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GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Manon Lescaut (Complete Opera recorded in 2016) Anna Netrebko, Yusif Eyvazov, Armando Piña, Carlos Chausson / Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor, Marco Armiliato [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 2/Dec/2016 ] "Netrebko's Manon soars over the rest of the cast, framed attentively, eloquently and imaginatively by Marco Armiliato and the Munich Radio Orchestra." BBC Music |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
La Tarantella Christina Pluhar, L' Arpeggiata, Marco Beasley, Lucilla Galeazzi [ Alpha / CD - released 4/Nov/2002 ] Traditional music from the Kingdom of Naples. In 1630 a strange disease called "Tarantism" struck Italy. It was attributed to a spider's bite with alternating symptoms of exaltation and prostration. Tarantella are enchanting songs and dances meant... |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (Complete Opera recorded at the New Zealand Festival 2000) Gordon Hawkins, Vladimir Vaneev, Yaron Windmuller, Nuccia Focile / New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Chapman Tripp Opera Chorus, Marco Guidarini [ Trust / 2 CD Box Set - released 25/Feb/2006 ] Verdi's sombre and powerful operatic masterpiece, with its themes of love, hate, treachery and reconciliation, is brought to life in this production from the 2000 New Zealand Festival, featuring the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra and the Chapman... |
UMBERTO GIORDANO
Giordano: Andrea Chenier (Blu-ray) Bayerische Staatsoper, Jonas Kaufmann, George Petean, Anja Harteros / Marco Armiliato (cond) [ BSO Recordings / Blu-ray - released 18/Aug/2023 ] First performed in 1896, Andrea Chénier is rightly regarded as one of the key works of verismo. With his melodrama about the historical poet André Chénier during the upheavals of the French Revolution, the composer Umberto Giordano created an... |
Ludovico Einaudi (piano), Marco Decimo (cello)
Una Mattina [ Decca Classics / CD - released 24/Sep/2004 ] Una Mattina features Einaudi on solo piano and includes three pieces with cello. The sound of the piano is very pure and warm, with a melodic quality that shines through the whole album as a spiritual guide, like a haunting and mesmerizing human voice. |
JOHN FIELD
Field: Complete Piano Concertos Paolo Restani (piano) / Orchestre Philharmonique de Nice, Marco Guidarini [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 10/Dec/2009 ] "A bargain for all fans of John Field's influential Piano Concertos" Gramophone |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Berlin Concert - Live From the 'Waldbuhne' Placido Domingo, Anna Netrebko. Rolando Villazon / Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin / Marco Armiliato [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / DVD - released 18/Jan/2007 ] "Three charming singing actors giving their audience a real treat, this concert is something to return to" (MusicWeb Feb 2007) |
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64 (complete ballet recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Teatro alla Scala / Roberto Bolle, Misty Copeland, Antonino Sutera, Mick Zeni, Marco Agostino / Patrick Fournillier (cond) [ C Major BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Dec/2017 ] This classic choreography of Romeo and Juliet by Kenneth MacMillan, set to the immortal notes of Prokofiev, is legendary in La Scala´s repertoire. In this ballet the choreographer MacMillan deals with the matter paying great attention to human... |
IVAR HALLSTROM
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Hallstrom: Duke Magnus & the Mermaid (complete opera) Lars Johansson, Robin Svanvik, Marco Stella, Jonas Olofsson, Emelie Sigelius, Ingela Bohlin, Eva Marklund / Vadstena Academy Choir, Niklas Willen [ Marco Polo / 2 CD Box Set - released 17/Feb/2003 ] Although he learnt the piano, Hallström was self-taught as a composer. He studied law in Uppsala and in 1853 was appointed librarian to Prince Oscar which assisted him in advancing his career as a composer. His operas in collaboration with the... |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
DonizettI: Lucia di Lammermoor (complete opera recorded in 2009) Metropolitan Opera / Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczala, Mariusz Kwiecien / Marco Armiliato (conductor) [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / 2 DVD - released 16/Nov/2009 ] "Director Mary Zimmerman's…offers a Victorian gloss on the drama… which adds a fresh and fascinating resonance. This is reinforced by the filming, often steeply angled from front stage, and enjoys uncommonly strong choral and orchestral support." BBC |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Aida (complete opera recorded in 2012) BLU-RAY + BLU-RAY 3D Arena di Verona / Hui He, Marco Berti, Andrea Ulbrich, Ambrogio Maestri / Daniel Oren (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray 3D / Blu-ray Disc - released 25/Nov/2015 ] "It's straightforward, recalling Edwardian toy theatre...And the spectacle isn't overdone...Ulbrich is a fiery Amneris. But it's the Ethiopians who carry the day, with Maestri's thundering Amonasro and, above all, Chinese soprano Hui He's Aida, vocal |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Tosca (complete opera recorded in 2010) Daniela Dessì (Tosca), Fabio Armiliato (Mario Cavaradossi) & Claudio Sgura (Scarpia), Teatro Carlo Felice, Marco Boemi (conductor) [ Arthaus Musik / DVD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] "Sgura possesses a timbre rather warmer than usual for Scarpia - it's nice to hear 'Va, Tosca' sung rather than roared...The conductor, Marco Boemi, has the idiom solidly in hand and extracts full-blooded, sumptuous sound from the Genoa players" |
WAGNER / GOUNOD / MASCAGNI / CILEA / VERDI / PUCCINI
Opera Gala: Live from Baden-Baden Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo) Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) Anja Harteros (soprano) Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) / Badische Staatskapelle, Marco Armiliato [ Sony Classical DVD / DVD - released 8/Dec/2016 ] The Festspiel-Saison at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden culminated with Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel, Anja Harteros and Ekaterina Gubanova all on stage in this magnificent Opera Gala. The gala presented a diverse range of solo-arias and duets. Among the... |
WAGNER / GOUNOD / MASCAGNI / CILEA / VERDI / PUCCINI
Opera Gala: Live from Baden-Baden 2016 BLU-RAY Ekaterina Gubanova (mezzo) Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) Anja Harteros (soprano) Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) / Badische Staatskapelle, Marco Armiliato [ Sony Classical Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 8/Dec/2016 ] The Festspiel-Saison at the Festspielhaus Baden-Baden culminated with Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel, Anja Harteros and Ekaterina Gubanova all on stage in this magnificent Opera Gala. The gala presented a diverse range of solo-arias and duets. Among the... |
FRANCOIS COUPERIN
Couperin: Complete Published Trios for Two Harpsichords Gian Luca Rovelli, Marco Gaggini (harpsichords) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 17/Jan/2020 ] In the foreword to his "L'Apothéose de Lully" the great French Baroque composer François Couperin wrote: "This Trio, just like the L ́Apothéose de Corelli, and in fact all my trios, may be executed on two harpsichords, as well as on any other... |
VERDI
Macbeth (complete opera) - Sferisterio Opera Festival, 2007 Guiseppe Altomare / Ohla Zhuravel / Pavel Kudinov / Rubens Pelizzari / Marco Voleri / Marchigiana Philharmonic Orchestra / Daniele Callegari [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Verdi was justifiably pleased with Macbeth, his tenth opera and his first on a Shakespearian subject-it would long remain his own favourite among his 'early period' operas. Eighteen years later, at the invitation of the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris, he... |
BIZET / VERDI / OFFENBACH / PUCCINI / BOITO / etc
Joseph Calleja - The Maltese Tenor Joseph Calleja (tenor) L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Marco Armiliato, with Aleksandra Kurzak, soprano [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 26/May/2011 ] "Calleja's timbre, brilliant, caressing, keenly focused, is entirely individual...All in all, this is a fine calling-card for a tenor, still only in his early thirties, on the threshold of greatness, during a transition phase of his career. The... |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer (complete opera recorded in 2010) Netherlands Opera / Juha Uusitalo, Robert Lloyd, Catherine Naglestad, Marco Jentzsch / Harmut Haenchen (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 30/Jun/2011 ] "It never feels rushed but it does feel inexorable, with the orchestra playing with amazing transparency: one can hear Wagner's genius creating and growing....Haenchen manages Wagner's awkward mood/tempo changes as if they were organic." I.R.R. |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Aida (complete opera recorded in 2006) La Scala, Milan / Marco Spotti, Ildiko Komlosi, Roberto Alagna / Violeta Urmana / Riccardo Chailly (cond) [ Decca DVD / DVD - released 26/Sep/2007 ] G:- The high profile new production from La Scala, Milan, filmed before Roberto Alagna's sensational departure! |
ENNIO MORRICONE / NINO ROTA / PAOLO SILVESTRI / GATO BARBIERI
Postcards From Italy: Italian Music For Film Marco Albonetti (saxophone), Roma Sinfonietta, Paolo Silvestri [ Chandos / CD - released 6/Oct/2023 ] For his third album for Chandos, the saxophonist Marco Albonetti turns to the rich tradition of film music from his native Italy. Marco writes: 'Film music has been described as the defining new genre of classical music in the twentieth century. It... |
Marco Tamburini & Hampton Slid
Trip Of Emotion [ Fabula Classica / CD - released 25/Apr/2011 ] |
GIOCOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Turandot (complete opera recorded in 2008) BLU-RAY Maria Guleghina, Marco Berti, Alexia Voulgaridou, Alexander Tsymbaluk / Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Zubin Mehta [ C Major Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/May/2016 ] This 2008 production is staged by Chen Kaige, the film director of Farewell My Concubine and winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival. |
PUCCINI / MASCAGNI / CILEA / LEONCAVALLO / GIORDANO
Piotr Beczala: Vincerò! Piotr Beczala (tenor), with Evgeniya Khomutova (mezzo) / Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana , Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana, Marco Boemi [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/May/2020 ] "Beczała never needs to force unduly, yet there's plenty of emotion to these readings" Gramophone Recording of the Month June 2020 |
PUCCINI / CILEA / MASCAGNI / UMBERTO / GIORDANO
Piotr Beczala: Vincerò! Piotr Beczala (tenor), with Evgeniya Khomutova (mezzo) / Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana , Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana, Marco Boemi [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/May/2020 ] Global star tenor Piotr Beczala presents Vincerò!, the first fruit of his exclusive collaboration with PENTATONE. Vincerò! is a collection of heart-wrenching opera arias by Puccini, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Giordano and Cilea. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Berlin Concert - Live from the 'Waldbuhne' (complete concert) BLU-RAY Placido Domingo / Anna Netrebko / Rolando Villazon / Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin / Marco Armiliato [ Deutsche Grammophon Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jan/2009 ] "The vocalism consistently stood out as superior...Domingo at 65 remains a phenomenon...His junior colleagues never lapsed vocally below their wonted high levels" (MusicalAmerica.com) |
BELLINI / DELIBES / ROSSINI / GOUNOD / DONIZETTI
A Journey: Pretty Yende Pretty Yende (soprano) / Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Marco Armiliato, with Kate Aldrich (mezzo-soprano) [ Sony Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2016 ] "On this basis of this disc, I can imagine Pretty Yende will soon be in demand all over the world." BBC Music Opera Choice Dec 2016 |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Otello (complete opera recorded in 2017) Royal Opera House / Jonas Kaufmann, Marco Vratogna, Maria Agresta / Sir Antonio Pappano (cond) [ Sony Classical DVD / 2 DVD - released 15/May/2018 ] "Kaufmann's exceptional musicality makes itself felt throughout the opera in a manner that has rarely been equalled…The vulnerability of this Otello lies not so much in his ethnic otherness as in his emotional ingenuousness." Gramophone |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Otello (complete opera recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Royal Opera House / Jonas Kaufmann, Marco Vratogna, Maria Agresta / Sir Antonio Pappano (cond) [ Sony Classical Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 15/May/2018 ] 'Jonas Kaufmann Sings an 'Otello' for the Ages'- New York Times. On a sweltering night at London's Royal Opera House in June 2017, Jonas Kaufmann made his debut performance as Otello - one of the most coveted and challenging roles in the tenor... |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Turandot, Tosca, La Boheme (Complete operas recorded 2001 - 2013) BLU-RAY Royal Opera / Lise Lindstrom, Marco Berti, Eri Nakamura, Raymond Aceto, Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel, etc / Various conductors [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / 3 Blu-ray Box Set - released 20/Nov/2015 ] Three magnificent Royal Opera productions of three of Puccini's greatest operas. With a host of international opera stars, this collection is brimming with the drama and sumptuous music that have made Puccini one of the world's greatest composers. |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Turandot (Complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Royal Opera / Lise Lindstrom, Marco Berti, Eri Nakamura, Raymond Aceto / Henrik Nánási (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/May/2014 ] "Long one of my favourite productions of anything...Serban struck a healthy blow against the ultra-ornate Zeffirellian approach with a look that's often as dark as the heart of the opera's Chinese fairy-tale princess" (Gramophone) |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Turandot, Tosca, La Boheme (Complete operas recorded 2001 - 2013) Royal Opera / Lise Lindstrom, Marco Berti, Eri Nakamura, Raymond Aceto, Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel, etc / Various conductors [ Opus Arte DVD / 3 DVD Box Set - released 20/Nov/2015 ] Three magnificent Royal Opera productions of three of Puccini's greatest operas. Featuring a host of international opera stars, this collection is brimming with the drama and sumptuous music that have made Puccini a household name. |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Tosca (complete opera recorded in 2010) Blu-ray Teatro Carlo Felice / Daniela Dessì, Fabio Armiliato & Claudio Sgura / Marco Boemi (conductor) [ Arthaus Musik Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 10/Apr/2012 ] "This is a good, conventionally designed Tosca, well sung and played and with a satisfying theatrical flair." - MusicWeb |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Un Ballo in Maschera [The Masked Ball] (complete opera recorded in 2008) BLU-RAY Teatro Real / Marcelo Alvarez / Violeta Urmana / Marco Vratogna / ElenaZaremba / Jesus Lopez-Cobos (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Aug/2011 ] Passion, loyalty and political conspiracy are the three pillars of Un ballo in maschera (1859), the 'most operatic of all operas'. Set in XIX century Boston, Mario Martone's atmospheric production for the Teatro Real in Madrid brings out all the... |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Aida (complete opera recorded in October 2015) BLU-RAY Teatro Regio Torino / Kristin Lewis, Marco Berti, Anita Rachvelishvili, Mark S. Doss / Gianandrea Noseda (cond) [ C Major Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jan/2017 ] "A dramatically satisfying - and well-filmed, production which can stand alongside the finest." MusicWeb |
FERRUCCIO BUSONI
Busoni: Works for 2 Pianos Aldo Ciccolini, Aldo Orvieto, Marco Rapetti (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2020 ] Ferruccio Busoni composed a significant number of works for two pianos throughout his life. |
GIORDANO
Andrea Chenier (complete opera) Andrea Bocelli / Violeta Urmana / Lucio Gallo / Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano Giuseppe Verdi / Marco Armiliato [ Decca Music Group / 2 CD - released 11/Mar/2010 ] This new recording partners Andrea Bocelli with the aristocratic soprano of Violeta Urmana, who has sung the role of Maddalena at the world's leading houses, including The Metropolitan Opera, New York. |
GLASS / KANCHELI / TUUR
Music for Violin & Piano Andrea Cortesi (violin) Marco Ventur (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] The reissue of one of the gems from the famous VOX catalogue: the complete Saint-Saëns Piano Concertos played by Gabriel Tacchino and the Orchestra of Radio Luxembourg, conducted by maitre Louis de Froment. |
GIYA KANCHELI
Miniatures for Violin and Piano Andrea Cortesi (violin) & Marco Venturi (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2016 ] Any album of music by the Georgian composer Giya Kancheli is eagerly awaited by a wide audience receptive to his particular, post-Soviet voice, which has touched the hearts and minds of many thousands of listeners through his music for both film and... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Violin Sonatas Andrea Cortesi (violin) & Marco Venturi (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Feb/2016 ] These wonderful violin sonatas, written a few years before his death in an asylum, belie the dictum that "Schumann started as a genius, and ended as a talent". These are works by a passionate genius, highly original, full of feverish energy,... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Homage to Maria Callas Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Marco Armiliato [ EMI Classics / CD - released 14/Nov/2011 ] "she occupies [Callas's] role with aplomb. Gheorghiu animates these arias with such gusto that her interpretations sometimes border on the eccentric, so enthusiastic is her characterisation" The Independent, 4th November 2011 **** |
