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Luciano Pavarotti
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O Holy Night
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| Label: |
PolyGram |
| Date: |
1976 |
| Length: |
54:23 |
| Genre: |
Christmas |
| Category: |
classical |
| Price: |
0.00 |
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Adam Adolphe - Cantique de Noėl, 'O Holy Night'
4:17 |
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A. Stradella & L. Neidermeyer - Pietą, Signore
8:27 |
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Cesar Franck - Panis angelicus
4:02 |
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Saverio Mercadante - Qual giglio candido (Parola quinta)
4:42 |
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Schubert - Ellens Gesang III, 'Ave Maria'
4:49 |
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Pietro Yon - Gesł Bambino
4:31 |
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Gounod - Ave Maria
2:58 |
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Schubert - 'Mille Cherubini in Coro,' Op. 98, No. 2
4:04 |
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Bizet - Agnus Dei
3:46 |
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Berlioz - Requiem 'Grande Messe des morts' Op. 5 Sanctus
9:10 |
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John Francis Wade - O Come, All Ye Faithful, 'Adeste fidelis'
3:31 |
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This CD is a compilation of (mainly) devotional music sung by Pavarotti when he was in or near his prime, most going back, gloriously, to 1976. Precisely what Orfeo's lament (from the Gluck opera) is doing in a recital called "O Holy Night" is beyond me, but the rest of the selections are well chosen. The title song is gorgeously enough performed to be worth the album's asking price, the tenor's voice ringing out with great clarity and beauty, and the selection from Rossini's Stabat Mater is even more thrilling, with its ascent to high D flat near its close. Verdi's "Ingemisco," from his Requiem, is handsomely and sensitively delivered, and the others elections, with or without choir, are simply stunning. A CD for Christmas and the rest of the year as well. --Robert Levine
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