Mefistofele

Album by Arrigo Boito & Norman Treigle & Plácido Domingo & Montserrat Caballé & Ambrosian Singers & London Symphony Orchestra & Julius Rudel

Mefistofele is an opera by Italian composer Arrigo Boito, first performed in 1868 and substantially revised for a 1875 revival. The work combines large-scale orchestration, extensive choral writing and dramatic solo passages within a late-Romantic harmonic idiom drawing on Goethe's Faust for its libretto, and it stands as Boito's principal stage work that reflects the incorporation of Germanic harmonic influences into Italian opera of the period.

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Disc 1

  1. 1.
    Mefistofele: Prologue. Preludio
    5:12
  2. 2.
    Mefistofele: Prologue. "Ave Signore degli angeli"
    3:30
  3. 3.
    Mefistofele: Prologue. "Ave Signor"
    3:54
  4. 4.
    Mefistofele: Prologue. "T'è noto Faust?"
    3:12
  5. 5.
    Mefistofele: Prologue. "Siam nimbi volante dai limbi"
    2:02
  6. 6.
    Mefistofele: Prologue. "Salve, Regina!"
    6:37
  7. 7.
    Mefistofele: Act I, Scene 1. "Perché di là?"
    4:06
  8. 8.
    Mefistofele: Act I, Scene 1. "Al soave raggiar"
    2:10
  9. 9.
    Mefistofele: Act I, Scene 1. "Juhé! Juhé! Juheisa! Juhé!"
    2:51
  10. 10.
    Mefistofele: Act I, Scene 1. "Sediam sovra quel sasso"
    6:23
  11. 11.
    Mefistofele: Act I, Scene 2. "Dai campi, dai prati"
    4:25
  12. 12.
    Mefistofele: Act I, Scene 2. "Son lo Spirito che nega sempre tutto"
    3:22
  13. 13.
    Mefistofele: Act I, Scene 2. "Strano figlio del Caos"
    1:16
  14. 14.
    Mefistofele: Act I, Scene 2. "Se tu mi doni un'ora di riposo"
    1:12
  15. 15.
    Mefistofele: Act I, Scene 2. "Fin da stanotte"
    2:59
  16. 16.
    Mefistofele: Act II, Scene 1. "Cavaliere illustre e saggio"
    5:02
  17. 17.
    Mefistofele: Act II, Scene 1. "Dimmi se credi, Enrico, nella religione?"
    4:39
  18. 18.
    Mefistofele: Act II, Scene 1. "Dio clemente, nuova, ignara son del mondo"
    1:53

Disc 2

  1. 2.
    Mefistofele: Act II, Scene 2. "Su, cammina, cammina, cammina"
    2:37
  2. 3.
    Mefistofele: Act II, Scene 2. "Folletto!" / "Folletto!"
    5:14
  3. 4.
    Mefistofele: Act II, Scene 2. "Popoli! E scettro e clamide"
    2:22
  4. 5.
    Mefistofele: Act II, Scene 2. "Ecco il mondo, vuoto e tondo"
    3:06
  5. 6.
    Mefistofele: Act II, Scene 2. "Stupor! Stupor!"
    5:54
  6. 7.
    Mefistofele: Act III. "L'altra notte in fondo al mare"
    7:14
  7. 8.
    Mefistofele: Act III. "Dio di pietà! Son essi...eccoli...aita!"
    4:51
  8. 9.
    Mefistofele: Act III. "Lontano, lontano, lontano"
    2:23
  9. 10.
    Mefistofele: Act III. "Sorge il dì!"
    1:54
  10. 11.
    Mefistofele: Act III. "Spunta... l'aurora pallida..."
    3:37
  11. 12.
    Mefistofele: Act IV. "La luna immobile innonda"
    3:45
  12. 13.
    Mefistofele: Act IV. "Ecco la notte del classico Sabba"
    2:13
  13. 14.
    Mefistofele: Act IV. "Ah! Trionfi ad Elena"
    3:13
  14. 15.
    Mefistofele: Act IV. "Notte cupa, truce, senza fine, funebre!"
    4:43
  15. 16.
    Mefistofele: Act IV. "Forma ideal purissima della Bellezza eternal"
    8:14
  16. 17.
    Mefistofele: Epilogue. "Cammina, cammina...superbo pensier"
    4:02
  17. 18.
    Mefistofele: Epilogue. "Guinto sul passo estremo"
    3:33
  18. 19.
    Mefistofele: Epilogue. "All'erta! All'erta!"
    4:37

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