MARIA CALLAS SINGS VERDI ARIAS

Verdi: from Otello

        [Willow Song and Ave Maria]: Mi parea. M'ingiunse di coricarmi! ... Mia madre aveva una povera ancella (act IV)

        – Piangea cantando (act IV) - Ave Maria piena di grazia (act IV)

Verdi: from Aroldo

        Ciel, ch'io respiri! ... Salvami, salvami tu, gran Dio! (act I) - O Cielo! Dove son io? (act II)

Verdi: from Don Carlo

        Non pianger, mia compagna (act III) - O don fatale (act III)

Nicola Rescigno, conductor; Maria Callas, soprano

DESCRIPTION: 1 disc, 33 1/3 rpm, mono, 12 in.

NOTES: Recorded 17-27 December 1963 and 20-21 February 1964, Salle Wagram. Producer: Michel Glotz; Balance engineer: Paul Vavasseur.

• Columbia fr.

  • = Angel 36221. Program note by Andrew Porter and texts, with English transl., 4 pp., inserted in container. [1964]

  • = Columbia 33OCX 1910. UK, 1964.

  • = rpt. as CD: EMI Classics CDC 47943.

  • = CD Maria Callas: Verdi Arias, vol. 2: EMI Classics CDM 566461 2 (7243 5 66461 2 4). Digitally remastered at Abbey Road Studios by Simon Gibson. 1997.

See note on unreleased Callas recordings of 1964.

INDEX: 64~100    1963-12-17

NOTE: Other 1964 recordings of Verdi arias, Rescigno cond., not released at the time. These are included in:

>Maria Callas: by request. Angel S 36852 [1972]; Bellini, Il pirata excp. (not SdC), and 5 Verdi excerpts.

>Maria Callas: the legend: the unreleased recordings. Angel S 37557 [1978]: from Il Trovatore: Tacea la notte placida ... Di tale amore. From Un ballo in maschera: Morro, ma prima in grazia.