leontyne price query

[opus1]

leontyne price has another version of mozart's alleluia (from exultate jubilate) that's not searchable by Google, bing, yahoo. the only one searchable is that of her 1961 version with Karajan and the VPO. this other version had a faster tempo but I don't remember the conductor or orchestra. duh. I used to own it but accidentally deleted it from my iTunes. double duh. can anyone please help me find it?

[KevinP]

I don't know and I can't help. I did, however, just order this today:

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Twelve discs for US$27. No track listing though. Do you know what label it's on? I should think there's a good chance it's in this set.

(Also ordered this along with it, but that's irrelevant.)
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But 28 discs for less than $60 was hard to resist.

[Moonfish]

I don't know and I can't help. I did, however, just order this today:

[asin]B005D4Y6RQ[/asin]

Twelve discs for US$27. No track listing though. Do you know what label it's on? I should think there's a good chance it's in this set.

(Also ordered this along with it, but that's irrelevant.)
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But 28 discs for less than $60 was hard to resist.

Yes, somebody at Sony/RCA must truly love Leontyne Price's voice! 

[jochanaan]

Yes, somebody at Sony/RCA must truly love Leontyne Price's voice! 

Fortunately for the rest of us.

[zamyrabyrd]

I just stumbled upon this stunning "Vissi d'arte":

https://www.youtube.com/v/Px-NQmdeeGU

The descent from the high Bb is even more treacherous than the leap up. It's rare to hear such breath control.

[jochanaan]

I just stumbled upon this stunning "Vissi d'arte":

https://www.youtube.com/v/Px-NQmdeeGU

The descent from the high Bb is even more treacherous than the leap up. It's rare to hear such breath control.

*jawdrop* Wow.  I don't think I've ever heard this sung so perfectly.  And by the pictures, she had amazing beauty and presence and dramatic skill too.

[Monsieur Croche]

*jawdrop* Wow.  I don't think I've ever heard this sung so perfectly.  And by the pictures, she had amazing beauty and presence and dramatic skill too.

Fully avowing and confirming that *jawdrop* Wow / amazing beauty / presence /dramatic skill.

To qualify, I love the voice, and my tastes and budget have had me at very few operas -- often choice of repertoire being my first criterion -- having heard but a few 'great singers' in live performance. To name some of those, o.a. Eileen Farrell, Pavarotti, Montserrat Caballe, Susan Narucki, Thomas Hampson, Susan Graham, Renee Fleming.

I saw and heard Ms. Price in Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmelites, in the role of Madame Lidoine, in the mid-eighties.

I'll leave it to you to read about, among many other superlatives, that her Metropolitan Opera debut as Leonore in Verdi's Il Trovatore recieved a forty-two minute ovation....
http://www.kennedy-center.org/artist/A3787

What I saw and heard which still chills whenever I recall it.
Her stunning physical beauty, the genuine, warm, benevolent regal bearing, and intensely charismatic presence -- all true. If I went on it would be a gob-smacked dripping rave from someone that taken with her. [''queen / demi-goddess / goddess,'' none are far from the truth of how she seemed to appear, to many.]

Then there was that voice. Of that other handful of remarkable singers I have heard live, nothing like the quality of Leontyne Price's singing comes close. I can not think, and have yet to experience what I think simply can not come across from any recording, whether it is the highest tech analog or digital, and the highest tech audio equipment, and that is...

The moment she sang the first note, the sound was omnipresent throughout the hall, like an ambient tone you sense is emanating from every square centimeter of the fabric of the walls, ceiling and floor [of a house seating thirty-three hundred souls.] From the top to the bottom of her range, from the quietest pianississimo to the greatest amplitude forte, without a weak area or wobble, that quality was always present.

In a way, it seemed freakish, either alien, or better put, superhuman... i.e. what we would want and hope to feel when someone is that capable in the art of performing.

Whatever it took for me to come up with the price of the seat to hear that [I was the proverbial starving student at the time, and did not skimp because I really really wanted to see-hear Dialogue des Carmelites], I consider myself fortunate and singularly privileged to have been in the same room, seen her, and heard her sing even just one note.


Best regards.

[jochanaan]

Fully avowing and confirming that *jawdrop* Wow / amazing beauty / presence /dramatic skill.

To qualify, I love the voice, and my tastes and budget have had me at very few operas -- often choice of repertoire being my first criterion -- having heard but a few 'great singers' in live performance. To name some of those, o.a. Eileen Farrell, Pavarotti, Montserrat Caballe, Susan Narucki, Thomas Hampson, Susan Graham, Renee Fleming.

I saw and heard Ms. Price in Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmelites, in the role of Madame Lidoine, in the mid-eighties.

I'll leave it to you to read about, among many other superlatives, that her Metropolitan Opera debut as Leonore in Verdi's Il Trovatore recieved a forty-two minute ovation....
http://www.kennedy-center.org/artist/A3787

What I saw and heard which still chills whenever I recall it.
Her stunning physical beauty, the genuine, warm, benevolent regal bearing, and intensely charismatic presence -- all true. If I went on it would be a gob-smacked dripping rave from someone that taken with her. [''queen / demi-goddess / goddess,'' none are far from the truth of how she seemed to appear, to many.]

Then there was that voice. Of that other handful of remarkable singers I have heard live, nothing like the quality of Leontyne Price's singing comes close. I can not think, and have yet to experience what I think simply can not come across from any recording, whether it is the highest tech analog or digital, and the highest tech audio equipment, and that is...

The moment she sang the first note, the sound was omnipresent throughout the hall, like an ambient tone you sense is emanating from every square centimeter of the fabric of the walls, ceiling and floor [of a house seating thirty-three hundred souls.] From the top to the bottom of her range, from the quietest pianississimo to the greatest amplitude forte, without a weak area or wobble, that quality was always present.

In a way, it seemed freakish, either alien, or better put, superhuman... i.e. what we would want and hope to feel when someone is that capable in the art of performing.

Whatever it took for me to come up with the price of the seat to hear that [I was the proverbial starving student at the time, and did not skimp because I really really wanted to see-hear Dialogue des Carmelites], I consider myself fortunate and singularly privileged to have been in the same room, seen her, and heard her sing even just one note.


Best regards.

I envy you, Monsieur.  I have only heard her on recordings.

I found this, and was very curious--yet she simply nails Caro nome to the wall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFMP311kPzY

[knight66]

A lovely write-up, I have only experienced the discs and they will have to satisfy me. I enjoy her voice enormously and am always happy to hear her, even whe. She sings away from the more obvious choices for her voice. Now, such a voice would not get to sing Mozart, but I cherish those recordings, even the Handel.

Mike

[(poco) Sforzando]

I envy you, Monsieur.  I have only heard her on recordings.

I know I saw her in 1963 in a Don Giovanni with Siepi and Peerce under Maazel. It was one of the few times I visited the old Met on Broadway and 39th, but unfortunately since I was just 15 I can remember very little.

[Spineur]

Just listened to Knoxville: summer of 1915
Such delicacy !!  Superb artist.

I also read that only 1/3 of the 100 songs composed by Samuel Barber have been recorded.
When you see how much money is being spent on a dismal presidential campain, you wonder how is this possible !!  Such an iconic American composer

[bhodges]

That's a wonderful recording. I confess that interpretively speaking, I prefer Dawn Upshaw's Knoxville just a tiny bit more, but but there is no denying Price's gorgeous instrument - one of the greatest ever. (And I agree with your mordant Barber songs comment.  )

I was lucky to be in the audience for this 1996 concert. Even if Price was not in her prime, it was still a memorable evening.

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--Bruce