MASCAGNI: Intermezzo - da Cavalleria Rusticana 3.30
ROSSINI: Una voce poco fa - da Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Ciofi) 6.34
PUCCINI: O mio babbino caro - da Gianni Schicchi (Remigio) 2.23
PUCCINI: In quelle trine morbide - da Manon Lescaut (Kabaivanska) 3.00
VERDI: Caro nome - da Rigoletto (Ciofi) 5.23
PUCCINI: Sì, mi chiamano Mimì - da La Bohème (Remigio) 5.06
VERDI: Pace, pace mio Dio - da La forza del destino (Kabaivanska) 5.48
DONIZETTI: Al dolce guidami - da Anna Bolena (Remigio) 9.13
PUCCINI: Che tua madre - da Madama Butterfly (Kabaivanska) 3.34
PUCCINI: Valzer di Musetta - da La Bohème (Ciofi) 2.41
PUCCINI: Tu, che di gel sei cinta - da Turandot (Remigio) 2.52
PUCCINI: Vissi d'arte - da Tosca (Kabaivanska) 3.34
VERDI: E' strano! E' strano! - da La Traviata (Ciofi) 7.03
VERDI: Mercè, dilette amiche -da I Vespri Siciliani (Remigio) 3.58
CILEA: Io son l'umile ancella - da Adriana Lecouvreur (Kabaivanska) 3.37
I recorded this album at "Auditorium Via della Conciliazione" in Roma on September 1999. The concert is dominated by a performer who has a remarkable talent for "portrayal in song" and has always used musical notes to construct real, breathing and living human beings: Raina Kabaivanska. Here she is joined by Patrizia Ciofi and Carmela Remigio, two sopranos united in their belief in the continuity of tradition and in the survival, no matter how rapidly our life style is changing today, of that great revealer of the human soul which is Italian opera.
Accompanying the singers, another pillar of musical tradition: Leone Magiera. For this recording I used the original tube microphones Neumann U47, M49 and all its equipment: advanced mike pre-amplifiers Nagra, analog tape recorders Nagra 4s, line, digital, microphone and supply cables Signoricci. The original master were transferred directly to DSD.
Also for this recording I used a "field effect" recording technique, natural sound, without the use of equalizers, no sound expansion and compression systems ... all this to make the listener live in his own system domestic hifi the live effect as if he was present at the performances.
No editing. All the tracks on this record are heard as they were performed. Tube Processed Digital Master / natural sound recording / HiFi Reference / Super Audio CD / DSD / Stereo
Andrea Castelfranato acoustic guitar nylon guitar fingerstyle