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Renée Fleming - Bel Canto
RecommendedRenée Fleming (soprano)
Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra of St Luke's, Patrick Summers
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Grammy Awards, 45th Awards (2002), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Rossini: L'Italiana in Algeri
RecommendedTeresa Berganza, Fernando Corena, Rolando Panerai, Giuliana Travolaccini, Miti Truccata Pace, Paolo Montarsolo & Luigi Alva
Orchestra a Coro del Maggio & Musicale Fiorentino, Silvio Varviso
This recording of L'italiana in Algeri was made in the Teatro de la Pergola, Florence in the summer of 1963...Rolando Panerai is his usual incomparably humorous self. The recording is typical... —
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Building a Library, October 1999, Second Choice
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Building a Library, June 2008, First Choice (studio recording)
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An attractive programme [which] shows off the high quality of the Filarmonica della Scala…the brightness of the strings is offset by the warmth of the horns…and a neatness of attack as well... —
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The Times Records of the Year, 2017
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Ravel: 3 Sonatas, Tzigane, Habanera, Berceuse etc
RecommendedChantal Juillet (violin), Pascal Rogé (piano), Truls Mørk (cello)
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Gramophone Awards, 1997, Winner - Chamber
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Bartók: Kossuth & Concerto for Orchestra
RecommendedSan Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt
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Grammy Awards, 38th Awards (1995), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Massenet: Werther
RecommendedJosé Carreras (Werther), Frederica von Stade (Charlotte), Isobel Buchanan (Sophie), Thomas Allen (Albert), Robert Lloyd (Le Bailli), Malcolm King (Johann), Paul Crook (Schmidt), Donaldson Bell (Brühlmann), Linda Humphries (Kätchen)
Orchestra & Children's Chorus of the Royal Opera House...
the pacing of each tableau vivant is handled so superbly by Sir Colin that there is not a single moment of longueur...The casting polarizes this Werther and this Charlotte. Jose Carreras is... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1981, Winner - Engineering
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this great musician here returns to something like top form. These may be his first recordings of these works but they sound as though they have been in his fingers for a long time...Ashkenazy's... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2012, Editor's Choice
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Rossini: Il Turco in Italia
RecommendedCecilia Bartoli (Fiorilla), Ramon Vargas (Narciso), Michele Pertusi (Selim), Laura Polverelli (Zaida), Alessandro Corbelli (Don Geronio), Roberto De Candia (Prosdocimo), Francesco Piccoli (Albazar)
Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano and Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Riccardo...
Chailly has recorded the work before, but in the years since he's matured as a Rossini conductor, and the Scala orchestra has this music under its fingers; there's an energy and vitality to... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1998, Winner - Opera
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Building a Library, December 2014, First Choice
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