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BERNARD HERRMANN
Herrmann: Suite from 'Wuthering Heights' / etc Roderick Williams (baritone) / Singapore Symphony Orchestra Conductor, Mario Venzago [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Jun/2023 ] "Through their two voices - a radiant Keri Fuge and a towering Roderick Williams...stunningly recorded, serves as a tantalising example of what it might be to go on Herrmann's entire emotionally wrought journey." Recording of the Month BBC Music |
VERDI / PUCCINI / MOZART / DONIZETTI / LEONCAVALLO / DVORAK
Opera Gold: 50 Greatest Tracks Luciano Pavarotti, Joan Sutherland, Kiri te Kanawa, Mario del Monaco, Placido Domingo, Marilyn Horne, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Renee Fleming, Jonas Kaufmann [ Decca Music Group / 3 CD Box Set - released 8/Oct/2021 ] Decca, the opera company, presents a premium collection of the most beautiful opera tracks on 3 CDs. Classic arias and preludes performed by the greatest opera stars of all time. |
TARTINI / VANDINI / MENEGHINI
Tartini: Concerti e Sonate per Violincello Piccolo Mario Brunello / Accademia dell'Annunciata, Riccardo Doni [ Arcana / CD - released 13/Nov/2020 ] To mark the 250th anniversary of the death of Giuseppe Tartini, Mario Brunello and the Accademia dell'Annunciata commemorate one of the great partnerships in the history of eighteenth-century music: the relationship between Tartini and Antonio... |
BEETHOVEN / FERRÉ / SOLLIMA
Searching for Ludwig: Beethoven, Sollima & Ferré Kremerata Baltica, Gidon Kremer, Mario Brunello [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] Gidon Kremer and Mario Brunello pay tribute to Beethoven by presenting two of his most famous quartets in a version for string orchestra played by Kremerata Baltica. The ensemble's founder Gidon Kremer directs op.131 from the violin, while Mario... |
J.S. BACH / ANTONIO VIVALDI
Bach & Vivaldi: Sonar in Ottava. Double Concertos for Violin and Violoncello Piccolo Giuliano Carmignola (violin); Mario Brunello (violoncello piccolo); Accademia dell'Annunciata, Riccardo Doni (cond.) [ Arcana / CD - released 27/Mar/2020 ] "These are high-risk performances, both soloists preferring raw expression to mere beauty of sound." BBC Music Five Stars Concerto Recording of the Month |
STRAUSS / VERDI / ADAM / TCHAIKOVSKY / MOZART / etc
Herbert von Karajan - Complete Decca Recordings Herbert von Karajan with Vienna Philharmonic, with Mario del Monaco, Renata Tebaldi, Hilde Güden, Leontyne Price, etc [ Decca / 33 CD Box Set - released 21/Feb/2020 ] Presented with original sleeves and spined wallets, this 33CD set of Herbert von Karajan's complete Decca recordings includes a new essay by Karajan biographer, Richard Osborne. |
TOSHIO HOSOKAWA
Hosokawa: Gardens Luigi Gaggero (cimbalom), Mario Caroli (flute) / Ukho Ensemble Kyiv [ Kairos (Paladino) / CD - released 9/Aug/2019 ] "Hosokawa drew inspiration for these lustrous pieces from his own garden. The percussion-tinged Drawing expands from a bare calligraphic gesture and Im Frühlingsgarten places Mario Caroli's eloquent flute amid eloquent flute amid evocative wind" |
AMILCARE PONCHIELLI
Ponchielli: la Gioconda (complete opera recorded in 1958) Anita Cerquetti, Franca Sacchi, Mario del Monaco, Cesare Siepi, Giulietta Simionata / Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Gianandrea Gavazzeni [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2019 ] 'To compare Anita Cerquetti's Gioconda with Callas's is a revelation. Cerquetti brings to the role intelligence, musicianship, and an appealing voice' High Fidelity |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Armida (complete opera recorded live in 1952) Maria Callas, Francesco Albanese, Mario Filippeschi / Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Tullio Serafin [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Live Remastered / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] Rossini is a pillar of bel canto opera, but he was less central to Callas's art and career than Bellini and Donizetti. She performed two of his comic works - Il barbiere di Siviglia and Il turco in Italia - and in 1952, with her mentor Tullio Serafin... |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Aida (Complete Opera recorded live Mexico, 1951) Maria Callas, Mario del Del Monaco, Oralia Dominguez / Fabritiis [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Live Remastered / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] Aida held an important place in the earlier years of Callas's career, and in 1950 it brought her debut at La Scala, Milan, the theatre where she soon became reigning diva. That same year, she sang the role of the Ethiopian princess in Mexico City,... |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: La Traviata (complete opera recorded live in 1958) Maria Callas, Alfredo Kraus, Mario Sereni, Laura Zannini, Maria Cristina de Castro / Teatro Nacional de São Carlos, Lisboa Franco Ghione [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Live Remastered / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] Callas sang La traviata more frequently than any other opera, apart from Norma. She performed it over 60 times between 1951 and 1958, most famously in Luchino Visconti's production at La Scala in 1955/56. Her only studio recording of the role was... |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Tosca (complete opera recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Baden-Baden Opera / Kristine Opolais, Marcelo Álvarez Mario, Marco Vratogna, Alexander Tsymbalyuk / Sir Simon Rattle [ EuroArts Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Sep/2018 ] "Rattle and his orchestra add both depth and gloss: to hear the shimmer of the Berlin strings in the eerie dwells of the Te Deum is enough to absolve the conductor of his reverential tempos" Gramophone |
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GIORDANO / BELLINI / DONIZETTI / PUCCINI / VERDI / GLUCK
Maria Callas - Live & Alive (Remastered Recordings) Maria Callas, with Mario del Monaco, Rolando Panerai / various conductors [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 2 CD - released 18/Mar/2018 ] The passion and charisma of Maria Callas, performing live on the stages of the world's greatest opera houses and concert halls, can now be experienced as never before - thanks to new audio remastering from the best available sources. These are... |
W.A. MOZART
Mozart: Masonic Works, Cantatas & Funeral Music Die Kölner Akademie Choir and Orchestra / Michael Alexander Willens John Heuzenroeder, tenor; Mario Borgioni, bass Alexander Puliaev, fortepiano; Will [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 23/Feb/2018 ] Following their 11-disc cycle of Mozart's piano concertos recorded with Ronald Brautigam, Die Kölner Akademie and Michael Alexander Willens in 2017 released a disc with two of Mozart's best-loved serenades: the Posthorn Serenade and Eine kleine... |
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Sinfonieorchester Basel / Venzago, Mario / Kaplan, Mark
Nono, Luigi - Variazioni canoniche / Varianti / No hay caminos, hay que caminar / Incontri [ Col Legno / CD - released 18/Sep/2017 ] |
Mario Lanza (tenor)
Mario Lanza: The Best of Everything [ RCA / Sony Classical / 2 CD - released 20/Apr/2017 ] Sony Classical release a special x2 CD, budget-priced set, featuring x44 songs, with x6 previously unreleased tracks, issued in connection with a new TV documentary by Screenbound Pictures Ltd. about the great tenor. This release celebrates the... |
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Mario Biondi & The High Five Quintet
Handful Of Soul (2LP) [ Schema / 2 LP - released 27/Jan/2017 ] |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Turandot (complete opera recorded in 2012) BLU-RAY Teatro Carlo Felice / Daniela Dessi, Massimo La Guardia, Mario Malagnini, Ramaz Chikviladze / Donato Renzetti (cond) [ Dynamic Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jan/2017 ] Turandot, one of Puccini's most powerful and original operas, is a favourite with audiences. Musically, it is one of the composer's most modern and innovative scores, and also a work that calls for sumptuous sets and dramatic costumes. |
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