Lucia di Lammermoor Berlin 1955 (The Lost Recordings) Maria Callas SKU: TLR 2303047V Barcode: 3770020964077 200.00 £200.00 Genre: Classical Label: The Lost Recordings Released Date: 11th September 2023 Buying Format: 180g 3LP Box Set Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info 1st hand-numbered edition, limited to 5000 copies No vinyl repress will be done Remastered from the original analogue tapes 40 page booklet facsimile of the performance program Printed in Italy Pressed at Marciac Workshop Pressings, France 33 rpm Lacquer-cuts: Kevin Gray Electroplating: Marciac Workshop Pressings 180g triple-vinyl boxset In May 2022, while we were working in the archives of the Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB), we came across the original tapes of this mythical recording made in 1955. It was certainly one of the most significant testimonies of the lyric art of the twentieth century: Lucia di Lammermoor, recorded during the performance of 29 September 1955 at the Städtische Oper Berlin, with a cast that included Di Stefano, Panerai, Karajan and Callas. Despite the fact that the first forty seconds of the first tape had deteriorated, when we listened to the minutes of the recording that followed, we heard timbres with a richness and a dynamic that bore no comparison to other recordings that have been known until the present. It took four months of painstaking work to restore all the brilliance to the orchestra, to the Scala choir and to the legendary voices of this poignant slice of history and of music. We wanted to be able to release our first vinyl edition of the opera in a limited number of 5,000 on the occasion of the centenary of the birth of Maria Callas. Kevin Gray made the cutting and the three records were pressed in our very own workshop in the south of France, MWP, to our usual stringent standards. We are very grateful to the RBB for their trust in us. We would also like to thank the Callas Foundation, which safeguards and promotes Callas’s legacy, and especially Tom Volf, for their help, as well as for the photographs they provided. Frédéric D’Oria-Nicolas Founder and Director of The Lost Recordings I have a very personal connection with Callas’s Lucia, for it is the first recording I heard of hers, more precisely the mad scene; hearing Callas’s voice and interpretation was like falling in love at first sight. This live recording is a wonderful example of what it felt like to hear Callas on stage, in a performance that became legendary. Maria Callas said she “hated” recording for commercial (studio) releases and used to say that only live performances could convey her artistry in its full spectrum. In the later years of her life, she would collect her own pirate recordings and would often listen to performances such as this one. The best account of that comes from Robert Sutherland, her pianist during the last tour of concerts in 1973-74, who recalled the evenings spent at Callas’s apartment at Avenue Georges Mandel: “We listened to a pirate recording of the Berlin Lucia. She remembered how Karajan angered the soloists by repeating the sextet without warning them. As we listened to the encore she said ‘You can hear how angry I was! And I still had the mad scene to sing! I told him afterwards at dinner that he dare not do that again on me or there would be trouble!’ We listened to the mad scene, an amazing performance. She was visibly impressed. ‘I don’t now how I did it. I just don’t know how – and to think that I wept after that performance because I thought I was so far off my aim.’ I had difficulty in expressing my reaction. Such a combination of controlled technical brilliance and artistic imagination was astounding. I attempted it with, ‘It’s marvellous singing…’ ‘Marvellous? Marvellous?’ She pulled herself up in the sofa. ‘It isn’t marvellous, it’s bloody miraculous!’” Back at that time, pirate recordings circulated among avid admirers in the form of homemade LP’s, such as those released by the BJR label which is probably the one that Callas was listening to that night with Robert Sutherland. Today, however, we have to commend Frédéric D’Oria-Nicolas and The Lost Recordings for retrieving the original tapes in Berlin and meticulously restoring them to a quality of sound which surpasses any previous release, thus providing us with the most authentic rendition of that historical performance. Therefore it was only natural for the Callas Foundation to be associated with this publication, providing texts and images to illustrate the booklet and honour the memory of Maria Callas through this magnificent edition celebrating her 100th anniversary. Tom Volf President of the Maria Callas Foundation Maria Callas, Lucia Giuseppe Di Stefano, Edgardo Rolando Panerai, Enrico Nicola Zaccaria, Raimondo Giuseppe Zampieri, Arturo Luisa Villa, Alisa Mario Carlin, Normanno Coro del Teatro alla Scala, Milan RIAS Symphony Orchestra Herbert von Karajan, Conductor Recorded on 29.IX.1955 at Städtische Oper Berlin, Germany Artist Maria Callas Genre Classical Label The Lost Recordings Buying Options 180g 3LP Box Set Format 180g , 3LP , Box Set Condition New Country France Track Listings RECORD 1 - DONIZETTI: LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR: ACT I Prelude Percorrete... Percorriamo le spiagge vicine Tu sei turbato!... E n’ho ben d’onde Cruda, funesta smania Il tuo dubbio è omai certezza... Come vinti da stanchezza La pietade in suo favore Ancor non giunse? Regnava nel silenzio alta la notte e bruna Quando rapito in estasi Egli s'avanza... Lucia, perdona se ad ora inusitata Sulla tomba che rinserra il tradito genitore Qui di sposa eterna fede... Ah, soltanto il nostro foco Ah, talor del tuo pensiero venga un foglio messaggero Verranno a te sull'aure i miei sospiri ardenti RECORD 2 - DONIZETTI: LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR: ACT II Lucia fra poco a te verrà... Tremante l’aspetto Appressati, Lucia... Il pallor funesto, orrendo Soffriva nel pianto... Un folle t’accese Che fia?... Suonar di giubilo Se tradirmi tu potrai... Tu che vedi il pianto mio Per te d’immenso giubilo... Per poco fra le tenebre sparì lavos tra stella Dov’è Lucia?... Qui giungere or la vedrem Piange la madre estinta Chi mi frena in tal momento T’allontana, sciagurato... Rispettate in me di Dio Sconsigliato! In queste porte chi ti guida? Esci, fuggi, il furor che mi accende RECORD 3 - DONIZETTI: LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR: ACT III D’immenso giubilo s’innalzi un grido Dalle stanze ove Lucia tratta avea col suo consorte Oh! Qual funesto avvenimento! Il dolce suono mi colpì di sua voce!... Ardon gli incensi Spargi d'amaro pianto Tombe degli avi miei Fra poco a me ricovero darà negletto avello Oh, meschina! Oh, fato orrendo! 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