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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
The Essential Vaughan Williams [Incls 'Flos campi', 'Suite for viola and orchestra' & 'Serenade to Music'] Frederick Riddle (viola) / Bournemouth Sinfonietta & Chorus, George Hurst, Norman Del Mar [ Chandos 241 / 2 CD - released 1/Mar/1999 ] "A resplendent if rather idiosyncratic collection with plenty of surprises and not a few discoveries." (MusicWeb Sept 04) |
TOMMASO GIORDANI
Giordani: 6 Flute Concertos Giovanni Miszczyszyn (tranverse flute), Instrumental Ensemble of Accademia del Santo Spirito [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 17/Oct/2025 ] World-premiere recordings of six attractive concertos by a Neapolitan flautist-composer celebrated in 18th-century Dublin and London. Tommaso Giordani (1730-1806) arrived on the northern shore of the English Channel in 1753, as one of the youngest... |
AUBER / DONIZETTI
Fra Diavolo / La figlia del reggimento (abridged recordings of the Italian versions of these operas) Giuseppe Campora / Ugo Benelli / Anne Maccianti / Orchestra Filarmonica e Coro del Teatro Comunale Giuseppe Verdi Trieste / Arturo Basile [ DG Opera House / 2 CD - released 12/Dec/2005 ] "What matters is the high spirits of singers and players" - Penguin Guide |
VERDI / MEYERBEER / LEONCAVALLO / PUCCINI / BOITO / etc
Opera Recital Giuseppe di Stefano (tenor) / Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino / Bruno Bartoletti [ DG Spotlight / CD - released 24/Aug/2006 ] 'His voice is of faultless beauty and remarkable expressive power; it possesses the velvety richness which we have not experienced since the days of Gigli and Lauri Volpi', wrote an eminent American critic in 1948 following Giuseppe Di Stefano's... |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Otello (complete opera recorded in February 2006) Gran teatre del Liceu, Barcelona / Jose Cura / Kressimira Stoyanova / Lado Ataneli / Vittorio Grigolo / Anotoni Ros-Marba (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 7/Feb/2007 ] G :- "…José Cura… sings and acts here with an inwardness and intensity which make a profound impression. So does Krassimira Stoyanova as Desdemona, not in the first flush of youth, but heartfelt and direct" (BBC Music) |
CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: Two Classic Operas - L'incoronazione di Poppea / L'Orfeo (complete operas recorded in 2009 & 2012) BLU-RAY Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, Sarah Connolly, Miah Persson, Jordi Domènech / Teatro alla Scala, Georg Nigl, Roberta Invernizzi, Sara Mingardo [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / 2 Blu-ray Box Set - released 29/Nov/2017 ] "this is a wonderfully satisfying performance, featuring one of the finest Orfeos on disc, and a production which suits the needs of both the large-scale theatre and the small screen equally well." (International Record Review on Orfeo) |
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. |
ROSSINI
La Gazzetta (complete opera recorded in 2005) Gran Teatre del Liceu / Cinzia Forte / Bruno Pratico / Charles Workman / Pietro Spagnoli / Maurizio Barbacini (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 18/Jul/2006 ] G :- "A joyous version of one of Rossini's lesser known operas, well sung and acted, beautiful to look at and characterised by a riot of comic invention" (MusicWeb Sept 2006) |
ROSSINI
La Gazzetta (complete opera recorded in 2005) BLU-RAY Gran Teatre del Liceu / Cinzia Forte / Bruno Pratico / Charles Workman / Pietro Spagnoli / Maurizio Barbacini (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Feb/2012 ] '…ironic and sensual, friendly but with a light taste of satire, La Gazzetta by Rossini has been reborn in this production that has the distinctive stamp of Fo, who has been able to handle with strength the Rossinian chaos without neglecting - and... |
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JACQUES OFFENBACH
Offenbach: Les Contes d'Hoffmann [The Tales of Hoffmann] (complete operettas recorded in 2013) Gran Teatre del Liceu / Natalie Dessay, Michael Spyres, Kathleen Kim, Tatiana Pavlovskaya, Michèle Losier / Stéphane Denève (conductor) [ Erato / Warner Classics DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Jul/2015 ] "The production belongs to Laurent Naouri who finds something truly distinctive in each of his portraits...Dessay is remarkable as Antonia" (BBC Music) |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Tannhauser (complete opera recorded in 2008) Gran Teatre del Liceu / Peter Seiffert, Petra Maria Schnitzer, Béatrice Uria-Monzon, Günther Groissböck, Markus Eiche / Sebastian Weigle (cond) [ C Major DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Dec/2016 ] "Peter Seiffert sings powerfully and expressively as Tannhauser, and Petra Maria a bit too powerfully as Elisabeth. The orchestra, under Sebastian Weigle, gives a strong account of the score" BBC Music |
RICHARD WAGNER
Wagner: Tannhäuser (complete opera recorded in 2008) BLU-RAY Gran Teatre del Liceu / Peter Seiffert, Petra Maria Schnitzer, Béatrice Uria-Monzon, Günther Groissböck, Markus Eiche / Sebastian Weigle (cond) [ C Major / Unitel Classics Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Jan/2017 ] "Peter Seiffert sings powerfully and expressively as Tannhauser, and Petra Maria a bit too powerfully as Elisabeth. The orchestra, under Sebastian Weigle, gives a strong account of the score" (BBC Music) |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: L'Elisir d'Amore (complete opera recorded in 2005) Gran Teatre del Liceu / Rolando Villazon, Maria Bayo, Jean-Luc Chaignaud / Daniele Callegari (cond) [ Virgin Classics DVD / DVD - released 1/Jul/2011 ] "Rolando Villazón is here on top form, fleshing out the notes with alternate delicacy and vehemence and personifying the shy, frustrated hero with a Chaplinesque range of gesture and mannerism." (BBC Music) |
VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: Norma (Complete opera recorded in 2015) Gran Teatre del Liceu / Sondra Radvanovsky, Gregory Kunde, Ekaterina Gubanova, Raymond Aceto / Renato Palumbo (cond) [ C Major DVD / 2 DVD - released 10/Oct/2016 ] "Renato Palumbo directs a straightforward reading of the score, and the orchestra play for him in their most Italianate manner. The chorus also sounds excellent. This probably now takes the lead as the finest version of Norma available on film" MWeb |
VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: Norma (Complete opera recorded in 2015) BLU-RAY Gran Teatre del Liceu / Sondra Radvanovsky, Gregory Kunde, Ekaterina Gubanova, Raymond Aceto / Renato Palumbo (cond) [ C Major Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/Oct/2016 ] Radvanovsky's performance as Norma has been the fixed point of Newbury's staging. British Opera magazine described her as "fearless in scaling the heights of this bel canto challenge. Her range of colours, were wondrous and energizing." |
MUSSORGSKY
Khovanshchina (complete opera recorded in 2007) Gran Teatre del Liceu / Vladimir Ognovenko / Vladimir Galouzine / Robert Brubaker / Michel Boder (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 30/Mar/2008 ] G : - "The staging drifts into occasional dramatic lulls, but nevertheless provides a highly convincing exposition of this difficult but rewarding score. Mussorgsky's drama is an anomaly in the operatic canon, in that it is driven not by character,... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Tempesta di Passaggi: Solo Music for Cornetto I Cavalieri del Cornetto, Andrea Inghisciano, María González [ Arcana / CD - released 8/Jan/2021 ] A storm of passaggi to echo the virtuosity of the cornettists of Renaissance Italy who exalted their instrument, of which Andrea Inghisciano is one of the most sought-after contemporary exponents (listen, for example, to the disc 'La Morte della... |
VINCENZO BELLINI
Bellini: Norma (complete opera recorded in 1968) Elena Souliotis, Fiorenza Cossotto, Mario Del Monaco, Carlo Cava / Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Silvio Varviso [ SBS Deutsche Grammophon Australian Eloquence / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2014 ] "Elena Souliotis has the power, ferocity, energy for the role...Mario del Monaco's "Ferisci, ma non interrogarmi" is a splendid moment [...] Cosotto's tone is always full and beautiful...Silvio Varviso's direction is pleasantly spirited" Gramophone |
JEAN-BAPISTE LULLY
Lully: Acis et Galatée Jean-François Lombard, Elena Harsányi, Valeria La Grotta, Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli / Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Federico Maria Sarde [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 20/Oct/2023 ] Jean-Baptiste Lully's unrivalled position at the Sun King's court gave him freedom to produce numerous grand theatre works. Acis et Galatée is acknowledged as one of his masterpieces with its adroit alternation of effects and situations and its... |
JOAQUIN RODRIGO
Rodrigo: Complete Orchestral Works 5 (Includes 'Concierto Madrigal' & 'Concierto para una fiesta') Joaquin Clerch,& Ricardo Gallen (guitar) / Orquesta Sinfonica del Principado de Asturias, Maximiano Valdes, conductor [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 1/Jul/2003 ] "As with Russians, it takes Spaniards to play Spanish music properly, and the Asturias Symphony rises eloquently to the task, filling the most urban sitting-room with those sweeping Spanish vistas." The Observer |
