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RODRIGO / ROMAN / BARBIERI / GUERRA / GOMBAU
Don Quixote in Spanish Music Soloists / Madrid Community Orchestra / Jose Ramon Encinar [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 15/May/2007 ] The five works that make up this recording were all inspired by Cervantes’ masterpiece Don Quijote de la Mancha. |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626 Sophie Karthauser, Marie-Claude Chappuis, Maximilian Schmitt, Johannes Weisser Freiburger Barockorchester, RIAS Kammerchor, René Jacobs [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 15/Nov/2017 ] "The results are sometimes stimulating, often jarring. There is fine work from the soloists under René Jacobs, and plenty of force in his direction" Observer |
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REINHARD SCHWARZ-SCHILLING
Partita / Polonaise / Violin Concerto Staatskapelle Weimar, José Serebrier [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2012 ] The so-called 'lost generation' of German composers includes many whose lives were shaped by events after 1933. |
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ANONYMOUS
Traditional Maronite Chants Sister Marie Keyrouz [ Harmonia Mundi Musique d'abord / CD - released 23/Feb/2008 ] This CD, largely devoted to traditional Maronite chant, also presents chants from the Syrian Catholic and Syrian Orthodox traditions. Most of the pieces recorded here date back to the early centuries of Christianity, and have an obvious kinship with... |
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BALADA
Maria Sabina / Dionisio-In Memoriam Susi Sanchez, Angel Saiz, Fernando Tejedor (narrators) / Madrid Community Chorus & Orchestra / Jose Ramon Encinar [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Mar/2008 ] "Vital and dramatic modern music by Catalan-born Balada, who now lives in the U.S. Maria Sabina reflects the volatility of the 1960s, while Dionisio In Memoriam is a more recent piece that looks back toward that period with a visionary, if uneasy,... |
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CLAUDE DEBUSSY
Debussy: Dramatic works & ballet music (Incls 'Le Martyre de Saint Sebastien' & '6 Epigraphes antiques') Suzanne Danco (soprano), Nancy Waugh (contralto) & Marie-Lise de Montmollin (contralto) / L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Ernest Ansermet [ Decca ABC Eloquence / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2010 ] This volume of Debussy's dramatic works and ballet music is dedicated, by and large, to 'rarities' by the composer. Few of Debussy's works have divided critical opinion more than Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien, banned as it was by the Archbishop of... |
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W.A. MOZART
Le Nozze di Figaro [The Marriage of Figaro] (complete opera recorded in 2001) Teatro Argentina / Marco Grimaldi / Medelyn Renee Monti / Jose Farsilha / Paolo Ponziano Ciardi (cond) [ Brilliant Classics / DVD - released 15/Mar/2008 ] G : - |
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ROSSINI
L'Italiana in Algeri [An Italian in Algeries] (complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Teatro Comunale di Bologna / Anna Goryachova, Alex Esposito, Yijie Shi & Mario Cassi / José Ramón Encinar [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Aug/2014 ] Pesaro's new offering in 2013 was an off-the-wall production of Rossini's popular comedy, 'The Italian Girl in Algiers', presented as a Swinging Sixties, James Bond adventure, set in the desert oil fields of the North African coast. Davide... |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Don Giovanni (complete opera recorded in 2005) Teatro Real / Carlos Alvarez, Alfred Reiter, Marla Bayo, Jose Bros, Sonia Ganassi, Lorenzo Regazzo / Víctor Pablo Pérez (cond) [ Opus Arte Essential Opera Collection DVD / 2 DVD - released 20/Oct/2013 ] ""Magnificent Maria Bayo as Donna Anna, the evolution of this soprano is spectacular. José Bros is tenor Midas: he converts everything he touches into gold. What a delightful performance! " Opera Actual |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Don Giovanni (complete opera recorded in 2005) BLU-RAY Teatro Real / Carlos Álvarez, Lorenzo Regazzo, María Bayo, José Bros, Sonia Ganassi / Víctor Pablo Pérez (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 6/Apr/2016 ] "The cast set to with a will vocally and dramatically...Víctor Pablo Pérez accompanies accommodatingly in a performance of appropriate but not over-grand scale...The Blu-ray pictures convey well the perspective depth of Frigerio's set." Gramophone |
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ALBENIZ
Merlin (complete opera recorded in 2003) Teatro Real Madrid / David Wilson-Johnson / Stuart Skelton / Eva Marton / Carol Vaness / Jose De Eusebio (cond) [ Kultur / BBC / Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 2/Feb/2009 ] G :- "From its opening stage scene, as dawn breaks outside St Paul's Cathedral in London on a Christmas Morning to the final curtain, with the sun setting behind Madrid's encircling mountains, turning the Plaza de Oriente and the Teatro Real pink,... |
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MAURICIO SOTELO
Sotelo: El Público (complete opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY Teatro Real Madrid / José Antonio López, Thomas Tatzl and Jesús Méndez / Pablo Heras-Casado (cond) [ Bel Air Classiques Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Feb/2017 ] Pablo Heras-Casado conducts Klangforum Wien and the Coro Titular del Teatro Real in this performance of Mauricio Sotelo's opera. Soloists include José Antonio López, Thomas Tatzl and Jesús Méndez. |
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VERDI
La Traviata (complete opera recorded in 2006) Teatro Real Madrid / Norah Amsellem / Jose Bros / Renato Bruson / Itxaro Mentxaka / Maria Espada / Jesus Lopez Cobos (cond) [ Kultur / Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 2/Feb/2009 ] G :- 'Norah Amsellem's Violetta flourishes - vocally and dramatically, nothing is a challenge to her… Thanks to Pizzi's intelligence, every detail in the action works in this production... Jesus Lopez Cobos' maturity is astonishing... his perfect... |
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FEDERICO MORENO-TORROBA
Luisa Fernanda (complete opera recorded in 2006) BLU-RAY Teatro Real Madrid / Placido Domingo,Nancy Herrera, José Bros, Mariola Cantarero / Jesús López Cobos (conductor) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jun/2016 ] 'The production at the Teatro Real in Madrid was a top-of the-range version… Vidal is a peach of a role for Domingo' The Independent |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Don Carlo (complete opera recorded in 2016) Teatro Regio di Parma / Michele Pertusi, Jose Bros, Vladimir Stoyanov / Daniel Oren (cond) [ Dynamic Blu-ray / CD ] "Daniel Oren conducts a vibrant and dramatic performance weaving his way between Verdi's diverse demands." MusicWeb |
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GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Edgar (complete opera recorded in 2009) BLU-RAY Teatro Regio Torino / Amarilli Nizza, Jose Cura, Julia Gertseva / Yoram David (cond) [ Arthaus Musik Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Oct/2012 ] "José Cura as Edgar in disguise, holding forth with burnished tone, and Amarilli Nizza singing "Addio, mio dolce amor" - the one passage that has become fairly well known - with considerable feeling." (Gramophone) |
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RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Der Fliegende Hollände [The Flying Dutchman] (highlights) José van Dam, Kurt Moll, Dunja Vejzović, Peter Hofmann / Berliner Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan [ EMI Studio / CD - released 23/Mar/1988 ] Highlights from the classic EMI recording |
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GIOVANNI BOTTESINI
Bottesini: Gran Duo Concertante / Gran Concerto in F sharp minor / etc Thomas Martin (double bass) Jose-Luis Garcia (violin) Emma Johnson (clarinet) / English Chamber Orchestra / Andrew Litton [ Naxos Bottesini Collection Vol 1 / CD - released 27/Apr/2008 ] "At the heart of most of the music by Bottesini which I have heard, there is an essential simplicity, a kind of directness of feeling, a sense of social conversation, which while it may not make for music of great profundity certainly led Bottesini... |
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JULES MASSENET / CHARLES GOUNOD / GIUSEPPE VERDI / GIACOMO PUCCINI / FRANCO ALFANO / HENRI TOMASI / ALFREDO CATALINI
Par amour Vannina Santoni, Orchestre National de Lille, Jean-Marie Zeitouni [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 14/Feb/2025 ] Love is the common thread running through this first recorded recital by soprano Vannina Santoni; it's also an opportunity to look back over her fifteen-year career, through her leading roles, alongside her favourite musicians. With the help of the... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
50 Best Tango Various Artists including Jose Basso y su Orquesta, Francisco Canaro y su IOrquesta, Leopoldo Federico y su Orquesta, Carlos Garcia y su Orquesta, etc [ Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/Apr/2011 ] Three CDs entitled The original Tango, The Piazzolla Tango, and, Tango Sensations |