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Rossini: La Cenerentola
Cecilia Bartoli (Cenerentola), William Matteuzzi (Ramiro), Enzo Dara (Don Magnifico), Alessandro Corbelli (Dandini), Fernanda Costa (Clorinda), Gloria Banditelli (Tisbe), Michele Pertusi (Alidoro)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Riccardo Chailly
All eyes and ears, inevitably, are on Bartoli, and she doesn't disappoint...The singing itself is ravishing. At the same time, the performance makes dramatic sense...Decca provide a superb Alidoro,... —
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Puccini: La Bohème
Roberto Alagna (Rodolfo), Angela Gheorghiu (Mimi), Elisabetta Scano (Musetta), Simon Keenlyside (Marcello), Ildebrando d' Arcangelo (Colline), Roberto de Candia (Schaunard), Alfredo Mariotti (Benoit/Alcindoro)
Teatro alla Scala, Riccardo Chailly
Puccini's romance shines brightly, with plenty of detail and lively conducting from Riccardo Chailly, Gheorghiu, Alagna, Keenlyside and D'Arcangelo provide highlights. —
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The reading and the playing remain as persuasive as ever ... [Solti] has dropped back the pace of the scherzo a notch or two with beguiling effect; the reading is now all one could ask for...... —
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Josquin Despres: Missa di dadi & Missa 'Faisant regretz'
Charles Brett, Michael Chance, Timothy Penrose (countertenors), Joseph Cornwell, Rogers Covey-Crump, Paul Elliot, Andrew King (tenors) & Michael George, Paul Hillier (baritones)
Medieval Ensemble of London, Peter Davies & Timothy Davies (direction)
Time hasn't dimmed the brilliant achievement of this unjustly forgotten group, putting instruments aside for searching, ravishing singing, their nine voices beautifully recorded. —
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Beethoven For All: Music of Power, Passion and Beauty
Daniel Barenboim (piano), Anja Harteros (soprano), Waltraud Meier (mezzo), Peter Seiffert (tenor), René Pape (bass)
West Eastern Divan Orchestra, Staatskapelle Berlin, Vokalensemble Kölner Dom & West Eastern Divan Orchestra
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Verdi: Oberto
Samuel Ramey (Oberto), Maria Guleghina (Leonora), Sara Fulgoni (Imelda), Violeta Urmana (Cuniza), Stuart Neill (Riccardo)
Academy of st. Martin in the Fields & London Voices, Neville Marriner
Verdi's first opera is an uneven work but with some fine inventive passages within a Donizettian framework. This is a fine recording, though lacks theatrical atmosphere. —
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Debussy: Clair de Lune
Debussy favourites
Zoltán Kocsis (piano), Katia & Marielle Labèque (piano), James Earl Barnes (cimbalom), Vera Badings (harp)
Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Chœur des femmes de l’Orchestre de Montréal & Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Quatuor Ysaÿe, Royal Concertgebouw...
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Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride
Diana Montague, Thomas Allen, John Aler, René Massis, Nancy Argenta, Sophie Boulin, Colette Alliot-Lugaz, Danielle Borst, René Schirrer, Jane Armstrong, Suzanna Flowers, Carol Hall, Lucinda Houghton, Nicola Jenkin, Jean Knibbs, Rachel Platt & Mary Seers
Monteverdi Choir & Orchestre...
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