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MEYERBEER / VERDI / GOMEZ / HALEVY
The Romantic Voice of Cesare Siepi: Songs of Italy Cesare Siepi (bass) with Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Alberto Erede [ Decca Most Wanted Recitals Vol. 41 / CD - released 1/Aug/2014 ] The legendary Italian bass Cesare Siepi was one of the great Don Giovannis and at the height of his career - during the 1950s and 1960s - this particular role was very much his 'calling card'. |
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NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV / MODEST MUSSORGSKY
Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade / Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain Deyan Vatchkov (bass-bartone) / Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano [ Warner Classics / CD - released 3/May/2024 ] Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade and Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain are two of the most popular works in the Russian repertoire. Programming them together as Music Director of the Orchestra and Chorus dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.... |
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STEFANO LANDI
Landi: Morte d'Orfeo (complete opera recorded in 2018) Dutch National Opera / Cecilia Molinari, Renato Dolcini, Alexander Miminoshvili, Gaia Petrone / Christophe Rousset, conductor [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 20/May/2020 ] Stefano Landi wrote the operas La morte d'Orfeo (1619) and Il Sant'Alessio (1632), as well as masses, psalms, madrigals and arias. He was maestro di cappella in Padua and Rome, and later a singer in the Sistine Chapel. |
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STEFANO LANDI
Landi: Morte d'Orfeo (complete opera recorded in 2018) BLU-RAY Dutch National Opera / Cecilia Molinari, Renato Dolcini, Alexander Miminoshvili, Gaia Petrone / Christophe Rousset, conductor [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/May/2020 ] La morte d'Orfeo is regarded as the first Roman-style secular opera and is considered a milestone in the development of the genre opera as a whole. The substantial ensemble numbers are typical of the Roman opera style. |
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GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Gioachino Rossini Edition (50 CD set) Gabriel Bacquier, Montserrat Caballé, Nicolai Gedda, Maria Callas, Cecilia Bartoli, Joyce DiDonato, Rockwell Blake, Beverly Sills, Thomas Hampson, etc [ Warner Classics / 50 CD Box Set - released 25/Oct/2018 ] The Rossini Edition is the most comprehensive edition devoted to Rossini ever produced. |
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JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
J.S. Bach: Keyboard Concertos Gile Bae; Archi di Santa Cecilia; Luigi Piovano [ Arcana / CD/DVD - released 23/Feb/2024 ] As Peter Wollny reminds us in the liner notes, Bach's keyboard concertos constitute a group of innovative works of historic importance, marking the true beginning of the very genre of the keyboard concerto. It is natural, therefore, that they have... |
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PUCCINI / GIORDANO / BOITO / CILEA / VERDI / BELLINI / etc
Operatic Recitals by Giuseppe Campora and Gianni Poggi Gino Penno (tenor), Gianni Poggi (tenor) with Gino Penno (tenor) / Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Alberto Erede [ Decca Most Wanted Recitals Vol. 4 / CD - released 16/Oct/2016 ] "excellently remastered . . . [Campora is] revealing a voice at once sturdy and supple, always at the service of his high-level musicianship and dramatic sensitivity . . . In every aria, Campora's beautiful legato allows plenty of play for rhythmic... |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Harnoncourt & Haydn [2 CD set] Nikolaus Harnoncourt, with Herbert Tachezi, Robert Holl, Josef Protschka, Cecilia Bartoli & others [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 17/Aug/2009 ] Nikolaus Harnoncourt at Eighty - Harnoncourt & Haydn |
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HECTOR BERLIOZ
Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts [Requiem] Javier Camarena (tenor) / Chorus Santa Cecilia, Concertgebouworkest, Antonio Pappano [ RCO Live SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Oct/2021 ] "RCO Live has presented the recording in a way that complements the excellence of the performance itself. The recorded sound is magnificent; the acoustic of the Concertgebouw suits the music." MusicWeb Recommended |
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PUCCINI / BOITO / CILEA / GIORDANO / LEONCAVALLO / etc
Jonas Kaufmann: The Age of Puccini Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) / Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, with Renée Fleming (soprano) [ Decca / CD - released 21/Aug/2015 ] Jonas Kaufmann, the tenor of our time, takes us to The Age of Puccini. This collection showcases the unique quality of Kaufmann's award-winning recordings of best-loved Italian operatic 'verismo' repertoire for Decca. |
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DIETERICH BUXTEHUDE
Buxtehude: Organ Music Vol 7 Julia Brown (organ, Saint Cecilia Cathedral, Omaha, Nebraska) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Jan/2008 ] "A good cross-section of Buxtehude's music in good, unforced, performances, well recorded." (MusicWeb Feb 2008) |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto (complete opera recorded in 2023) Le Concert d'Astree / Christophe Dumaux, Julie Fuchs, Cecilia Molinari, Teresa Iervolino, Cameron Shahbazi, Frederik Bergman / Emmanuelle Haim (cond) [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 12/Sep/2025 ] 'This was a masterful production, and not just for the wonderful performances from Haïm and Le Concert d'Astrée or for the excellent contributions from all the singers. superbly directed by Bieito and relevant to the present day' - Operawire.com |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto (complete opera recorded in 2023) (Blu-ray) Le Concert d'Astree / Christophe Dumaux, Julie Fuchs, Cecilia Molinari, Teresa Iervolino, Cameron Shahbazi, Frederik Bergman / Emmanuelle Haim (cond) [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 12/Sep/2025 ] 'This was a masterful production, and not just for the wonderful performances from Haïm and Le Concert d'Astrée or for the excellent contributions from all the singers....superbly directed by Bieito and relevant to the present day' - Operawire.com |
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VIVALDI / CAVALI / PROVENZALE / COUPERIN / RAMEAU / etc
Lea Desandre - Amazone Lea Desandre (mezzo) / Jupiter, Thomas Dunford, with Cecilia Bartoli & Véronique Gens [ Erato / CD - released 1/Oct/2021 ] "This is a stonkingly good album. It makes me wonder: what exactly are these enviously intelligent, inventive and generous musicians drinking?" Gramophone Award Finalist 2022 - Vocal & Ensemble |
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Cosi fan tutte (complete opera) Lella Cuberli, Cecilia Bartoli, Joan Rodgers, Kurt Streit, Ferruccio Futlanetto / Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim [ Erato Classics Home of Opera / 3 CD - released 2/Sep/2016 ] Mozart's 'School for Lovers' is peopled by a captivating cast of singers, including the bel canto pairing of Lella Cuberli and Cecilia Bartoli as the deceived sisters and John Tomlinson as a Don Alfonso of Wagnerian stature. Daniel Barenboim relishes... |
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NIKOLAI MYASKOVSKY
Myaskovsky: Cello Sonatas Luca Magariello (cello) & Cecilia Novarino (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Apr/2017 ] Nikolay Myaskovsky (1881‐1950) was educated (after a failed schooling for Military Engineer, prompted by his father) at the famous St Petersburg Conservatoire under the tutelage of Rimsky‐Korsakov, Lyadov and Glazunov. His musical style has absorbed... |
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MORRICONE, PIOVANI, ROTA
Cinema Per Archi Luigi Piovano, Archi di Santa Cecilia [ Arcana / CD - released 15/Dec/2017 ] 'Oscar™ Cinema' might be a suitable alternative title for the new CD with which the strings of the Santa Cecilia Academy (Archi di Santa Cecilia) under the direction of Luigi Piovano - principal cellist of the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di... |
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MOZART / HUMMEL / BEETHOVEN
Mozart, Hummel & Beethoven: Concerto, Sonate, Symphony Marcus van den Munckhof, Cecilia Bernardini, Anna Besson, Aurelia Visovan [ Ricercar / CD - released 11/Sep/2020 ] The Romanian pianist Aurelia Visovan offers this particularly original programme for her album as winner of the 2019 Bruges MA Festival competition. |
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MANUEL de FALLA
De Falla Collection Marta Senn, Cecilia Angell, Fernando de La Mora, Timora Rosler, Benita Meshulam, Jutta Czapski, Klára Würtz, Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venez [ Briliant Classics / 5 CD - released 17/Oct/2021 ] Regarded as the greatest Spanish composer of the twentieth century, Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) developed an interest in native Spanish music - in particular Andalusian flamenco - while studying with Felipe Pedrell in Madrid in the late 1890s. |
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CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
Saint-Saëns: Organ Symphony / Carnival of the Animals Martha Argerich (piano) Antonio Pappano (piano) Daniele Rossi (organ) / Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia [ Warner Classics / CD - released 25/Sep/2017 ] Martha Argerich and Antonio Pappano (as pianist rather than conductor) lead the fun in Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals with Members of the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. |