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'Diana Montague's English-language survey of French repertoire has all the elegance, beauty of intonation and phrasing one expects from this fine mezzo... Montague's exquisite caramel creamy tone has a

5 January 2009

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1 Saint-Saëns' Samson and Delilah Delilah & Samson's Duet - 'Softly awakes my heart...' with Bruce Ford, tenor
2 Gounod's Faust Siebel's Flower Song 
3 Delibes' Lakmé Lakmé & Mallika's duet - 'Come, Mallika!...' with Mary Plazas, soprano (PMF Scholar)
4 Saint-Saëns' Samson and Delilah Delilah's Recitative & Aria 'Tonight, seeking hither my presence...'
5 Delilah's Aria - 'Fair spring is returning...'
6 Donizetti's La favorite Leonora's Recitative, Aria & Cabaletta 'Can I believe...' 'O my beloved...'
7 'I submit to heav'nly powers...'
8 Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust Marguérite's Romance - 'The fire of love inside me...'
9 Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice Orpheus's Aria - 'What is life to me without thee...'
10 Rossini's Count Ory Trio: Count, Isolier & Countess 'Night lends her aid..'
11 'With love and tender yearning . . .'with Mary Plazas, soprano (PMF Scholar) & Bruce Ford, tenor
12 Thomas' Mignon Frédéric's Rondo-Gavotte 
'Here am I in her boudoir..'
13 Offenbach's La Périchole Périchole's Griserie
'I've dined so well, I feel divine...'
14 Périchole's Letter Song - 'Oh my dearest...'
15 Périchole's Aria - 'You don't have looks...'
16 Thomas' Mignon Mignon's Romance 
'Have you heard of the land...' 

 

Great Operatic Arias - Bruce Ford 1

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dignity rare in English voices since Ferrier and Baker, comparisons underlined by a richly plaintive delivery of Gluck's 'What is life?' and a searing account of Marguérite's great lament with its long-breathed section from Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust.'

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Great Operatic Arias - Diana Montague 1

 

Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by David Parry

Recorded in Blackheath Halls, London - 1-14 September 1997
Producer - Brian Couzens, Sound engineer - Ralph Couzens, Assistant engineer - Peter Newble