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Pekka Nuotio

Opera Arias. Recordings 1973-1981

Pekka Nuotio, tenor
Finnish RSO
Various Conductors

ODE 900-2 · CD · May 1997

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Track listing

19 tracks · 70:12

Francesco Cilea

  1. 1 E la solita storia, from: L'Arlesiana 3:45

Pietro Mascagni

  1. 2 Mamma, quel vino, frrom: Cavalleria rusticana 3:52

Ruggero Leoncavallo

  1. 3 Vesti la giubba, from: I Pagliacci 3:16
  2. 4 No, Pagliacco non son, from: I Pagliacci 2:40

Giuseppe Verdi

  1. 5 Questa o quella, from: Rigoletto 1:49
  2. 6 La donna è mobile, from: Rigoletto 2:16
  3. 7 Di quella pira, from: Il trovatore 1:09

Giacomo Puccini

  1. 8 Nessun dorma!, from: Turandot 2:59
  2. 9 E lucevan le stelle, from: Tosca 2:28
  3. 10 Ch'ella mi creda libero, from: La fanciulla del west 1:54
  4. 11 Guardate, pazzo son, from: Manon Lescaut 2:43

Tauno Pylkkänen

  1. 12 Sata rekeä on lähdössä, oopperasta: Mare ja hänen poikansa 2:05
  2. 13 Mene tyköäni, äiti, oopperasta: Mare ja hänen poikansa 4:56
  3. 14 Niin, tahdotko siis, oopperasta: Mare ja hänen poikansa 2:16

Richard Wagner

  1. 15 Winterstürme wichen, from: Die Walküre 2:44
  2. 16 Ein Schwert verhiess mir der Vater, from: Die Walküre 5:32
  3. 17 Noch losch das Licht nicht aus, from: Tristan und Isolde 5:17
  4. 18 Noch ist kein Schiff zu sehn!, from: Tristan und Isolde 10:47
  5. 19 Bist du nun tot? Lebst du noch?, from: Tristan und Isolde 7:44

About this recording

This CD features the heroic tenor Pekka Nuotio (1929-1989), one of the leading Finnish singers of the 1960s and '70s. Nuotio's repertoire ranged from Italian (with an emphasis on Puccini) to Russian and French opera and included also the heavy Wagner roles - Nuotio partnered Birgit Nilson in Tristan and Tannhäuser at the New York Metropolitan Opera from 1965-67.

Pekka Nuotio did not make any commercial recording. The collection of arias on this CD has been put together from master tapes in the archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE. They portrait the great Finnish tenor during his peak time until his retiring from active singing in 1982. The recordings also feature the young baritone Jorma Hynninen as Kurwenal (17-19). The Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra is conducted by Kari Tikka (1-11), Hannu Bister (12-14) and Okko Kamu (15-19).

Features

Booklet with liner notes in English and Finnish

Press

(...) shows us a dramatic tenor with a strong high register; his high C, for example in 'La donna e mobile' and 'Di quella pira' would be the envy of any of today's tenors.
American Record Guide, November/December 1997

The artists

Pekka Nuotio

Tenor Pekka Nuotio (1929-1989) was the leading Finnish singer of his voice type during the 1960s and 1970s. For more than twenty years he was one of the pillars of the Finnish National Opera's company, but he also carved out an impressive international career and sang the major roles in the tenor repertoire at Covent Garden, in the State Operas of Hamburg and Berlin, and across the Atlantic at the Met in New York.

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