{"product_id":"callas-schwarzkopf-puccini-turandot-1957-paco198","title":"CALLAS \u0026 SCHWARZKOPF Puccini - Turandot (1957) - PACO198","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003ePUCCINI \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eTurandot\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eStudio recording, 1957\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 1hr 58:00\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eTurandot - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eMaria Callas\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eLiù - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eElisabeth Schwarzkopf\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eCalaf - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eEugenio Fernandi \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eAltoum - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eGiuseppe Nessi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eTimur - \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eNicola Zaccaria\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eOrchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Milano\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003econducted by \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 16px;\"\u003eTullio Serafin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PACO198.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\nIt is fascinating to look back at the earliest reviews of what is generally\nacknowledged today as one of the great Turandot recordings. In writing\nthese notes I had expected to bring you extensive quotes from \u003ci\u003eThe\nGramophone\u003c\/i\u003e’s ecstatic review of September 1958. But instead what do I find?\nSomething of an evisceration:\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n“The timbre [of Callas] is sometimes hollow and plummy in the easier\npositions; the emission is wavering and sounds both strained and ill\nsupported in the upper reaches; and her Turandot is here, to my ear,\ntotally unsatisfying – no matter how often elsewhere I may applaud this and\nthat stroke of dramatic truth and imagination.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n“Next, what about Mme Schwarzkopf? I hear this German Liu with gratitude –\nand I find her final song before her suicide, “Thou who art girt in ice”,\nmost moving and beautiful, with a true legato and some lovely floated tone,\nperfectly supported. Sad therefore to report that she throws away her\nchance in the first song – the lovely \u003cem\u003emorendo\u003c\/em\u003e ending could so\neasily have been sostenuto, but goes wisping away in a ladylike gasp. This\nLiu sounds a bit out of it in an otherwise all Italianate cast…”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut this opinion seems to have been quickly side-lined and forgotten by\nother critics, as opinions shifted to regard the recording as a classic. By\n1979 the same magazine (albeit the pen of a different reviewer) writes, of\nan LP reissue:\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One thinks of this as Callas’s \u003cem\u003eTurandot\u003c\/em\u003e, and so it is, with the\nstart of “In questa reggia” bringing a sudden generation of electricity\nthat has one gasping, but hearing this riveting performance afresh has\nbrought it home too how much it is Serafin’s \u003cem\u003eTurandot \u003c\/em\u003e as well.\nOne might in principle feel that a more reticent manner was more faithful\nto the score, but Serafin has one on the edge of one’s seat.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n“I remember originally finding the obvious stylistic contrast between\nSchwarzkopf and the other singers rather obtrusive, and some may still find\nit so, but what I note now are such heavenly moments as the end of “Signore\nascolta” when the control of tone and legato in the rising octaves in the\ncodetta is ravishing, ending with an immaculate \u003cem\u003emesa di voce\u003c\/em\u003e. This\ntoo is a classic performance, finely contrasted with that of the princess.”\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nAnd the revisions get better – more recently, again from \u003ci\u003eGramophone\u003c\/i\u003e:\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“To have Callas, the most flashing-eyed of all sopranos as Turandot, is—on\nrecord at least—the most natural piece of casting. Other sopranos may be\ncomparably icy in their command, but Callas with her totally distinctive\ntonal range was able to give the fullest possible characterization. With\nher Turandot was not just an implacable man-hater but a highly provocative\nfemale. One quickly reads something of Callas's own underlying\nvulnerability into such a portrait, its tensions, the element of\nbrittleness. Equally in the final arioso of Alfano's completion, ''Del\nprimo pianto'', the chesty way she sings ''Straniero'' in the opening\nphrase, addressing Calaf, is unforgettable in its continuing threat. With\nher the character seems so much more believably complex than with others.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\nIt was sad that, except at the very beginning of her career, she felt\nunable to sing the role in the opera house, but this 1957 recording is far\nmore valuable than any memory of the past, for me one of the most\nthrillingly magnetic of all her recorded performances, the more so when\nSchwarzkopf as Liu provides a comparably characterful and distinctive\nportrait, far more than a Puccinian 'little woman', sweet and wilting. Even\nmore than usual one regrets that the confrontation between princess and\nslave is so brief. Though for some Schwarzkopf's observance of markings in\nLiu's two arias may seem to meticulous, the extra detail reinforces the\nfine-spun Straussian quality, notably in the rising and falling octaves of\n''Signore ascolta''.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis XR remastering of what is today acknowledged as one of the great\nrecordings of \u003cem\u003eTurandot\u003c\/em\u003e helps lift a sonic veil from the original\nrecording – in all of its subsequent reissues – as well as providing a\nsense of space and dimension to the staging that is particularly welcome in\nthe ensemble and chorus sections. It is tragic that still Walter Legge was\nresisting stereo recording at La Scala in 1957 – Ambient Stereo processing\ncan only go so far in this respect – but nevertheless I hope you’ll find a\nconsiderable improvement here over previous issues.\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Rose\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_thumbnail2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_cover_download_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample1_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample2_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample3_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample4_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample5_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_sample6_s3_locationfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fFull Track Listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5ftrack_listing578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab2_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 24px;\"\u003ePUCCINI Turandot\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003edisc one\u003c\/b\u003e (76:58)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACT ONE\u003cbr\u003e1. Popolo di Pekino!  (4:20)\u003cbr\u003e2. Perduta la battaglia  (1:11)\u003cbr\u003e3. Gira la cote, gira, gira!  (2:34)\u003cbr\u003e4. Perch  (4:54)\u003cbr\u003e5. O giovinetto!  (5:07)\u003cbr\u003e6. Figlio, che fai?  (3:48)\u003cbr\u003e7. Silenzio!  (4:08)\u003cbr\u003e8. Signore, ascolta!  (2:25)\u003cbr\u003e9. Non piangere, Li  (2:16)\u003cbr\u003e10. Ah! per l'ultima volta!  (2:28)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACT TWO, SCENE ONE\u003cbr\u003e11. Ol  (3:31)\u003cbr\u003e12. Ho una casa nell'Honan  (3:16)\u003cbr\u003e13. O mondo, pieno di pazzi innamorati!  (4:14)\u003cbr\u003e14. Udite trombe! Altro che pace!  (4:33)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACT TWO, SCENE TWO\u003cbr\u003e15. Un giuramente atroce mi costringe  (4:34)\u003cbr\u003e16. Popolo di Pekino!  (1:45)\u003cbr\u003e17. In questa Reggia  (2:50)\u003cbr\u003e18. O Principi, che a lunghe caravane  (3:29)\u003cbr\u003e19. Straniero, ascolta!  (4:46)\u003cbr\u003e20. Gelo che ti d  (3:24)\u003cbr\u003e21. Figlio del cielo!  (2:54)\u003cbr\u003e22. Tre engmi m'hai proposto  (4:31)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003edisc two\u003c\/b\u003e (41:02)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACT THREE, SCENE ONE\u003cbr\u003e1. Cosi comanda Turandot  (3:20)\u003cbr\u003e2. Nessun dorma!  (2:53)\u003cbr\u003e3. Tu che guardi le stelle  (3:48)\u003cbr\u003e4. Principessa divina  (2:44)\u003cbr\u003e5. Quel nome!  (2:18)\u003cbr\u003e6. Tanto amore segreto  (2:21)\u003cbr\u003e7. Tu che di gel sei cinta  (3:07)\u003cbr\u003e8. Li  (5:22)\u003cbr\u003e9. Principessa di morte!  (3:40)\u003cbr\u003e10. O mio fio mattutino  (8:03)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACT THREE, SCENE TWO\u003cbr\u003e11. 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