russian set' --Gramophone (UK)

**** Performance ***** Recording The main attraction is Natalie Dessay as Lucia, a part she can despatch without strain ... as post-Maria Callas Lucias go, she is one of the best --BBC Music Magazine (UK)

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6 of 14 people found the following review helpful
By D. S. CROWE TOP 500 REVIEWER
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The odds on me reviewing this set -and even more so actually liking it-are colossal. I really do not like the "bel canto" repertoire at all, and would consign most of the Sutherland/Bonynge output to the dustbin of eternity (OK, L'Elisir and Fille du Regiment are tolerable).
Foremost among my dislikes are Lucia and Norma. However, although my tastes are very German/Austrian and Late Verdi/Verismo orientated, I have an obsession with works like Tales of Hoffmann and Die Fledermaus, so conversion has always been a possibility.
Having enjoyed Gergiev's Parsifal, I was intrigued by the sheer unlikelihood of this recording-and I was "blown away." It is full on , red-blooded Verdi style conducting (hence the review title), of the Ken Dodd school (a revered British comedian , one of whose catchphrases is "I've got it to give, and By Jove you're going to get it"!)
I'm not going to crtically analyse the performance-it would be an impertinence. Suffice to say that I revelled in it from start to finish! Dessay is spectacular, Beczala, whom I saw in Vienna as a superb Faust is again spirited and sings with intelligence and a beautfiful legato. The rest of the cast sound like all Verdians should, and recording and playing are top notch-the glass harmonica is wonderfully effective.The chorus is as superb as it is seemingly vast.
With Parsifal, Gergiev managed to convince me with his reading of a work I love deeply-with this Lucia, he has converted me to enjoying enormously a work I hitherto did not care for, and that is a truly great achievement in my eyes-or rather ears! This is a great rollicking blast of a recording, and coming from me, any praise at all would be extraordinary. I don't know if bel canto purists will be as enthused as I am, but I urge all who love full on ,over the top Grand Opera to give this a hearing. Glorious 5 stars. (BY THE WAY, FOR THOSE WHO HAVE ONLY READ THE TITLE-YES-I DO Know It's By DONIZETTI! I like it bcause the interpretation is more like V than D! Clear enough?Sometimes I wonder! See comments below!) Stewart Crowe
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2.0 out of 5 stars Dessay is Past her Vocal Prime 22 Aug 2011
By David L. Reynolds - Published on Amazon.com
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I really wanted to like this performance as I've enjoyed so many of Natalie Dessay's performances in the past. I'm afraid "past" has to be the operative word here as she sounds very uncomfortable indeed. Within a narrow dynamic range, Dessay can still be impressive, her tone well-supported, her phrasing clear and specific. However whenever she puts pressure on her voice, an unpleasant vibrato, almost a wobble, intrudes diminishing her intentions. She sounds like she is walking on vocal eggshells, wanting to make bold choices, but unable to because of her fragile vocal estate. Furthermore, the highest notes are achieved with desperate lunges and are not at all pretty or exciting. She just manages an E-flat at the end of the Mad Scene. Some opera lovers insist one has to see her on stage to understand why people love her so much. Maybe, but this is a CD. Perhaps the Met will release a DVD of her performances from last March (seen in HD in movie theaters), but there her voice was in even more parlous condition.

The other singers are satisfactory, if unmemorable. Beczala has a handsome sound and certainly can sing this role well (he's excellent on the DVD with Netrebko), but here he sounds like he's just phoning it in. There's little passion and even less involvement. The other singers have excellent voices, but sound like they have no idea what they're singing about. Gergiev's leadership is limp and uninspired as is the fuzzy, diffuse sound.

If you love Dessay, you may still want this as some kind of souvenir. But try to get hold of one of her Met broadcasts from 2007 or one of her performances from even earlier. This simply came too late and in a crowded field it's an also-ran.

Incidentally, Dessay recorded the French version of Lucia (now reissued on EMI). That one finds her in far better voice with a superior supporting cast.
6 of 8 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Lackluster Performance 30 Aug 2011
By Michael Tortora - Published on Amazon.com
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This set looks very appealing, however, this is a performance that lacks excitement and stars a soprano who shold not be singing this role. Ms. Dessay's sound can be shrill and unpleasant and there is a great tendency for the voice to spread under pressure. At times sounding downright ugly. I thought the saving grace of the performance would be the tenor Piotr Beczala as Edgardo but he offers nothing special. At best his voice is servicble. As for the conducting, Gergiev is just marking time. The one good thing about this set is that the opera is performed virtually complete. If you want a Lucia look back to the Sutherland, Callas era.....!
5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars A note of caution 12 Aug 2011
By Santa Fe Listener - Published on Amazon.com
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Please don't take this as a review, but after listening online to the first act of this new 'Lucia," I gave up. Dessay's slow wide vibrato is not appealing. After hearing Dessay'sher 'Quando, rapito in estasi,' I listened to Calls, Scotto, and Gheorghiu. I know Dessay is beloved, but she isn't even in the ballpark. There's an appealing vulnerability, but the rest is deficient on several grounds, starting with vocal production, phrasing, attack, and dramatic shaping of the aria. She's droopy in the same way that Sutherland used to be criticized for. I realize that Dessay is beloved, and I've admired her in concert, but not here.

Gergiev's conducting is polished but rather glib and oddly without punch. Gifted with an innately beautiful lyric tone, Piotr Beczala sounds monochromatic and uninvolved here. I suppose we can't ask for Italianate style anymore. It's certainly nowhere to be heard in this performance. On their own terms, the Russian cast is robust and strong. So take this as a note of caution, since I have no basis for criticizing the entire performance.
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