LUIGI ALVA (Classic Recitals)

 

Ay ay ay!

 

Granada

Ay-Ay-Ay

Valencia

Estrellita

Sin tu amor

Toledo

Princesita

El trust de los tenorios

Te quiero, dijiste muñequita Linda

La partida

Amapola

Sevilla

 

New Symphony Orchestra of London/ Iller Pattacini

Producer: Christopher Raeburn

Recorded: Decca Studios, West Hampstead, October 1963

 

Peruvian-born Luigi Alva (born Lima 10 April 1927) first appeared in his native Lima in 1949 and made his European debut in 1954 when he sang Alfredo at the Teatro Nuovo in Milan. In 1957 he appeared in Edinburgh in Il matrimonio segreto and was a regular in Milan, where he also sang in some contemporary pieces including Luciano Chailly’s Una domanda di matrimonio.

 

Throughout the 1960s and 1970s Luigi Alva appeared regularly in a number of important opera houses including Covent Garden, Chicago, and New York’s Met. Luigi Alva participated in the Decca recording of L’Italiana in Algeri with Teresa Berganza under the direction of Silvio Varviso, and achieved great distinction for his Rossini and Mozart interpretations. This 1963 recital of Spanish and Latin American songs is a wonderful reminder of a different side of his repertory and it appears complete on CD for the first time.

 

Decca 4756410