JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: Armida (complete opera recorded in 2000) Cecilia Bartoli, Patricia Petibon, Christoph Pregardien / Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Das Alte Werk / Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Aug/2018 ] "[Bartoli] remains the finest thing about this set, and Armida brings out the best in her as a performer. Her tone is ravishingly beautiful when it needs to be. Patricia Petibon gives Bartoli a real run for her money as the second lady." |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Cecilia Bartoli - The Vivaldi Album Cecilia Bartoli (soprano) / II Giandino Armonico / Giovanni Antonini [ Decca Records / CD - released 1/Nov/1999 ] 2001 Grammy Award Winner - Best Classical Vocal Performance |
VIVALDI
Viva Vivaldi! - Arias and Concertos Cecilia Bartoli (soprano) / Il Giardino Armonico / Giovanni Antonini [ Arthaus Musik / DVD - released 5/Oct/2001 ] G - Widescreen 16:9 - PCM Stereo / Dolby Digital 5.1 / DTS 5.1 - Colour - 106 Minutes - PAL |
SCARLATTI / GIORDANI / CACCINI / etc
Arie Antiche: Se tu m'ami Cecilia Bartoli (soprano) with Gyorgy Fischer (piano) [ Decca Records / CD - released 15/Feb/2001 ] Beautiful songs given the Bartoli treatment |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Violin Concertos Cecilia Bernardini (violin), Huw Daniel (violin), Alfredo Bernardini (oboe) / Dunedin Consort, John Butt [ Linn SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Mar/2016 ] "This is as good a way as any to get to know these wonderful concertos and a worthy successor to John Butt's earlier recordings of Bach with the Dunedin Consort." (MusicWeb March 2016) |
Paul Moravec
Paul Moravec: Useful Knowledge Cecilia Brauer (glass harmonica), Randall Scarlata, Amy Burton, Simon Mulligan (piano), La Fenice & Trio Solisti [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2012 ] Moravec's tribute to Benjamin Franklin, Useful Knowledge, is a soliloquy-come-fantasy that celebrates Franklin's pioneering rationality with music of dextrous imagination. |
W.A. MOZART
Requiem (filmed at St Ignazio Church in Rome) Cecilia Casdia / Mario Malagnini / Orchestra Sinfonica del Festival di Pasqua / Tamas Pal (cond) [ Brilliant Classics / DVD - released 15/Mar/2008 ] G : - |
Cecilia Mcdowall
Choral Music [ Dutton / CD ] |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Chamber Music & Rarities, Vol. 4: Peches de vieillesse, Vols. 11 [Sins of my old age] Cecilia Molinari (mezzo-soprano), Alessandro Marangoni (piano), Bruno Taddia (baritone), Laura Giordano (soprano), Giuseppina Bridelli (mezzo-soprano) [ Naxos Peches de vieillesse Vol 11 / CD - released 1/Dec/2018 ] Volume 11 completes Alessandro Marangoni's monumental project to record all 200 or so individual works comprising the Péchés de vieillesse or 'Sins of Old Age' (including some preliminary sketches). Highlights include all four duets from the... |
MARCELLE de MANZIARLY
Marcelle de Manziarly - Chamber Works Cecilia Zilliacus (violin) Kati Raitinen (cello) Bengt Forsberg, Peter Friis Johansson (piano) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 19/Apr/2024 ] De Manziarly - a major musical force to rediscover |
MEYERBEER / VERDI / GOMEZ / HALEVY
The Romantic Voice of Cesare Siepi: Songs of Italy Cesare Siepi (bass) with Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Alberto Erede [ Decca Most Wanted Recitals Vol. 41 / CD - released 1/Aug/2014 ] The legendary Italian bass Cesare Siepi was one of the great Don Giovannis and at the height of his career - during the 1950s and 1960s - this particular role was very much his 'calling card'. |
ARRIGO BOITO
Boito: Mefistofele (Great scenes from the complete opera) Cesare Siepi, Giuseppe di Stefano, Renata Tebaldi, Lucia Danieli / Orchestra e coro dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Tullio Serafin [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 1/Jun/2018 ] "It is a pleasure to hear again that eager tone [of Di Stefano], ardently filling such passages as […] the Garden scene and the aria in the Epilogue. All the work's plums are here" Opera, May 1973 |
PUCCINI
Madam Butterfly (complete opera recorded in 1960) Renata Tebaldi, Carlo Bergonzi, Enzo Sordell / Chorus & Orchestra Of Accademia St. Cecilia, Rome, Tullio Serafin [ Alto / 2 CD - released 11/Apr/2011 ] "sensitive and beautifully-paced reading finds Tebaldi at her most radiant. … her singing is consistently rich and beautiful, breathtakingly so in passages like the one where she tells Pinkerton she has changed her religion." (Penguin Guide 3 stars) |
STEFANO LANDI
Landi: Morte d'Orfeo (complete opera recorded in 2018) Dutch National Opera / Cecilia Molinari, Renato Dolcini, Alexander Miminoshvili, Gaia Petrone / Christophe Rousset, conductor [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 20/May/2020 ] Stefano Landi wrote the operas La morte d'Orfeo (1619) and Il Sant'Alessio (1632), as well as masses, psalms, madrigals and arias. He was maestro di cappella in Padua and Rome, and later a singer in the Sistine Chapel. |
STEFANO LANDI
Landi: Morte d'Orfeo (complete opera recorded in 2018) BLU-RAY Dutch National Opera / Cecilia Molinari, Renato Dolcini, Alexander Miminoshvili, Gaia Petrone / Christophe Rousset, conductor [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/May/2020 ] La morte d'Orfeo is regarded as the first Roman-style secular opera and is considered a milestone in the development of the genre opera as a whole. The substantial ensemble numbers are typical of the Roman opera style. |
LUDOVICO EINAUDI
Stanze Cecilia Chailly (harp) [ Decca / CD - released 12/Feb/2015 ] Stanze is a cycle of 16 pieces for harp composed in the course of two-three years, between 1990 and 1992. This new edition of Stanze has a quality that the first version could not offer: an electric harp solo of 55 minutes has never created such... |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Gioachino Rossini Edition (50 CD set) Gabriel Bacquier, Montserrat Caballé, Nicolai Gedda, Maria Callas, Cecilia Bartoli, Joyce DiDonato, Rockwell Blake, Beverly Sills, Thomas Hampson, etc [ Warner Classics / 50 CD Box Set - released 25/Oct/2018 ] The Rossini Edition is the most comprehensive edition devoted to Rossini ever produced. |
PUCCINI / GIORDANO / BOITO / CILEA / VERDI / BELLINI / etc
Operatic Recitals by Giuseppe Campora and Gianni Poggi Gino Penno (tenor), Gianni Poggi (tenor) with Gino Penno (tenor) / Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Alberto Erede [ Decca Most Wanted Recitals Vol. 4 / CD - released 16/Oct/2016 ] "excellently remastered . . . [Campora is] revealing a voice at once sturdy and supple, always at the service of his high-level musicianship and dramatic sensitivity . . . In every aria, Campora's beautiful legato allows plenty of play for rhythmic... |
JOSEF HAYDN
Harnoncourt & Haydn [2 CD set] Nikolaus Harnoncourt, with Herbert Tachezi, Robert Holl, Josef Protschka, Cecilia Bartoli & others [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 17/Aug/2009 ] Nikolaus Harnoncourt at Eighty - Harnoncourt & Haydn |
VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: Norma (complete opera recorded in 1968) Elena Souliotis, Fiorenza Cossotto, Mario Del Monaco, Carlo Cava / Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Silvio Varviso [ SBS Deutsche Grammophon Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2014 ] "Elena Souliotis has the power, ferocity, energy for the role...Mario del Monaco's "Ferisci, ma non interrogarmi" is a splendid moment [...] Cosotto's tone is always full and beautiful...Silvio Varviso's direction is pleasantly spirited" Gramophone |