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Ljuba Welitsch
Complete Columbia Recordings
Genres: Pop, Classical

Track Listings (11) - Disc #1
1. Salome, Op. 54: Final Scene
2. Tosca - (Act I): 'Perche chiuso?...Mia gelosa'
3. Tosca - (Act II): 'Vissi d'arte'
4. Don Giovanni - (Act I): 'Don Ottavio, son morta!...Or sai, chi l'onore'
5. Don Giovanni - (Act II): 'Crudele! Ah no, mio ben... Non mi dir, bell'idol mio'
6. Die Fledermaus: 'Czardas'
7. Der Zigeunerbaron: 'Habet Acht' - (Gypsy Song)
8. Four Last Songs: 'Fruhling'
9. Four Last Songs: 'September'
10. Four Last Songs: 'Beim Schlafengehen'
11. Four Last Songs: 'Im Abendrot'
Track Listings (27) - Disc #2
1. Op. 43, No. 1: 'Von ewiger Liebe'
2. Op 105, No. 1: 'Wie Melodien Zieht Es Mir'
3. Op. 84, No. 4: 'Vergebliches Standchen'
4. 'Die Mainacht'
5. 'Meine Liebe ist grun'
6. Op. 2: 'Gretchen Am Spinnrade'
7. Op. 43, No. 1: 'Die Junge Nonne'
8. Schwanengesang: 'Liebesbotschaft'
9. Op. 32: 'Die Forelle'
10. Myrthen, Op. 25, No. 1: 'Widmung'
11. Liederkreis, Op. 39, No. 5: 'Mondnacht'
12. Myrthen, Op. 25, No. 3: 'Der Nussbaum'
13. Zigeunerlieder,Op. 103: No. 1
14. Zigeunerlieder,Op. 103: No. 2
15. Zigeunerlieder,Op. 103: No. 4
16. Zigeunerlieder,Op. 103: No. 7
17. 'Mne Grustno'
18. ''Mel'nik'
19. 'Gde ti, zvezdochka?'
20. 'Hat Dich Die Liebe Beruhrt'
21. 'Valse De Chopin'
22. 'Dei Nacht' - Op. 10, No. 3
23. 'Cacilie' - Op. 27, No.2
24. 'Ich atmet' einen linden Duft'
25. 'Blicke Mir Nicht In Die Lieder'
26. 'Ich Bin Der Welt Abhanden Gekommen'
27. 'Um Mitternacht' - (Incomplete)

CD Details

All Artists: Ljuba Welitsch
Title: Complete Columbia Recordings
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Sony
Release Date: 6/3/1997
Genres: Pop, Classical
Styles: Vocal Pop, Opera & Classical Vocal, Historical Periods, Classical (c.1770-1830), Modern, 20th, & 21st Century
Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 074646286623

Synopsis

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Ljuba Welitsch had a short career, her stardom spanning the mid-1940s to the mid-1950s. Perhaps this is because she gave so much of herself--even on records you feel she's operating on all cylinders. Her most famous role, Salome, is represented here by the closing scene with Fritz Reiner and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, recorded at the time of her triumphant New York debut. She was also a great Donna Anna, her rendition of the big arias from Don Giovanni full of fire and thrust. Tosca's "Vissi d'arte" is a passionate reading, one of the best on disc. The song disc is more variable but always interesting. A great singer, captured in her prime. -- Dan Davis

CD Reviews

Perhaps the most sensual of German lieder singers

08/21/1999

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This collection of Ljuba Welitsch's singing Strauss is an great example of a singer's cultural connection to a composer giving her an almost eerily innate feeling for the music. Welitsch's voice can only be described as sexy, in a pre-war German sort of way, silvery hard and focused in tone combined with a sensuality of expression that is unique. She breathes life and fire into this music in a way that later singers -- even the great Elisabeth Schwarzkopf -- could not."

Enigimatic Flame!

Impostazione | New York City Area | 11/14/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This woman moved me! I felt exitement, finality, pain, passion, victory, sensuousness, and nostalgia of a time unknown to me. The Salome aria is the most convincingly and beautifully sung I have ever heard by far. The thread of sound is never broken. The lieder selections are very lovely and interestingly personal, not at all detached or serious; a joy. Strauss' Four Last Songs done with piano are quite effective as such. The recorded sound is very impressive; a clean, full-bodied sound. Columbia's mono recordings are absolutely superior. This soprano seemed to have something very important to say. There is an ever present urgency in her delivery, a haste, and a desperation that clings to the heart. As she sings, she invokes compassion, mystery, fear and joy.Please hear this woman!"