Word: suicidio
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...percussive piano sound. But Rachmaninoff's glittering technique is there, and so is a remarkable and ornate cadenza that is preserved in no other performance. The album's most fascinating track is a 1911 recording of the magnificent Soprano Emmy Destinn in a soaring performance of the Suicidio from La Gioconda...
...principals, Farrell sang not only with her fabled power but with limpid clarity and velvety richness. If she still occasionally strained on top notes, she more than made up for it with the rich play of emotion that flooded her voice in her fourth-act aria, Suicidio. And she acted surprisingly well in a role that practically invites parody. Her Gioconda demonstrated that a truly distinguished Farrell performance at the Met requires only the combination of a good night and an opera with more than pretty tunes...
...Despite the billing, the star is Composer Igor Stravinsky, making his U.S. TV debut as he conducts excerpts from his Firebird Suite. Canadian Pianist Glenn Gould plays the first movement of Bach's D-Minor Concerto, and Soprano Eileen Farrell sings the "Suicidio" aria from La Gioconda...
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