BELLINI / GOUNOD / DONIZETTI / MEYERBEER
Dreams: Pretty Yende Pretty Yende (soprano) / Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Sagripanti [ Sony Classics / CD - released 3/Dec/2017 ] "What a lovely sound Pretty Yende makes! Yende is in the same company as, say, Anna Moffo...She's certainly a great asset to the world of opera." ClassicsToday |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Angela Gheorghiu: Verdi Heroines Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) / Orchestra Sinfonica Di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Muti [ Decca / CD - released 8/Aug/2000 ] "Not only is Angela Gheorghiu in resplendent voice, the tone richer than for some time, but the beauty of her high notes is floated with Elysian, transcendental beauty." MusicWeb |
VERDI / DONIZETTI / CILEA / PUCCINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Joseph Calleja - Tenor arias Joseph Calleja (tenor) with the orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano Giuseppe Verdi. Riccardo Chailly (conductor) [ Decca Records / CD - released 1/Mar/2004 ] ***** Five Stars (Pick of the Month) BBC Music Magazine (July 2004)- Editor's Choice: Gramophone Magazine (May 2004) |
GLUCK / VERDI / ROSSINI / CIMAROSA / HALEVY / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Juan Diego Florez - Great Tenor Arias Juan Diego Florez (tenor) Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi. Carlo Rizzi [ Decca Records / CD - released 12/Sep/2004 ] "Another congenial programme for the formidably gifted Peruvian tenore di grazia. He's finely supported by secure and stylistically credible accompaniemnets, and by Decca's bright and forward sound." ***** Five Stars (Pick of the Month) BBC Music... |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Puccini Discoveries (Includes the Berio completion of the final act of Turandot) Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano Giuseppe Verdi / Riccardo Chailly [ Decca Records / CD - released 23/Feb/2004 ] Following the success of Rossini Discoveries (Decca 470 298-2) and Verdi Discoveries (Decca 473 767-2), Riccardo Chailly continues his fascinating exploration of little-known music by great Italian opera composers. |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Aida (complete opera recorded in 2001) Teatro Verdi di Busseto / Kate Aldrich / Adina Aaron / Scott Piper / Orchestra e Coro della Fondazione Arturo Toscanini / Massimiliano Stefanelli (con [ TDK / DVD - released 2/Aug/2006 ] G :- "Every gesture, every movement, every note seems to come from the very soul of [Adina Aaron's] being and her naturally shaped singing, care over dynamic contrasts and sheer beauty of tone bespeak an auspicious future. As it is she moved me as... |
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. |
BIZET
Les Pêcheurs de Perles [The Pearl Fishers] Desirée Rancatore, Celso Albelo, Alastair Miles / Orchestra Filarmonica Salernitana 'Giuseppe Verdi', Daniel Oren [ Brilliant Classics Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 10/Dec/2012 ] Parisian composer Georges Bizet was enrolled in the Consevatoire at the age of nine and won a premier prix in solfège within six months of his arrival. |
AUBER / DONIZETTI
Fra Diavolo / La figlia del reggimento (abridged recordings of the Italian versions of these operas) Giuseppe Campora / Ugo Benelli / Anne Maccianti / Orchestra Filarmonica e Coro del Teatro Comunale Giuseppe Verdi Trieste / Arturo Basile [ DG Opera House / 2 CD - released 12/Dec/2005 ] "What matters is the high spirits of singers and players" - Penguin Guide |
VERDI
Verdi: Life and Works Narrated biography with extensive musical examples Jeremy Siepmann (narrator) with Freddie Jones as Verdi [ Naxos Educational / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Jul/2009 ] Jeremy Siepmann's narration is enthralling and detailed, and the character behind this most fervently Italian music is fascinating to discover. |