More By Artist: Oh Laura
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LEO FALL
Der fidele Bauer (complete operetta recorded in 2010) Rupert Bergmann, Robert Maszl, Franz Suhrada, Laura Scherwitzl, Franz Lehar-Orchester, Vinzenz Praxmarer [ CPO Records / 2 CD - released 10/Aug/2011 ] Here successful operettas from the past, practically never included in the performance programs of normal theaters today, are rescued from oblivion in lively and musically exemplary presentations. |
MAHLER
Symphony No. 4 Laura Claycomb (soprano) / San Francisco Symphony Orchestra / Michael Tilson Thomas [ AVIE SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Feb/2010 ] "one to rank alongside the blistering performance of the Sixth" BBC Music Magazine 5 Star |
CHARLES IVES
Songs, Vol. 2 Sara Jakubiak (soprano) David Pittsinger (bass) Matthew Plenk (tenor) Tamara Mumford, Leah Wool (mezzo) Laura Garritson (piano) Biava Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Aug/2008 ] "It is taking a long time for singers and the public to appreciate the full extent and importance of Ives' output of songs. Not as large as Schubert maybe, but still a major achievement...All of this is immensely praiseworthy… for the many novelties... |
CHARLES IVES
Songs, Vol. 1 Sara Jakubiak (soprano) Patrick Carfizzi (bass) Mary Phillips (mezzo) Laura Garritson (piano) Biava Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] "All of this is immensely praiseworthy… for the many novelties which they include, and for the way in which they demonstrate the range and quality of Ives' songs." --Review by John Sheppard, MusicWeb International |
GAETANO DONIZETTI
Donizetti: Maria Stuarda (complete opera recorded in 2007) Sferisterio Opera Festival / Laura Polverelli / Maria Pia Piscitelli / Giovanna Lanza / Riccardo Frizza (cond) [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 1/Jul/2009 ] "Mezzo-soprano Laura Polverelli... reveals impressive depths of dramatic vocal resource and a wide variety of tonal expression and colour, ideal in a good bel-cantist" (MusicWeb) |
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Ariodante (complete opera recorded in 2007) Spoleto Festival / Ann Hallenberg / Laura Cherici / Carlo Lepore / Alan Curtis (cond) [ Dynamic DVD / 2 DVD - released 5/Jun/2008 ] G : - "...this is a very very good DVD of a great Handel opera. If you yourself need to expand your horizon and move into the baroque - or know someone who would like to do so - then you will be hard put to start with anything better." (MusicWeb... |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: La Cenerentola (complete opera.recorded in 1981) Teatro alla Scala / Frederica von Stade / Margherita Guglielmi / Laura Zannini / Francisco Araiza / Claudio Desderi / Paolo Montarsolo / Abbado [ Deutsche Grammophon / Unitel DVD / DVD - released 8/Nov/2005 ] Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's staging of this classic fairy tale, originally created for the San Francisco Opera in 1969, has been one of the most successful opera stagings of the 20th century |
PUCCINI
La Boheme (complete opera recorded in 2006) BLU-RAY Teatro Real / Inva Mula / Aquiles Machado / Laura Giordano / Fabio Maria Capitanucci / Jesus Lopez-Cobos (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Dec/2008 ] DVD Blu-Ray - 'Centre-stage is Inva Mula's appealing, vulnerable and intensely sung Mimì…She sings with finely shaped and expressive phrasing.' Gramophone |
PUCCINI
La Boheme (recorded live at the Teatro Real, Madrid, March 2006) Teatro Real, Madrid / Inva Mula / Aquiles Machado / Laura Giordano / Fabio Maria Capitanucci / David MenACndez / Felipe Bou / JesAs Lopez Cobos (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 13/Nov/2006 ] G :- "This production, performance and the quality of recording far surpasses that by Pavarotti and the finely portrayed Mimi of Renata Scotto in the 1972 recording from the Met and quite a few other productions in a crowded market." MusicWeb... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Clarinet Hive - Clarinet Ensemble Music Theodore Schoen, Laura Ardan, Ricardo Morales, James Ognibene, Timothy Paradise, Evan Ziporyn (clarinets) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2010 ] Taking its name from Evan Ziporyn's Hive, which grew out of the composer's experience as a beekeeper, this album brings together an engaging selection of pieces for solo clarinet and clarinet ensembles of various sizes. |
MERCADANTE
Don Chisciotte alle nozze di Gamaccio Ugo Guagliardo, Domenico Colaianni, Laura Catrani / San Pietro a Majella Chorus, Naples & Czech Chamber Soloists, Brno, Antonino Fogliani [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] "This youthful cast - all Italian (with the exception of an Argentine baritone and a Colombian tenor) - goes at the piece with a good deal of verve, but the voices are uniformly undistinguished." (International Record Review) |
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ALBAN BERG
Lulu (complete opera recorded in 2002) Zürich Opera / Laura Aikin / Cornelia Kallisch / Alfred Muff / Franz Welser-Most (cond) [ TDK / DVD - released 19/May/2006 ] |
