Leontyne Price – Return To Carnegie Hall (1996)

1. Julius Caesar: Se pieta di me non senti
2. Idomeneo: O Smania! ... D'Oreste, d'Adjace!
3. Waldseligkeit
4. Marienlied
5. Herr Lenz, Op. 37, No.5
6. Befreit, Op.39, No.5
7. Ich liebe dich, Op.37, No.2
8. La forza del destino: Pace, pace, mio Dio
9. Bleuet
10. Les Nuits d'ete, Op.7:No 1: Villanelle
11. Extase
12. Le Printemps
13. Wild Nights
14. Always It's Spring
15. There Came a Wind Like a Bugle
16. Ride On, King Jesus
17. Madame Butterfly: Tu, Tu, piccolo iddio
18. Porgy And Bess: Summertime
19. Tosca: Vissi d'arte
20. Adriana Lecouvreur: Io son l'umile ancella
21. This Little Light o' Mine
22. La rondine: Chi il bel sogno di Doretta
23. Madame Butterfly: Un bel di
24. Witness
25. America, the Beautiful

Leontyne Price (Soprano)
David Garvey (Piano) 

"Leontyne Price’s New York recitals were always big events. . . . The opera arias at the beginning are impressive for the weight of tone and drama, but it’s the encores, especially the Butterfly extracts, that catch her at her most expressive. Even “Summertime”, which she sang at almost every concert she ever gave, is given a new interpretation here. The most valuable aspect of this CD, though, is the glimpse it affords of Price the Lieder singer and advocate for American song. Lee Hoiby composed songs specially for her, and it is good to have at least a souvenir of their collaboration in these three beautiful songs. . . . My favourite track of all is the penultimate encore, the spiritual Witness, with a sly characterization of Delilah as she asks Samson where his strength comes from. We might ask the same question of Price herself, and her answer in part comes in the final item, America the Beautiful, sung unaccompanied. I would defy anybody to listen to this and remain unmoved." -- Gramophone

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