★限量版。大多數絕版CD再現。世紀男高音,首次套裝全輯發行。
卡列拉斯1946年出生於巴塞隆納,是一名以富有表現力抒情男高音。1970年因為演出歌劇《諾瑪》認識前輩卡芭葉,不但成為舞台上的好搭檔,也結為終生好友。這一套唱片首次完整收錄卡列拉斯在飛利浦出版的十七套錄音,曲目從三套完整歌劇全曲、西班牙歌曲到流行歌曲,大多數錄音已經在市面上絕版。還有製作人托蘭斯基製作的紀錄片,透過卡列拉斯本人的訪談,還有和朋友、同事的對話,勾勒出這位二十世紀最傑出的男高音之一的面貌。
唱片曲目正好表現出卡列拉斯曲目的多樣化。美聲與寫實歌劇以唐尼采第、貝里尼、威爾第、梅爾卡丹特、龐開利的詠嘆調與二重唱為代表。為了向出生地巴塞隆納致敬,還有西班牙詠嘆調、西班牙歌曲與查崔拉;還有由貝里奧配器的威爾第與法雅歌曲。通俗流行歌曲有托斯第的歌曲集、拿坡里歌曲、與維也納少年合唱團合作的男高音領唱專輯《聖母頌》,還有發燒錄音經典的拉米瑞茲《中南美彌撒》。
除此之外,另有從唐尼采第《拉莫摩的魯契亞》、《愛情靈藥》,威爾第《一日國王》(1973年,27歲的卡列拉斯在飛利浦的第一張唱片)、《假面舞會》、《西蒙‧波岡奈格拉》、《遊唱詩人》,以及馬斯奈《維特》、白遼士《萊里奧》、阿萊維《猶太女》與聖桑《參孫與達麗拉》歌劇全曲精選出來的中卡列拉斯選段。
【曲目】
CD 1: José Carreras Sings Donizetti, Bellini, Verdi, Mercadante, Ponchielli
RPO/Benzi
CD 2: Popular Songs
ECO/Benzi
CD 3: Zarzuela: José Carreras Sings Spanish Arias
ECO/Ros-Marbà
CD 4: José Carreras Sings Francesco Paolo Tosti
ECO/Müller
CD 5: Puccini ∙ Verdi ∙ Donizetti: Love Duets (Katia Ricciarelli)
LSO/Gardelli
CD 6: Opera Arias
LSO/López-Cobos
CD 7: Romantico (Canciones Románticas)
ECO/Stapleton
CD 8: O Sole Mio
ECO/Müller
CD 9: Verdi · Donizetti · Rossini
LPO/López-Cobos
CD 10: Ave Maria
Wiener Sängerknaben · Chorus Viennensis · WS/Harrer
CD 11: You Belong to My Heart
ECO/García Asensio
CD 12: Love Is...
Robert Farnon and his Orchestra
CD 13: Canciones españolas
Martin Katz
CD 14: Misa Criolla · Navidad Nuestra
Coral Salvé de Laredo · Sociedad Coral de Bilbao · Ocejo · Sánchez
CD 15: Verdi & Falla Songs orch. Luciano Berio
ECO/Berio
CD 16: The Pleasure of Love
ECO/Šutej
CD 17: Duetti amorosi (Montserrat Caballé)
PO/Gardelli · LSO/Masini · NPO/López-Cobos · OROH/Davis
UNFORGETTABLE PERFORMANCES in
CD 18:
DONIZETTI Lucia di Lammermoor (NPO/López-Cobos)
L’elisir d’amore (RAI di Torino/Scimone)
ROSSINI Elisabetta, regina d’Inghilterra (LSO/Masini)
L’elisir d’amore (Frederica von Stade, PO/López-Cobos)
Petite Messe solennelle (Claudio Scimone)
VERDI Un giorno di regno (RPO/Gardelli)
I due Foscari (Katia Ricciarelli, Samuel Ramey, RSOW/Gardelli)
CD 19:
VERDI Il corsaro (NPO/Gardelli)
La battaglia di Legnano (RSOW/Gardelli)
Stiffelio (Sylvia Sass, RSOW/Gardelli)
Il trovatore (OROH/Davis)
Simon Boccanegra (José Van Dam, La Scala/Abbado)
Un ballo in Maschera (Sona Ghazarian, Montserrat Caballé, OROH/Davis)
Messa da requiem (WP/Karajan)
PUCCINI La bohème (OROH/Davis)
Madama Butterfly (Juan Pons, PO/Sinopoli)
Manon Lescaut (Bologna/Chailly)
Tosca (OROH/Davis)
CD 20:
R. STRAUSS Der Rosenkavalier (RPO/De Waart)
MASSENET Werther (OROH/Davis)
BERLIOZ Lélio (LSO/Davis)
BIZET Carmen (Agnes Baltsa, BP/Karajan)
HALÉVY La Juive (PO/De Almeida)
SAINT-SAËNS Samson et Dalila (BRSO/Davis)
CD21:
Audio Documentary with Jon Tolansky
BRSO = Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
ECO = English Chamber Orchestra
LPO = London Philharmonic Orchestra
LSO = London Symphony Orchestra
NPO = New Philharmonia Orchestra
OROH = Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
PO = Philharmonia Orchestra
RPO = Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
RSOW = Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien
WP = Wiener Philharmoniker
WS = Wiener Symphoniker