Virginia Zeani: The Decca Recitals
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Label: Australian Eloquence
Cat No: ELQ4820172
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 1st April 2016
Contents
Works
I PuritaniArtists
Virginia Zeani (soprano)Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Conductors
Gianandrea GavazzeniFranco Patane
Works
I PuritaniArtists
Virginia Zeani (soprano)Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
Conductors
Gianandrea GavazzeniFranco Patane
About
Generally, she favoured the spontaneity of live recordings. She did not have an agent and was not an active self-promoter, which may account for the fact that she is less well known today than other great singers. However, there was never any doubt as to her mastery. Richard Bonynge once remarked: ‘Apart from Joan [Sutherland], who will always be number one on my list, the voices I most remember are Flagstad, Virginia Zeani and Renata Tebaldi. Zeani, whom I heard in the early fifties, had, at that time, a voice that was very beautiful all the way up to the E flat, and the low register was phenomenal, Ponsellian in a way.’
Now, her two Decca recitals are available together as a 2-CD set.
‘… above all, with a dark, warm, chesty quality throughout its range […] she phrases meaningfully; she has an excellent sense of rhythm (witness the finale to the Traviata Act I) and she has what all too few sopranos even attempt on more than an occasional phrase: a steady legato’ - Gramophone, July 1957
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