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Cover: Tommi Hakala – Great Baritone Arias

Tommi Hakala

Great Baritone Arias

Tommi Hakala, baritone
Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra
Eri Klas, conductor

ODE 1048-2 · CD · October 2004

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Track listing

11 tracks · 53:51

Listen to samples on selected tracks.

Giuseppe Verdi

  1. 1 É sogno, o realta?, from: Falstaff 4:36
  2. 2 Son io, mio Carlo... Io morro, from: Don Carlo 8:42
  3. 3 Di Provenza il mar (Germont), from: La Traviata 4:41

Richard Wagner

  1. 4 Blick ich umher, from: Tannhäuser 5:04
  2. 5 Wie Todesahnung Dämmrung deckt die Lande - O Du, mein holder Abendstern (Wolfram), from: Tannhäuser 4:53

Ruggiero Leoncavallo

  1. 6 E fra quest'ansie... E allor perchè, from: I Pagliacci 4:10

Giacomo Puccini

  1. 7 Questo amor, from: Edgar 3:07

Umberto Giordano

  1. 8 Nemico della patria, from: Andrea Chénier 4:47

Charles Gounod

  1. 9 O sainte médaille... Avant de quitter, from: Faust 4:06

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  1. 10 Hai già vinta la causa! (Almaviva), from: Le nozze di Figaro 4:36
  2. 11 Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo, from: Così fan tutte 5:09

About this recording

This CD features the debut solo recording of Finnish baritone Tommi Hakala, subsequent to his winning the 2003 BBC Singer of the World competition in Cardiff.

Features

Booklet with liner notes in English, German, French and Finnish and the lyrics in the original language and in English

The artists

Tommi Hakala

Tommi Hakala, BBC Singer of the World in 2003, graduated from the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and studied in Karlsruhe before starting his career as a baritone in Germany and his native Finland. A regular guest of the Finnish National Opera and the Savonlinna Opera Festival, he has held positions at the Nuremberg Opera (1998-2001) as well as the Leipzig Opera (2001-2004).

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Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra

The Tampere Philharmonic Orchestra, comprising 97 musicians, is one of Scandinavia's leading symphony orchestras. In autumn 2013, young Finnish conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali succeeded Hannu Lintu as new Chief Conductor and continued in his post until 2023.

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Eri Klas

Eri Klas (b. 1939) is a native of Estonia. His greatest musical influence came from David Oistrakh, a great friend of his family.

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