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GAETANO DONIZETTI
Don Pasquale (the complete opera, recorded in 2002) Teatro Lirico / Eva Mei / Alessandro Corbelli / Antonino Siragusa / Roberto De Candia / Giorgio Gatti / Gerard Korsten (conductor) [ TDK Mediactive DVD / DVD - released 1/Mar/2007 ] G :- "A visual delight, a sparkling production with fine comic performances from Mei, Corbelli and De Candia." (MusicWeb) |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: I Due Foscari (complete opera recorded in October 2009) BLU-RAY Teatro Regio di Parma / Leo Nucci, Roberto De Biasio, Tatiana Serjan, Roberto Tagliavini / Donato Renzetti [ C Major Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jan/2017 ] " Lee's production of I due Foscari, set against a simple curved backdrop and beautifully costumed, works best on screen...with Nucci giving a baritonal masterclass in the title role, Tatiana Serjan pouring out exciting (if veiled) tone as Lucrezia |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Stiffelio (complete opera recorded in 2012) BLU-RAY Teatro Regio di Parma / Roberto Aronica, Yu Guanqun, Roberto Frontali, Gabriele Magnione / Andrea Battistoni (cond) [ C-Major Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 28/Sep/2017 ] "The golden timbre of Roberto Aronica graces the title role...His commanding tenor makes one sit up and listen, with some notable long-breathed phrasing and a smooth legato a joy to hear...[Yu Guanqun's] is a rich, true lyric soprano" International R |
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FRANZ SCHUBERT / ROBERT SCHUMANN / W. A. MOZART
Thomas Quasthoff - The Complete RCA Recordings Thomas Quasthoff (bass-baritone) with Charles Spencer & Roberto Szidon (piano) / Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn, Jörg Faerber [ Sony Music / RCA Red Seal Masters / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2018 ] A treat for lovers of great singing, the complete RCA recordings of Thomas Quasthoff on 4 CDs, including Winterreise, Dichterliebe, and the op. 39 Liederkreis |
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PUCCINI
100 Best Puccini (excerpts from La Boheme, Tosca, Madama Butterfly and others) Various Artists including Roberto Alagna, Josa Van Dam, Angela Gheorghiu, Kiri Te Kanawa, Placido Domingo, Nicolai Gedda, Robert Tear, etc [ EMI Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 29/Sep/2008 ] In 2008 the world celebrated the 150th anniversary on 22 December of the birth of Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924), one of the most popular composers of all time, and perhaps the last in the line of the gifted melodists and dramatists to shape the genre... |
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VIVALDI
Essential Vivaldi [10 CD set] Various artists including Enrico Casazza, Roberto Loreggian, Jaap ter linden, Heinz Holliger, Holland Boys Choir, etc [ Brilliant Classics / 10 CD Box Set - released 20/Feb/2011 ] OVER 600 MINUTES OF HIS MOST FAMOUS WORKS. Includes Quattro Stagioni (Four Seasons), Recorder Concertos, Oboe Concertos, Mandolin Concertos, Organ Concertos, Trio Sonatas, Gloria & more! |
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GIROLAMO FRESCOBALDI
Frescobaldi: Complete Edition Roberto Loreggian (organ & harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / 15 CD Box Set - released 22/Aug/2011 ] A release of great importance: the first time CD-issue of the Complete Works of Girolamo Frescobaldi. The CD's in this edition are all newly recorded, by the foremost scholar/musicians of Italy, using period instruments. |
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PUCCINI
50 Best Puccini [3 CDs special price] Various Artists including Angela Gheorghiu, Roberto Alagna, Franco Corelli, Renata Scotto, Maria Guleghina, etc [ Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/Apr/2011 ] Best Puccini 50 is a 3 CD set featuring highlights from all his major operas including extended scenes from Turandot & Manon Lescaut. The recordings come from EMI's unrivalled operatic catalogue and feature some of the greatest stars in the world of... |
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VERDI / MASSENET / PACHELBEL / SATIE / DONIZETTI / MORRICONE / GLUCK / PUCCINI / etc
Number One Classical Album (Includes 'Pokarekare Ana', 'O sole mio' & 'song for Athene') Various artists including Luciano Pavarotti, Joseph Calleja, Renee Fleming, Russell Watson, Kiri te Kanawa, Juan Diego Florez and Roberto Alagna [ Decca Records / 2 CD - released 10/Oct/2004 ] Double CD featuring the greatest classical stars |
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VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: I Capuleti e I Montecchi (Complete opera recorded in 1997) Vesselina Kasarova, Ramon Vargas, Eva Mei & Simone Alberghini / Munchner Rundfunkorchester, Roberto Abbado [ Sony RCA Classical Opera / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Feb/2017 ] I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Bellini's exquisitely lyrical treatment of Romeo and Juliet, has garnered renewed popularity in recent decades. The 1998 Munich recording reissued here is one of the catalogue's most acclaimed, particularly for the vibrant,... |
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Ze Roberto
Lotus 72D (7") [ Mr Bongo / 7in - released 19/Jul/2019 ] A certified Holy Grail of Brazilian music and the most requested reissue from Mr Bongo! Ze Roberto, aka Joaquim Roberto Braga, is a composer, singer and instrumentalist from Brazilian folk music roots. 'Lotus 72 D' is a tribute to the Brazilian... |
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VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: I Capuleti e I Montecchi (complet opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY Zurich Opera / Joyce DiDonato, Olga Kulchynska, Benjamin Bernheim, Roberto Lorenzi / Fabio Luisi (cond) [ Accentus Music Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Sep/2015 ] The story of Romeo and Juliet, who pay for their passion with their lives, has been interpreted in the widest variety of literary and musical genres ever since the Renaissance. Vincenzo Bellini's much too rarely staged Romeo and Juliet opera, I... |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Macbeth (Complete opera recorded in 2001) Zurich Opera / Thomas Hampson, Paoletta Marrocu, Roberto Scandiuzzi / Franz Welser-Most [ Arthaus DVD / DVD - released 1/Jul/2022 ] Thomas Hampson made a triumphant début in the title role of Verdi's Macbeth in this Zurich Opera production, with Paoletta Marrocu as his beautiful, power-hungry wife. |