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LUCA MARENZIO
Quinto Libro di Madrigali a sei voci Elena Biscuola (mezzo-soprano) / La Compagnia del Madrigale [ Glossa / CD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] La Compagnia del Madrigale's subtle, yet powerful advocacy of great Italian madrigals continues with Marenzio's 'Quinto Libro di Madrigali a sei voci' from 1591. |
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ANTONIO SALIERI
Salieri: La scuola de' gelosi (complete opera) Emiliano d'Aguanno, Francesca Lombardi Mazzulli, Federico Sacchi, Roberta Mameli / L`arte del mondo, Werner Ehrhardt [ Deutsche Harmonia Mundi / CD Box Set - released 17/May/2017 ] In its day La scuola de' gelosi (1778) was one of the best-known comic operas by Antonio Salieri (1750-1825), remaining a box-office hit for decades. All the more astonishing is the fact that it could sink into obscurity. Even Goethe was excited by... |
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CONSTANT LAMBERT
Pomona / Music for Orchestra / Romeo and Juliet / King Pest English Chamber Orchestra, Norman Del Mar / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Joly [ Lyrita / CD - released 1/Sep/2007 ] Constant Lambert was a man of outstandingly wide cultural range, a man as well-informed about painting and literature as about music. For this reason his contribution to the development of what is now the Royal Ballet proved invaluable.A triumvirate... |
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PAHISSA / CASSADO / SANJUAN / LAPARRA / ARREGUI / MOMPOU / etc
The Andres Segovia Archive Ermanno Brignolo (guitars) / Orchestra del Conservatorio di Alessandria, Paolo Ferrara [ Brilliant Classics / 7 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2013 ] Andrés Segovia, born in 1893 in Linares, Spain, was one of the most important musicians of the 20th century; a virtuoso guitarist whose contribution to modernāRomantic repertoire included both commissions and transcriptions of baroque/classical... |
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Estampas De Mexico, Del Tecnologico De Monterrey
Traditional Music from Mexico [ ARC Music / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] Estampas de México present a great variety of Mariachi music, folk, and excellent a cappella multi-part singing, in this upbeat and exhilarating album of Mexican music |
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COSTANZO ANTEGNATI
Antegnati: 12 Ricercari Federico Del Sordo at the Meiarini organ (1630), Chiesa S. Maria del Carmine Brescia harpsichord fretted clavichord [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2018 ] Costanzo Antegnati (1549-1624) was scion of the Antegnati family, recognized as the leading organ builders in the northern Italian province of Brescia. Four generations of skilled craftsmen from the same family produced some of the best-known... |
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AURELIO BONELLI
Bonelli: Complete Keyboard Music Federico del Sordo (organ, harpsichord, clavichord) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 12/Jul/2019 ] Following the release last year of works by Holzer, Antegnati and Pellegrini, the renowned organist Federico Del Sordo further delves into the world of Renaissance and early Baroque keyboard repertoire. In this set, he turns his attention to Italian... |
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W. A. MOZART
Fernando Corena: Arias for Bass Fernando Corena (bass) / Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino / Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden [ Decca Australian Eloquence / CD - released 20/Sep/2015 ] "'Corena sings with a fine, resonant, clean tone. His production is easy and completely natural, and his diction, phrasing and general musicianship are most praiseworthy" (Gramophone) |
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NINO ROTA
Symphonies Nos 1 & 2 Filarmonica 900 del Teatro Regio di Torino / Marzio Conti [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 30/Jun/2009 ] Nino Rota achieved international recognition primarily as a composer of film music. His most admired and enduring work in this field sprang from his collaboration with Federico Fellini. |
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MASCAGNI
Mascagni in Concert Filarmonica '900 del Teatro Regio Torino, Gianandrea Noseda / Luciano Ganci (tenor) [ Chandos Musica Italiana / CD - released 8/Oct/2013 ] On this disc, which is part of our ongoing series of Italian music, a selection of his works for the concert hall receives idiomatic performances by Gianandrea Noseda and the Filarmonica '900 del Teatro Regio Torino, with the tenor Luciano Ganci. |
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PIETRO MASCAGNI / RUGGIERO LEONCAVALLO
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana / Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (Complete Operas) [with Opera Intermezzi] Fiorenza Cossotto, Carlo Bergonzi, Giuseppe Taddei / Coro e Orchestra del Teatro all Scala, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon / 3 CD Box Set - released 3/Feb/2002 ] Includes a booklet with the synopsis and libretto of both operas in German, Italian, English and French. |
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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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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) |
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DONIZETTI / SAINT-SAENS / BERLIOZ / GOUNOD / etc
Romantique Elina Garanca (mezzo) / Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Yves Abel [ Deutsche Grammophon / CD - released 13/Sep/2012 ] "...[She] moves effortlessly from top to bottom without ever sacrificing beauty of tone...Fans - and others - need not hesitate." Gramophone Editor's Choice, January 2013 |
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Gastr Del Sol
Camoufleur (LP) [ Drag City / LP - released 29/Aug/2025 ] Released on LP and CD, Camoufleur had a prescient quality: like something that existed beyond such simple formats as LP and CD, or even the designations of 'record' and 'album'. It was the nascence era of the burnt CD, unmarked or attributed in any... |
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Gastr Del Sol
Crookt, Crackt, Or Fly (LP) [ Drag City / LP - released 29/Aug/2025 ] Gastr del Sol's second album Crookt, Crackt, or Fly returns to vinyl for the first time in over a decade, retaining its strange, singular force more than 30 years after its original release. A significant evolution from The Serpentine Similar, this... |
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Gastr Del Sol
The Serpentine Similar (Reissue LP) [ Drag City / LP - released 29/Aug/2025 ] Signing to Teen Beat, Gastr del Sol completed 'The Serpentine Similar' in late 1992 for release the following year (the Drag City reissue came in 1997). In the final rendering, 'The Serpentine Similar's roof-rent, white-sky execution was attenuated... |
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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) |
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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) |
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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. |