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Porpora: Germanico in Germania
Max Emanuel Cencic (Germanico), Julia Lezhneva (Ersinda), Mary-Ellen Nesi (Arminio), Juan Sancho (Segeste), Dilyara Idrisova (Rosmonda), Hasnaa Bennani (Cecina)
Capella Cracoviensis (on period instruments), Jan Tomasz Adamus
This opera is all about power, and no one needs more of it than the principal singers…Porpora’s writing, fitted originally to the artistry of famed castrato Domenico Annibali, spurs countertenor... —
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Diapason d’Or, March 2018, Nouveauté
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Verdi: La forza del destino
RecommendedRenata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, Ettore Bastianini, Giulietta Simionato, Cesare Siepi, Silvio Maionica, Gabriella Carturan & Piero di Palma
Orchestra e coro dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
This sprawling epic has a very fine cast, with Renata Tebaldi as an almost ideal Leonora, and the loud impressive del Monaco as the hero. The early stereo sound is good, but the conducting... —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Pergolesi: Adriano in Siria
RecommendedFranco Fagioli (Farnaspe), Romina Basso (Emirena), Yuriy Mynenko (Adriano), Dilyara Idrisova (Sabina), Juan Sancho (Osroa), Cigdem Soyarsl (Aquilio)
Capella Cracoviensis, Jan Tomasz Adamus
Fagioli traverses two octaves of fioritura seamlessly, many times, and is well-matched by Yuriy Mynenko as a suave Adriano. Tenor Juan Sancho has juicier recitatives to work with as Osroa, King... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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Pavarotti - The Greatest Hits
Luciano Pavarotti (tenor, vocals), Vienna Opera Chorus, Mirella Freni (soprano), Dame Joan Sutherland (soprano), Stefano "Tellus" Nanni (piano), Kameron Brown (double bass), Michele Centonze (guitar), Fabio Sartoni (drums, drum), Marco Tamburini (trumpet), Piero Odorici (saxophone), Roberto Rossi...
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Hilde Gueden (Susanna), Cesare Siepi (Figaro), Lisa della Casa (Countess Almaviva), Alfred Poell (Count Almaviva), Suzanne Danco (Cherubino)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Erich Kleiber
Erich Kleiber's Vienna recording...remains matchless for its unfolding drama and sheer musicality. The brilliant Austrian conductor's sense of timing is almost uncanny, keeping the action moving... —
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Rossini: Semiramide
Joan Sutherland (Semiramide), Marilyn Horne (Arsace), John Serge, Joseph Rouleau, Spiro Malas, Patricia Clark, Leslie Fyson & Michael Langdon
London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Bonynge
This is simply one of the great opera recordings in the catalogue...In Sutherland's interpretation, Semiramide is not so much a Lady Macbeth as a passionate, sympathetic woman...Horne is well... —
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Verdi: Otello
Luciano Pavarotti (Otello), Kiri Te Kanawa (Desdemona), Leo Nucci (Iago), Anthony Rolfe-Johnson (Cassio), John Keyes (Rodrigo), Dimitri Kavrakos (Lodovico), Alan Opie (Montano), Elzbieta Ardam (Emilia), Richard Cohn (Un Araldo)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Sir Georg Solti
this is a memorable reading, heightened by Pavarotti's keen feeling for the words and consistently golden tone...he offers a vital, animated Otello, always individual...Te Kanawa produces consistently... —
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Verdi: Aida
Renata Tebaldi (Aida), Carlo Bergonzi (Radamès), Giulietta Simionato (Amneris), Cornell MacNeil (Amonasro), Arnold Van Mill (Ramfis), Fernando Corena (Il Re di Egitto), Eugenia Ratti (Una Sacerdotessa), Piero De Palma (Un Messaggero)
Wiener Philharmoniker & Singverein der Gesellschaft der...
...unrivalled for many years for its spectacle in this most stereophonic of operas...helped by having a Viennese orchestra and chorus, rather than an Italian one that was determinded to do things... —
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Mendelssohn & Tchaikovsky: Violin Concertos
Mariko Senju (violin), Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, Chikara Iwamura
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