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Limited Edition Hybrid Double SACD!
Featuring ESOTERIC's Proprietary Re-Mastering Process to Achieve the Highest Level of Sound Quality!
Japanese Pressing, Deluxe Digi-pak Packaging, THE Definitive Classical Performance on SACD!
Recorded at the Sofiensäle, Vienna, on September 2-15, 1959.
Classical masterpiece collection
The reissue of classical music masterpieces by ESOTERIC has attracted a lot of attention, both for its uncompromising commitment to recreating the original master sound, and for using hybrid Super Audio CD technology to improve sound quality. This series marks the first hybrid Super Audio CD release of historical recording selections that have been mainstays of the catalog since their initial release. These new audio versions feature ESOTERIC's proprietary re mastering process to achieve the highest level of sound quality.
New Mastering Environment
The DSD mastering has been processed at the newly introduced the "ESOTERIC MASTERING CENTER", where deploys the latest X-series models from the flagship Grandioso as the core, including the Grandioso D1X, Grandioso C1X, and Grandioso G1X, in addition to the Grandioso S1, a pair of G-02X, MEXCEL cables, the MERGING PYRAMIX by ESOTERIC Original Tuned as DAW (Digital Audio Workstation)/Audio Interface coordinated by Mr. Tetsuya Kato, and re-mastered by Mr. Masaya Tohno under the supervision by Mr. Motoaki Ohmachi.
Re-mastering
Executive Producer: Motoaki Ohmachi (Esoteric Mastering Center)
Associated Producer: Jo Yoshida (Esoteric Mastering Center)
Mastering Engineer: Masaya Tohno (Esoteric Mastering Center)
Features
- Limited Edition - One-Time Pressing
- Double Disc Super Audio CD
- SACD Stereo SACD Layer
- This Hybrid SACD contains a 'Red Book' Stereo CD Layer which is playable on most conventional CD Players!
- DSD Mastering
- Deluxe Digipak Packaging
- Obi Strip
- Made in Japan
Musicians
| Renata Tebaldi, soprano | Aida, schiava etiope |
|---|---|
| Carlo Bergonzi, tenor | Radames, capitano delle guardie |
| Giulietta Simionato, mezzo-soprano | Amneris, sua figlia |
| Cornell MacNeil, baritone | Amonasro, re d'Etiopia, padre di Aida |
| Arnold van Mill, bass | Ramfis, capo dei sacerdoti |
| Fernando Corena, bass | Il re |
| Piero de Palma, tenor | Un messaggero |
| Eugenia Ratti, soprano | Una sacerdotessa |
| Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde | |
| Reinhold Schmidt | chorus master |
| Wiener Philharmoniker | |
| Herbert von Karajan | conductor |
Selections
Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901)
Disc 1
- Preludio
Atto Primo
Scena I
- Si, corre voce che l'Etiope ardisca (Ramfis, Radames)
- Se quel guerrier io fossi!...Celeste Aida (Radames)
- Quale insolita gioia (Amneris, Radames, Aida)
- Alta cagion v'aduna (Ir re, Messaggero, Radames, Aida, Amneris, Ramfis, Ministri e Capitani, Sacerdoti)
- Ritorna vincitor! (Aida)
Scena II
- Possente Ftha (Sacerdotessa, Col coro delle Sacerdotesse, Ramfis e Sacerdoti)
- Mortal, diletto ai numi (Ramfis, Sacerdoti, Radames, Sacerdotesse)
Atto secondo
Scena I
- Chi mai fra gl'inni e i plausi (Schiave, Amneris)
- Fu la sorte dell'armi a'tuoi funesta (Amneris, Aida)
- Su! del Nilo al sacro lido (Coro, Amneris, Aida)
Scena II
- Gloria all'Egitto (Popolo, Donne, Sacerdoti)
- Marcia trionfale
- Vieni, o guerriero vindice (Popolo, Sacerdoti)
- Salvator della patria, io ti saluto (Il re, Radames, Ramfis e Sacerdoti)
- Che veggo! Egli? Mio padre! (Aida, Radames, Amneris, Amonasro, Il re)
- Quest'assisa ch'io vesto vi dica (Amonasro)
- Ma tu, Re, tu signore possente (Aida, Prigionieri e Schiave, Ramfis e Sacerdoti, Amneris, Il re, Popolo, Amonasro, Radames)
Disc 2
Atto secondo
Scena II
- O re, pei sacri numi (Radames, Il re, Amneris, Sacerdoti, Popolo, Ramfis)
- Gloria all'Egitto, ad Iside (Il re e Popolo, Schiave e Prigionieri, Ramfis e Sacerdoti, Aida, Radames, Amneris, Amonasro)
Atto terzo
- O tu che sei d'Osiride (Coro, Priestesses, Ramfis, Amneris)
- Qui Radames verra! ...O patria mia (Aida)
- Ciel! mio padre! (Aida, Amonasro)
- Pur ti riveggo, mia dolce Aida... (Radames, Aida)
- Fuggiam gli ardori inospiti (Aida, Radames)
- Tu! Amonasro! tu! il re? (Radames, Aida, Amonasro)
Atto quattro
Scena I
- L'abborrita rivale a me sfuggia (Amneris)
- Gia i sacerdoti adunansi (Amneris, Radames)
- Ohime! morir mi sento! (Amneris, Ramfis e Sacerdoti)
- Radames! Radames! Radames! (Ramfis, Sacerdoti, Amneris)
Scena II
- La fatal pietra sovra me si chiuse (Radames, Aida)
- Presago il core della tua condanna (Aida, Radames, Sacerdotesse)
- O terra, addio (Aida, Radames, Coro)
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