アンジェラ・ゲオルギュー LP盤も発売!

5度のグラモフォン賞、2度のクラシック・ブリット賞を始め、ドイツのECHOクラシック賞、フランスのヴィクトワール賞やディアパゾン・ドール賞など、数々の栄誉に輝き、世界的なオペラのスーパー・スターとして活躍を続けるルーマニア出身のソプラノ歌手アンジェラ・ゲオルギューが、イギリスのSignum Classicsリリースするソロ・アルバムはLP(アナログ)ヴァージョン。歌曲伴奏の世界的名手ヴィンチェンツォ・スカレーラのピアノで、2024年に没後100周年を迎えるジャコモ・プッチーニの歌曲とオペラ・アリアの素晴らしいコレクションを歌います。

キャリアの初期からプッチーニの名歌手として知られ、プッチーニのアルバムで2度のグラモフォン賞受賞、プッチーニ音楽祭のプッチーニ賞受賞なども誇り、ゲオルギューが生涯を通じて深く感謝してきたというプッチーニへの愛情深きオマージュ・アルバム。プッチーニがわずか16歳の頃に作曲した「A te(あなたに)」から61歳の作品まで、力強く劇的なアリアのようなスタイルから優しくシンプルな感情を伴う作品まで、幅広い年代とスタイルから厳選し、LPヴァージョンでは14曲を収録。最近再発見されたアリア『メランコニア(憂鬱)』の世界初録音も収録しています。
東京エムプラス

発売・販売元 提供資料 （2023/11/14）

This release showed up on classical best-seller charts in early 2024. That may have been because it was the first release by soprano Angela Gheorghiu since before the COVID-19 pandemic, and she has a great big army of fans. However, the albums popularity may also be due to the repertory. These Puccini songs for voice and piano have been recorded occasionally (except for the final Melanconia!, which receives its world premiere), but this may be the first recording of them as a group (there are 17 of Puccinis 19 songs, one of them religious and accompanied by an organ). They come from various phases of Puccinis career; just a few are juvenilia, and a listener hearing them cold might well identify Puccini as the composer, even the opening love song A te, written when he was 16. A few (sample Sogno dor) sound like excerpts from the operas. This is remarkable for a couple of reasons. First, a song is quite a different thing from a section of a Puccini opera, with its flowing action. Moreover, the texts are a real miscellany; there is a patriotic school hymn, Dios y patria, and another patriotic song, Inno a Roma. Yet the melodic stuff of the songs is straight from the operas, and there are some striking correspondences (hear Mentia lavviso and then Des Grieuxs song about Manon in Manon Lescaut). Gheorghius voice is remarkably well preserved, and she scales it back to song dimensions effectively enough, although she applies quite a bit of vibrato, and a lighter voice might have suited some of these songs better. A harsh church acoustic also doesnt do her any favors. For those who love Puccini, though, this is a valuable document that penetrates to the heart of his creativity. ~ James Manheim

Rovi