Inga Nielsen - Voices - Live and Studio Recordings 1952-2007 Opera Vocal & Song Chandos

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COMPACT DISC ONE: Opera, Oratorio

GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL

Athalia: 'My Vengeance' from Athalia

4:29

Conductor: Christopher Hogwood

11 March 1993 (recorded live)

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

Elettra: 'Tutte nel cor vi sento' from Idomeneo

5:18

Conductor: Gustav Kuhn

5 December 1991 (recorded live)

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN

Leonore: 'Abscheulicher! Wo eilst du hin?' from Fidelio

7:28

Conductor: Gerd Albrecht

11 March 1999 (recorded live)

GAETANO DONIZETTI

Lucia: 'Il dolce suono' from Lucia di Lammermoor

16:13

Enrico - Alberto Noli: Raimondo - Christian Christiansen - Normanno: Stig Fogh Andersen

Conductor: Gustav Kuhn

13 May 1989 (recorded live)

GIUSEPPE VERDI

Violetta/Germont: …'Deh non mutate in triboli' from La traviata

16:00

Germont - Knut Skram

Conductor: Antonio Pappano

1 February 1990 (recorded live)

CHARLES-FRANCOIS GOUNOD

Marguerite: 'O Dieu! que de bijoux!' from Faust

4:54

Conductor: Eugene Kohn

7 August 1993 (recorded live)

JULES MASSENET

Manon/Des Grieux: 'Toi! Vous! Oui… c'est moi!' from Manon

8:34

Des Grieux: Plácido Domingo

Conductor: Eugene Kohn

7 August 1993 (recorded live)

RICHARD WAGNER

Elisabeth: 'Dich, teure Halle' from Tannhäuser

5:07

Conductor: Michael Schønwandt

14 August 1997 (recorded live)

RICHARD STRAUSS

Kaiserin: 'Wehe, mein Mann' from Die Frau Ohne Schatten

3:52

Conductor: Michael Schønwandt

19 October 2002 (recorded live)

10.

Chrysothemis: 'Ich kann nicht sitzen' from Elektra

6:07

Conductor: Michael Schønwandt

17 August 2006 (recorded live)

78:40

Danish National Symphony Orchestra/DR (tracks 1-2, 4, 8-10), Danish National Choir/DR (track 4), Danish National Symphony Orchestra/DR and The Royal Danish Orchestra (track 3), Danish Radio Sinfonietta (tracks 6-7), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra (track 5)

COMPACT DISC TWO: Lieder, Concert Arias, Operetta, Musical, Spiritual and Bonus Tracks

MAX REGER

Waldeinsamkeit

1:42

Piano: Antonio Pappano

7 March 1984 (recorded live)

JOHANNES BRAHMS

Vergebliches Ständchen

1:40

Och Moder, ich well en Ding han

1:59

Piano: Friedrich Gürtler

19 November 1984 (recorded live)

GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI

Vidit suum dulcem natum from Stabat Mater

5:43

Conductor: Lamberto Gardelli

31 March 1988 (recorded live)

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

Ch'io mi scordi di te from Concert Aria, KV 505

10:11

Piano: Antonio Pappano

Conductor: Antonio Pappano

14 May 1987 (recorded live)

RICHARD STRAUSS

Im Abendrot from Vier Letzte Lieder

8:05

Conductor: Ingo Metzmacher

30 May 1995 (recorded live)

ARNOLD SCHOENBERG

Erwartung

30:56

Conductor: Gerd Albrecht

14, 15 and 17 May 2003

FRANZ LEHÁR

Hanna Glawari: 'Ih, du gode Gud!' from Die Lustige Witwe

3:36

St Brioche - Gert Henning-Jensen: Cascada - Guido Paëvatalu

Conductor: Heinz Wallberg

8 December 1989 (recorded live)

JEROME KERN

Can't help lovin' dat man from Showboat

3:42

Conductor: David Firman

Arrangement and piano: Ovid Young

May 1996

ROBERT MACGIMSEY

10.

Sweet little Jesus Boy

3:22

Guitar: Lars Hannibal

Tenor recorder: Michala Petri

4 April 2007

ANON

11.

The Year's at the Spring

2:00

Piano: Arne Nielsen

Recorded 1952, USA

CARL NIELSEN

12.

Jeg ved en lækerede

1:00

Piano: Esther Vagning

1955

HAROLD FRASER-SIMSON

13.

Christopher Robin is saying his prayers

3:16

Piano: Esther Vagning

1955

78:13

Danish National Symphony Orchestra/DR (tracks 4-8), Danish National Choir/DR (track 8), Danish Radio Sinfonietta (track 9)

Solo: Inga Nielsen soprano

Recording producers: Kim Bohr, Claus Due, Preben Ivan, Peter Juul Kristensen, Ivar Munk, Niels Peters, Katharina Ronnefeld, Henrik Sleiborg, Andy Sundstrøm, Per Erik Veng, Peter Willemoes, Thomas Winther

Sound engineers: Lars Christensen, Jørn Damgaard Jacobsen, Peter Juul Kristensen, Langhoff, Erik Ove Nielsen, Jan Oldrup

Dedicated to recordings by the Danish soprano who died earlier this year aged 61, this 2-CD collection demonstrates her range and versatility, as well as the technical excellence and appealing sincerity of her singing.

BBC Music Magazine

Nielsen covers an amazing range of music, one moment singing Leonore’s great aria from Beethoven’s Fidelio, the next going into bel canto mode for the mad scene from Lucia. I enjoyed the duet from Massenet’s Manon. Sound quality is variable but good.

Daily Mail

Reviews from some of her recent performances:
As Strauss’s Salome, she is regarded by many as definitive…

The Guardian

Nielsen is an extraordinary, magnificent singing actress in the title role. Her voice has something of the legendary Ljuba Welitsch’s girlish innocence, and her way with the text reveals an artist totally attuned to every dramatic nuance that Strauss offers… Comparisons with such illustrious names as Nilsson, Borkh, and Goltz are completely justified.

Amazon.com

This is a timely tribute to one of the finest and perhaps most underrated sopranos of our day.

Sunday Telegraph

Nielsen made her debut during childhood, long before developing an international career. Her vocal individuality and musical personality hallmark this splendid album

Classic FM

The range of her work is astonishing, passing Lucia in her Mad scene and the Violetta-Germont duet from La Traviata (conducted by a young Antonio Pappano), the St Sulpice duet from Manon with Domingo, and strenuous sessions with Strauss in Die Frau ohne Schatten and Elektra. Search your record shelves: if they have nothing of Inga Nielsen, now is the time to fill the gap.

Opear Now

Throughout, you’re conscious of how Nielsen’s voice has gained in weight and power at the occasional expense of flexibility during the course of a lifetime’s involvement with music. What remains constant is her remarkable, laser-like tone, and the fierce dramatic commitment she brings to everything she sings.

Guardian

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