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VERDI
Sacred Verdi Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano [ Warner Classics / CD - released 26/Aug/2013 ] Pappano is such a compelling advocate for Verdi's music that there could be no finer 200th-birthday salute than this stunning disc. |
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Orch.Stabile St.Cecilia/Sabata
Debussy/Respighi:la Mer/Fon [ Testament / CD ] |
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ADAM / ADOLPHSON / ORFF / SIBELIUS / STENHAMMAR / etc
Peter Mattei: A Kaleidoscope Peter Mattei (baritone), Love Derwinger & Roland Pöntinen (piano) / Kroumata Percussion Ensemble & Malmö Symphony, Cecilia Rydinger Ali & Robert Sund [ BIS / CD - released 10/Jan/2011 ] With his magnificent voice and magnetic stage personality, the Swedish baritone Peter Mattei has delighted audiences at the Metropolitan in New York, La Scala in Milan and Covent Garden in London, performing roles such as the Count in The Marriage of... |
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PUCCINI
Madama Butterfly (Complete opera 1951 recording) Renata Tebaldi / Giuseppe Campora / Nell Rankin / Giovanni Inghilleri / Chorus and Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome / Alberto Erede, [ Naxos Historical Great Opera Recordings / 2 CD - released 30/Oct/2003 ] Renata Tebaldi (b.1922) studied at the Boito Conservatorio in Parma, before making her début as Elena in Mefistofele at Rovigo in 1944. She sang for Toscanini at the opening concert at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan, in 1946. Later that season she was... |
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VERDI
Aida (complete opera recorded in 1952) Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, Ebe Stignani, Aldo Protti / Chorus and Orchestra of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Rome, Alberto Erede [ Naxos Great Opera Recordings / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] Recorded 1952 |
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VERDI
Rigoletto (complete opera recorded in 1962) Renato Cioni, Joan Sutherland, Cornell MacNeil / Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Nino Sanzogno [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] Joan Sutherland (Gilda), Cornell MacNeil (Rigoletto), Renato Cioni (Il Duca), Cesare Siepi (Sparafucile), Stefania Malagu (Maddalena), Anna di Stassio (Giovanna) |
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Ariodante (complete opera recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Salzburg Festival / Cecilia Bartoli, Kathryn Lewek, Nathan Berg, Christophe Dumaux, Sandrine Piau, Rolando Villazon / Gianluca Capuano (cond) [ C Major Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 21/May/2021 ] "This is no routine Ariodante…Bartoli is Bartoli. Those who find her trilling mannered and freighted with excessive vibrato will wrinkle their noses. But who can doubt her remarkable presence on stage" BBC Music Magazine Awards 2022 Shortlisted |
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GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Turandot (Complete Opera) Sondra Radvanovsky, Jonas Kaufmann, Ermonela Jaho, Michele Pertusi / Orchestra e Coro dell'Accadmia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 10/Mar/2023 ] "A Turandot for the ages? This recording holds its own against venerable competition and, in the original Alfano completion, is unique." Gramophone Award Finalist 2023 - Opera |
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GIACOMO PUCCCINI
Puccini: La Boheme (Complete Opera plus 5 bonus Pucini arias with Renata Tebaldi) Tebaldi/Bergonzi/Santa Cecilia Orchestra/Serafin [ Alto / 2 CD - released 12/Sep/2011 ] 'most collectors will want a set with Tebaldi & Bergonzi at the height of their powers" (Penguin Guide) 'The wonderful bustle of the Café Momus scene can never have been so vividly captured on disc…Tebaldi sings with great beauty of voice … Bergonzi... |
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ROSSINI
Otello (complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Zurich Opera / Cecilia Bartoli, Peter Kálmán, John Osborn, Javier Camarena / Muhai Tang (cond) [ Decca Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Jul/2014 ] DVD/Blu-ray of the Month - July 2014 |
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
Antonio Vivaldi (LP) Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo) / Ensemble Matheus, Jean-Christophe Spinosi [ Decca / LP - released 12/Dec/2018 ] Almost 20 years after her landmark Vivaldi album, Bartoli turns to the composer once again for her brand new solo recording. It is a glorious collection of Vivaldi arias, performed with French baroque orchestra Ensemble Matheus under Jean-Christophe... |
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
Cecilia Bartoli - The Vivaldi Album Cecilia Bartoli (soprano) / II Giandino Armonico / Giovanni Antonini [ Decca Records / CD - released 1/Nov/1999 ] 2001 Grammy Award Winner - Best Classical Vocal Performance |
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MASCAGNI / LEONCAVALLO
Cavalleria rusticana / Pagliacci (complete operas) Mario del Monaco, Clara Petrella, Afro Polu, Elena Nicolai / Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede / Teatro alla Scala, Milano, Franco G [ Decca Australian SBS Eloquence / 2 CD - released 7/Aug/2015 ] Contains the ANZ advertising music: 'Regina Coeli' from Cavalleria Rusticana |
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GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Otello (complete opera) Jonas Kaufmann, Federica Lombardi, Carlos Álvarez / Orchestra e Coro dell'Academia Nationale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano [ Sony / 2 CD - released 12/Jun/2020 ] Jonas Kaufmann is now the Otello of this generation. This recording project is the crowning glory of his journey to become today's key exponent of this legendary role. Verdi's Otello is a remarkable four-act opera based on Shakespeare's play... |
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GIACOMO PUCCINI / AMILCARE PONCHIELLI / GIUSEPPE VERDI
Insieme - Opera Duets Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) / Ludovic Tezier (baritone) / Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano, with Kristine Opolais [ Sony / CD/Book - released 7/Oct/2022 ] "Their voices fit like a glove here in the Don Carlos duet...Like Milnes and Domingo, they're quite close in timbre, so the bond of friendship seems especially strong." (Gramophone) |
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GIACOMO PUCCINI / AMILCARE PONCHIELLI / GIUSEPPE VERDI
Insieme - Opera Duets (LP) Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Ludovic Tézier (baritone), Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano [ Sony Classical Vinyl / 2 LP - released 28/Oct/2022 ] On stage they're usually rivals, but in real life Jonas Kaufmann and Ludovic Tézier share a close friendship. After many live performances together these two extraordinary artists have recorded their first duet album: "Insieme".. |
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GIACOMO PUCCINI
Nessun Dorma - The Puccini Album Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) / Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano, with Kristine Opolais (soprano) [ Sony / CD - released 6/Oct/2015 ] "...a gloriously bronze-voiced German tenor, welding musicianship with smouldering emotion...Pappano and his Santa Cecilia orchestra fire up every track with native Italian passion." Financial Times |
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VARIOUS
Candlelight Carols (Jul med Allmanna SaÂ¥ngen) performed in Swedish, English and Latin Karl-Magnus Fredriksson (baritone) / Allmanna SaÂ¥ngen / Uppsala Kammarorkester / Cecilia Rydinger Alin (conductor) [ BIS / CD - released 1/Oct/2005 ] In an attractively mixed programme, Allmänna Sången, one of Sweden's most well-established choirs, takes the listener to that special place – Christmas! |
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DVORAK
Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" / Cello Concerto Mario Brunello (cello) / Orchestra dell' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano [ EMI Music / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2012 ] |
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RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 (with Liadoc - The Enchanted Lake, Op. 62) Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano [ EMI Records / CD - released 1/Jul/2011 ] "Pappano is revelatory. It is rare indeed to hear the Second Symphony executed with such clarity and with such a faithful, balanced spectrum of instrumental colour but the performance goes much further than that." (Gramophone Editor's Choice May 2011) |