CD: Luciano Pavarotti 50 Edition- Vol 1. The First Decade 27-CD BOX SET (Anthology)

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“The Pavarotti Story, is in many ways, also The Decca Story as artist and record company worked hand-in-hand until the artist’s death in 2007. It was a relationship that lasted some 45 years, and will continue to bear fruit forever.” James Jolly

This 27 CD set reviews the totality of Pavarotti’s remarkably intense first decade with Decca. Everything the artist recorded for the company from signing his contract until 1973 is here, allowing collectors and opera lovers once more to appreciate his exceptional achievement in that first decade for the Decca label.

The set includes an anniversary re-issue in vinyl of the famous May 1964 original first EP, cut by Pavarotti as his first recording for Decca – five arias including ‘Che gelida manina’ from La Bohème, ‘E lucevan le stelle’ from Tosca and three arias from Rigoletto.

It also includes a Bonus CD of Arias featuring the newly re-surfaced recording of ‘Che gelida manina’ from Pavarotti’s debut performance of La Bohème on April 29, 1961 at the Teatro Muncipale in Reggio Emilia.

The collection serves to highlight the key partnerships in Pavarotti’s early recording career. The Sutherland-Pavarotti-Bonynge relationship was the first to be enshrined on record in Bellini’s Beatrice di Tenda (CD 1 – 2). Their Donizetti recordings – La Fille du Régiment (CD 2 – 3) and L’elisir d’amore (CD 4 – 5) still have few rivals: “Pavarotti has a Gigli-like quality in characterisation and this suits him ideally for the role… you should readily be won over by the sheer exuberance, vocal as well as dramatic, that Sutherland brings to the role” – Gramophone original review

Opera was not the sole musical outlet for the Pavarotti of the 1960s and 1970s. He sang in choral works, such as Verdi’s Requiem and Rossini’s Stabat Mater and as his reputation spread he became a dedicated recitalist. His Verdi and Donizetti Arias (CD 25) contain some of the most perfect, natural, unforced singing of his entire career.

Th edition includes:
27 CDS
1 45-RPM EP
Booklet including track lists, castlists and detailed synopses
An article by James Jolly
Libretti in original languages + English available on Decca Classics website.

Tracklisting

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