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RECORDING INFORMATION To celebrate Decca's 75th year of recording — the launch of a new series of Classic Recitals from the LP era. Decca’s recorded legacy is dominated by the huge number of complete opera recordings and vocal recitals. While a vast number of these recordings have seen CD release in the past 20 years, many of the original LP recitals have been reissued with other material in order to increase the overall playing time due to the longer time available on CD, and modern covers have replaced the originals. This new mini-series is unashamedly nostalgic and presents original recitals as they were first published during the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. Original LP cover art is reproduced and the original back of the LP is used as the inside of the digipack. A clear tray is used with a detail from the original LP sleeve as a background, and the back of the digipack gives the tracklist and artist details in a uniform, current style. The great Italian tenor Carlo Bergonzi celebrates his 80th birthday in July 2004. He was born near Cremona on 13 July 1924 and first appeared as a baritone when he sang Figaro in Il barbiere di Siviglia at Lecce in 1948. Three years later, in 1951, and the year that marked the 50th anniversary of the death of Verdi, the young Bergonzi made his first appearances as a tenor when he participated in Italian radio broadcasts in honour of Verdi, and in the title role of Giordano’s Andrea Chénier. Bergonzi appeared at La Scala for the first time in 1953 and continued to sing there regularly; that same year he first appeared in London at the Stoll Theatre. In 1962 he first sang at Covent Garden and would appear regularly in that house for the next thirty years, a record only beaten by his own achievement of appearing at New York’s Met for thirty-two years (1956–88). Bergonzi’s repertory included over forty tenor roles and many of these were in Verdi operas, a composer he was closely associated with from the outset of his career. The reissue of this Decca Classic Recital (recorded in 1957), which includes five Verdi arias, clearly demonstrates those qualities which characterised Bergonzi’s art in all of his performances and recordings: a superb sense of style, refinement and elegance of line. |
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