Recording Details
Collection of extremely rare recordings of rehearsals and a live performance by Yma Sumac. This collection contains classical pieces being learned that she rarely, if ever, performed in concert along with an actual live performance from 1954 with yet other classical selections.
A copy exists in the Archives in case there are specific questions about it. The Tiki logo is not on the actual artwork.
Unknown - Monophonic - 2010 United States Compact Disc
Historical notes
- Features tracks recorded during practice in Yma's home
- Additional tracks were recorded at a live performance in 1954
- Thin jewel case with booklet
- Available exclusively from yma-sumac.com
- This release was made from a live performance
Liner Notes
It is not known if this release has liner notes. Tracks
- La fille du regiment: Chacun le sait (Ciascun lo dice; Everyone knows it; sung in Italian: Donizetti)
- Madama Butterfly: Un bel di, vedremo (One beautiful day, we will see: Puccini)
- Gianni Schicchi: O mio bambino caro (O my dear father: Puccini)
- La Wally: Ebben? Ne andrò lontana (Well then, I shall go far away: Catalani)
- Tosca: Vissi d'arte (I lived for art: Puccini:)
From Live Concert, October, 1954:
- Ouvre ton Coeur (Serenade Espagnol; Open Your Heart; sung in Spanish: Bizet)
- Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen (Traditional Spiritual)
- Tu ca nun chiangne (You who does not cry: Neapolitan song: De Curtis)
- Tumpa (Earthquake)
- Creole Waltz (instrumental)
- Wayra (instrumental, Dance of the Wind)
- Coquettes (instrumental)
- Pachamama (instrumental)
- Yma's Lament (Moisés Vivanco)
- Kon Tiki (Moisés Vivanco)
Rehearsal tape with coach, Yma Sumac's home, 1953: