Strange Kind of Woman

Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Japanese reissue of single with the original Japanese 7''scover art & backing track, 'I'm Alone'. 30th anniversarycollector's item on a 5' full color picture disc with theold WB label logo so that it looks like a 45! Slimlinejewel case. 1998 Warner Brothers release.

Tracks:

Act One, Toast: 'Let's Drink From The Joyous Chalice' - Nicolai Gedda/Ileana Cotrubas/Cornell MacNeil/Edita Gruberova/Kurt Equiluz/Ernst Gutstein...
Act One, Toast: 'One Happy Day' - Nicolai Gedda/Ileana Cotrubas
Act One, Scene And Aria (Violetta)-Finale: 'How Strange It Is!...Was This The Man' - Ileana Cotrubas
Act One, Scene And Aria (Violetta)-Finale: 'It's Madness! It's Empty Delirium!...Free And Aimless' - Ileana Cotrubas/Nicolai Gedda
Act Two, Scene And Aria (Alfredo): 'There's No Pleasure... My Passionate Spirit' - Nicolai Gedda
Act Two, Scene And Aria (Alfredo): 'Oh, My Remorse' - Nicolai Gedda/Emmy Loose
Act Two, Scene And Aria (Alfredo): 'Mademoiselle Valery?' - Cornell MacNeil/Ileana Cotrubas
Act Two, Scene And Aria (Alfredo): 'As Pure As An Angel' - Cornell MacNeil/Ileana Cotrubas
Act Two, Scene And Aria (Alfredo): 'You Cannot Know The Kind Of Passion' - Ileana Cotrubas/Cornell MacNeil
Act Two, Scene And Aria (Alfredo): 'One Day, When Time' - Cornell MacNeil/Ileana Cotrubas
Act Two, Scene And Aria (Alfredo): 'Say To Your Daughter' - Ileana Cotrubas/Cornell MacNeil
Act Two, Scene And Aria (Alfredo): 'Tell Me What I Must Do...Say You Don't Love Him' - Ileana Cotrubas/Cornell MacNeil
Act Two, Scene (Violetta): 'Heaven, Give Me Strength!' - Ileana Cotrubas/Emmy Loose
Act Two, Scene (Violetta): 'What Are You Doing?...Nothing' - Nicolai Gedda/Ileana Cotrubas
Act Two, Scene (Violetta): 'What Has Vanished From Your Heart' - Cornell MacNeil
Act Two, Scene (Violetta): 'I've Asked Him To Follow Me' - Ileana Cotrubas/Nicolai Gedda/Cornell MacNeil/Edita Gruberova/Kurt Equiluz/Ernst Gutstein...
Act Two, Scene (Violetta): 'For Me This Woman Lost All She Possessed' - Nicolai Gedda/Ileana Cotrubas/Cornell MacNeil/Edita Gruberova/Kurt Equiluz/Ernst Gutstein...
Act Two, Scene (Violetta): 'A Man Who Offends A Woman' - Cornell MacNeil/Nicolai Gedda/Edita Gruberova/Kurt Equiluz/Herbert Lackner/Harald Proglhof...
Act Two, Scene (Violetta): 'Alfredo, How Should You Understand' - Ileana Cotrubas
Act Three: 'You Kept Your Promise...I Wait, But They Never Come...Farewell Happy Dreams' - Ileana Cotrubas
Act Three, Scene And Duet (Violetta Ed/And Alfredo): 'We'll Leave Paris, My Dearest' - Emmy Loose/Ileana Cotrubas/Nicolai Gedda
Act Three, Last Final: 'Ah, Violetta!...You, Monsieur? - Cornell MacNeil/Ileana Cotrubas/Nicolai Gedda
Act Three, Last Final: 'Take This Picture Of Me' - Ileana Cotrubas/Nicolai Gedda/Cornell MacNeil/Emmy Loose/Herbert Lackner

Customer Reviews:

Very interesting.......2005-02-15

Josef Krips is my favorite conductor of all time, especially of Mozart. I had never heard him conduct Verdi, and even though he would have been of an advanced age in 1971 (the year of this recording), I bought it anyway.

This is good collection of highlights: it is over 70 minutes long and includes pretty much every major aria and ensemble in the opera. The conducting of Krips is, as I expected, logical and elegant in his Viennese fashion. As another reviewer has noted, there are a few beats where the singers and orchestra aren't in the same groove - but it's a live performance, and the performers are on their toes and are back together in no time. These mistakes are merely ripples and no energy is lost.

Nicolai Gedda annd Ileana Cotrubas (who is to me the most splendid of all Violettas), are no-brainers. They sparkle together in as Alfredo and Violetta should, and sink together properly later on as well.

The recording quality is merely decent; but for a budget label, such is hardly unexpected. Get this if you like Krips, or great conducting in general, and certainly if you enjoyed Cotrubas in the Kleiber set.

$5 for these wonderful Traviata highlights is a steal........2000-12-07

Both Ileana Cotrubas and Nicolai Gedda are in fine voice for this 1971 live performance from the Vienna Staatsoper. Cotrubas, in particular, was in the early spring of her career and had just signed a three year contract with the house. All the promise of a magnificent career can be heard in her already maturing artistry and dramatic emphasis, and that, combined with the youthful bloom and beauty of her lovely, evenly placed soprano, makes this a thrilling operatic introduction. We get a generous hour and a quarter of music and the particular joy of hearing Cornell Macneil's authentic Verdian baritone in it's prime. Josef Krips conducts with rather too much enthusiasm at times, and leaves his tenor, soprano and chorus behind for a moment or two in Act 1. It's interesting to hear them musically bumping into each other and the overall musical and dramatic effect is not badly spoiled. The recording quality is surprisingly, very good. This is a must buy, especially at the excellent price.

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Album Description

Japanese reissue of single with the original Japanese 7''scover art & backing track, 'I'm Alone'. 30th anniversarycollector's item on a 5' full color picture disc with theold WB label logo so that it looks like a 45! Slimlinejewel case. 1998 Warner Brothers release.