VARIOUS COMPOSERS
17th-Century Violin Music in Spain La Real Camara / Emilio Morena [ Glossa Cabinet / CD - released 13/Sep/2010 ] Works by Falconiero, Bruna, Anon, Victoria, Botelero, Lorente & Sola |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Aida / La Traviata / Rigoletto (complete operas recorded 2002 - 2006) Royal Opera, Teatro Real, Liceu Opera / Daniela Dessi, Elisabetta Fiorillo, Norah Amsellem, Renata Bruson, Christine Shafer, Marcelo Alvarez, etc [ Opus Arte DVD / 5 DVD Box Set - released 20/Dec/2014 ] "José Antonio Gutiérrez's production is, by definition, ultra-traditional, but everything looks beautiful thanks to Cabanes's feeling for colour - ochres and blues dominate - and perspective." (BBC Music on Aida) |
GABRIELE ROBERTO / DMITRI CERVO / NICOLA TESCARI / MENACHEM ZUR
Alchemy: New Music for Trumpet and Orchestra Fabio Brum (trumpets, Cornets, Flugelhorn, Horn) / Real Orquesta Sinfonica de Seville, Noam Zur [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Sep/2022 ] Like alchemists of old, attempting to recombine the four elements, here Fábio Brum presents four distinct musical languages in a programme forged during lockdown. Gabriele Roberto's Tokyo Suite charts the astonishment of a traveller dazzled by the... |
JOSE ARRIOLA
Arriola: Orchestral Music Real Filharmonía de Galicia, Maximino Zumalave, with Joaquín Soriano (piano) & David Alonso (horn) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2018 ] These are the first-ever recordings of music composed by José (Pepito) Arriola, whose works are virtually unknown. Born in Betanzos in the northern Spanish region of Galicia in 1895, Arriola was a celebrated child prodigy known at the time as a... |
Real Estate
Atlas [ Domino / CD - released 28/Feb/2014 ] The most collaborative Real Estate record to date, Atlas was written by Martin Courtney, Matt Mondanile, Alex Bleeker and Jackson Pollis while cruising through the Arizona desert and during a presser in Madrid, in a practice room in Greenpoint,... |
SERGIO AZEVEDO
Azevedo: Hukvaldy Cycle Ensemble Darcos, Nuno Côrte-Real [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Sep/2021 ] Taking its title from the village in which Leoš Janáček was born, this album of chamber works by the prize winning Portuguese composer Sérgio Azevedo reveals his deep affinity for the music and personality of the great Czech composer. |
BIZET / MENDELSSOHN / MOZART / PUCCINI / STRAUSS 11 / RAMEAU
THE BLU-RAY EXPERIENCE: Opera and Ballet Highlights Paris Opera Ballet / Royal Opera House / Teatro Real, Madrid / Glyndebourne Opera / Pacific Northwest Ballet / Drottningholms Slottsteater [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jan/2009 ] Blu-Ray - Opera and Ballet Highlights from the Opus Arte catalogue at a very special price. |
CHARLES WUORINEN
Brokeback Mountain (Complete Opera recorded in 2014) Teatro Real Madrid / Daniel Okulitch, Tom Randle, Heather Buck / Titus Engel (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques DVD / DVD - released 20/Nov/2015 ] "Wuorinen's setting reminds one of Monteverdi - formal, stately and psychologically precise...[Okulitch] gives a magnificent and deeply powerful performance...His Ennis emerges as an Orpheus for a new age of love and loss." (Gramophone) |
JOAN BAPTISTA CABANILLES
Cabanilles: Keyboard Music, Volume One - Eleven Organ Pieces Timothy Roberts (Organ of the Church of Sant Jaume, Vila-real, Valencia) etc [ Toccata / CD - released 1/Jun/2020 ] Much of the music of Joan (or Juan) Cabanilles (1644-1712) is as virtuosic and colourfully Baroque as that of his northern contemporary, Dietrich Buxtehude, though it is also touched with a distinctively Spanish intensity. He is claimed as the most... |
JOAN BAPTISTA CABANILLES
Cabanilles: Keyboard Music, Volume Three - 21 works for organ and harpsichord Timothy Roberts (organ of the Church of Sant Jaume, Vila-real, Valencia) etc [ Toccata / CD - released 1/Jun/2020 ] "Timothy Roberts has studied this repertoire thoroughly, and is an excellent guide in this rather unknown territory. He has the assistance of three excellent instruments." MusicWeb |
JOAN BAPTISTA CABANILLES
Cabanilles: Keyboard Music, Volume Two - 24 works for organ and Harpsichord Timothy Roberts (Organ of the Church of Sant Jaume, Vila-real, Valencia) etc [ Toccata / CD - released 1/Jun/2020 ] Much of the music of Joan (or Juan) Cabanilles (1644-1712) is as virtuosic and colourfully Baroque as that of his northern contemporary, Dietrich Buxtehude, though it is also touched with a distinctively Spanish intensity. |
Soul For Real
Candy Rain [ CD ] |
FRANCISCO JOSE de CASTRO
Castro: Trio sonatas Op 1 [1695] La Real Cámara [ Glossa / CD - released 20/Jul/2016 ] The 17th century violinist-composer, Francisco José de Castro, who travelled from his birthplace in Seville to the Northern Italian city of Brescia where he composed chamber music, provides the focus for Emilio Moreno's latest exploration of the... |
PIETRO MASCAGNI / RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO
Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana / Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (complete operas recorded in 2007) BLU-RAY Teatro Real / Violeta Urmana / Vincenzo La Scola / Vladimir Galouzine / Maria Bayo/ Carlo Guelfi / Jesus Lopez-Cobos (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 2/Feb/2009 ] Blu-Ray - "The performances are uniformly superb; especially Violeta Urmana's Santuzza and Vladimir Galouzine's Canio, especially in the aria Vesti La Giubba, where he almost brings down the house. Very highly recommended!" (AudAud.com) |
MASCAGNI / LEONCAVALLO
Cavalleria Rusticana / Pagliacci (complete operas recorded in March 2007) Teatron Real Madrid / Violeta Urmana / Vincenza la Scola / Vladimir Galouzine / Maria Bayo / Jesus Lopezs Cobos [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 30/Nov/2007 ] G - Recorded live at the Teatro Real, Madrid, February and March 2007 |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588 (complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Teatro Real de Madrid / Anett Fritsch, Paola Gardina, Kerstin Avemo, Juan Francisco Gatell / Sylvain Cambreling (cond) [ C Major Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Dec/2013 ] "Everyone in the cast collaborates well musically and dramatically, and they can handle the physicality asked of them onstage...Shimell's Don Alfonso is unnervingly suave, seductive, even Mephistophelian at times." International Record Review |
RICHARD WAGNER
Der Fliegende Hollander [The Flying Dutchman] (complete opera recorded in 2016) DVD + BLU-RAY Teatro Real Madrid / Samuel Youn, Ingela Brimberg, Kwangchul Youn, Nikolai Schukoff / Àlex Ollé (cond) [ Harmonia Mundi DVD + Blu-ray / 2 Blu-ray Disc/DVD - released 1/Mar/2018 ] "it's an impressive and engaging show." Gramophone |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Don Giovanni (complete opera recorded in 2005) Teatro Real / Carlos Alvarez, Alfred Reiter, Marla Bayo, Jose Bros, Sonia Ganassi, Lorenzo Regazzo / Víctor Pablo Pérez (cond) [ Opus Arte Essential Opera Collection DVD / 2 DVD - released 20/Oct/2013 ] ""Magnificent Maria Bayo as Donna Anna, the evolution of this soprano is spectacular. José Bros is tenor Midas: he converts everything he touches into gold. What a delightful performance! " Opera Actual |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Don Giovanni (complete opera recorded in 2005) BLU-RAY Teatro Real / Carlos Álvarez, Lorenzo Regazzo, María Bayo, José Bros, Sonia Ganassi / Víctor Pablo Pérez (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 6/Apr/2016 ] "The cast set to with a will vocally and dramatically...Víctor Pablo Pérez accompanies accommodatingly in a performance of appropriate but not over-grand scale...The Blu-ray pictures convey well the perspective depth of Frigerio's set." Gramophone |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti:Roberto Devereux (complete opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY Teatro Real Madrid / Mariella Devia, Marco Caria, Silvia Tro Santafe, Gregory Kunde / Bruno Campanella (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Feb/2017 ] In the last and most dramatic aria in Roberto Devereux, one of the four Tudor period operas composed by Donizetti in 1837 (along with Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda and Il Castello di Kenilworth), the protagonist, Queen Elizabeth I of England, exclaims:... |