
Puccini: La bohème (Deluxe Edition Remastered 2024) Luciano Pavarotti, Berliner Philharmoniker & Herbert von Karajan
Album info
Album-Release:
1972
HRA-Release:
04.04.2025
Label: Decca Music Group Ltd.
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal
Artist: Luciano Pavarotti, Berliner Philharmoniker & Herbert von Karajan
Composer: Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)
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- Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924): La bohème, Act I:
- 1 Puccini: La bohème, Act I: Questo mar rosso (Remastered 2024) 04:32
- 2 Puccini: La bohème, Act I: Pensier profundo! (Remastered 2024) 01:11
- 3 Puccini: La bohème, Act I: Abasso, abbasso l'autor! (Remastered 2024) 03:49
- 4 Puccini: La bohème, Act I: Si può – Chi è là? (Remastered 2024) 05:18
- 5 Puccini: La bohème, Act I: Io resto per terminar l'articolo (Remastered 2024) 01:08
- 6 Puccini: La bohème, Act I: Chi è là? (Remastered 2024) 01:11
- 7 Puccini: La bohème, Act I: Si sente meglio? (Remastered 2024) 02:43
- 8 Puccini: La bohème, Act I: Che gelida manina (Remastered 2024) 04:38
- 9 Puccini: La bohème, Act I: Sì. Mi chiamano Mimì (Remastered 2024) 06:00
- 10 Puccini: La bohème, Act I: O soave fanciulla (Love Duet) (Remastered 2024) 04:17
- La bohème, Act II:
- 11 Puccini: La bohème, Act II: Arranci, datteri! (Remastered 2024) 02:53
- 12 Puccini: La bohème, Act II: Chi guardi? – Ecco i giocattoli di Parpignol (Remastered 2024) 03:08
- 13 Puccini: La bohème, Act II: Viva Parpignol! (Remastered 2024) 02:21
- 14 Puccini: La bohème, Act II: Oh! ... Essa! ... Musetta! (Remastered 2024) 03:30
- 15 Puccini: La bohème, Act II: Quando men vo – Fuori il danaro! (Remastered 2024) 05:21
- 16 Puccini: La bohème, Act II: Chi l'ha richiesto? – Caro! – Fuori il danaro! (Remastered 2024) 02:27
- La bohème, Act III:
- 17 Puccini: La bohème, Act III: Ohè, là, le guardie! Aprite! (Remastered 2024) 04:20
- 18 Puccini: La bohème, Act III: Sa dirmi, scusi (Remastered 2024) 01:02
- 19 Puccini: La bohème, Act III: Mimì! – Speravo di trovarvi qui (Remastered 2024) 05:05
- 20 Puccini: La bohème, Act III: Marcello. Finalmente! (Remastered 2024) 01:18
- 21 Puccini: La bohème, Act III: Mimì è una civetta (Remastered 2024) 01:27
- 22 Puccini: La bohème, Act III: Mimì è tanto malata! (Remastered 2024) 03:21
- 23 Puccini: La bohème, Act III: Donde lieta uscì (Remastered 2024) 03:22
- 24 Puccini: La bohème, Act III: Dunque è propio finita! (Remastered 2024) 06:17
- La bohème, Act IV:
- 25 Puccini: La bohème, Act IV: In un coupé? (Remastered 2024) 01:44
- 26 Puccini: La bohème, Act IV: O Mimì, tu più non torni – Che ora sia (Remastered 2024) 05:28
- 27 Puccini: La bohème, Act IV: Gavotta! ... Minuetto! (Remastered 2024) 01:40
- 28 Puccini: La bohème, Act IV: C'è Mimì... (Remastered 2024) 06:06
- 29 Puccini: La bohème, Act IV: Vecchia zimarra, senti (Remastered 2024) 02:32
- 30 Puccini: La bohème, Act IV: Sono andati? (Remastered 2024) 05:59
- 31 Puccini: La bohème, Act IV: Oh Dio! Mimi! – Che ha detto il medico? (Remastered 2024) 06:10
Info for Puccini: La bohème (Deluxe Edition Remastered 2024)
Few artists are as closely associated with the performance history of Giacomo Puccini's opera ‘La Bohème’ as Luciano Pavarotti. The great Italian tenor made his operatic debut as Rodolfo and went on to make the role his own worldwide - a role that was tailor-made for him and in which he was able to develop his full artistic expressiveness. The Decca recording of ‘La Bohème’ from 1972 shows him in top vocal form alongside his most important stage partner, the soprano Mirella Freni, and under the direction of Herbert von Karajan, one of the most important opera conductors of the 20th century. The result is a reference recording that expresses the poetic spirit of this opera like no other recording.
Luciano Pavarotti, tenor
Mirella Freni, soprano
Nicolai Ghiaurov, bass
Gianni Maffeo, baritone
Michel Senechal, tenor
Gernot Pietsch, tenor
Chorus of the Deutsche Oper Berlin
Berlin Philharmonic
Herbert von Karajan, conductor
Digitally remastered
Luciano Pavarotti
was a celebrated operatic tenor born in Modena, Italy, renowned for his powerful and emotive singing. Influenced by his musical family, particularly his father, who sang with local choirs, Pavarotti nurtured his vocal talent from a young age. His professional career began with notable performances in Italian provincial towns, eventually leading to his break at London's Covent Garden, where he filled in for another tenor and won acclaim. Pavarotti's fame skyrocketed through televised performances and outdoor concerts, such as the iconic Three Tenors concerts, which attracted massive audiences and broke sales records for classical music.
Over his career, he became known for his mastery of high notes and his distinct "Pavarotti sound," characterized by a large-volume lyric tenor voice. Despite facing challenges, including health issues and the demands of stardom, he remained a beloved figure in both opera and popular culture. Pavarotti was also active in philanthropy, contributing to various charitable causes and supporting young artists through competitions. He passed away from pancreatic cancer in 2007, leaving behind a legacy as one of the most popular and influential tenors of the late twentieth century.
Herbert von Karajan
Karajan’s father was a doctor at the Salzburg hospital and his mother was of Slav descent. He began to take piano lessons when he was four, and studied chamber music, composition, piano and theory at the Salzburg Mozarteum for ten years from 1916. His tutors included Bernhard Paumgartner, who conducted his first concerto appearance in 1919 and encouraged him to become a conductor. After graduating from the Mozarteum in 1926, Karajan entered the Vienna Academy, where he studied piano with Hofmann and conducting with Wunderer. At the beginning of 1929 he conducted the Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra; as a result he was offered the chance to conduct a trial performance by the director of the Ulm Municipal Theatre, and subsequently was appointed as chief conductor, a post he held from 1929 to 1934. During this period he also conducted the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and joined the Nazi party not once but twice, in Ulm and also in Aachen, where from 1934 to 1942 he was chief conductor, conducting both opera and symphony concerts. He made his debut at the Vienna State Opera in 1937 conducting Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde and during the following year appeared with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. After performances of Beethoven’s Fidelio and Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde at the Berlin State Opera he was hailed as ‘Der Wunder Karajan’ (‘The Karajan Miracle’) by the Berlin music critic von der Nüll, and was offered a recording contract by Deutsche Grammophon; in 1939 he was appointed as ‘state conductor’ at the Berlin Staatsoper and as conductor of the Staatsoper orchestra’s symphony concerts.
During most of World War II Karajan was active in Berlin and in certain occupied and friendly territories such as France and Italy and was seen as a potent rival to Furtwängler, then at the head of the Berlin Philharmonic; but as the war drew to a close he fled from Germany and lived primarily in Italy. Because of his membership of the Nazi party Karajan was not permitted to conduct in public in Vienna after hostilities had ceased, but he was allowed to record for Walter Legge and the British Columbia label. The ban on conducting was lifted in 1947, and during the following year he was appointed as chief conductor of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and of the Vienna Musikverein Choral Society, began to work as the de facto chief conductor of Legge’s Philharmonia Orchestra, and appeared at the Salzburg Festival and La Scala, Milan. In addition he accepted many guest engagements in Austria, England, Germany, Italy and Switzerland.
By the beginning of the 1950s Karajan’s star was definitely once again in the ascendant. At the first post-war Bayreuth Festival, held in 1951, he conducted both Wagner’s Ring and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, followed the next year by an incandescent interpretation of Tristan und Isolde. His numerous recordings for Legge established and confirmed his international reputation through their undeniable quality. Following the death of Furtwängler at the end of 1954 Karajan was appointed as chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, a post which he was to hold until 1989, touring internationally with the orchestra from 1957 onwards. Next he was appointed as artistic director of the Salzburg Festival, from 1956 to 1960, and of the Vienna State Opera, from 1957 to 1964. Here he promoted co-operation with La Scala, and sought to introduce the Italian stagione system in place of the traditional repertoire system with its concomitant difficulties with rehearsals. In 1959 Deutsche Grammophon signed a long-term recording contract with Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the significance of which cannot be over-estimated in terms of generating reputation and income. At one point recordings by Karajan constituted twenty-five percent of the label’s classical catalogue, and during his lifetime more than one hundred million copies of his recordings were sold world-wide.
The new concert hall in West Berlin, the Philharmonie, was inaugurated by Karajan in 1963, and the following year he joined the board of directors of the Salzburg Festival, where he exerted considerable influence. In 1967 he established the Salzburg Easter Festival with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra as resident, and inaugurated it with his own production of Die Walküre, which was shared with the Metropolitan Opera in New York; the Salzburg Whitsun Concerts followed in 1973. He founded the Karajan Foundation in Berlin in 1968, a significant legacy of which was a conducting competition which helped to identify the major conductors of the following generation. Between 1969 and 1971 Karajan acted as musical counsellor for the Orchestre de Paris, created to replace the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra. In 1978, the year in which he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Oxford University, he suffered a severe fall which was to affect his mobility for the rest of his life. He conducted the traditional New Year’s Day concert with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in 1987, and his eightieth birthday was marked in 1988 by Deutsche Grammophon with the issue of a one hundred-CD Karajan Edition. He died of heart failure the following year while preparing Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera for the Salzburg Festival.
Karajan was an extraordinary conductor, who possessed an unusually high degree of personal charisma which was almost tangible when experienced directly in the concert hall and opera house. He often conducted with his eyes closed, generating a high level of concentration and tension, and was able to exact performances of remarkable technical accuracy and control from his orchestras. He combined these traits with a love of the smoothest legato and subtlest phrasing. Taken all together these characteristics could result in slightly ‘soft-centered’ or mannered performances. His discography was vast: towards the end of his life his recordings, generally made under his own control, were auctioned to EMI and Decca as well as to Deutsche Grammophon, thus furthering their international distribution. Karajan is perhaps best experienced in the repertoire by which he was most popularly known, the Viennese classics, such as the symphonies of Beethoven, Brahms and Bruckner. A relatively late convert to Mahler, he was nonetheless an impressive interpreter of this elusive composer. His operatic recordings, especially those made with Walter Legge for EMI, are of a very high quality. A keen supporter of technological innovation, he allied himself closely to the introduction of the compact disc, first unveiled to the public in 1981, and to digital recording. He also recorded opera and concerts on film, with himself conducting, from 1965 onwards, and so has left an impressive visual musical legacy which has subsequently been made available on DVD.
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