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GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Aleksandra Kurzak - Bel Raggio: Rossini Arias Aleksandra Kurzak (soprano), Artur Ruciński (bass-baritone) / Sinfonia Varsovia, Warsaw Chamber Choir, Pier Giorgio Morandi [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 3/Jun/2013 ] "Without over-egging the pudding, Kurzak acts vividly for a 'blind' audience, alive to verbal nuance and using coloratura not merely as a vote-catching circus trick, but to enhance character." Gramophone |
Giorgio Conte
La Belle Vie... [ Nocturne / CD - released 21/Apr/2017 ] |
BOHUSLAV MARTINU
Martinu: Piano Concertos Vol 1: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 and 5 / Concertino Giorgio Koukl (piano) / Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic Orchestra / Arthur Fagen [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Feb/2010 ] "Naxos's sound is first rate, clear and bright with the right balance between soloist and orchestra. Warmly recommended." Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice March 2010 |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Mose in Egitto (1819 Naples version of the complete opera) Giuseppe Fedeli, Wojtek Gierlach, Lorenzo Regazzo, Giorgio Trucco / Wurttemberg Philharmonic Orchestra / Antonino Fogliani [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 30/Jan/2008 ] Rossini's Mosè in Egitto, described as an azione tragico-sacra, combines the biblical narrative of the release of Moses and the Israelites from Egypt, and a more characteristically operatic element in the love of Pharaoh's son Osiride for the Hebrew... |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: La Traviata (Complete Opera recorded in 1993) Gran Teatro la Fenice, Venice / Edita Gruberova / Neil Shicoff / Giorgio Zancanaro / Carlo Rizzi (cond) [ NVC Arts / DVD - released 6/Jun/2000 ] This famous work was recorded at the Gran Teatro, La Fenice in Venice, one of the most famous and beautiful venues in all opera. The theatre has been the scene for first nights for Rossini, Bellini, Verdi and more. |
BOHUSLAV MARTINU
Martinu: The Rose - Songs 3 Jana Wallingerová (mezzo-soprano) Giorgio Koukl (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2011 ] This recording focuses on three of Martinů's song-cycles, and a selection of individual songs from an early period in his life that sheds fascinating light on his enthusiasm for song composition. |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: I vespri Siciliani (complete opera recorded in 1990) La Scala Opera / Giorgio Zancanaro, Enzo Capuano, Chris Merritt, Cheryl Studer / Riccardo Muti (cond) [ Opus Arte / Rai Trade / La Scala Collection DVD / DVD - released 25/Dec/2015 ] Verdi's 1855 Paris opera which followed Rigoletto, Il trovatore and La Traviata is treated to a performance of blazing energy and intimate refinement with a superb cast which includes Cheryl Studer and Chris Merritt. |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Macbeth (Complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Teatro Coccia / Giuseppe Altomare, Giorgio Giuseppini, Dimitra Theodossiou, Dario Di Vietri / Giuseppe Sabbatini (cond) [ Dynamic Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jul/2015 ] Recorded live at Teatro Carlo Coccia, Novara, 4-6 October 2013 |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Il Borgomastro di Saardam (complete opera recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Teatro Sociale di Bergamo / Giorgio Caoduro, Juan Francisco Gatell, Andrea Concetti, Irina Dubrovskaya / Roberto Rizzi Brignoli (conductor) [ Dynamic Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jul/2015 ] Having fallen into oblivion following performances in 1839, this attractive, rare opera buffa was revived in 1973 in the Dutch city of Zaanstad (the Saardam of the libretto). It's staged on this recording at Bergamo's Teatro Sociale. |
VERDI / DONIZETTI / PUCCINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Vittorio Grigolo - The Italian Tenor Vittorio Grigolo (tenor) with Danila Rigosa & Maria Cioppi / Coro e Orchestre del Teatro di Parma, Pier Giorgio Morandi [ Sony Classical / CD - released 4/Oct/2010 ] "Now and then there are hints of another great Italian-style tenor, the stylish Alfredo Kraus. It's there in the hushed tone Grigolo adopts for the 'Favorita del re!...Spirto gentil' from La Favorita and Manrico's elegant swagger in 'Di quella pira' |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: I Vespri Siciliani (complete opera remastered recorded live 1953) Maria Callas, Boris Christoff, Enzo Mascherini, Giorgio Kokolios-Bardi / Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale di Firenze, Erich Kleiber [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Live Remastered / 3 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] "Callas is terrific in the Act 1 aria and cabaletta, as well as in the long duet with Arrigo in Act 4… Boris Christoff is magnificent as the gloomy, unforgiving Procida… Erich Kleiber… leads a vigorous performance…" (Gramophone) |
VERDI
La Traviata (complete opera recorded in 1982) Edita Gruberova, Neil Shicoff, Giorgio Zancanaro / London Symphony Orchestra, Carlo Rizzi (cond) [ Teldec / Warner Classics The Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 21/Sep/2009 ] "This is a recording to have and to turn to, especially if the opera is, you feel, being taken for granted, becoming 'part of the furniture'." (Gramophone) |
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PUCCINI
Il Tabarro (complete opera) Ilona Tokody / Siegmund Nimsgern / Giorgio Lamberti / Tullio Pane / Munchner Rundfunkorchester / Giuseppe Patane [ RCA/BMG / CD - released 1/Jan/1997 ] |
GIOCOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Tosca (complete opera recorded in 1964/5) Maria Callas, Carlo Bergonzi, Tito Gobbi, Giorgio Tadeo / aris Conservatoire Orchestra, Paris Opera Chorus, Georges Prêtre [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Remastered / 2 CD - released 10/Nov/2014 ] Tosca was the role in which - in 1965, the year this recording was made - Callas gave her last complete performances at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, the Metropolitan Opera and the Paris Opéra. This was her final complete recording of an... |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Tosca (complete opera recorded in 1964/5) Maria Callas, Carlo Bergonzi, Tito Gobbi, Giorgio Tadeo / Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Paris Opera Chorus, Georges Prêtre [ Warner Classics Legendary Opera Recordings / 2 CD Box Set - released 23/Sep/2016 ] This Tosca was Maria Callas's final studio recording of a complete opera. In 1965, 12 years after her first recording of the opera (made in Milan Victor de Sabata) she was reunited in Paris with the Scarpia of Tito Gobbi. Both singers bring new... |
ROSSINI
Il barbiere di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) complete opera Renato Capecchi, Gianna d' Angelo, Nicola Monti, Giorgio Tadeo / Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks / Bruno Bartoletti [ DG Opera House / 2 CD - released 1/May/2006 ] “Bartoletti eschews superficial excitement in favour of elegance, and his orchestra plays beautifully” (The Met Guide) |
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ROSSINI
La Donna Del Lago (complete opera recorded in 1994) Rockwell Blake / Giorgio Surjan / June Anderson / Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala, Milan / Riccardo Muti [ Decca Classic Opera / 2 CD Box Set - released 10/Sep/2009 ] |
GEORGES BIZET
Bizet: Carmen (complete opera) Rah Graciela Alperyn, Giorgio Lamberti, Doina Palade, Alan Titus / Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra and Slovak Philharmonic Chorus, Alexander Ra [ Naxos Opera Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Jan/2000 ] |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Il Trovatore (complete opera) Arena di Verona / Luca Salsi, Anna Netrebko, Yusif Eyvazov, Dolora Zajick, Riccardo Fassi / Pier Giorgio Morandi (cond) [ C Major DVD / 2 DVD - released 22/May/2020 ] It's an event that draws many thousands of music lovers to one of the most beautiful cities in the world every summer: the opera season at the ancient Arena di Verona. The 2,000-year-old roman amphiteatre with its gigantic stage dimensions is one of... |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Il Trovatore (complete opera) BLU-RAY Arena di Verona / Luca Salsi, Anna Netrebko, Yusif Eyvazov, Dolora Zajick, Riccardo Fassi / Pier Giorgio Morandi (cond) [ C Major Blu-ray / 2 Blu-ray - released 22/May/2020 ] It's an event that draws many thousands of music lovers to one of the most beautiful cities in the world every summer: the opera season at the ancient Arena di Verona. The 2,000-year-old roman amphiteatre with its gigantic stage dimensions. |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Il Borgomastro di Saardam (complete opera recorded in 2017) Festival Donizetti Opera / Giorgio Caoduro, Juan Francisco Gatell, Andrea Concetti, Irina Dubrovskaya / Roberto Rizzi Brignoli [ Dynamic DVD / DVD - released 1/Jul/2020 ] "The opera fizzes along under Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, the general frivolity offset by tender music for the lovers." Gramophone Magazine July 2018 DVD/Blu-ray of the Month |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Puccini: Tosca (complete opera recorded 2000) Francesca Patane, Jose Cura, Renato Bruson / Symphony Orchestra of the Province of Bari / Pier Giorgio Morandi [ PIM DVD / DVD - released 4/Sep/2003 ] This performance was acclaimed as an operatic event, and the superstar cast makes it a Tosca for the ages. Enrico Castiglione has directed the work with tremendous originality and dramatic power. |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Tosca (complete opera recorded 2000) Francesca Patane, Jose Cura, Renato Bruson / Symphony Orchestra of the Province of Bari / Pier Giorgio Morandi [ Brilliant Classics DVD / DVD - released 4/Sep/2003 ] This performance was acclaimed as an operatic event, and the superstar cast makes it a Tosca for the ages. Enrico Castiglione has directed the work with tremendous originality and dramatic power, heightening with a modern and cinematic style a... |
ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
Alto Cantatas Gabriella Martellacci (alto) / Gruppo Instrumentale di Roma, Giorgio Sasso [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2014 ] The author of around 800 cantatas, Alessandro Scarlatti was the most prolific composer of this particular chamber genre during the Baroque period. In this engaging release we are introduced to two examples, both 'with instruments' and written for... |
JEAN LANGLAIS
Langlais: Organ Music Volume 2 Giorgio Benati, Fausto Caporali, Alessandro Perin (organ) [ Brilliant Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 12/Jul/2024 ] Jean Langlais was born on February 15, 1907, in La Fontenelle, Brittany, France. He became blind from the age of two. Sent to the Paris National Institute for the Blind Youth in 1918, he studied piano, violin, harmony and organ with great blind... |
GOFFREDO PETRASSI
Coro di morti / Quattro inni sacri / Partita / Noche oscura Giorgio Berrugi (tenor) & Vasily Ladyuk (baritone) / Orchestra and Chorus, Teatro Regio, Torino, Gianandrea Noseda [ Chandos Musica Italiana / CD - released 20/Feb/2015 ] This new Petrassi recording with Gianandrea Noseda and his Italian forces is part of our ongoing Italian music series. Last year's release of Salmo IX° and the Magnificat (CHAN10750) was widely praised, Gramophone stating: 'The performances by the... |
MARTINU
Complete Piano Music Vol. 4 (Incls 7 Czech Dances) Giorgio Kouki (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 30/Dec/2007 ] Although they number approximately eighty out of a total of over four hundred works, Martinů's compositions for solo piano have long been overshadowed by his orchestral and chamber music. This fourth and final release in the Naxos complete Martinů... |
MARTINU
Complete Piano Music Vol. 5 (Incls 6 Polkas, H. 101) Giorgio Kouki (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] Giorgio Koukl's survey of Martinů's complete piano music has been praised as "a delight" (Gramophone) and "estimable and important" (MusicWeb International). Since the release of Volume 4 (Naxos 8.570215), which was originally intended to be the... |
TIBOR HARSANYI
Harsanyi: Piano Works (Complete), Vol. 2 Giorgio Kouki (piano) [ Grand Piano / CD - released 6/May/2020 ] The Hungarian-born composer Tibor Harsányi is now recognised as an important personality in 'L'École de Paris'. He had a lifelong interest in modern dance, represented here by the Petite suite and Trois Pièces de danse, and he also embraced jazz. |
ALEXANDER TCHEREPNIN
Complete Piano Music - Vol. 3 Giorgio Koukl (piano) [ Grand Piano / CD - released 29/Apr/2013 ] "This disc has been as thoroughly rewarding as the first two and as before Giorgio Koukl establishes himself as the perfect vehicle through which this superb composer finds a voice that shows his brilliance to the greatest effect" (Recording of the Month |
MARTINU
Complete Piano Music Vol. 2 Giorgio Koukl (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 4/Mar/2007 ] "A fascinating selection of Martinu early piano works, plus two late rifles" Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine May 2007 |
TIBOR HARSANYI
Harsányi: Piano Works 3 Giorgio Koukl (piano) [ Grand Piano / CD - released 15/Jan/2021 ] Tibor Harsányi, a student of Zoltán Kodály at the Budapest Conservatory, lived in France from 1923 where he became one of the leading expatriate composers to form the group known as LÉcole de Paris. As the 4 Morceaux show, his piano music is notable... |
MARTINU
Piano Music (complete) Vol. 6 Giorgio Koukl (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2009 ] Giorgio Koukl's survey of Martinů's complete piano music has been praised as "a delight" (Gramophone) and "estimable and important" (MusicWeb International). |
MARTINU
Piano Music (complete) Vol. 7 - A Fairy-Tale of Goldilocks / From Anderson's Fairy-Tales Giorgio Koukl (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] "Koukl, very well recorded here, remains a dependable interpreter capturing the widely varied accents of this collection with considerable precision in nearly all cases." BBC Music Magazine, February 2008 *** on the fourth volume in the Martinu... |
BOHUSLAV MARTINU
Martinu: Piano Music (Complete), Volume 3 Giorgio Koukl (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 5/Sep/2007 ] This third release in the Naxos complete Martinů solo piano music series represents the most mature style of his work. |
BOHUSLAV MARTINU
Piano Concertos Vol 2: Piano Concertos Nos. 1, 2 & 4 Giorgio Koukl (piano) / Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic Orchestra / Arthur Fagen [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] The music of Bohuslav Martinů , whose complete solo piano works have also been recorded by Giorgio Koukl for Naxos, can ring like bells, shimmer like a mirage or pulse with sheer rhythmic vitality as is the case with these three piano concertos,... |
VITTORIO RIETI
Rieti: Complete Piano Solo & Duo Works Vol.3 Giorgio Koukl (piano) Virginia Rossetti (piano) [ Grand Piano / CD - released 23/May/2025 ] Vittorio Rieti won esteem for his orchestral music which was conducted by titans such as Toscanini and Stokowski, but the piano remained his greatest musical love. Rieti's vivid freshness can be appreciated in the selections in this volume, which... |
KUHLAU
Violin Sonatas Giorgio Leonida Tosi (baroque violin), Zero Emission Baroque Orchestra [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Apr/2016 ] Friedrich Kuhlau (1786‐1832) was born in Hannover, but as a student he went to Denmark, where he stayed the rest of his life, becoming an important national composer. Kuhlau was a near contemporary of Beethoven, and his style shares elements of... |
MIRTO / MANCA / SIGNORILE / ALBINI / etc
Nocturnes Giorgio Mirto guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 30/Jul/2013 ] "His touch is soft yet strong, and his manner of sound-producing is truly singing. The guitar's voice is sonorous, without the wooden dryness." MusicWeb International, April 2013 |
MIRTO / KROGSETH
Norwegian Memories / Viking Concerto Giorgio Mirto (guitar) / Florence String Ensemble [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2015 ] Giorgio Mirto follows in a long and distinguished line of guitarist-composers stretching back to his fellow Italian Mauro Giuliani, and he is justifiably a regular contributor to the catalogue of Brilliant Classics, playing both the classic (mostly... |
