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Cecilia Bartoli presents Vincenzo Bellini’s “Norma” like you have never heard it before – a new complete studio recording of one of the most iconic operas in music history, in its original form. For generations Bellini’s “Norma” has been looked at from the vantage point of the Verismo era at the beginning of the twentieth century. Now Cecilia Bartoli unveils the opera’s original pre-Romantic style and colour by taking Norma back to its roots. For the first time ever the entire music is recorded with period instruments from Bellini’s time. Traditional cuts are reinstated. Keys and tonalities are put back into place and the music is executed according to Bellini’s own tempo indications. A new critical music edition was compiled from the autograph score and many manuscript sources. “Wonderfully acrobatic, Bartoli’s warm voice is neatly complemented by the silver-streaked Adalgisa of the South Korean Sumi Jo...Osborn’s evenly flowing tenor makes Pollione a plausible babe magnet, even to Druids...Rustic winds, resinous strings, tart brass and shivering percussion all add dramatic colouring to Bellini’s magnificent music...Pin back your ears and enjoy.” The Times, 24th May 2013 **** | 
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Cecilia Bartoli (Rosina), David Kuebler (Il Conte Almaviva), Gino Quilico (Figaro), Carlos Feller (Bartolo), Robert Lloyd (Don Basilio), Edith Kertesz-Gabry (Berta) Radio Symphony Orchestra Stuttgart, Choir of Cologne City Opera, Gabriele Ferro (conductor) & Michael Hampe (stage director) Rossini was 24 years old when in 1816 he wrote his seventeenth and most famous opera The Barber of Seville in an astonishing three weeks. Michael Hampe’s humorous direction of his 1988 live performance at the Schwetzingen SWR Festival stands out with its fast tempo that makes for a highly exuberant production. Ezio Firgerio’s appealing stage and Mauro Pagano’s colourful costumes heighten the comic effect. The musical direction of conductor Gabriele Ferro strikes a beautiful balance between a vibrant orchestral performance and a superb ensemble of singers. The irresistible Cecilia Bartoli as Rosina leads a cast that also includes David Kuebler, Gino Quilico and Carlos Feller. “This is an effective, straightforward traditional performance under Gabriele Ferro, with Cecilia Bartoli in excellent voice, making this an irresistible production which should be in every collection.” Classical London Sound Format: PCM Stereo Picture Format: 4:3 DVD Format: DVD 9 / NTSC Subtitle Languages: IT (Original Language), DE, GB, FR, ES, JP Running time: 185 minutes |
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Steffani: | Schiere invitte, non tardate (from Alarico il Baltha) Ogni core può sperar (from Servio Tullio) Ove son? Chi m'aita? In mezzo all'ombre...Dal mio petto (from Niobe) Più non v'ascondo (from Tassilone) Amami, e vederai (from Niobe) T'abbraccio, mia Diva...Ti stringo, mio Nume (from Niobe) Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) Mie fide schiere, all'armi!...Suoni, tuoni, il suolo scuota (from I trionfi del fato) Sposa, mancar mi sento...Deh non far colle tue lagrime (from Tassilone) Non prendo consiglio (from La superbia d'Alessandro) Si, si, riposa, o caro...Palpitanti sfere belle (from Alarico il Baltha) Notte amica al cieco Dio (from La libertà contenta) Combatton quest'alma (from I trionfi del fato) Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) A facile vittoria (from Tassilone) Tra le guerre e le vittorie (from La superbia d'Alessandro) Foschi crepuscoli (from La libertà contenta) Dell'alma stanca a raddolcir le tempre...Sfere amiche, or date al labbro (from Niobe) La cerasta più terribile (from La lotta d'Hercole con Acheloo) Serena, o mio bel sole...Mia fiamma/Mio ardore (from Niobe) Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) Dal tuo labbro amor m'invita (from Tassilone) Deh stancati, o sorte (from La libertà contenta) Svenati, struggiti, combatti, suda (from La libertà contenta) Padre, s'è colpa in lui (from Tassilone) Timori, ruine (from Le rivali concordi) Morirò fra strazi e scempi (from Henrico Leone) Non si parli che di fede (from Marco Aurelio) |
Autumn 2012 marks the release of Mission, a sensational new album from the world’s best-selling classical artist, Cecilia Bartoli, and a project with international politics, religious conflict, diplomatic secrecy, spying and sensational music at its heart. The album showcases the music of a little-known Italian composer and will include solo arias of various moods and styles, several duets, solo numbers with chorus - all sung in Italian - and instrumental interludes that create an organic transition from one piece to the next and an arc that reaches from the beginning to the end of the album. Such was the appeal of the project that longtime Bartoli admirer and global best-selling author Donna Leon decided to write a mystery novel - Jewels of Paradise - to accompany Cecilia’s album, which uses the mystery surrounding the composer’s story as the centre of its plot. Jewels of Paradise will be released simultaneously with Cecilia Bartoli’s album in English (UK and USA), German, French, Dutch, Spanish and Catalan. Among the distinguished names appearing on Mission is star French counter-tenor Philippe Jaroussky who features in a first-time collaboration with Cecilia on a selection of duets, alongside the Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera, the period orchestra I Barocchisti from Lugano, Switzerland, and conductor Diego Fasolis. A cinematographic vision of the album directed by Olivier Simonnet and filmed in the historic Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors) and in the gardens of the Chateau de Versailles will be available on DVD later in the year. “Bartoli's plummy mezzo soars, smoulders and seduces, milking the music's vocal and expressive scope to dramatic effect. It's hard to resist her sparkling personality and infectious passion for this repertoire...the animated playing of I Barocchisti enhance the sheer theatre and scale of Steffani's talent...this is truly a revelatory disc.” BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012 ***** “she sweeps through 25 numbers flexing her well-rehearsed vocabulary of flighty fioritura, expressive mannerism and tender vocalità. The melting duets with countertenor Philippe Jaroussky are worth hearing” Financial Times, 20th October 2012 ** “Bartoli is to be both congratulated and thanked for this project...Her dazzlingly virtuoso and urgently expressive performances betoken nothing less than total commitment, with every single aria delivered with as much dramatic intensity and focus as if it had been lifted straight from a fully staged production...it is hard to know what more one could ask for.” Gramophone Magazine, December 2012 “I can't think of another singer who brings such variety of colour, nuance and pathos to slow numbers...Bartoli's performance of the more bravura numbers...is more questionable...Vocal fireworks have always been essential weapons in the Bartoli armoury, but they are now sounding rusty...I don't want to end on a negative note, as there is much to admire and even love here...'Mission' is in every sense a collector's item.” International Record Review, December 2012 “Among the opera arias Ms. Bartoli dug up in the archives are some treasures, hypnotic, slow numbers in which voice and accompanying strings circle each other like spinning planets and jubilant vehicles for her rapid-fire coloratura singing. Mr. Fasolis stokes the fire with an impetuous period-instrument ensemble.” New York Times, 23rd November 2012 “Bartoli’s programming instincts are immaculate in terms of musical and emotional variety; she is compelling in pearly arioso and slow numbers, less so in bravura ones.” Sunday Times, 14th October 2012 “Bartoli's vocal mannerisms vex and delight – sometimes simultaneously. But for those seduced by the 2010 Royal Opera House production of Niobe, Regina di Tebe, this selection will be irresistible.” The Independent on Sunday, 18th November 2012 **** “Steffani’s art is elegantly expressive, Italianate with French dressing...Several brazen display arias are here...Bartoli leaps around the vocal ladder with customary gusto and a rather too vigorous vibrato. The pleasures are subtler when the music is simpler and the voice quieter...Notte amica, say, from La Libertà contenta, or the silky caress of Sfere amiche...These two tracks were definitely worth Bartoli shaving her head.” The Times, 21st September 2012 *** |
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Steffani: | Non si parli che di fede (from Marco Aurelio) Morirò fra strazi e scempi (from Henrico Leone) Timori, ruine (from Le rivali concordi) Padre, s'è colpa in lui (from Tassilone) Svenati, struggiti, combatti, suda (from La libertà contenta) Deh stancati, o sorte (from La libertà contenta) Dal tuo labbro amor m'invita (from Tassilone) Serena, o mio bel sole...Mia fiamma/Mio ardore (from Niobe) Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) La cerasta più terribile (from La lotta d'Hercole con Acheloo) Dell'alma stanca a raddolcir le tempre...Sfere amiche, or date al labbro (from Niobe) Foschi crepuscoli (from La libertà contenta) Tra le guerre e le vittorie (from La superbia d'Alessandro) A facile vittoria (from Tassilone) Combatton quest'alma (from I trionfi del fato) Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) Notte amica al cieco Dio (from La libertà contenta) Si, si, riposa, o caro...Palpitanti sfere belle (from Alarico il Baltha) Non prendo consiglio (from La superbia d'Alessandro) Sposa, mancar mi sento...Deh non far colle tue lagrime (from Tassilone) Mie fide schiere, all'armi!...Suoni, tuoni, il suolo scuota (from I trionfi del fato) T'abbraccio, mia Diva...Ti stringo, mio Nume (from Niobe) Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) Amami, e vederai (from Niobe) Più non v'ascondo (from Tassilone) Ove son? Chi m'aita? In mezzo all'ombre...Dal mio petto (from Niobe) Ogni core può sperar (from Servio Tullio) Schiere invitte, non tardate (from Alarico il Baltha) |
Autumn 2012 marks the release of Mission, a sensational new album from the world’s best-selling classical artist, Cecilia Bartoli, and a project with international politics, religious conflict, diplomatic secrecy, spying and sensational music at its heart. The album showcases the music of a little-known Italian composer and will include solo arias of various moods and styles, several duets, solo numbers with chorus - all sung in Italian - and instrumental interludes that create an organic transition from one piece to the next and an arc that reaches from the beginning to the end of the album. Such was the appeal of the project that longtime Bartoli admirer and global best-selling author Donna Leon decided to write a mystery novel - Jewels of Paradise - to accompany Cecilia’s album, which uses the mystery surrounding the composer’s story as the centre of its plot. Jewels of Paradise will be released simultaneously with Cecilia Bartoli’s album in English (UK and USA), German, French, Dutch, Spanish and Catalan. Among the distinguished names appearing on Mission is star French counter-tenor Philippe Jaroussky who features in a first-time collaboration with Cecilia on a selection of duets, alongside the Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera, the period orchestra I Barocchisti from Lugano, Switzerland, and conductor Diego Fasolis. A cinematographic vision of the album directed by Olivier Simonnet and filmed in the historic Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors) and in the gardens of the Chateau de Versailles “Bartoli's plummy mezzo soars, smoulders and seduces, milking the music's vocal and expressive scope to dramatic effect. It's hard to resist her sparkling personality and infectious passion for this repertoire...the animated playing of I Barocchisti enhance the sheer theatre and scale of Steffani's talent...this is truly a revelatory disc.” BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012 ***** “she sweeps through 25 numbers flexing her well-rehearsed vocabulary of flighty fioritura, expressive mannerism and tender vocalità. The melting duets with countertenor Philippe Jaroussky are worth hearing” Financial Times, 20th October 2012 ** “Bartoli is to be both congratulated and thanked for this project...Her dazzlingly virtuoso and urgently expressive performances betoken nothing less than total commitment, with every single aria delivered with as much dramatic intensity and focus as if it had been lifted straight from a fully staged production...it is hard to know what more one could ask for” Gramophone Magazine, December 2012 “I can't think of another singer who brings such variety of colour, nuance and pathos to slow numbers...Bartoli's performance of the more bravura numbers...is more questionable...Vocal fireworks have always been essential weapons in the Bartoli armoury, but they are now sounding rusty...I don't want to end on a negative note, as there is much to admire and even love here...'Mission' is in every sense a collector's item.” International Record Review, December 2012 “Among the opera arias Ms. Bartoli dug up in the archives are some treasures, hypnotic, slow numbers in which voice and accompanying strings circle each other like spinning planets and jubilant vehicles for her rapid-fire coloratura singing. Mr. Fasolis stokes the fire with an impetuous period-instrument ensemble.” New York Times, 23rd November 2012 “Bartoli’s programming instincts are immaculate in terms of musical and emotional variety; she is compelling in pearly arioso and slow numbers, less so in bravura ones.” Sunday Times, 14th October 2012 “Bartoli's vocal mannerisms vex and delight – sometimes simultaneously. But for those seduced by the 2010 Royal Opera House production of Niobe, Regina di Tebe, this selection will be irresistible.” The Independent on Sunday, 18th November 2012 **** “Steffani’s art is elegantly expressive, Italianate with French dressing...Several brazen display arias are here...Bartoli leaps around the vocal ladder with customary gusto and a rather too vigorous vibrato. The pleasures are subtler when the music is simpler and the voice quieter...Notte amica, say, from La Libertà contenta, or the silky caress of Sfere amiche...These two tracks were definitely worth Bartoli shaving her head.” The Times, 21st September 2012 *** |
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Steffani: | Schiere invitte, non tardate (from Alarico il Baltha) Ogni core può sperar (from Servio Tullio) Ove son? Chi m'aita? In mezzo all'ombre...Dal mio petto (from Niobe) Più non v'ascondo (from Tassilone) Amami, e vederai (from Niobe) T'abbraccio, mia Diva...Ti stringo, mio Nume (from Niobe) Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) Mie fide schiere, all'armi!...Suoni, tuoni, il suolo scuota (from I trionfi del fato) Sposa, mancar mi sento...Deh non far colle tue lagrime (from Tassilone) Non prendo consiglio (from La superbia d'Alessandro) Si, si, riposa, o caro...Palpitanti sfere belle (from Alarico il Baltha) Notte amica al cieco Dio (from La libertà contenta) Combatton quest'alma (from I trionfi del fato) Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) A facile vittoria (from Tassilone) Tra le guerre e le vittorie (from La superbia d'Alessandro) Foschi crepuscoli (from La libertà contenta) Dell'alma stanca a raddolcir le tempre...Sfere amiche, or date al labbro (from Niobe) La cerasta più terribile (from La lotta d'Hercole con Acheloo) Serena, o mio bel sole...Mia fiamma/Mio ardore (from Niobe) Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) Dal tuo labbro amor m'invita (from Tassilone) Deh stancati, o sorte (from La libertà contenta) Svenati, struggiti, combatti, suda (from La libertà contenta) Padre, s'è colpa in lui (from Tassilone) Timori, ruine (from Le rivali concordi) Morirò fra strazi e scempi (from Henrico Leone) Non si parli che di fede (from Marco Aurelio) |
Autumn 2012 marks the release of Mission, a sensational new album from the world’s best-selling classical artist, Cecilia Bartoli, and a project with international politics, religious conflict, diplomatic secrecy, spying and sensational music at its heart. The album showcases the music of a little-known Italian composer and will include solo arias of various moods and styles, several duets, solo numbers with chorus - all sung in Italian - and instrumental interludes that create an organic transition from one piece to the next and an arc that reaches from the beginning to the end of the album. Such was the appeal of the project that longtime Bartoli admirer and global best-selling author Donna Leon decided to write a mystery novel - Jewels of Paradise - to accompany Cecilia’s album, which uses the mystery surrounding the composer’s story as the centre of its plot. Jewels of Paradise will be released simultaneously with Cecilia Bartoli’s album in English (UK and USA), German, French, Dutch, Spanish and Catalan. Among the distinguished names appearing on Mission is star French counter-tenor Philippe Jaroussky who features in a first-time collaboration with Cecilia on a selection of duets, alongside the Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera, the period orchestra I Barocchisti from Lugano, Switzerland, and conductor Diego Fasolis. A cinematographic vision of the album directed by Olivier Simonnet and filmed in the historic Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors) and in the gardens of the Chateau de Versailles “Bartoli's plummy mezzo soars, smoulders and seduces, milking the music's vocal and expressive scope to dramatic effect. It's hard to resist her sparkling personality and infectious passion for this repertoire...the animated playing of I Barocchisti enhance the sheer theatre and scale of Steffani's talent...this is truly a revelatory disc.” BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012 ***** “she sweeps through 25 numbers flexing her well-rehearsed vocabulary of flighty fioritura, expressive mannerism and tender vocalità. The melting duets with countertenor Philippe Jaroussky are worth hearing” Financial Times, 20th October 2012 “Bartoli is to be both congratulated and thanked for this project...Her dazzlingly virtuoso and urgently expressive performances betoken nothing less than total commitment, with every single aria delivered with as much dramatic intensity and focus as if it had been lifted straight from a fully staged production...it is hard to know what more one could ask for” Gramophone Magazine, December 2012 “I can't think of another singer who brings such variety of colour, nuance and pathos to slow numbers...Bartoli's performance of the more bravura numbers...is more questionable...Vocal fireworks have always been essential weapons in the Bartoli armoury, but they are now sounding rusty...I don't want to end on a negative note, as there is much to admire and even love here...'Mission' is in every sense a collector's item.” International Record Review, December 2012 “Among the opera arias Ms. Bartoli dug up in the archives are some treasures, hypnotic, slow numbers in which voice and accompanying strings circle each other like spinning planets and jubilant vehicles for her rapid-fire coloratura singing. Mr. Fasolis stokes the fire with an impetuous period-instrument ensemble.” New York Times, 23rd November 2012 “Bartoli’s programming instincts are immaculate in terms of musical and emotional variety; she is compelling in pearly arioso and slow numbers, less so in bravura ones.” Sunday Times, 14th October 2012 “Bartoli's vocal mannerisms vex and delight – sometimes simultaneously. But for those seduced by the 2010 Royal Opera House production of Niobe, Regina di Tebe, this selection will be irresistible.” The Independent on Sunday, 18th November 2012 “Steffani’s art is elegantly expressive, Italianate with French dressing...Several brazen display arias are here...Bartoli leaps around the vocal ladder with customary gusto and a rather too vigorous vibrato. The pleasures are subtler when the music is simpler and the voice quieter...Notte amica, say, from La Libertà contenta, or the silky caress of Sfere amiche...These two tracks were definitely worth Bartoli shaving her head.” The Times, 21st September 2012 *** |
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Steffani: | Schiere invitte, non tardate (from Alarico il Baltha) Ogni core può sperar (from Servio Tullio) Ove son? Chi m'aita? In mezzo all'ombre...Dal mio petto (from Niobe) Più non v'ascondo (from Tassilone) Amami, e vederai (from Niobe) T'abbraccio, mia Diva...Ti stringo, mio Nume (from Niobe) Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) Mie fide schiere, all'armi!...Suoni, tuoni, il suolo scuota (from I trionfi del fato) Sposa, mancar mi sento...Deh non far colle tue lagrime (from Tassilone) Non prendo consiglio (from La superbia d'Alessandro) Si, si, riposa, o caro...Palpitanti sfere belle (from Alarico il Baltha) Notte amica al cieco Dio (from La libertà contenta) Combatton quest'alma (from I trionfi del fato) Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) A facile vittoria (from Tassilone) Tra le guerre e le vittorie (from La superbia d'Alessandro) Foschi crepuscoli (from La libertà contenta) Dell'alma stanca a raddolcir le tempre...Sfere amiche, or date al labbro (from Niobe) La cerasta più terribile (from La lotta d'Hercole con Acheloo) Serena, o mio bel sole...Mia fiamma/Mio ardore (from Niobe) Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) Dal tuo labbro amor m'invita (from Tassilone) Deh stancati, o sorte (from La libertà contenta) Svenati, struggiti, combatti, suda (from La libertà contenta) Padre, s'è colpa in lui (from Tassilone) Timori, ruine (from Le rivali concordi) Morirò fra strazi e scempi (from Henrico Leone) Non si parli che di fede (from Marco Aurelio) |
Autumn 2012 marks the release of Mission, a sensational new album from the world’s best-selling classical artist, Cecilia Bartoli, and a project with international politics, religious conflict, diplomatic secrecy, spying and sensational music at its heart. The album showcases the music of a little-known Italian composer and will include solo arias of various moods and styles, several duets, solo numbers with chorus - all sung in Italian - and instrumental interludes that create an organic transition from one piece to the next and an arc that reaches from the beginning to the end of the album. Such was the appeal of the project that longtime Bartoli admirer and global best-selling author Donna Leon decided to write a mystery novel - Jewels of Paradise - to accompany Cecilia’s album, which uses the mystery surrounding the composer’s story as the centre of its plot. Jewels of Paradise will be released simultaneously with Cecilia Bartoli’s album in English (UK and USA), German, French, Dutch, Spanish and Catalan. Among the distinguished names appearing on Mission is star French counter-tenor Philippe Jaroussky who features in a first-time collaboration with Cecilia on a selection of duets, alongside the Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera, the period orchestra I Barocchisti from Lugano, Switzerland, and conductor Diego Fasolis. A cinematographic vision of the album directed by Olivier Simonnet and filmed in the historic Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors) and in the gardens of the Chateau de Versailles will be available on DVD later in the year. “Bartoli's plummy mezzo soars, smoulders and seduces, milking the music's vocal and expressive scope to dramatic effect. It's hard to resist her sparkling personality and infectious passion for this repertoire...the animated playing of I Barocchisti enhance the sheer theatre and scale of Steffani's talent...this is truly a revelatory disc.” BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2012 ***** “she sweeps through 25 numbers flexing her well-rehearsed vocabulary of flighty fioritura, expressive mannerism and tender vocalità. The melting duets with countertenor Philippe Jaroussky are worth hearing” Financial Times, 20th October 2012 ** “Bartoli is to be both congratulated and thanked for this project...Her dazzlingly virtuoso and urgently expressive performances betoken nothing less than total commitment, with every single aria delivered with as much dramatic intensity and focus as if it had been lifted straight from a fully staged production...it is hard to know what more one could ask for.” Gramophone Magazine, December 2012 “I can't think of another singer who brings such variety of colour, nuance and pathos to slow numbers...Bartoli's performance of the more bravura numbers...is more questionable...Vocal fireworks have always been essential weapons in the Bartoli armoury, but they are now sounding rusty...I don't want to end on a negative note, as there is much to admire and even love here...'Mission' is in every sense a collector's item.” International Record Review, December 2012 “Among the opera arias Ms. Bartoli dug up in the archives are some treasures, hypnotic, slow numbers in which voice and accompanying strings circle each other like spinning planets and jubilant vehicles for her rapid-fire coloratura singing. Mr. Fasolis stokes the fire with an impetuous period-instrument ensemble.” New York Times, 23rd November 2012 “Bartoli’s programming instincts are immaculate in terms of musical and emotional variety; she is compelling in pearly arioso and slow numbers, less so in bravura ones.” Sunday Times, 14th October 2012 “Bartoli's vocal mannerisms vex and delight – sometimes simultaneously. But for those seduced by the 2010 Royal Opera House production of Niobe, Regina di Tebe, this selection will be irresistible.” The Independent on Sunday, 18th November 2012 **** “Steffani’s art is elegantly expressive, Italianate with French dressing...Several brazen display arias are here...Bartoli leaps around the vocal ladder with customary gusto and a rather too vigorous vibrato. The pleasures are subtler when the music is simpler and the voice quieter...Notte amica, say, from La Libertà contenta, or the silky caress of Sfere amiche...These two tracks were definitely worth Bartoli shaving her head.” The Times, 21st September 2012 *** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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“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, an alluring Clorinda, inventive and elaborate continuo playing (fortepiano, cello, and double-bass), sensible but not excessive stage 'production'” Gramophone Magazine, November 1993 | | | (Sorry, download not available in your country) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | The Opera Album 2011
Bizet: | Votre toast je peux vous le rendre 'Toreador Song' (from Carmen) Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone) L'amour est un oiseau rebelle 'Habanera' (from Carmen) Tatiana Troyanos (mezzo) Au fond du temple saint (from Les Pêcheurs de Perles) Luciano Pavarotti (tenor), Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass) La fleur que tu m'avais jetée (from Carmen) Plácido Domingo (tenor) Les tringles des sistres tintaient (from Carmen) Magdalena Kozená (mezzo) | Delibes: | Lakmé: Dôme épais (Flower Duet) Joan Sutherland (soprano), Jane Berbié (mezzo) | Donizetti: | Una furtiva lagrima (from L'elisir d'amore) Juan Diego Flórez (tenor) | Dvorak: | Mesícku na nebi hlubokém 'Song to the Moon' (from Rusalka) Pilar Lorengar (soprano) | Gluck: | Che faro' senza Euridice? (from Orfeo ed Euridice) Andreas Scholl (countertenor) | Gounod: | Ah! Je veux vivre dans ce rêve (from Roméo et Juliette) Renée Fleming (soprano) Gloire immortelle de nos aïeux (from Faust) Richard Bonynge | Handel: | Lascia ch'io pianga (from Rinaldo) Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo) Ombra mai fu (from Serse) Andreas Scholl (countertenor) | Leoncavallo: | Vesti la giubba (from I Pagliacci) Jonas Kaufmann (tenor) | Mozart: | Der Vogelfänger bin ich, ja (from Die Zauberflöte) Hermann Prey (baritone) La ci darem la mano (from Don Giovanni) Ingvar Wixell (baritone), Mirella Freni (soprano) Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen (from Die Zauberflöte) Patricia Petibon (soprano) | Offenbach: | Barcarolle (from Les Contes d'Hoffmann ) Joan Sutherland (soprano), Huguette Tourangeau (mezzo) Le jugement de Pâris - Au Mont Ida (from La Belle Hélène) Joseph Calleja (tenor) | Puccini: | Quando me'n vo (from La Bohème) Anna Netrebko (soprano) E lucevan le stelle (from Tosca) Andrea Bocelli (tenor) Humming Chorus (from Madama Butterfly) Giuseppe Sinopoli Nessun dorma (from Turandot) Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) Vissi d'arte (from Tosca) Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) Si, mi chiamano Mimi (from La Bohème) Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) Signore, ascolta! (from Turandot) Montserrat Caballé (soprano) Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (from La Rondine) Renata Tebaldi (soprano) | Rossini: | Una voce poco fa (from Il barbiere di Siviglia) Teresa Berganza (mezzo) Largo al factotum (from Il barbiere di Siviglia) Leo Nucci (baritone) | Saint-Saëns: | Mon cœur s'ouvre à ta voix (from Samson et Dalila) Marilyn Horne (mezzo) | Verdi: | Anvil Chorus (from Il Trovatore) Sir Georg Solti La donna è mobile (from Rigoletto) Roberto Alagna (tenor) Libiamo, ne' lieti calici (from La Traviata) Plácido Domingo (tenor), Ileana Cotrubas (soprano) Di quella pira (from Il trovatore) José Carreras (tenor) Sempre libera (from La Traviata) Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano) Questa o quella (from Rigoletto) Rolando Villazón (tenor) Va, pensiero (from Nabucco) Silvio Varviso Celeste Aida (from Aida) Luciano Pavarotti (tenor) | Wagner: | Mild und leise 'Isolde's Liebestod' (from Tristan und Isolde) Birgit Nilsson (soprano) |
This magnificent collection features the some of the greatest opera stars of all time: Cecilia Bartoli, Anna Netrebko, Bryn Terfel, Renée Fleming, Andrea Bocelli Luciano Pavarotti, Dame Joan Sutherland, Plácido Domingo, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and José Carreras. With a carefully chosen selection of perennially popular arias, duets and choruses, this enchanting collection creates the perfect introduction to opera. With 40 tracks and over 2½ hours of music this collection is outstanding value for money. Includes Pavarotti’s classic recording of the most popular opera aria of all, Puccini’s ‘Nessun dorma’. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Cecilia Bartoli: Sospiri
Bellini: | Ah, non credea mirarti (from La Sonnambula) with Juan Diego Flórez Orchestra La Scintilla, Alessandro de Marchi Casta Diva (from Norma) | Caldara: | Quel buon pastor son io Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini | Fauré: | Requiem: Pie Jesu Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia & Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Myung-Whun Chung | Franck, C: | Panis Angelicus with Cinzia Maurizio, Luigi Piovano & Daniele Rossi | Giacomelli: | Sposa non mi conosci (from Merope) | Handel: | Lascia la spina (from Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno) Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski | Mozart: | Voi che sapete (from Le nozze di Figaro - Vienna version) Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado La ci darem la mano (from Don Giovanni) with Bryn Terfel Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Myung-Whun Chung Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, K339: Laudate Dominum Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia & Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Myung-Whun Chung | Persiani: | Cari Giorni Orchestra La Scintilla, Adam Fischer | Rossini: | Una voce poco fa (from Il barbiere di Siviglia) International Chamber Soloists & Orchestra La Scintilla, Adam Fischer | Vivaldi: | Gelido in ogni vena (from Il Farnace, RV711) |
Cecilia Bartoli is loved the world over for vocal fireworks and spectacular coloratura, but she is also adored for her spine-tingling pianissimi and her ability to shape endless, velvety phrases. For the first time, this product will focus on the irresistibly sensual side of Cecilia Bartoli's art. It has been conceived as a popular “mood” or lifestyle compilation — presenting quieter arias showcasing Cecilia's vocal beauty, sensuality and emotion. “Sospiri” is designed to present this most accessible aspect of Cecilia Bartoli's art to the broadest popular-classical market. “Sospiri” will contain favourite arias by Mozart and Handel, bel canto jewels by Bellini and Rossini and treasures by Vivaldi as well as music which Cecilia Bartoli has “rediscovered” on her recent record-breaking solo albums. For Cecilia’s existing fans, the Prestige Edition includes a previously unreleased aria and world premiere recording of Vinci’s Cervo in bosco, one of Farinelli’s calling card arias. Both formats include a new interpretation of Rosina's aria Una voce poco fa, from Il Barbiere di Siviglia - the dazzling aria of young love, the role in which Cecilia Bartoli first shot to international stardom. She infuses this new interpretation with all her knowledge of the baroque and classical tradition on which Rossini’s music was founded, her experience of period practice and critical reading of the manuscripts, together with a playfulness and variety of colors which she has acquired over the years. On this track recorded during the Maria sessions Cecilia Bartoli is accompanied by a fantastic period practice orchestra, Orchestra La Scintilla. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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