PAVAROTTI & FRIENDS
Duets Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) with Bryan Adams, Andrea Bocelli, Elton John, Celine Dion, and many others [ Decca Classics / DVD - released 13/Oct/2008 ] G : - The legendary tenor duets with a host of the world's greatest musical stars in such classics as 'O sole mio', 'Miss Sarajevo' and 'Panis Angelicus'. |
VERDI / PUCCINI / FLOTOW / LEONCAVALLO / PUCCINI / TOSTI / GIORDANO / etc
Luciano Pavarotti: The best (Includes 'La donna a mobile', Santa Lucia, Mattinata & 'Nessun dorma') plus bonus tracks recorded in 1964 Luciano Pavarotti with various accompaniments [ Decca Records / 2 CD - released 28/Jul/2005 ] 2CD compilation of the very best from 40 years of Decca Recordings to celebrating the FAREWELL WORLD TOUR of the ultimate Classical Superstar |
PHILIP GLASS
Glass Cuts (Philip Glass Remixed) Luciano Supervielle / Dave Wesley / Dietrich Schoenemann / Sebastian Escofet / Androoval / Taylor Deupree / etc [ Orange Mountain Music / 2 CD - released 1/Oct/2006 ] It has been said that Philip Glass is the 'Godfather of Trance' and evidence of that is found in the remixes that a number of young producers / musicians began sending to Orange Mountain Music as early as 2002. |
ALFREDO PIATTI
Piatti: 12 Capricci for Cello Solo Luciano Tarantino (cello) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 14/Jan/2022 ] Alfredo Carlo Piatti began a precocious and distinguished career as a cellist in his native Bergamo, as well as in Turin and Milan. He left Italy at 21 to seek his fortune and on his travels met Franz Liszt, who gave him an Amati cello. |
PIAZZOLLA / BROUWER / ARCAS / TARREGA / VILLA-LOBOS / etc
Latin Latitudes: Latin-American Guitar Music Luciano Tortorelli (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Apr/2016 ] "Latin Latitudes" is a musical journey between two latitudes, connected by latin musical roots. The composers originate from Spain and Italy, Latin and South America. |
FRANCESCO PAOLO TOSTI
Tosti: The Song of a Life, Volume 3 Marco Severin (baritone) Delphine da Pontello (soprano) Giulia De Blasis (soprano) Alessandro Luciano (tenor) / Marco Moresco, Isabella Crisante (pian [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2019 ] Based on 33 years of scholarship and promotion by the Istituto Nazionale Tostiano and a lifetime of studies on the part of Francesco Sanvitale, this volume lives up to its predecessors in bringing to wider attention the work of a born songsmith, at... |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
VerdI Aida (complete opera recorded in 1986) BLU-RAY Teatro alla Scala / Maria Chiara, Luciano Pavarotti, Ghena Dimitrova, Leo Nucci / Lorin Maazel (conductor) [ Arthaus Legendary Performances BLU-RAY / Blu-ray Disc - released 12/Jul/2015 ] "An opera for Cairo!", Verdi is said to have exclaimed. He would certainly have been delighted with this magnificent production. It was a triumphant success when it opened at la Scala in December 1985 |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Ernani (complete opera recorded in 1983) Metropolitan Opera / Luciano Pavarotti, Leona Mitchell, Sherrill Milnes / James Levine (cond) [ Decca DVD / DVD - released 18/Jan/2008 ] G - "A quartet of major voices was on hand to fill the leading roles... Naturally, they gave fans of sheer vocalism a great deal to cheer about during the evening... Mr. Pavarotti gave a splendid full-throated performance... He was also a sensitive... |
GIORDANO
Andrea Chenier (complete opera recorded in 1997) Metropolitan Opera / Luciano Pavarotti, Maria Guleghina, Juan Pons / James Levine (cond) [ Decca DVD / DVD - released 22/Apr/2012 ] |
VERDI / JOHAN STRAUSS
Metropolitan Opera Gala 1991: 25th Anniversary at Lincoln Center [2 DVDs] The Metropolitan Opera with Placido Domingo, Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, Cheryl Studer, Anne Sofie von Otter, Barbara Daniels, and many others [ Deutsche Grammophon DVD / 2 DVD - released 6/May/2010 ] G - Thrill to "hours and hours of glorious opera...A triumphant celebration of virtuosity (Toronto Globe and Mail) as New York's legendary opera company celebrates its first quarter century at Lincoln Center with "one of the most exquisitely refined... |
PUCCINI
Madama Butterfly (Highlights) Mirella Freni / Luciano Pavarotti / Vienna Philharmonic / Pavarotti [ Decca Records / CD - released 1/Jan/1990 ] Highlights from this most loved Opera. *** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide |
PUCCINI
Puccini Gala Mirella Freni / Montserrat Caballe / Jose Carreras / Luciano Pavarotti / Joan Sutherland / Renata Tebaldi etc [ Decca / CD - released 1/Jan/1999 ] |
PUCCINI
Tosca (complete opera recorded in 1978) Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, Sherrill Milnes / National Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicola Rescigno [ Decca Operas / 2 CD - released 24/Oct/2011 ] "The great merit of this new version of Tosca...is that the stage picture is so clear, with the words sharply audible from beginning to end...Pavarotti makes an unusually positive and bright-eyed Cavaradossi, by no means the cipher this character can |
VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: La Sonnambula (complete opera recorded in June 2013) Stuttgart Opera / Ana Durlovski, Luciano Botelho, Catriona Smith, Enzo Capuano / Gabriele Ferro (cond) [ EuroArts DVD / DVD - released 28/Feb/2014 ] "The Stuttgart team...bluntly portray Amina's sleepwalking as a mental problem...Musical, we are in the safe but far from unexciting hands of Gabriele Ferro…As well as fielding a Caruso/Bjorling-like ability to crescendo on those high peaks, Durlovsk |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Stiffelio (complete opera recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Teatro Comunale di Bologna / Luciano Ganci, Maria Katzarava, Francesco Landolfi, Giovanni Sala / Guillermo Garcia Calvo (cond) [ Naxos Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jul/2019 ] "Graham Vick's production of Stiffelio is a triumph. This is music-drama with an equal stress on both words." BBC Music |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Christmas Voices Luciano Pavarotti, Marilyn Horne, Renata Tebaldi, Anna Netrebko, Kiri te Kanawa, Jose Carreras, Joan Sutherland, Leontyne Price, etc [ Decca Music Group / 2 CD - released 5/Nov/2009 ] The world's greatest voices in a collection of the most beautiful sacred songs and carols. featuring Luciano Pavarotti, Cecilia Bartoli, Renée Fleming, Leontyne Price, Anne Sofie von Otter, José Carreras, Anna Netrebko, Renata Tebaldi, and more. |
VERDI
Il trovatore (complete opera recorded in 1990) Luciano Pavarotti, Shirley Verrett, Antonella Banaudi, Leo Nucci / Orchestra e Coro di Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Zubin Mehta [ Decca Operas / 2 CD - released 15/Mar/2012 ] "Verrett's portrayal, always one of her best roles, is given here with more feeling and involvement than anyone else in the cast." (Gramophone) |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Requiem (Opera Italiana) Kallen Esperian (soprano), Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) [ Kaleidoscope Film & DVD / Shock Entertainment Group / DVD - released 19/Mar/2012 ] Recorded in Naples Ponticelli Sports stadium, Luciano Pavarotti enthralled a live audience with his beautiful performance of Verdi's Requiem. The opera, which is one of Pavarotti's favourites, concludes with "Libera me Domine", a verse originally... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Decca Sound [50 CD set] Various artists incls Julius Katchen, Cecile Bartoli, Benjamin Britten, Luciano Pavarotti, Christopher Hogwood, Bernard Haitink, etc [ Decca / 50 CD Box Set - released 15/Dec/2013 ] A limited-edition 50-CD set of legendary recordings celebrating the world-renowned DECCA sound. Classic-status pioneering stereo recordings from the past 55 years and starring a galaxy of internationally-acclaimed artistic talent. |
VERDI / MASSENET / PACHELBEL / SATIE / DONIZETTI / MORRICONE / GLUCK / PUCCINI / etc
Number One Classical Album (Includes 'Pokarekare Ana', 'O sole mio' & 'song for Athene') Various artists including Luciano Pavarotti, Joseph Calleja, Renee Fleming, Russell Watson, Kiri te Kanawa, Juan Diego Florez and Roberto Alagna [ Decca Records / 2 CD - released 10/Oct/2004 ] Double CD featuring the greatest classical stars |