Cruda funesta smania - Il tuo dubbio è ormai certezza 6'53"
Ancor non giunse 4'05"
Regnava nel silenzio 9'14"
Egli s'avanza 2'31"
Lucia fra poco a te verrà 2'55"
Appressati, Lucia 1'05"
Il pallor, funesto, orrendo 11'35"
Ebben? - Di tua speranza 1'56"
Deh! T'arrendi, o più sciagure 4'34"
Per te d'immenso giubilo 1'25"
Per poco fra le tenebre 2'07"
Dov'è Lucia?-Qui giungere or la vedrem – Ecco il tuo sposo 3'59"
Chi mi frena in tal momento?-Chi rattiene il mio furore 3'59"
T'allontana, sciagurato 5'38"
Orrida è questa notte 2'04"
Ashton!-Si-Qui del padre ancor respira 6'11"
Di vivo giubilo 1'39"
Cessi...ah, cessi quel contento 5'27"
O giusto cielo! 6'45"
Ardon gli incensi... 6'38"
S'avanza Enrico! 2'43"
Spargi d'amaro pianto 4'56"
Si tragga altrove 1'38"
Tombe degli avi miei 3'44"
Fra poco a me ricovero – Oh meschina! 8'24"
Tu che a Dio spiegasti l'ali 5'39"
General producer and balance engineer: Giulio Cesare Ricci
Musical assistant: Arnold Bosman
Producer assistant: Paola Maria Ricci
Live recording (Florence, may/june 1996)
Recording place: Teatro Comunale di Firenze
Recorded using:
Neumann tube microphones U 47 and U 49, Shiny cables,
Nagra analogue tape recorders and digital tape recorders 20 bit.
One basic feature, which determines the difference between fonè and other record companies, is the recording of performances in their natural spaces, that is in the places where they were originally presented. This leads to a constant search for suitable locations, and the choice of churches, theatres, country mansions, drawing rooms and so on. The recordings are carried out with the utmost simplicity, the only way not to do violence to the music: all the equipment is high fidelity; use is made of valve-type paired microphones manufactured in the years 1947 and 1949 (U47, U48 and M49) with an extremely natural and transparent timbre and a bi-microphonic field effect; these microphones have a very important history: they were used to record the Beatles at the Abbey Road Studio and by the RCA for the "Living Stereo" recordings.
"I had "met" Zubin Metha many times in my life when listening, over and over again, to his amazing recordings on black vinyl disc. ....A little while later...not too long....I met him again at the Teatro Comunale in Florence, but this time he was directing "Lucia" and I was there to record it. What emotion!..."
Camerata Strumentale di Santa Cecilia LEONE MAGIERA conductor ARNOLD BOSMAN pianoforte LUCA FALASCA - GRAZIA RAIMONDI violini BURT WATHEN viola VINCENZO TARONI violoncello GIANNI BIOCOTINO flauto
Stereo / Printed in Japan / Pure Analogue Recording / Pure Analogue Cutting / Cutting Machine / One-Stage Pressing Process / 33 rpm / 180 g. / Heavy Quality Sleeves
David Garfield: piano, 9’3” by Julius Bluthner; 1930 Michael O’Neill: Yamaha Nylon Stringed Acoustic Guitar James Earl: Warwick Acoustic Bass Guitar Larry Klimas: Tenor & Soprano Sax, Flute Walfredo Reyes: Drums, Custom Pearl Kit