#Montserrat Caballe

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Ive been listening to this en boucle

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Record Mirror (December 26, 1987): 338/?

Credits to Michael Kane.

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These two🥰🥰

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Montserrat Caballe sings Ruperto Chapi - El Barquillero.

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the queen, herself :)

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Freddie Mercury ft. Montserrat Caballe - Barcelona (Live in Olimpiada Cultural)

Freddie Mercury Solo

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#TalDiaComoHoy, pero de 1987, #FreddieMercury y Mike Moran graban "The Golden Boy (versión inicial: Freddie's Demo Vocal)" en Town House Studios, Londres, Reino Unido. Aparece en "The Solo Collection ".

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Freddie is Queen of op ‘n’ roll

OUTRAGEOUS rock star Freddie Mercury has launched an astonishing new career — writing duets for himself and one of the world's greatest opera singers.

Top Spanish soprano Montserrat Caballe and the Queen lead singer caused a sensation over the weekend at a rock festival in Ibiza where they made their "op ’n’ roll” debut.

After the concert, Mercury, 40, who composed the melody Barcelona, said writing music for an operatic voice was his “dream come true.”

He plant to compile an album to cement one of the music world’s most daring professional partnerships.

Madame “La Superba” Caballe, 53, more accustomed to performing Donizetti and Verdi than Mercury, was said to be sthrilled.”

Dream

“It blew my mind to sing with her,” said Mercury, who dressed in a black dinner jacket, double-breasted sky blue waistcoast, wing-collar and tie to perform the single which promoters hope will publicise Spain’s hosting of the 1992 Olympic Games.

He added: “I have never written anything for opera or the operatic voice before. It is a dream come true for Madame Caballe to work with me.”

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Thrifted treasures! The hits of sadgirl legend Lesley Gore, + the debut album from soprano goddess Montserrat Caballé. I first learned of Montserrat via her iconic collab album w/ Freddie Mercury, Barcelona which CHANGED MY LIFE. 🥺🙏🏼

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Casta Diva - Norma - Montserrat Caballe 

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“When he sat down at the piano to improvise, I realized that a true musician was before me.” © Montserrat Caballe about Freddie

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Federic Monpou and Montserrat Caballe

Lieder De Federic Monpou

@ 1964 Spain Pressing

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There is a rare lineage of artist for those who do not count the vanity of professional science, the impudence of cumulative technique, the ostentation of mechanical power, but the intimate and necessary voice, rare, precious and fortuitous of the heart itself. To her belongs this musician from .11ama and crystal who is Federico Mompou. Many times we have thought, in the face of the increasing complication of modern and contemporary musical language, which constitutes an evident and, apparently, an inevitable disease, in the illusion of an upcoming future mafiana that will bring us over the bare sky of aged signs the fresh consolation of almost invisible lines, of minimal and virginal aerial notes. Through them and between their interstices the breeze of an always new and adolescent spring would circulate, like the one we feel waving rocking the tapestries of daisies on the primitive tables. Mompou's music approaches that music. Two notes I would like to scialar. One, that of his musical Catalanism. For any of his works he encourages the unmistakable air of the rural and citizen landscape of Catalufia and Barcelona. That subtle mixture of delicate, aristocratic fragrance and channeled melancholy; that dust between gold and copper that is filtered by the open chords, by the stellar and hidden harmonies of Mompou, only occurs in the cordini landscape of rambla and suburb, of montana in perspective and immediate sea, and only a musician, a artist, a poet of the earth is able to capture it and give it to us then transposed into crystal resonances. The other note that I wanted to point out in the music of the author of "Charmes" is the one that that title and others -, - "Cantos Magicos" - suggest. The one with its ecstatic, magical, charming meaning. If there is movement in it, and it is inevitable, since music is movement by definition, it is a circular movement characteristic of ecstasy. On the other hand, Mompou's airs and rhythms have been born with a vocation for quietism, and it would be said that her nubica does not truly begin until after she has escaped in the deep diaphanous silence of her conclusion. GERARDO DIEGO.

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59 Bellini & Verdi

Still on Spotify - the digital transfer of this album wasn’t great, the first set of music from Il Pirata cracking and hissing in various degrees. Boo.

Not sure if this cover design has cropped up already or not - EMI used this for their low price re-releases in the 2000s; Warner has since repackaged this with a rather more attractive photo of Caballe in a 1970s polkadot dress in studio.

This ties into the previous entry neatly - the first three tracks are from a recording of Il Pirata Caballe and Marti did together in the 1960s, tho Marti is barely present here.

Now, if you scour the webs, you’ll discover this: there are lots of people who will tell you that Caballe had no business singing Bellini. She may have given the greatest ever performance of Casta Diva by anyone ever, but she really shouldn’t have touched Bellini. Maybe my ears are really unsophisticated or something, because all I can say is that it’s bollocks! - she admittedly doesn’t sound super excited about Il Pirata (does anyone), but her Elvira is just fine thankyouverymuch. I’ll give you this: the Bellini is fine, but the Verdi is great. Caballe was famous for her pianissimi (just google for evidence), and the album’s closing scene, Desdemona’s Willow song and Ave Maria really show that off.

Favourite track: let’s go with no. 8, Tu che le vanita from Verdi’s Don Carlo; it’s a great showcase for what Caballe could do, but also for what a difference a conductor (Carlo Maria Giulini) does - the 3min intro is just breathtaking too. Honorary mention to no. 10, Una macchia e qui tuttora! from Macbeth, which features a baby Sir Thomas Allen.

Bellini & Verdi - Italian Opera Arias Montserrat Caballe, soprano Carlo Maria Giulini, conductor Riccardo Muti, conductor Various orchestras