GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Madama Butterfly (Complete Opera) Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann, Enkelejda Shkosa / Orchestra e Coro dell'Accadmia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano [ Warner Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 10/Jan/2013 ] Gramophone Award WINNER 2009: Opera - "Gheorghiu somehow conveys not only the depth of Butterfly's love but also her inner knowledge that, in fact, her belief in Pinkerton's devotion is hopeless. This is a mature interpretation" |
BEETHOVEN / MOZART / SCHUBERT / HAYDN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cecilia Bartoli - Italian Songs Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo) Andreas Schiff (piano) [ Decca / CD - released 2/Feb/1992 ] "Haydn's dramatic scena, Arianna a Naxos, lively with Bartoli's quick response to every fleeting emotion, makes a formidable finale to this finely conceived and enthusiastically realised recital." ClassicalMusic |
AGOSTINO STEFFANI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Steffani: Mission (Deluxe Hardcover Edition) Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis, with Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) [ Decca Classics / CD/Book - released 4/Oct/2012 ] "Bartoli leaps around the vocal ladder with customary gusto and a rather too vigorous vibrato. The pleasures are subtler when the music is simpler and the voice quieter" (The Times) |
ROSSINI / SCHUBERT / MOZART & OTHERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cecilia Bartoli - A Portrait Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo) [ Decca DVD / DVD - released 19/Apr/2014 ] The original documentary film on the early life of Cecilia Bartoli as well as a concert recording at the Savoy Hotel. Other performers featured include Lesley Schatzberger (basset clarinet), András Schiff (piano), and, Charles Spencer (piano) |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Voices From Heaven Cecilia Bartoli, Andrea Bocelli, Bryn Terfel, Myung-Whun Chung [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 12/Nov/1998 ] Beautiful voices blended together with choir and orchestra |
ARAIA / CALDARA / GRAUN / PORPORA / etc.
Sacrificium - The Art of the Castrati Cecilia Bartoli (soprano) / Il Giardino Armonico / Giovanni Antonini [ Decca Music Group DVD / DVD - released 15/Mar/2010 ] Cecilia Bartoli sings virtuoso arias from her Sacrificium album, on location in and around the spectacular baroque palace of Caserta in Southern Italy. |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: L'Italiana In Algeri (complete opera recorded in 2018) BLU-RAY Salzburg Festival / Cecilia Bartoli, Ildar Abdrazakov, Edgardo Rocha, Alessandro Corbelli, José Coca Loza / Jean-Christophe Spinosi (cond) [ C Major Blu-Ray / Blu-ray - released 9/Aug/2019 ] "The role of Isabella is sung to perfection by Cecilia Bartoli - a clever, independent woman with an adventurous streak" (New York Times). Bartoli's superb performance in Gioachino Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers) at... |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Rossini: Heroines Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo) / Orchestra e coro del Teatro della Fenice, Ion Marin [ Decca / CD - released 2/Feb/1992 ] "This sparkling disc brings together a collection of arias Rossini composed for one of the great prima donnas of the 19th century, his wife, Isabella Colbran. For Rossini and Bartoli fans, this disc is a must" Gramophone |
ANTONIO SALIERI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Salieri Album Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo) Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Adam Fischer [ Decca Records / CD - released 1/Oct/2003 ] "A superb collection of arias from a composer known, if at all, as the villain of Peter Shaffer's Amadeus" - Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine November 2003 |
ARAIA / CIMAROSA / MANFREDINI / RAUPACH
Cecilia Bartoli: St Petersburg Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis [ Decca Classics / CD - released 10/Oct/2014 ] "Bartoli hurls herself into these lost artefacts of the Russian baroque with every drop of her usual flair and a little more vibrato than before." (Gramophone Award Nomination 2015 - Recital) |
ARAIA / CALDARA / GRAUN / PORPORA / etc.
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE - Cecilia Bartoli - Sacrificium [special deluxe 2 CD limited edition] Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 14/Dec/2009 ] "Porpora's opening aria reveals just what has made Bartoli unique in this field - a stupefying range, fearless vocal leaps and the sort of relentless passagework that makes you suspect the singer might be on a heart-lung machine." (William Dart NZ... |
BEETHOVEN / MOZART / HAYDN
Cecilia Bartoli - Unreleased Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano), Kammerorchester Basel, Muhai Tang [ Decca / CD - released 17/Dec/2021 ] "..much of her more delicate singing combines beauty of tone with expressiveness...the orchestral accompaniments are beautifully managed under Muhai Tang." BBC Music |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL / ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI / ANTONIO CALDARA
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Cecilia Bartoli - Opera Proibita Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / Les Musiciens du Louvre / Marc Minkowski [ Decca Records / CD - released 20/Sep/2005 ] "A touch of the Fellinis as a scorching Bartoli meets the banned" RECORDING OF THE MONTH GRAMOPHONE Nov 2005 |
MOZART / ROSSINI / DONIZETTI
Cecilia & Bryn: Duets Cecilia Bartoli (soprano) Bryn Terfel (bass) / Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa [ Decca Records / CD - released 2/May/2001 ] The world's leading mezzo-soprano and the world's greatest baritone combine! |
W. A. MOZART
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mozart Portraits: Operatic Arias Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / Vienna Chamber Orchestra, Gyorgy Fischer [ Decca Originals / CD - released 11/Apr/1994 ] "... Bartoli's very Italian characteristics are immediately identifiable: brilliance of execution, vitality of words, sharpness ... Fischer accompanies his soloist with energy and tact." Gramophone |
VINCENZO BELLINI / GIOACHINO ROSSINI / GAETANO DONIZETTI
Cecilia Bartoli - An Italian Songbook Cecilia Bartoli (soprano) with James Levine (piano) [ Decca Originals / CD - released 15/Feb/2009 ] In 2007/08, Bartoli devoted her time to studying and recording the early 19th-century repertoire - the era of Italian Romanticism and bel canto - and especially the legendary singer Maria Malibran. |
HANDEL / GLUCK / VIVALDI / MOZART / ROSSINI / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: The Art of Cecilia Bartoli Cecilia Bartoli (soprano) with Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) Bryn Terfel (bass) & Myung-Whun Chung (piano) [ Decca Records / CD - released 16/Oct/2002 ] "Reaching out to the ears and to the heart, a fine round-up of Bartoli's opera triumphs." (Gramophone) |
NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV / MODEST MUSSORGSKY
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade / Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain Deyan Vatchkov (bass-bartone) / Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano [ Warner Classics / CD - released 22/Mar/2024 ] Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade and Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain are two of the most popular works in the Russian repertoire. Programming them together as Music Director of the Orchestra and Chorus dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.... |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Diana Damrau - Tudor Queens Diana Damrau (soprano), Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano [ Erato / CD - released 2/Oct/2020 ] "Damrau, luminous of voice, is surely the perfect exponent of this repertoire: adept at surmounting the music's technical challenges in its dramatic moments, yet equally capable of exhibiting the tenderness for which these roles call" BBC Music ***** |
GIACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Messa di Gloria Eleonora Buratto, Teresa Iervolino, Lawrence Brownlee, Michael Spyres / Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano [ Warner Classics / CD - released 7/Oct/2022 ] Expanding their notable Rossini discography, Sir Antonio Pappano and the Chorus and Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia perform the composer's Messa di Gloria of 1820. |