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GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Don Pasquale (complete opera recorded in 2006) BLU-RAY Ravenna Festival / Claudio Desderi, Mario Cassi, Francisco Gatell & Laura Giordano / Riccardo Muti (conductor) [ Arthaus Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/May/2010 ] Watching this realistic, young and vital production, directed by the young Andrea da Rosa and listening to a high potential and unspent young cast, you feel how powerful, charming and timeless this score by Gaetano Donizetti is. |
BERNARD HERRMANN
Herrmann: Suite from 'Wuthering Heights' / etc Roderick Williams (baritone) / Singapore Symphony Orchestra Conductor, Mario Venzago [ Chandos SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/Jun/2023 ] "Through their two voices - a radiant Keri Fuge and a towering Roderick Williams...stunningly recorded, serves as a tantalising example of what it might be to go on Herrmann's entire emotionally wrought journey." Recording of the Month BBC Music |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Messa da Requiem Barbara Frittoli, Mario Zeffiri, Olga Borodina, Ildar Abdrazakov / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Muti [ CSO Resound SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 20/Oct/2010 ] "Ravishing orchestral playing and choral work combined with an unmatchable understanding of Verdi makes this..a very important addition to the Verdi Requiem catalog." (9/10 ClassicsToday Oct 2010) |
MASCAGNI / TOSTI / EDUARDO DI CAPUA
Italian Popular Songs, Vol. 2 Beniamino Gigli / Stefano di Giuseppe / Tito Schipa / Mario del Monaco [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 15/Aug/2006 ] Italian popular songs from 1926 - 1953 |
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" |
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Schoenberg: Kammersymphonie No 2 / Verklarte Nacht Op. 4 / Suite in G for Strings Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, Mario Venzago [ Virgin Classics / CD - released 1/Oct/1991 ] Recorded in Frankfurt, 1987 & 1989 |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Das Reingold (complete opera recorded in 2008) BLU-RAY Deutsches Nationaltheater, Weimar / Mario Hoff / Alexander Gunther / Jean-Noel Briend / Erin Caves / Carl St. Clair (cond) [ Arthaus Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Jun/2009 ] DVD Blu-Ray - "Weimar National Theatre opens a promising 'Ring' cycle with Wagner's original ur-scene." Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Sings Verdi Arias Dmitri Hvorostovsky (baritone) / Philharmonia of Russia, Mario Bernardi [ Delos / CD - released 2/Oct/2002 ] Delos International and Dmitri Hvorostovsky invite you to feel the passion, fire and beauty of Verdi with this exciting second recording: VERDI ARIAS. |
BELLINI / BIZET / DONIZETTI / PUCCINI / VERDI
Pearlfishers' Duet: World-Famous Operatic Duets Ettore Bastianini / Carlo Bergonzi / Mario del Monaco / Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Jose Carreras [ Australian Decca SBS Eloquence / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] There is always a special pleasure in the blending of two fine voices, and composers have usually been happy to provide it during the course of their operas. Characters may join their voices in a unity of feeling, or in extreme disagreement, or in... |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Il Trittico (Suor Angelica, Il Tabarro, Gianni Schicchi) Fernando Corena, Robert Merrill, Mario del Monaco & Giulietta Simionato / Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Lamberto Gardelli [ Alto Legendary Recordings / 2 CD - released 25/Nov/2013 ] "Renata Tebaldi brings off a tour de force in her assumption of all three soprano roles..In Gianni Schicchi small parts are again first rate" (Gramophone) |
