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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra La Scala Opera / Plácido Domingo (Simon Boccanegra), Anja Harteros (Amelia Grimaldi (Maria), etc / Daniel Barenboim (cond) [ Arthaus Musik / DVD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] "[Barenboim] delivers the kind of eloquently moulded, dramatically succinct phrases heard in his Wagner performances of late...[His] status as a Verdian outsider - and the fresh insights that come with that - is a genuine drawing card." |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: String Quintets K. 515 & 516 Quatuor Van Kuijk; Adrien La Marca [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] "Time and again, they seem to me to catch this music exactly where it speaks most powerfully: balanced perfectly - poignantly - between laughter and tears." Gramophone Editor's Choice Awards Issue 2020 |
GRAUN / HASSE / HANDEL / LEGRENZI / VIVALDI / etc
Cleopatra - Baroque Arias Regula Mühlemann (soprano) / La Folia Barokorchester, Robin Peter Müller [ Sony Classical / CD - released 21/Sep/2017 ] "Mühlemann makes everything sound easy. But it's not just virtuosity, as the beauty of her voice also stops you in your tracks." BBC Music |
ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Scarlatti: The Recorder & Violin Cantatas Tamar lalo, Michael Form (recorders) Giuseppina Bridelli (mezzo) Alicia Amo (sop) Filippo Mineccia (counter-tenor) / La Ritirata, Josetxu Obregon [ Glossa / CD - released 31/Mar/2019 ] "The performances are excellent, though the disc is hampered by the decision to insert longish pauses between sinfonias, recitatives and arias that impedes each cantata's dramatic flow." (Gramophone) |
HANDEL
Duetti e Terzetti italiani Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Silvia Frigato (soprano), Krystian Adam (tenor), Thomas E. Bauer (baritone) / La Risonanza, Fabio Bonizzoni [ Glossa / CD - released 25/Nov/2015 ] "Beaming a searchlight into the darkest and furthest corners of Handel's youthful Italian-period creations, these sage performances are essential fare." (Gramophone Editor's Choice Feb 2016) |
MOZART / GLUCK / CIMAROSA / BOLOGNE
Samuel Mariño - Sopranista Samuel Mariño (soprano) / La Cetra Barockorchester, Andrea Marcon [ Decca / CD - released 27/May/2022 ] "The words "radiant" and "pure" come to mind, with "thrilling" perhaps jumping in when the throat opens wide and the notes blaze away, fierce as the unfiltered rays of the summer sun." The Times |
W.A. MOZART
Mozart: Mass in C Minor KV427 Sandrine Piau, Anne-Lise Sollied, Paul Agnew, Frederic Caton / Accentus / La Chambre Philharmonique / Emmanuel Krivine [ Naive / CD - released 20/Dec/2005 ] MARBECKS STAFF RECORDING OF THE YEAR 2006 - "Krivine offers a hard-edged reading, almost Bach-like in both its devotional austerity and its emphasis on the score's complex counterpoint...the choral singing and playing are admirably clear" (The... |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Macbeth (Complete Opera) [2 CD remastered + Blu-ray audio] Shirley Verrett, Piero Cappuccilli, Placido Domingo / Milan La Scala Chorus; Milan La Scala Orchestra / Claudio Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / 3 CD/Blu-ray Disc - released 9/Nov/2018 ] A truly legendary opera recording from the golden age of stereo, remastered to true 24-bit Audio from the original analogue tapes, presented on High Fidelity Pure Audio Blu-ray disc + CD in a deluxe hardback edition with libretti and synopsis. |
MOZART
Mozart: Requiem La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale Gent, Orchestre des Champs-ÉlyséesPhilippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 19/Jul/2019 ] Tired by his many voyages around Europe ever since he had been rejected in Vienna, Mozart could not find the strength to honour his promise to compose a Requiem in record time for the person who had commissioned it. |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: L'elisir d'amore (highlights) Simone Alaimo (bass), Roberto Frontali (baritone), Alessandra Ruffini (soprano), Vincenzo la Scola (tenor), Mariangela Spotorno (soprano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2000 ] Gaetano Donizetti was the leading composer of Italian opera in the short period between the early retirement of Rossini and death of Bellini and Verdi's first success with Nabucco in 1842. He was born in Bergamo in 1797 and had his early musical... |
MONTEVERDI / PURCELL / CESTI / MERULA / DOWLAND
Love Simone Kermes (soprano) / La Magnifica Comunità, Enrico Casazza [ Sony / CD - released 1/Jul/2016 ] "The evidence of [Kermes's] close sympathy with the players of La Magnifica Comunità is everywhere abundant…the sum total, powerfully original and committed in imaginative endeavour and fulfilment, is an inward-looking artistic vision" BBC Music |
JULES MASSENET / GIACOMO PUCCINI / CHARLES COUNOD / JACQUES OFFENBACH / etc
Sonya Yoncheva - Paris, mon amour Sonya Yoncheva (soprano), with Etienne Dupuis (baritone), Celso Albelo (tenor) Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Frederic Chaslin [ Sony Music / CD - released 1/Jul/2018 ] "one of the most effortlessly and gorgeously sung accounts of [Sempre libera] I know...her sensual singing of unhackneyed arias by Massenet, Gounod, Messager and Lecocq announces one of the loveliest lyric sopranos before the public today." Sunday Ti |
BACH FAMILY / WASSENAER / COUPERIN / VIVALDI / etc
Karl Munchinger - The Baroque Legacy Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Members of L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Karl Munchinger, with Jean-Pierre Rampal, flute [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 8 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2019 ] A newly remastered treasury of Baroque ensemble music from Gabrieli to Haydn, including several recordings receiving their first international CD release. The Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra was founded by Karl Münchinger in 1946, and it was only... |
ALFREDO CASELLA
Casella: Symphony No. 2 / A notte alta Sun Hee You (piano) / Rome Symphony Orchestra / Francesco La Vecchia [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2010 ] "One of Casella's subtlest creations, it receives a fine performance from the Rome Symphony Orchestra and Francesco La Vecchia" Gramophone |
ARTHUR HONEGGER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Honegger: Le Roi David Suzanne Danco, Marie-Lise de Montmollin, Pauline Martin / L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet [ Decca / CD - released 1/Jan/1990 ] The DECCA ANSERMET LEGACY has been systematically releasing the vast recorded legacy of Ernest Ansermet, a key Decca artist in the 1950s and 1960s. It has become one of the most sought-after and praised of all reissue series. |
ARTHUR HONEGGER
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Honegger: Symphonies / Le Roi David / Pacific 231 / etc (with Frank Martin - In terra pax) Suzanne Danco, Marie-Lise de Montmollin, Pauline Martin / L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Ernest Ansermet [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Jan/2013 ] "This double CD set is almost worth its cost for the performance of Pacific 231 - one of the most vividly descriptive tone-poems of the twentieth century...Ansermet's is perhaps the finest ever committed to disc: it has a powerful, cumulative effect... |
GABRIEL FAURE
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Faure: Requiem / Pelleas et Melisande / Masques et Bergamasques Suzanne Danco (soprano), Gerald Souzay (tenor) / L'Union Chorale de la tour de Peilz / L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande [ Decca Eloquence / CD - released 16/Aug/2006 ] 'Ansermet's version [of the Requiem] is technically immaculate' … 'sympathetic and stylish performances [of the orchestral works], highly regarded in their day and still sounding well' Penguin Guide |
MAURICE RAVEL / CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Ravel: Sheherazade, etc / Debussy: La Mer & Petite Suite (recorded 1947-48) Suzanne Danco (soprano) / L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire, Ernest Ansermet [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / CD - released 10/Oct/2018 ] 'Some of the subtlest songs in the modern repertoire, marvellously interpreted and beautifully recorded.' High Fidelity, August 1955 (Shéhérezade) |
JULES MASSENET
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Massenet: Thais (complete opera recorded in 2004) Teatri La Fenice / Eva Mei (soprano), Michele Perusi (bass-baritone), William Joyner (tenor) & Christophe Fel (bass) / Marcello Viotti (cond) [ Dynamic DVD / DVD - released 28/Oct/2004 ] Venice's prestigious Teatro La Fenice's production of this enthralling opera, full of captivating music and dramatic development. The title role, in this excellent production, is sung by an Eva Mei in great vocal form, who gives an interpretation... |
GEORGES BIZET
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bizet: Les Pecheurs de Perles (The Pearl Fishers) Teatro la Fenice di Venezia / Annick Massis / Yasu Nakajima / Luca Grassi / Lugi De Donato / Marcello Viotti / Pier Luigi Pizzi (cond) [ Dynamic / DVD - released 4/Apr/2006 ] This Venetian production features an extraordinary Annick Massis as Léïla and the refined staging of Pier Luigi Pizzi. |
