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商品描述JOSEPH CALLEJA - THE MALTESE TENOR It was summer 2010, and Joseph Calleja was making his role debut as Gabriele Adorno in Verdi's Simon Boccanegra The house was Covent Garden in London, and his co-stars included a certain Plácido Domingo, now singing the baritone title-role Joseph Calleja had planned to study the challenging role of Adorno during the previous summer, but had lost that time preparing for another new role, Offenbach's Hoffmann, which he had taken on at the Metropolitan Opera in New York after another tenor withdrew "So, contrary to all my principles, I studied Adorno for just two weeks before I came to London", Joseph Calleja explains, laughing "I had no other time But the voice was telling me it was ready for new things And the minute I started on the piece, it just fitted into the voice as if I had been singing it for ten years It was really one of those instances when it all just works." The critics enthusiastically agreed: plaudits for Joseph Calleja not only matched those for Plácido Domingo himself, but in some cases even came close to exceeding them It's a story that doesn't just attest Joseph Calleja's increasing prominence on the world operatic stage, but also his development as a dramatic artist It's now five years since the Maltese singer recorded his last recital album, The Golden Voice (a follow-up to 2004's Tenor Arias) - a long time to be away from the studio "Back then I was an extremely young artist to be recording CDs at all", he replies "Of course I enjoyed the success, but I also had a long way to go What's changed is that I'm much more in control of my vocal facility and I have a maturity which only time on stage can bring to one's art If you know the role inside out, then you can find the right nuances and inflection much more easily." So one way into The Maltese Tenor is through the roles that Joseph Calleja now knows from the immediacy of live performance There is, of course, Adorno's aria "Sento avvampar nell'anima", a late addition to the album, but one that Joseph Calleja felt was indispensable after his London triumph It is still rarely performed outside of complete performances of the opera "But any self-respecting tenor with a good voice should make it a show-stopper, because it's so beautifully written." Hoffmann is here too, as part of a quartet of French heroes that also includes Massenet's des Grieux (from Manon), Gounod's Faust and, in a languorous duet with another Decca artist, the Polish soprano Aleksandra Kurzak, the lovesick fisherman Nadir in Bizet's Les Pêcheurs de perles "The next four to five years are ideal for me to explore these full lyric French roles", Joseph Calleja explains "There are so many opinions about what the `French style' really is The consensus is that the French line gives you less room to manoeuvre, to do your own thing as a singer But the way I see it is through the Italian bel canto style It's what I try to do with Hoffmann, particularly in the middle of his chanson, which is more lyrical." In the celebrated "Salut, demeure chaste et pure!" from Faust, meanwhile - a role Joseph Calleja has sung in Berlin and would love to reprise - the challenge is to give fresh spontaneity to one of opera's hit numbers "This aria is sung so much in concert that one tends to forget about what's in the text, what the aria means in context." The Pearl Fishers duet, too, followed live concert performances in Frankfurt "At the end of the evening there was a thirty-minute standing ovation so I thought I had to include that duet on the album." A stronger dramatic take on these arias hasn't diluted Joseph Calleja's fidelity to that bel canto style It's one reason why his voice has often been described as "old-fashioned": grace and elegance matched to a timbre that's lighter than that of many other tenors of Joseph Calleja's generation and flecked by a rapid, persistent vibrato Early on in Joseph Calleja's career, some found that intrusive "For a period of time, my vibrato was very, very fast", Joseph Calleja concedes "But people fail to mention or think about how old I was at the time If you to very early recordings of Jussi Björling, Enrico Caruso or Giuseppe di Stefano, they all have it Eventually it settles down and matures." Joseph Calleja grew up soaked in the golden voices of the twentieth century and won't be lectured on what they did or didn't do to keep their voices in peak condition: listening to their recordings was a cornerstone of his studies in Malta with his childhood mentor, the tenor-turned-teacher Paul Asciak "He sang concerts with Tito Schipa, he was friends with Franco Corelli what he gave me is really the way they used to do things back then, based on listening to the old recordings Some people say that when they're preparing a new role they don't to anybody else I can understand that, but I don't accept it! If you don't to what your predecessors did before you, it's like being a leaf on a tree and not knowing which tree you're on." The old masters will be Joseph Calleja's guide as he tackles the bigger, meatier Italian repertoire, too It's a new direction in The Maltese Tenor: not just Puccini's La bohème, but Tosca and Manon Lescaut, too; Verdi, aside from Boccanegra, is represented by the more spinto (literally: pushed) operas Un ballo in maschera and Luisa Miller Some would call Boito's version of the Faust story, Mefistofele, from which Joseph Calleja sings the winsome "Dai campi, dai prati" and "Giunto sul passo estremo", another step up altogether on the ladder to the big dramatic repertoire "The voice should tell the singer by itself when it's time to move on from La bohème or Lucia di Lammermoor to this repertoire", Joseph Calleja observes "Mefistofele and Un ballo in maschera in particular are both beautifully written, they're all on the breath and the approach is still bel canto Just because it's Verdi doesn't mean you have to shout your way through it." You could call this the wisdom of the more mature Maltese tenor Or, if you're Joseph Calleja, you might simply call it gut instinct "I'm sorry I haven't anything more intellectual to offer you", he laughs, by way of apology "But I just want to sing as beautifully as possible - without losing my commitment to the work." Neil Fisher
1 La Bohème / Act 1 - "Che gelida manina" 4:45
2 La Bohème / Act 1 - "O soave fanciulla" 4:09
3 Simon Boccanegra / Act 2 - Oh inferno...Sento avvampar 5:01
4 Les Contes d'Hoffmann / Act 1 - "Il était une fois à la cour d'Eisenach" (La légende de Kleinzach) 5:20
5 Tosca / Act 1 - "Recondita armonia" 2:46
6 Tosca / Act 3 - "E lucevan le stelle" 3:06
7 Mefistofele / Act 1 - Dai campi, dai prati 2:38
8 Mefistofele / Act 4 - "Giunto sul passo estremo" 2:57
9 Faust / Act 3 - Quel trouble inconnu...Salut! Demeure chaste et pure 5:55
10 Manon Lescaut / Act 1 - Ma se vi talenta...Tra voi, belle, brune e bionde 1:40
11 Manon Lescaut / Act 1 - "Donna non vidi mai" 2:53
12 Manon / Act 3 - Je suis seul!...Ah! fuyez, douce image 4:54
13 Luisa Miller / Act 2 - "Oh! fede negar potessi" - "Quando le sere al placido" 5:06
14 Un ballo in maschera / Act 3 - "Forse la soglia attinse" - "Ma se m'è forza perderti"
15 Les pêcheurs de perles / Act 2 - De mon amie, fleur endormie...Léila! Léila!...Ton coeur n'a pas compris le mien!
发行日期：2011年10月24日基本信息外文名:The Maltese Tenor表演者:Alexsandra Kurzak,Chœur d’hommes du Grand Théâtre de Genèv,Ching-Lien Wu乐团:L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande指挥:Marco ArmiliatoCD碟数:1版权提供:Deutsche GrammophonISBN:0028947827207条形码:0028947827207ASIN:B008LSGJC6Joseph CallejaMarco ArmiliatoL’Orchestre de la Suisse RomandeAlexsandra KurzakChœur d’hommes du Grand Théâtre de Genèv
