ARTISTS

Marilyn Horne mezzo-soprano

Martin Katz piano

Chorus of the Grand Théâtre, Geneva
Ambrosian Opera Chorus
L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Vienna Cantata Orchestra
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vienna Opera Orchestra
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
English Chamber Orchestra

Henry Lewis

Zubin Mehta

Carl Davis

TRACKLISTING

MARILYN HORNE – THE COMPLETE DECCA RECITALS SOUVENIR OF A GOLDEN ERA

CD 1
1 Una voce poco fa (Rosina) (Il barbiere di Siviglia Rossini)
2 Se Romeo t’uccise un figlio … La tremenda altrice spada (Romeo) ( I Capuleti e i Montecchi Bellini
3 Abscheulicher! Wo eilst du hin? (Leonore) (Fidelio Beethoven)
4 Assisa a pie d’un salice (Desdemona) Otello Rossini
5 Di tanti palpiti (Tancredi) (Tancredi Rossini)
6 Bel raggio lusinghier (Semiramide) (Semiramide Rossini)

CD 2
1 Pronti abbiamo e ferri e mani … Pensa alla patria (Isabella) ( L’italiana in Algeri Rossini)
2 J’ai perdu mon Eurydice (Orphée et Eurydice Gluck
3 Où suis-je? … O ma lyre immortelle (Sapho) (Sapho Gounod)
4 Ah! mon fils, soit béni! (Fidès) (Le Prophète Meyerbeer)
5 Divinités du Styx (Alceste) (Alceste Gluck)
6 Stride la vampa … Condotta ell’ era in ceppi (Azucena)
(Il trovatore Verdi)

CD 3
BACH & HANDEL ARIAS
1 Et exultavit
2 Esurientes (J.S. Bach: Magnificat in D)
3 Schlafe mein Liebster (J.S. Bach: Weihnachts-oratorium)
4 Erbarme dich mein Gott (J.S.Bach: Mattäus-passion)
5 Bist du bei mir (arr.Smith)
6 O thou that tallest
7 I know that my redeemer liveth (Handel: Messiah)
8 Scacciata dal suo nido
9 Dove sei
10 Vivi tiranno (Handel: Rodelinda)

CD 4
OPERA ARIAS
1 Eccomi alfine in Babilonia … Ah! quel giorno ognor rammento (Arsace) (Semiramide Rossini)
2 Ô prêtres de Baal … Ô toi qui m’abandonnes (Fidès) (Le Prophète Meyerbeer)
3 Parto, parto, ma tu, ben mio (Sesto) ( La clemenza di Tito Mozart)
4 Nobles seigneurs, salut! (Urbain) ( Les Huguenots Meyerbeer)
5 Cruda sorte! amor tiranno! (Isabella) (L’italiana in algeri Rossini)
6 Deciso è dunque … le ricchezze ed il grado (Maria) (La figlia del reggimento Donizetti)
7 Nacqui all’affanno e al pianto … Non più mesta accanto al fuoco (Cenerentola) (La Cenerentola Rossini)

CD 5
ROSSINI ARIAS
1 Avanziam … Non temer, d’un basso affetto … I destini trader ogni speme! … Signor, che tutto puoi … sei tu che stendi, O dio (Neocle)
2 L’ora fatal s’appressa … Giusto ciel (Pamira) 7:10 (L’assedio di Corinto)
3 Mura felici (Malcolm)
4 Tanti affetti (Elena) (La donna del lago)

CD 6
ARIAS FROM FRENCH OPERA
1 Air des letters … Werther! Werther!
2 Va! Laisse couler mes larmes (Werther Massenet)
3 Connais tu le pays?
4 Gavotte — C’est moi … Me voici dans son boudoir
5 Elle est là! Près de lui! ( Mignon Thomas)
6 L’amour est un oiseau rebelle (Habañera)
7 Près des remparts de Séville (Seguidilla) (Carmen Bizet)
8 Printemps qui commence
9 Mon coeur s’ouvre à ta voix (Samson et Dalila Saint-Saëns)

CD 7
MAHLER LIEDER
5 Lieder nach Rückert
1 Ich bin atamet’ einen linden Duft
2 Liebst du um Schönheit
3 Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder
4 Um Mitternacht
5 Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
6 Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht
7 Ging heut’ Morgen übers Feld
8 Ich hab’ ein glühend’ Messer
9 Die zwei blauen Augen

CD 8
MAHLER & WAGNER LIEDER
Kindertotenlieder
1 Nun will die Sonn’ so hell aufgeh’n!
2 Nun she’ ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen
3 Wenn dein Mütterlein
4 Oft denk’ ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen!
5 In diesem Wetter! Wesendonk-Lieder
6 Der Engel
7 Stehe still!
8 Im Treibhaus
9 Schmerzen
10 Träume

CD 9
GERMAN LIEDER
1 Schubert: Im Frühling, D882
2 Schubert: Nacht und Träume, D827
3 Schubert: Die junge Nonne, D828
4 Schubert: Fischerweise, D881
5 Schumann: Die Lotusblume, op.25 no.7
6 Schumann: Aus den henräischen Gesängen
7 Schumann: Die Kartenlegerin, op.31 no.2
8 Schumann: Abendlied
9 Wolf: Auf einer Wanderung
10 Wolf: Der Genese an die Hoffnung
11 Wolf: Mein Liebster
12 Wolf: Mignon
13 R.Strauss: Schön sind, doch kalt
14 R.Strauss: Für fünfzehn Pfennige
15 R.Strauss: Befreit, op.39 no.4 original version

CD 10
FRENCH & SPANISH SONGS
1 Bizet: Chanson d’Avril
2 Bizet: Adieux de l’Hôtesse arabe
3 Bizet: Vieille Chanson
4 Bizet: Absence
Debussy: Chansons de Bilitis
5 La Flûte de Pan
6 Chevelure
7 Le Tombeau des Naiades
Falla:
8 Canciones populares españolas
9 1 El paño moruno
10 2 Seguidilla murciana
11 3 Asturiana
12 4 Jota
13 5 Nana
14 6 Canción
15 7 Polo
16 Nin: Villancico Castellano
17 Nin: Jesus de Nazareth
18 Nin: Villancico Asturiano
19 Nin: Villancico Andaluz

CD 11
THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK
1 Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair
2 Beautiful Dreamer
3 If You’ve Only Got a Moustache
4 Camptown Races
5 Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child
6 I’ve Just Come from the Fountain
7 The Lord’s Prayer
8 Shenandoah
9 Billy Boy
10 Go ‘Way from my Window
Five Songs from ‘Old American Songs’ (arr.Copland)
11 I Simple Gifts
12 II Ching-a-ring-Chaw
13 III Long Time Ago
14 IV I Bought Me a Cat
15 V At the River
16 You’re a Grand Old Flag
17 When Johnny Comes Marching Home
18 God Bless America
19 I Didn’t Raise my Boy to be a Soldier
20 Battle Hymn of the Republic

RECORDING INFORMATION

The great American mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne celebrated her her 70th birthday in January 2004 and that year also marked 50 years since her professional debut.

Horne’s debut in 1954 was in Bartered in Los Angeles. That same year her name and voice was brought to many more people than could ever hear her in the opera house through the 1954 film Carmen Jones in which she sang the dubbed voice of Dorothy Dandridge. Her Covent Garden debut was as Marie in Wozzeck (sung in English at that time) in 1964 – she had made her San Francisco debut in 1960 with the same role. It was with Joan Sutherland that Marilyn Horne found the perfect vocal partner and their performances in the great bel canto operas by Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti took the opera world by storm in the 1960s and early 1970s.

By the time she retired in 1998, Marilyn Horne’s long and distinguished career embraced an enormous variety of operatic roles, as well as a wide variety of solo song ranging from Schubert, Schumann and Mahler through to modern American songs. Such a wide repertory was due to the sheer range of her voice and its remarkable flexibility, a voice that could sustain long lines of melody as well as negotiate the most florid vocal pyrotechnics. Marilyn Horne participated in a number of complete opera recordings (among them classic recordings of Norma and Semiramide with Joan Sutherland) for Decca and also made ten recital programmes. The complete recitals are now reissued in their entirety as a Collector Edition on 11 CDs and preserve the original sequence of music as presented on vinyl; the original LP cover art is reproduced for the CD sleeves.