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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Music From Argentina for Guitar and Bandoneon Enea Leone (guitar), Roberto Bongianino (bandoneon) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2017 ] This new recording features original music from Argentina, spanning the entire 20th Century, music of great vitality, colour and passion, the natural fusion of high and low culture, from the concert hall and the brothel, vibrant as life... |
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BALDASSARE GALUPPI
Complete Harpsichord Concertos [2 CDs] Ensemble Conserto Musico, Roberto Loreggian (harpsichord/director) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Feb/2012 ] Baldassare Galuppi was born on the Italian island of Burano in 1706, and died in Venice in 1785. His life was an extremely eventful and productive one for the son of a humble barber and violinist in the village band. After his father gave him his... |
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GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Il Barbiere Di Siviglia [The Barber of Seville] (Highlights} Roberto Servile, Sonia Ganassi, Ramon Vargas / Hungarian Radio Chorus / Failoni Chamber orchestra / Will Humburg [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Jul/1999 ] "There are ways in which this brand-new super-budget recording of Il barbiere di Siviglia puts to shame just about every other version of the opera there has yet been." Gramophone |
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GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Il Borgomastro di Saardam (complete opera recorded in 2017) Festival Donizetti Opera / Giorgio Caoduro, Juan Francisco Gatell, Andrea Concetti, Irina Dubrovskaya / Roberto Rizzi Brignoli [ Dynamic DVD / DVD - released 1/Jul/2020 ] "The opera fizzes along under Roberto Rizzi Brignoli, the general frivolity offset by tender music for the lovers." Gramophone Magazine July 2018 DVD/Blu-ray of the Month |
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GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Pietro Il Grande, Kzar delle Russie (complete opera recorded in 2019) BLU-RAY Festival Donizetti Opera / Roberto De Candia, Loriana Castellano, Paola Gradina, Nina Solodovnikova / Rinaldo Alessandrini (cond) [ Dynamic Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 22/Jan/2021 ] "Conducting, playing and choral singing are all terrific, sweeping you through the opera with their infectious precision and energy." Gramphone DVD/Blu-ray of the Month April 2021 |
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FRANCESCO DURANTE
Durante: Requiem Francesca Cassinari (soprano), Elena Carzaniga (contralto), Roberto Rilievi (tenor), Matteo Bellotto (bass) / Astrarium Consort [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Mar/2020 ] Francesco Durante (1684-1755) was the most important representative of the Neapolitan School in the first half of the 18-th century, "the greatest harmonist in Italy, that is the world" wrote Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
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Francesco Galligioni (cello), Alberto Gallligioni (cello), Paolo Zuccheri violone Lorenzo Feder (organ), Roberto Lorregian (organ & harpsichord)
Caldara: Complete Cello Concertos [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD - released 5/Sep/2025 ] A new and complete survey of the attractive body of cello sonatas which, in his day, helped to make Antonio Caldara a Viennese rival to the fame of Antonio Vivaldi in Venice. Born in Venice as the son of a violinist, Caldara grew up as a chorister... |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Ernani (complete opera recorded in 2022) Francesco Meli, Roberto Frontali, Vitalij Kowaljow, Maria José Siri / Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, James Conlon [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 16/Feb/2024 ] Victor Hugo's 1830 stage drama Hernani won overwhelming admiration, and over a decade later Verdi's attention was drawn to it as an operatic vehicle that would give him opportunities for full dramatic unity. |
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CESAR FRANCK
Franck: Symphonic Variations / Les Djinns / Piano Concerto No 2 Francois-Joel Thiollier & Martjn van den Hoek (pianos) / Arnhem PO / Roberto Benz [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Feb/2002 ] Not so well known repertoire of Cesar Franck |
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CAVALLI
Arias and Duets from Didone, Egisto, Ormindo, Giasone and Calisto Gloria Banditelli (mezzo-soprano) Roberto Abbondanza (baritone) Gianluca Belfiori Doro (counter-tenor) / Mediterraneo Concento / Sergio Vartolo [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Mar/2005 ] Although this overview of Cavalli's music is necessarily condensed, it nonetheless succeeds in painting a meaningful picture of both the nature of opera as it was developing in Venice at the time, and the composer's own artistic and compositional... |
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BIZET
Carmen (complete opera recorded in 2011) Gran Teatre del Liceu / Béatrice Uria-Monzon, Roberto Alagna, Erwin Schrott, Marina Poplavskaya / Marc Piollet (cond) [ C Major DVD / DVD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] This prestigious 2011 production from the Gran Teatre del Liceu was staged by the world famous and highly controversial stage director Calixto Bieito, admired for his raw and evocative stagings. |
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W.A. MOZART
Masonic Music (complete) Heo Young-Hoon (tenor) / Kassel Spohr Chamber Orchestra / Roberto Paternostro [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Feb/2009 ] During his seven years as a Mason, and in addition to the incidental music for Thamos, King of Egypt and The Magic Flute, which abound in Masonic symbolism, Brother Mozart adapted or newly composed a number of works for his fraternity, some of which... |
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CHARLES DIEUPART
Dieupart: Six Sonatas For A Flute With A Thorough Bass Isabel Favilla (recorder), Giulio Quirici (theorbo), Roberto Alonso Álvarez (cello) & João Rival (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2018 ] Little is known about the life of Charles (or François, as he sometimes called himself..) Dieupart. The first mention of his name was as founder of the Opera Season at the Queen's Theatre of Haymarket. He was much sought after as a harpsichord and... |
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CHARLES DIEUPART
Dieupart: Six Sonatas For A Flute With A Thorough Bass Isabel Favilla (recorder), Giulio Quirici (theorbo), Roberto Alonso Álvarez (cello) & João Rival (harpsichord) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2018 ] Little is known about the life of Charles (or François, as he sometimes called himself..) Dieupart. The first mention of his name was as founder of the Opera Season at the Queen's Theatre of Haymarket. He was much sought after as a harpsichord and... |
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VILLA-LOBOS
Bachianas Brasileiras No.2, 3 & 4 Jean Louis Steuerman (piano) / Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra / Roberto Minczuk, conductor [ BIS / CD - released 1/Mar/2005 ] This is the first volume in a 3-CD series of what is often considered to be Heitor Villa-Lobos' greatest masterpiece: the nine Bachianas Brasileiras. |
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VILLA-LOBOS
Violin Sonatas Jenny Abel (violin) Roberto Szidon (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2008 ] These three sonatas were written between 1912 and 1920 and are full of entirely characteristic, colourful melodic vocabulary, structured as extended rhapsodies. |
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Jose Roberto Bertrami
Aventura [ Far Out / CD - released 11/Nov/2009 ] |
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Jose Roberto Bertrami
Things Are Different [ Far Out / CD - released 1/Jun/2018 ] |
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BOIELDIEU / MASSENET / BIZET / GOUNOD / DONIZETTI
L'Amour Juan Diego Florez (tenor) / Orchestra e coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Roberto Abbado [ Decca / CD - released 20/Mar/2014 ] Marking a departure for the Peruvian bel canto superstar, this new recording offers a personal survey of the French operatic repertoire from Donizetti to the romantic outpourings of Gounod and Massenet, including Massenet's 'Pourquoi me Reveiller'... |
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MAURICE JARRE
Notre Dame de Paris (Complete Ballet, recorded live in March 2013) La Teatro alla Scala Ballet / Natalia Osipova, Roberto Bolle, Eris Nezha, Mick Zeni / Paul Connelly (cond) [ Opus Arte La Scala Collection DVD / DVD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] With Roland Petit's cool, cabaret-style choreography and chic costumes by Yves Saint Laurent, Notre Dame de Paris has been a modern ballet hit ever since its 1965 premiere. Petit's deft condensation of Victor Hugo's epic and tragic novel is now... |