L'incoronazione di Poppea : abridged version (1:39:00) -- Ballo : Volgendo il ciel (9:27) -- Cor mio, mentre vi moro (2:30) -- Al lume delle stelle (4:10) -- Io mi son giovinetta (2:47) -- Ohimè, se tanto amate (3:22) -- A quest'olmo (6:05) -- Lamento d'Arianna (15:31).
Language
Italian
Note
EMI Classics: 7243 5 73842 2 3; in bold: 5 73842 2 (on discs: 7243 5 73843 2 2--7243 5 73844 2 1; in bold: 5 73843 2--5 73844 2).
The 1st work is an abridged version of an opera, realized by Raymond Leppard.
Libretto to the 1st work by Giovanni Francesco Busenello.
Previously released recordings (p1964-p1967).
Event (note)
Recorded in No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London, England, July-Aug., 1963 (opera) and 1967 (madrigals).
In the opera: Magda László, Frances Bible, soprano ; Richard Lewis, tenor ; Carlo Cava, bass ; Oralia Dominguez, Lydia Marimpietri, Walter Alberti, Duncan RObertson, Soo-Bee Lee, John Shirley-Quirk, Hugues Cuénod, Dennis Wicks, Dennis Brandt, Gerald English, Elizabeth Bainbridge, Annon Lee Silver, supporting soloists ; Glyndebourne Festival Chorus ; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ; John Pritchard, conductor. In the madrigals: April Cantelo, Eileen Poulter, soprano ; Helen Watts, contralto ; Gerald English, Robert Tear, tenor ; Christopher Keyte, bass ; English Chamber Orchestra ; Raymond Leppard, conductor.