The Very Best Of Nicolai Gedda

Gedda, Nicolai

Adam: Mes amis, écoutez l'histoire (from Le Postillon de Lonjumeau) Beethoven: Adelaide, Op. 46 Bellini: Prendi l'anel ti dono (from La Sonnambula) Berlioz: La gloire etait ma seule idole (from Benvenuto Cellini) Bizet: Au fond du temple saint (from Les Pêcheurs de Perles) La fleur que tu m'avais jetée (from Carmen) Donizetti: Quanto è bella, quanto è cara! (from L'Elisir d'amore) Una furtiva lagrima (from L'elisir d'amore) Fra poco a me ricovero...Tu che a Dio spiegasti l'ali (from Lucia di Lammermoor) Flotow: Ach, so fromm (from Martha) Glinka: Souvenir Goldmark: Magische Töne, berauschender Duft (from Die Königin von Saba) Gounod: L'amour, l'amour... Ah, lève-toi soleil (from Roméo et Juliette) Lehár: Gern hab' ich die Frau'n geküßt (from Paganini) Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (from Das Land des Lächelns) Massenet: Pourquoi me reveiller (from Werther) Instant charmant … En fermant les yeux (from Manon) Mozart: Il mio tesoro intanto (from Don Giovanni) Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön (from Die Zauberflöte) Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov: Dmitry! Tsarevich Offenbach: Va pour Kleinzach...Il était une fois à la cour (from Les Contes d'Hoffmann) Puccini: Donna non vidi mai (from Manon Lescaut) Rachmaninov: Sing not, O lovely one (Ne poi, krasavitsa, pri mne), Op. 4 No. 4 How fair this spot, Op. 21 No. 7 Rossini: Asile héréditaire (from Guillaume Tell) Strauss, J, II: Ja, das alles auf Ehr' (from Der Zigeunerbaron) Strauss, R: Heimliche Aufforderung, Op. 27 No. 3 Ständchen, Op. 17 No. 2 Tchaikovsky: Kuda, Kuda 'Lensky's Aria' (from Eugene Onegin) In this moonlight, Op.73, No.3 Sred' shumnogo bala (Amid the din of the ball), Op. 38 No. 3 Serenada Don-Zhuana (Don Juan's Serenade), Op. 38 No. 1 Thomas, Ambroise: Elle ne croyait pas, dans sa candeur naïve (from Mignon) Verdi: Di' tu se fedele (from Un ballo in maschera) La donna è mobile (from Rigoletto) Wagner: In fernem Land (from Lohengrin)

Nicolai Gedda, the most recorded tenor in history, is an exceptionally versatile artist who has excelled in a wide variety of operatic roles as well as in the art song. With a magnificent lyric tenor voice and extraordinary range, Gedda makes the notorious top D at the end of ‘Mes amis, écoutez l’histoire’ sound positively effortless. This collection offers a wealth of repertoire that has helped to cement Gedda’s reputation as one of the greatest tenors of his generation.

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