Pavarotti and Levine in Recital / The Italian Tenor

Pavarotti and Levine in Recital / The Italian Tenor

DVD9 - NTSC - 4:3 - All Regions - Italian, French, English - LPCM, DTS - 128min. -

Released 2008

Recorded in 1988 at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, ‘Pavarotti and Levine in Recital’ captures the great Italian tenor in his prime – accompanied by the distinguished pianism of the MET’s music director, James Levine.

Providing the ideal companion programme is ‘Pavarotti and the Italian Tenor’. Filmed in Pavarotti’s home town of Modena, the tenor discusses and pays homage to his illustrious predecessors. As well as archival footage of Caruso, Schipa, Gigli and Di Stefano, Pavarotti himself performs several songs (none of which are found in the MET recital).

Pavarotti and Levine in Recital
1 Opening Titles 1.04
2 Un’aura amorosa Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 4.04
Così fan tutte; Da Ponte
3 La promessa Gioachino Rossini Soirées musicales; Pepoli 3.47
4 La danza Gioachino Rossini Soirées musicales; Metastasio 3.50
5 Dolente immagine di Fille mia Vincenzo Bellini; Fumaroli 2.59
6 Malinconia, ninfa gentile Vincenzo Bellini; Pindemonte 1.50
7 Vanne, o rosa fortunata Vincenzo Bellini; Metastasio 2.28
8 Bella Nice, che d’amore Vincenzo Bellini; Metastasio 3.19
9 Ma rendi pur contento Vincenzo Bellini; Metastasio 3.13
10 La mia letizia infondere Giuseppe Verdi I Lombardi; Solera 2.39
11 Pourquoi me réveiller Jules Massenet Werther; 4.27
Blau, Milliet, Hartmann
12 Nevicata Ottorino Respighi; Negri 2.18
13 Pioggia Ottorino Respighi; Pompilj 2.36
14 Nebbie Ottorino Respighi; Negri 3.26
15 M’apparì tutt’amor Friedrich Flotow Martha; Riese 3.20
16 Serenata Pietro Mascagni; Stecchetti 3.11
17 La Girometta Gabriele Sibella 2.17
18 Occhi di fata Luigi Denza; Tremacoldo 4.52
19 Recondita armonia Giacomo Puccini Tosca; Giacosa, Illica 2.53
20 Vaga luna Vincenzo Bellini; anon. 3.33
21 Marechiare Paolo Tosti; Di Giacomo 4.40
22 Nessun dorma Giacomo Puccini, compl. Alfano Turandot; 5.09
Adami, Simoni

Pavarotti and the Italian Tenor
1 Introduction — Enrico Caruso 4.48
2 Nel cor più non mi sento Giovanni Paisiello La molinara; Palomba 1.56
3 Il barcaiolo Gaetano Donizetti; Tarantini 2.56
4 The Rossini Chorale 5.14
5 Fernando Pavarotti 4.08
6 O Colombina Ruggero Leoncavallo Pagliacci 1.47
7 La Giana Folksong 3.36
8 Tito Schipa 3.46
9 Beniamino Gigli 4.11
10 O del mio amato ben Stephano Donaudy 4.05
11 Giuseppe di Stefano 5.17
12 Sole e amore Giacomo Puccini 2.19
13 Early appearances 5.06
14 Non t’amo più! Paolo Tosti; Errico 7.33
Leone Magiera piano