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Giorgio Moroder
Best Of [ Repertoire / CD - released 19/Jun/2000 ] |
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Giorgio Moroder
Déjà Vu [ RCA / CD - released 5/Jun/2015 ] This is Giorgio Moroder's first solo album in over 30 years, which will also feature a superstar line up of othe collaborators including Britney Spears, Sia, Kelis, Charli XCX, Foxes, Matthew Koma and many more. Giorgio made his mark as an... |
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GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Marin Faliero (complete opera) Giorgio Surian, Rachele Stanisci, Ivan Magrì / Orchestra and Chorus of the Bergamo Musica Festival Gaetano Donizetti, Bruno Cinquegrani [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2011 ] Donizetti's fiftieth opera, Marino Faliero, was first performed in Paris on 12 March 1835 with a cast comprising four of the finest singers of the period.Set in Venice in 1355, it remains a major work of Italian Romanticism. |
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ALBINONI
12 Trattenimenti armonici per camera Op. 6 Giorgio Tosi (baroque violin), Marlise Goidanich (baroque cello) & Carlo Centemeri (organ) Zero Emission Baroque Orchestra [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2014 ] Tomaso Albinoni is one of the greatest composers of the Italian Baroque...Italian Baroque specialist Carlo Centemeri...now leads the Zero Emission Baroque Orchestra in this new recording of Albinoni, playing on period instruments. |
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GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Messa di Gloria, etc. Gunnar Lundberg (baritone), Antonello Palombi (tenor) Hungarian Operetta Orchestra, Hungarian Radio Chorus, Pier Giorgio Morandi [ Naxos / CD - released 2/Apr/2002 ] "Composed in 1880, the Messa di Gloria marks the end of Puccini's apprenticeship as a composer and the culmination of his family's long association with church music in his native Lucca. The work offers fascinating glimpses of the dramatic power... |
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BOHUSLAV MARTINU
Martinu: A Wreath of Carnations - Songs 1 Jana Wallingerová (mezzo-soprano) Giorgio Koukl (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2011 ] "All in all, this is a most rewarding disc, throwing new light on its composer. It is very well recorded, too." Gramophone |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
The Verdi Album Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) / Orchestra dell'Opera di Parma, Coro del Teatro Municipale di Piacenza, Pier Giorgio Morandi [ Sony / CD - released 1/Oct/2013 ] "his musicianship melds with his keen interpretative intelligence to achieve real and extraordinary success" (Opera Choice BBC Music Five Stars Oct 2013) |
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Julie Andrews / Giorgio Tozzi
Rose Marie [ Sepia / CD - released 9/Nov/2009 ] |
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ALEXANDRE TASMAN
Music for Violin and Piano Klaidi Sahatçi (violin) & Giorgio Koukl (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Mar/2015 ] Although Alexandre Tansman was considered a genius in his lifetime, these recordings demonstrate that much of his chamber music remains to be rediscovered after years of neglect. Tansman's early successes included the prize-winning Romance and... |
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ROSSINI
Guglielmo Tell [William Tell] (complete opera recorded in 1988) La Scala Opera / Giorgio Zancanaro / Chris Merritt / Giorgio Surjan / Cheryl Studer / Riccardo Muti (cond) [ Opus Arte / Rai Trade / La Scala Collection DVD / 2 DVD - released 4/May/2004 ] G :- Riccardo Muti conducts a fine cast led by Giorgio Zancanaro in the title role of Rossini's towering and opulent last opera with the Corps de Ballet, Orchestra and Chorus of Teatro alla Scala. Sung in Italian |
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ROSSINI
La donna del lago (complete opera recorded in 1992) La Scala Opera / Rockwell Blake / Giorgio Surjan / Chris Merritt / June Anderson / Riccardo Muti (cond) [ Opus Arte / Rai Trade / La Scala Collection DVD / DVD - released 16/Dec/2004 ] G :- "Mature Rossini at his best and most demanding. I recommend it to enthusiasts of the opera seria now slowly gaining a foothold in the repertoire" - MusicWeb Feb 2005 |
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W.A. MOZART
The Marriage of Figaro (highlights) Natale de Carolis (baritone) / Donato di Stefano (bass) / Ingrid Kertesi (soprano) / Hungarian State Opera Orchestra / Pier Giorgio Morandi, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Oct/2005 ] Love, seduction, intrigue and comedy provide the confusing situations that has placed Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro among of the most popular of all the comic operas. |
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W. A. MOZART
The Marriage Of Figaro [highlights] Natale de Carolis (baritone), Roberto Frontali (baritone), Maria Pia Ionata (soprano) / Hungarian State Opera Orchestra, Pier Giorgio Morandi [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Jan/2013 ] Artists: Natale de Carolis (baritone), Roberto Frontali (baritone), Maria Pia Ionata (soprano), Ingrid Kertesi (soprano), Jozsef Mukk (tenor), Patrizia Pace (soprano), Donato di Stefano (bass) Hungarian State Opera Orchestra, Pier Giorgio Morandi |
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PUCCINI
Tosca (Complete Opera) Nelly Miricioiu / Giorgio Lamberti / Silvano Carroli / Slovak Philharmonic Chorus / Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra / Alexander Rahbari [ NAXOS OPERA CLASSICS / 2 CD ] |
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BELLINI
Norma (complete opera recorded in 2005) BLU-RAY Netherlands Opera / Hugh Smith / Giorgio Giuseppini / Hasmik Papian / Julian Reynolds(cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Dec/2008 ] DVD Blu-Ray - "Irini Tsirakidis, a Greek soprano with a lowish mezzo extension to her voice, takes on the role of Adagisa in more than competent fashion." (MusicWeb July 2007) |
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ANNE-LOUISE BRILLON de JOUY / HELENE de MONTGEROULT / CLARA SCHUMANN / FLORENCE PRICE / AGATHE BACKER GRONDAHL / etc
Three Centuries of Female Composers Nicolas Horvath; Alexander Kostritsa; Sara Aimee Smiseth; Alexandra Oehler; Giorgio Koukl; Tanya Ekanayaka; Ishimoto Hiroko [ Grand Piano / 10 CD Box Set - released 11/Mar/2022 ] Ranging from the 18th century to the music of our time, this collection of critically acclaimed recordings explores the significant contribution to solo piano repertoire made by a wide variety of women composers. |
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GIOCOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Turandot (complete opera recorded in 1959) Birgit Nilsson, Jussi Bjorling, Giorgio Tozzi, Renata Tebaldi / Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Erich Leinsdorf [ Alto / 2 CD - released 10/Aug/2013 ] "the stereo version, as sheer sound, is pretty staggering. Indeed from the purely technical view this set can stand beside the Decca Rheingold… The Rome Opera chorus and orchestra certainly acquit themselves well here….Erich Leinsdorf …. knows how to... |
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SCARLATTI / MOZART / BELLINI / TOSTI / GLUCK / etc
Serenata Tebaldi Renata Tebaldi (soprano) with Giorgio Faveretto (piano) & Richard Bonynge (piano) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2015 ] It is difficult to dissociate the pure, warm tones of Renata Tebaldi's voice from her usual operatic repertoire - the heroines of the Italian lyric stage of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries which, thanks to her exceptional vocal and... |