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New Release Round-up - 15th September 2017
15th Sep 2017
Featuring box sets celebrating Maria Callas and Georg Solti, Plácido Domingo in Verdi and chamber music with the Gringolts Quartet and violist Ellen Nisbeth.
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Maria Callas Live (42 CDs & 3 Blu-rays)
Maria Callas (soprano), Gino Bechi (Nabucco), Maria Callas (Abigaille), Amalia Pini (Fenena), Gino Sinimberghi (Ismaele), Iginio Riccò (Gran Sacerdote), Luciano della Pergola (Abdallo), Silvana Tenti (Anna), Rolando Panerai (Amfortas), Africo Baldelli (Parsifal), Maria Callas (Kundry), Boris Christoff (Gurnemanz), Giuseppe Modesti (Klingsor), Dmitri Lopatto (Titurel), Giórgios Kokoliós-Bardi (Arrigo), Maria Callas (La Duchessa Elena), Enzo Mascherini (Guido di Montforte), Boris Christoff (Giovanni da Procida), Mario Frosini (Il Conte Vaudemont), Bruno Carmassi (Il Sire di Bethume), Mafalda Masini (Ninetta), Gino Sarri (Danieli), Aldo De Paolo (Tebaldo), Lido Pettini (Roberto), Breno Ristori (Manfredo), Maria Callas (Aida), Mario del Monaco (Radamès), Oralia Domínguez (Amneris), Giuseppe Taddei (Amonasro), Roberto Silva (Ramphis), Ignacio Ruffino (Il Re di Egitto), Rosa Rodríguez (Una Sacerdotessa), Carlos Sagarminaga (Un Messaggero), Maria Callas (Armida), Francesco Albanese (Rinaldo), Mario Filippeschi (Gernando), Gianni Raimondi (Eustazio), Alessandro Ziliani (Goffredo), Antonio Salvarezza (Ubaldo), Mario Frosini (Idradote), Marco Stefanoni (Astarotte), Giuseppe di Stefano (Duca di Mantova), Maria Callas (Gilda), Piero Campolonghi (Rigoletto), Ignacio Ruffino (Sparafucile), María Teresa García (Maddalena), Ana María Feuss (Giovanna), Gilberto Cerda (Monterone), Alberto Herrera (Marullo), Carlos Sagarminaga (Borsa), Francisco Alonso (Conte di Ceprano), Edna Patoni (Contessa di Ceprano), Maria Callas (Norma), Ebe Stignani (Adalgisa), Mirto Picchi (Pollione), Giacomo Vaghi (Oroveso), Joan Sutherland (Clotilde), Paul Asciak (Flavio), Enzo Mascherini (Macbeth), Maria Callas (Lady Macbeth), Italo Tajo (Banco), Gino Penno (Macduff), Luciano della Pergola (Malcolm), Angela Vercelli (Dama), Dario Caselli (Medico), Attilio Barbesi (Domestico), Mario Tommasini (Sicaro), Gino Penno (Giasone), Maria Callas (Medea), Maria Luisa Nache (Glauce), Fedora Barbieri (Neris), Giuseppe Modesti (Creonte), Enrico Campi (Capitano), Angela Vercelli (Prima Ancella), Maria Amadini (Seconda Ancella), Maria Callas (Alceste), Renato Gavarini (Admète), Paolo Silveri (Grand Prêtre d'Apollon), Rolando Panerai (Apollon), Giuseppe Zampieri (Evandre), Nicola Zaccaria (La voix de l'Oracle), Silvio Maionica (Dieu infernal), Enrico Campi (Un Héraut), Franco Corelli (Licinius), Maria Callas (Giulia), Ebe Stignani (Gran Vestale), Enzo Sordello (Cinna), Nicola Rossi-Lemeni (Grande Sacerdote), Vittorio Tatozzi (Un Console), Nicola Zaccaria (Aruspice), Mario del Monaco (Andrea Chénier), Aldo Protti (Carlo Gérard), Maria Amadini (La Contessa di Coigny), Silvana Zanolli (La mulatta Bersi), Lucia Danieli (Madelon), Cesare Valletti (Elvino), Maria Callas (Amina), Giuseppe Modesti (Rodolfo), Gabriella Carturan (Teresa), Eugenia Ratti (Lisa), Pier Luigi Latinucci (Alessio), Giuseppe Nessi (Notaro), Maria Callas (Lucia), Giuseppe Di Stefano (Edgardo), Rolando Panerai (Enrico), Nicola Zaccaria (Raimondo), Maria Callas (Anna Bolena), Giulietta Simionato (Giovanna), Nicola Rossi-Lemeni (Enrico), Gianni Raimondi (Percy), Plinio Clabassi (Rochefort), Gabriella Carturan (Smeton), Luigi Rumbo (Hervey), Maria Callas (Iphigénie), Francesco Albanese (Pylade), Anselmo Colzani (Thoas), Fiorenza Cossotto (Diane), Maria Callas (Violetta), Alfredo Kraus (Alfredo), Mario Sereni (Germont), Laura Zannini (Flora), Maria Cristina de Castro (Annina), Piero De Palma (Gastone), Alessandro Maddalena (Dottore Grenvil), Álvaro Malta (Barone Douphol), Vito Susca (Marchese d'Obigny), Maria Callas (Imogene), Pier Miranda Ferraro (Gualtiero), Regina Sarfaty (Sarfaty), Costantino Ego (Ernesto), Glade Peterson (Goffredo), Chester Watson (Itulbo), Franco Corelli (Poliuto), Maria Callas (Paolina), Ettore Bastianini (Severo), Nicola Zaccaria (Callistene), Tito Gobbi (Scarpia) Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli, RAI Roma, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Palacio de las Bellas Artes, Teatro alla Scala, Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional, American Opera Society, Covent Garden, Vittorio Gui, Erich Kleiber, Oliviero de Fabritiis, Tullio Serafin, Umberto Mugnai, Victor de Sabata, Leonard Bernstein, Carlo Maria Giulini, Antonino Votto, Herbert von Karajan, Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Nino Sanzogno, Franco Ghione, Nicola Rescigno, Carlo Felice Cillario
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Vladimir Ashkenazy on Rachmaninov and the Philharmonia
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Boris Giltburg on Rachmaninov
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Michael Spyres on Espoir
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The American tenor talks to Katherine about his tribute to the pioneering French tenor Gilbert Duprez, out on Friday on Opera Rara.
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Matthias Goerne sings cantatas for bass by JS Bach
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Katherine listens to the German baritone's deeply personal account of two solo cantatas, with Gottfried von der Goltz and the Freiburger Barockorchester.
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Jayson Gillham on Medtner and Rachmaninov
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Presto Editor's Choices - August 2017
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Joyce El-Khoury on Écho
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New Release Round-up - 25th August 2017
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Louise Alder on Strauss Lieder
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Dame Janet Baker
21st Aug 2017
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Isabelle Faust plays Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto
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Forthcoming vocal highlights for the autumn
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New Release Round-up - 4th August 2017
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Presto Editor's Choices - July 2017
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Les Troyens from John Nelson and other forthcoming highlights
27th Jul 2017
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Jonas Kaufmann's French album and other forthcoming highlights
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Berlioz, Gounod, Massenet and more from the German tenor, plus Bach from Matthias Goerne and Dvořák from the Takács Quartet.
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Christopher Glynn on the songs of Donald Swann
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