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LS 0055
Verdi: Falstaff
Label Catalogue Number:
LSO0055
LSO0055
Running Time: 118:17
Release Date: January 2007
Originally recorded in 2007
Originally recorded in 2007
Genre:
Opera
Orchestral & Concertos
Opera
Orchestral & Concertos
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Following his acclaimed recording of Britten’s Peter Grimes, Sir Colin Davis and the LSO are joined by a magnificent cast led by Michele Pertusi for a spectacular performance of Verdi’s comic masterpiece. Recorded during the LSO’s centenary celebrations in 2004, Falstaff is one of LSO Live’s finest releases to date.
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Reviews
Ana Ibarra makes the formidable figure of Alice Ford spring to life, and the two young lovers are wonderfully sung by Bulent Bezduz and Maria Jose Moreno. The singer who almost steals the show is Carlos Alvarez as the cuckolded husband Ford. The orchestral sound is a marvel, being vivacious, full-blooded and tender all at once.
The Times
Verdi’s great explosion of laughter at the end of his astonishing career has always been a Davis speciality it preserves another classic Davis ensemble performance, with yet another Italian crucially cast in the title-role it’s unbeatable.
International Record Review - November 2004
10/10
an absolute gem equaling the best on the market. Colin Davis gets such well-articulated playing from the LSO that students of orchestral writing could actually learn from listening the women are wonderful. As the madly jealous Ford, baritone Carlos Alvarez almost walks away with the show. It doesn’t hurt that he has the longest and most dramatic aria in the piece, which is sung and nuanced perfectly. Listening to his hysteria mount is a real delight. Pertusi’s a terrific, smart, colorful Falstaff. And this is a terrific, smart, colorful Falstaff, captured with great sonic impact and immediacy.
ClassicToday.com - 14 October 2004
This is a feast one to set beside their Trojans as a monument to the partnership between Davis and the orchestra. Their playing has an energy, finesse and sense of delight in the ever-amazing score that is intoxicating. Davis, always a great Falstaff interpreter, surpasses himself. Michele Pertusi, the excellent Falstaff Ana Ibara’s Alice and Carlos Alvarez’s Ford are outstanding
The Sunday Times - 10 October 2004
the most exhilarating account of the opera Pertusi is brilliant in the title-role, bluff and powerful, with his voice cleanly focused over the widest expressive range - now biting, now soothing, now full of fun. Ana Ibarra as Alice Ford leads a superb team of women soloists, phenomenally precise in their chattering ensembles. Above all, the liveness of the experience adds to the electricity An astonishing bargain
The Guardian - 8 October 2004
Hard on the heels of their magnificent Peter Grimes, Sir Colin Davis and the LSO unite with a fine array of soloists to bring all the requisite wit, sparkle and poignancy to Verdi’s Shakespearean masterpiece. Pertusi is outstanding in the title role this rates as one of LSO Live’s finest releases to date, even by the in-house label’s own high standards."
The Observer - 10 October 2004
If it wasn’t obvious before, then it is now. The LSO Live label is the recording phenomenon of the decade. Here’s a conductor at the height of his powers with an orchestra on top form, here’s singing so exciting it would make a piece of sandpaper moist, here’s the crackling energy of a live performance captured brilliantly. Pertusi is simply stunning as the Fat Knight - bombastic, arrogant and yet touchingly vulnerable too. A must-hear."
Classic FM Magazine - November 2004
CD of the Week "Another triumph for LSO Live"
BBC Radio 3 - CD Review
Editor’s Choice
The LSo play with an extraordinary feel for the work’s drama and comedy and the singers enter the spirit of the work with great abandon. It’s as though a spirit of fun is in the air, breathed in by everyone a brilliant achievement Pertusi is Falstaff through and through."
The LSo play with an extraordinary feel for the work’s drama and comedy and the singers enter the spirit of the work with great abandon. It’s as though a spirit of fun is in the air, breathed in by everyone a brilliant achievement Pertusi is Falstaff through and through."
Gramophone - November 2004
GRAMMY AWARD WINNNER
- Best Opera
- Best Opera
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