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Special offer. Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Vladimir Stoyanov (Enrico), Mariella Devia (Lucia), Giuseppe Sabbatini (Edgardo), Blagoj Nacoski (Arturo)
Carlo Colombara (Raimondo), Damiana Pinti (Alisa) & Enrico Cossutta (Normanno)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Teatro Lirico di Cagliari, Conducted by Gérard Korsten & Directed...
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Special offer. Roma 1670
Works by Stradella, Lonati, Mannelli & Corelli
Stradella, Lonati, Mannelli & Corelli
Ensemble Vocale e Strumentale Il Concerto d’Arianna, Maria Palumbo (artistic director)
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Special offer. Donizetti: Il Duca d'Alba
Rachel Harnisch, Ismael Jordi, Georges Petean, Vladimir Bavkov, Igor Bakan & Gijs Van der Linden
Flemish Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Paolo Carignani
The music is not perhaps all memorable or vintage Donizetti but there are inevitably some lovely things...Harnisch has a big, rounded tone with considerable power up top. She makes much of her... —
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Special offer. Cavalli: Vespero della Beata Vergine (Venezia 1675) & Antifone Mariane e Sonate (Venezia 1656)
Coro Monteverdi di Cream & La Pifarescha, Bruno Gini
La Pifarescha’s fluent cornets and trombones are especially impressive in a six-part sonata reminiscent of Gabrieli’s canzoni; uncredited countertenor, tenor and bass soloists sing eloquently... —
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Special offer. Giosa: Don Checco
Carmine Monaco (Bartolaccio), Carolina Lippo (Fiorina), Francesco Castoro (Carletto), Domenico Colaianni (Don Checco), Rocco Cavalluzzi (Roberto) & Paolo Cauteruccio (Succhiello Scorticone)
Chorus of the Transylvania State, Philharmonic Orchestra of Cluj-Napoca & Orchestra Internazionale...
This live performance, led with ebullience by Matteo Beltrami, was recorded at the Valle d’Itria Festival in Martina Franca in 2015, and presents a highly positive picture of the pieces merits. —
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Special offer. Verdi: Giovanna d'Arco
Jessica Pratt (Giovanna), Jean-François Borras (Carlo VII), Julian Kim (Giacomo), Roberto Cervellera (Delil) & Emanuele Cordaro (Talbot)
Chorus of the Teatro Petruzzelli di Bari, Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia, Riccardo Frizza
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Special offer. Cavalli: Vespero delle domeniche
Alberto Dossena (organ)
Claudio Monteverdi Choir of Crema & La Pifarescha, Bruno Gini
Perhaps one can imagine punchier and more thrilling accounts than these relaxed performances, but the splendid finale to the Magnificat is alone worth the price of admission. —
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Clarke's 1921 Trio is the real revelation, a work of almost Bartokian asperity, tautly controlled and haunted by a reiterated, jabbing monotone that never lets the music or the listener settle…[the... —