AMILCARE PONCHIELLI
Ponchielli: la Gioconda (complete opera recorded in 1958) Anita Cerquetti, Franca Sacchi, Mario del Monaco, Cesare Siepi, Giulietta Simionata / Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Gianandrea Gavazzeni [ Decca SBS Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2019 ] 'To compare Anita Cerquetti's Gioconda with Callas's is a revelation. Cerquetti brings to the role intelligence, musicianship, and an appealing voice' High Fidelity |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Requiem Anja Harteros, Elina Garanca, Jonas Kaufmann, Rene Pape / Orchestra e coro del Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Daniel Barenboim [ Decca / 2 CD - released 8/Sep/2013 ] "The non-Italian soloists are in good fearless voice and aurally well integrated into this concept." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine, November 2013 |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Requiem Anja Harteros, Elina Garanca, Jonas Kaufmann, Rene Pape / Orchestra e coro del Teatro alla Scala, Milan, Daniel Barenboim [ Decca DVD / DVD - released 30/Aug/2013 ] "Even without a fully Italianate instrument, Kaufmann's honeyed, warm tone makes him exceptional in Verdi." (The Telegraph) |
PETER RACINE FRICKER / DAVID MORGAN / DON BANKS
Violin Concertos Yfrah Neaman (violin) Erich Gruenberg (violin) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Norman Del Mar / Vernon Handley [ Lyrita / CD - released 20/Mar/2008 ] New recording |
DONIZETTI
L'elisir d'amore (Complete opera) Barbara Bonney, Gasta Winbergh, Bernd Weikl, Rolando Panerai. Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino. Gabriele Ferro [ DG Opera House / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2005 ] 'A performance that bubbles along as brightly and affectionately as the music itself' BBC Record Review |
FRANCESCO CAVALLI
Vespro della Beata Vergine (1656) Barbara Borden / Emily van Evera / Rodrigo del Pozo / Gerd Turk / Mark Padmore / Harry van der Kamp / Concerto Palatino / Bruce Dickey [ Glossa / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/2012 ] On this recording Glossa present the principle musical items which could have been heard at second Vespers on a feast of the Virgin Mary (in this case the Feast of the Assumption) either at St. Mark's or at one of a variety of other Venetian... |
MASCAGNI / TOSTI / EDUARDO DI CAPUA
Italian Popular Songs, Vol. 2 Beniamino Gigli / Stefano di Giuseppe / Tito Schipa / Mario del Monaco [ Naxos Historical / CD - released 15/Aug/2006 ] Italian popular songs from 1926 - 1953 |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Singers of the Century: 35 Supreme Voices Birgit Nilsson, Leonie Rysanek, Fritz Wunderlich, Richard Lewis, Leontyne Price, Mario Del Monaco, etc [ ALTO / 2 CD - released 20/Nov/2011 ] Thirty five magnificent voices in arias from operas we all know and love. |
FRANK BRIDGE
Summer / There is a Willow Grows aslant a Brook / Suite for String Orchestra (with works by Butterworth & Bantock) Bournemouth Sinfonietta / Norman Del Mar [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Nov/1991 ] British Music For Small Orchestra |
Cafa Del Mar / Various Artists
Cafa Del Mar: Rue De Soliel - Emotions [ Cafa Del Mar / CD - released 21/Jul/2008 ] |
Cafa Del Mar / Various Artists
Cafa Del Mar: The Best Of Aria [ Cafa Del Mar / CD - released 21/Jul/2008 ] |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Rigoletto (complete opera recorded live in 1952) Maria Callas, Piero Campolonghi, Giuseppe di Stefano / Orquesta del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico City, Umberto Mugnai [ Urania / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] Callas only sang Gilda in Rigoletto twice on stage, in Mexico City in 1952, and this recording was taken from the first of those performances. She brought tonal substance and deep interpretative insight to a role that had sometimes been treated by... |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Aida (Complete Opera recorded live Mexico, 1951) Maria Callas, Mario del Del Monaco, Oralia Dominguez / Fabritiis [ Warner Classics Maria Callas Live Remastered / 2 CD - released 1/Feb/2019 ] Aida held an important place in the earlier years of Callas's career, and in 1950 it brought her debut at La Scala, Milan, the theatre where she soon became reigning diva. That same year, she sang the role of the Ethiopian princess in Mexico City,... |
Canto De Ninos Del Mundo 12
El Viaje De Roman [ Harmonia Mundi / CD ] |
VERDI
Rigoletto (Complete opera recorded in 1964) Carlo Bergonzi, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Renata Scotto, Ivo Vinco, Coro e Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala. Rafael Kubelik [ Deutsche Grammophon Opera House / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2005 ] 'Kubelik is a conductor in Fricsay's class as his support for Fischer-Dieskau's Rigoletto reveals. Fischer-Dieskau once more reaches to a character's soul' (Gramophone) |
VERDI
La Traviata [recorded 1956] Rosanna Carteri, Cesare Valletti, Leonard Warren / Coro e Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, Pierre Monteux [ Testament / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2009 ] "perhaps the principal reason for valuing this vintage set lies in the conducting of the octogenarian, Pierre Monteux. He brings together lyrical warmth and vigour with a rhythmic lift that is amazing in an ageing conductor. The mono sound is nicely |
W.A. MOZART
Requiem (filmed at St Ignazio Church in Rome) Cecilia Casdia / Mario Malagnini / Orchestra Sinfonica del Festival di Pasqua / Tamas Pal (cond) [ Brilliant Classics / DVD - released 15/Mar/2008 ] G : - |
SALIERI / MOZART / CIMAROSA / HAYDN
Liaisons Chen Reiss (soprano) / L'Arte del mondo, Werner Ehrhardt [ Onyx / CD - released 20/Mar/2012 ] "All told, this is a beguiling combination of top-drawer musicianship and fresh ideas about opera in Enlightenment Vienna." (Five Stars BBC Music Opera Choice - January 2012) |
Chuck Jackson, The Crystals, Dale Hawkins, Curtis Lee, Del Shannon, etc
Any Day Now: The Quality Records Story 1960 - 1962 [ Not Now Music / 3 CD - released 1/May/2018 ] |
MINKUS
La Bayadère (ballet recorded 2006) Corpo di Ballo and Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala / Svetlana Zakharova, Roberto Bolle / David Coleman [ Arthaus Musik DVD / DVD - released 7/Aug/2011 ] In their series of classical ballet productions from La Scala Arthaus releases a DVD recording of La Bayadére in the choreography by Natalia Makarova. Her |