Track Listing

1. Manon Lescaut: In quelle trine morbide
2. Manon Lescaut: Donna non vidi mai (Des Grieux)
3. Manon Lescaut: Intermezzo
4. La Boheme: Che gelida manina
5. La Boheme: Si, Mi chiamo Mimi
6. La Boheme: O soave fanciulla
7. Suor Angelica: Senza Mamma
8. TOSCA: Recondita armonia
9. TOSCA: Vissi d'arte, vissi d'armore
10. TOSCA: E lucevan le stelle
11. EDGAR: Prelude to Act III
12. Madama Butterfly: Bimba dagli occhi pieni di malia
13. Madama Butterfly: Un bel di, vedremo
14. Madama Butterfly: Humming Chorus
15. La Fanciulla del West: Ch'ella mi creda
16. La rondine: Chi il bel sogno di Doretta
17. La Tregenda
18. Gianni Schicchi: O, mio babbino caro
19. Turandot: Signor, ascolta
20. Turandot: Nessun Dorma

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #43385 in Music
• Released on: 1997-08-01
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .20 pounds
• Running time: 70 minutes

Customer Reviews

Great composer of Italian romantic opera - Turandot, La boheme, Madama Butterfly and Tosca.

Giacomo Puccini, 1858-1924, Italian.


"Inspiration is an awakening, a quickening of all man's faculties, and it is manifested in all high artistic achievements". (Giacomo Puccini).


This Naxos CD is aimed at the beginner or occasional classical music listener and aims to provide a cross section of the entire works of Puccini on a single CD of around one hour duration. It's difficult of course to achieve a satisfactory representation of a composer's lifetime achievements in such short time, but this CD does achieve its aim in that it offers an affordable introduction to Puccini which may enable the listener to either pursue these works further, or simply to collect the entire Naxos `Best Of' range.

If the intention is to collect the series it will provide a good, although slightly abbreviated, library of classical music. Those requiring further listening are helped by the sleeve notes which give recommended further listening (all Naxos label CD's of course!).

It should be noted that the Naxos 2CD `Very Best Of' releases offer slightly better value than the single CD versions in this `Best Of' series.

That said, this is a good introduction to classical music for those on a careful budget.

The complete Naxos `Best Of' series (those indicated* also have `Very Best Of' releases):

Bach*, Bartok, Beethoven*, Berlioz, Bizet, Brahms, Chopin*, Debussy*, Dvorak*, Elgar*, Faure, Gershwin, Glazunov, Grieg*, Handel*, Haydn, Liszt, Lutoslawski, Mendelsshon, Mozart*, Paganini, Prokofiev, Puccini*, Rachmaninov*, Ravel*, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rossini, Saint-Saens, Schubert, Schumann, Satie*, Shostakovich*, Sibelius*, Strauss (Johann) II*, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky*, Verdi*, Vivaldi*, Wagner, Weber.