MARIA CALLAS SINGS ARIAS BY BEETHOVEN, MOZART, AND WEBER
Beethoven: Ah, perfido, op. 65
Mozart: from Don Giovanni: Or sai che l'onore
Mozart: from The Marriage of Figaro: Porgi, amor
Weber: from Oberon: Ocean! though mighty monster (in English)
Mozart: from Don Giovanni: Crudele? . . . Non mi dir;
and In quali eccessi, o Numi . . . Mi tradi quell'alma ingrata.
Nicola Rescigno, conductor; Maria Callas, soprano
DESCRIPTION: 1 disc, 33 1/3 rpm, mono, 12 in.
NOTES: Recorded 6-23 December 1963 and 8 January 1964, Salle Wagram. Producer; Michel Glotz; balance engineer: Paul Vavasseur. Durations (from 1997 CD): 14:18 (Beethoven ); 09:03 (Weber), 04:14 (Mozart "Porgi"), 03:14 (Mozart "Or sai"), 06:52 (Mozart "Crudele?"), 06:25 (Mozart: "Mi tradi")
Columbia fr. FCX 1004 mono; SAXF 1004 stereo.
= Angel 36200. Progam notes by Andrew Porter and texts, with English transl., 4 pp., inserted in container. [1964]
= Columbia SAXO 2540 (Australian pressing)
Portion rpt. as CD: Ah, perfido included on re-release of Cherubini's Medée (La Scala / Serafin): EMI CMS 7 63625 2 (CDM 7 63626 2, CDM 7 63627 2). 2 compact discs. 1990.
= EMI Classics ("Studio" series) CDMB 63625
Rpt. as CD: Maria Callas: Mozart, Beethoven, Weber: EMI CDM 566465 2 (7243 5 66465 2 0) (CDM7243 5 66465 2 0). Remastered 1997 at Abbey Road Studios, London, by Simon Gibson. Program booklet 16 pp., incl. notes by Michel Roubinet, et al. (1997).
See note on unreleased Callas recordings of 1964.INDEX: 64~080 1963-12-06