Overtures and Choruses • Ouvertüren & Chöre

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Nabucco
1	"Gli arredi festivi"	5:11
2	"Va pensiero sull'ali dorate	4:20
Ernani
3	"Si ridesti il Leon di Castiglia"	1:25
Macbeth
4	Prelude	3:18
5	"Che faseste? Dite su!"	3:25
6	"S'allontanarono!"	2:06
7	"Patria oppressa"	6:22
Simon Boccanegra
8	"Maria! Maria!" / "Viva Simon" Baritone Vocals [Simone] – Piero CappuccilliBass Vocals [Fiesco] – Nicolai GhiaurovBass Vocals [Paolo] – José van DamBass Vocals [Pietro] – Giovanni Foiani	2:14
Aida
9	"Possente Fthà" / "Tu che dall nulla" Bass Vocals [Ramfis] – Nicolai GhiaurovMezzo-soprano Vocals [Sacerdotessa] – Lucia Valentini Terrani	3:18
10	Danza sacra delle Sacerdotesse, "Immenso Fthà" Bass Vocals [Ramfis] – Nicolai Ghiaurov	2:10
11	"O to che sei d'Osiride" Bass Vocals [Ramfis] – Nicolai GhiaurovMezzo-soprano Vocals [Amneris] – Elena Obraztsova	4:14
Messa da Requiem
12	"Dies Irae"	2:24
13	"Tuba mirum" Bass Vocals – Nicolai Ghiaurov	3:30
14	"Liber scriptus" Mezzo-soprano Vocals – Shirley Verrett	5:21
Un Ballo In Maschera
15	Prelude	4:29
16	"Posa in pace" Baritone Vocals [Samuel] – Ruggero RaimondiBass Vocals [Tom] – Giovanni Foiani	1:55
Il Trovatore
17	"Vedi! Le fosche notturne"	3:54
Don Carlos
18	"Charles-Quint, l'auguste Empereur" Bass Vocals – Nikita Storojev	5:55
19	Prelude (Acte III)	2:40
20	"Ce jour heureux est plein d'allégresse!"	7:10

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Polydor International GmbH
• Printed By – Gerhard Kaiser GmbH

Credits

• Chorus – Coro Del Teatro Alla Scala
• Chorus Master – Giulio Bertola (tracks: 18 to 20), Romano Gandolfi (tracks: 1 to 20)
• Conductor – Claudio Abbado
• Engineer – Günter Hermanns (tracks: 1 to 8, 17), Hans-Peter Schweigmann (tracks: 15,16), Klaus Heimann (tracks: 9 to 14, 18 to 20), Klaus Scheibe (tracks: 12 to 14)
• Executive Producer – Michael Horvath (tracks: 15, 16)
• Executive Producer, Producer – Rainer Brock (tracks: 1 to 20)
• Orchestra – Orchestra Del Teatro Alla Scala
• Producer – Renate Kupfer (tracks: 9 to 11)

Notes

℗ 1975 (Nabucco, Ernani, Trovatore) / 1976 (Macbeth) / 1977 (Simon Boccanegra) / 1980 (Requiem) / 1981 (Ballo) / 1982 (Aida) / 1985 (Don Carlos) Polydor International GmbH, Hamburg
Printed and Made in Germany
Includes 30 page booklet with notes and all texts in Italian, German, French and English
Recordings: Milano, Teatro alla Scala, 11/1974 (Nabucco, Ernani, Trovatore); Milano, CTC Studio 1/1976 (Macbeth), 1/1977 (Simon Boccanegra), 12/1979 & 1/1980 (Ballo), 2/1980 (Requiem), 1&6/1981 (Aida), 1/1983 & 6/1984 (Don Carlos)

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Barcode (Text): 0 28943 70242 3
• Label Code: LC 00173
• Matrix / Runout: 437 024-2 01
• SPARS Code (Aida and Don Carlos): DDD
• SPARS Code (all other tracks): ADD