Jane Eaglen - Tosca (Sung in English) - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Mario! Mario! Mario! 2. Our Little House in the Country 3. What Eyes in All the Wide World 4. Ah, That Explains It 5. It Seemed Wise to Arrest Him 6. Now You and I Can Talk 7. Enough. Tosca, Your Answer 8. Floria! 9. How Much? 10. Life Has Taught Me Singing and Loving 11. Which Route Have You Chosen? 12. Ah! Safe-Conduct for Floria Tosca 13. Oh, Hands of Mercy 14. What a Time They Are Taking!

Album Tracks 1. People of Proud Peking 2. When All Was Lost 3. Sharpen the Axe! 4. Is the Moon Never Rising? 5. How Young to Die! 6. Son, Are You Mad? 7. What Do You Want? Who Are You? 8. Why So Much Noise? 9. Nights Without a Gleam of Starlight 10. I Beg You, Hear Me 11. Don't Cry for Me, Liu 12. Ah! How Can You Ignore Us? 13. Hallo Pang! Hallo Pang! 14. I've a House in Fair Honan 15. Do You Remember When the Royal Prince of Samarkand Came? 16. With the Three Enigmas Ready 17. I Am the Pris'ner of a Ghastly Promise 18. People of Proud Peking! 19. Within This Palace a Story Lives Forever 20. O Princes Who in Caravans of Splendour 21. O Stranger, Now Listen! 22. Emp'ror and Father! Son of Heaven! 23. Three Enigmas That You Asked Me 1. The Princess Turandot Commands 2. None Shall Sleep Now! 3. These Girls Should Please You! 4. How Pale You Look, O Stranger! 5. Yes, I Love Him So Deeply! 6. You Who with Ice Are Shrouded 7. Liu!... Liu!... Wake Up! 8. Deathly Princess, So Heartless! 9. What Have You Done? 10. I Never Wept Before 11. Glory to Our Emp'ror!

On 9 October 1943, NBC Radio in New York broadcast the world premiere of a one-act opera by Italo Montemezzi (1875-1952), L'incantesimo, (The Spell), with Italian libretto by playwright Sem Benelli (1877-1949). The broadcast was a belated form of recognition, because by that time Montemezzi was widely famous in the United States. Conducted by Arturo Toscanini, this opera ran in New York for 25 seasons - an extraordinarily long-lived success, with such major names as Serafin, Stokowsky, de Sabata and Bruno Walter conducting quality editions of the work to widespread critical approval. In the New York Times, the respected critic Olin Downs echoed the general enthusiasm, praising the music, action and style as eminently suited to performance on the radio, adding that the work's lyricism was as strong as in L'Amore dei tre re, although perhaps less immediate than Puccini's. Montemezzi's moderately modern music follows a middle path between a freely declamatory approach for the main characters and more markedly melodic passages for tenor and soprano which might easily pass for short concert pieces or in the great narrative scene of the description of the hunt. Nonetheless, Montemezzi's real capacity for invention lies in his orchestral writing which evokes Wagnerian Inchinfinite melodyInch and, in certain sections, the imaginative symphonic approach of Richard Strauss with it's variety, wealth of color, modulation, rhythmic phrasing, and solo instrumental gesture. Album Tracks 1. Incantesimo~Nevica ancora?... 2. Incantesimo~Egli ha presso di sè un negromante 3. Incantesimo~È giunto il Conte 4. Incantesimo~Venga il Sapiente! 5. Incantesimo~Cacciator senza paura 6. Incantesimo~La cerva aveva il mio volto 7. Incantesimo~L'Amore fu! 8. Incantesimo~Parla, mago! 9. Incantesimo~Che vuoi sapere? 10. Incantesimo~Io non lo so 11. Incantesimo~Perché farlo so