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| |  | Classical Music: 25 Legendary Albums
Bach, J S: | Goldberg Variations, BWV988 Glenn Gould (piano) St Matthew Passion, BWV244 Tölzer Knabenchor & La Petite Bande, Gustav Leonhardt Cello Suites Nos. 1-6, BWV1007-1012 Yo-Yo Ma (cello) | Bartók: | Romanian Dances Laurent Korcia (violin) & Georges Pludermacher (piano) Violin Sonata No. 1, BB 84, Sz. 75 Laurent Korcia (violin) & Georges Pludermacher (piano) | Beethoven: | Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67 New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein | Bloch, E: | Nigun (Baal Shem No. 2) Laurent Korcia (violin) & Georges Pludermacher (piano) | Brahms: | Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77 Jascha Heifetz (violin) Fritz Reiner Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 Bruno Walter Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90 Bruno Walter | Chopin: | Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 Jean-Marc Luisada (piano) | Debussy: | La Mer Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch Printemps, suite for piano 4 hands or orchestra, L. 61 Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch Estampes (3) (Complete) Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch | Dvorak: | Piano Quintet in A major, Op. 81 Jean-Marc Luisada (piano) Talich Quartet Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op. 88 The Cleveland Orchestra, Georges Szell Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 'From the New World' The Cleveland Orchestra, Georges Szell | Enescu: | Violin Sonata No. 3 in A minor, Op. 25 'dans le caractère populaire roumain' Laurent Korcia (violin) & Georges Pludermacher (piano) | Hildegard: | Canticles Of Ecstasy | Mendelssohn: | Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 49 Isaac Stern (violin), Leonard Rose (cello) & Eugene Istomin (piano) Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor, Op. 66 Isaac Stern (violin), Leonard Rose (cello) & Eugene Istomin (piano) | Mozart: | Requiem in D minor, K626 Nikolaus Harnoncourt Symphony No. 35 in D major, K385 'Haffner' The Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell Symphony No. 39 in E flat major, K543 The Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K550 The Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell | Orff: | Carmina Burana Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa | Rachmaninov: | Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 Vladimir Horowitz (piano) Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 36 Vladimir Horowitz (piano) | Ravel: | Ma Mère l'Oye New York Philharmonic, Pierre Boulez Rapsodie Espagnole New York Philharmonic, Pierre Boulez Tzigane Laurent Korcia (violin) & Georges Pludermacher (piano) | Rodrigo: | Concierto de Aranjuez John Williams (guitar) English Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim Fantasia para un Gentilhombre English Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim | Schubert: | Symphony No. 9 in C major, D944 'The Great' Berlin Philharmonic, Günter Wand | Tchaikovsky: | Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 Jascha Heifetz (violin) Fritz Reiner | Villa-Lobos: | Guitar Concerto John Williams (guitar) English Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim | Vivaldi: | The Four Seasons Venice Baroque Orchestra |
plus: Hildegard von Bingen: Canticle of Ectasy Antonio Vivaldi: 3 Violin Concertos Frédéric Chopin: Waltzes Gioachino Rossini: Arias & Duets Gioacchino Rossini: Overtures Caballé sings Bellini & Donizetti Johann Strauss & Joseph Strauss: New Year’s Concert
This series of recordings brings together great works from the repertory played by renowned performers. From Bach to Debussy, Vivaldi to Rachmaninoff, as well as more specific areas such as the Medieval mysticism of the Songs of Ecstasy by Hildegard von Bingen (12th century) and the heady rhythms of the waltzes and polkas from the New Year’s Concert, each work is paired with an exceptional artist who left a lasting musical mark on the interpretation of each masterpiece. Glenn Gould unveils the astonishing cantabile emerging out of the stolid contrapuntal lines of Bach’s Goldberg Variations, in a personal and enthusiastic interpretation, Arthur Rubinstein, peerless in the elegant and unadorned fluidity of Chopin’s Waltzes, renews interpretation of Chopin’s music without sentimentality and mannerism that were previously Chopin’s bedfellows. Charles Munch shows his passion for 20th-century French music through his readings imbued with classical transparency and Pierre Boulez brings a painstakingly refined interpretation of Ravel’s unfalteringly rigorous works to the fore. The German symphonic repertory features prominently in this record collection, as in all classical collections, represented by several of the most important works in this area. Beethoven’s Fifth and Seventh Symphonies conducted by the energetic Leonard Bernstein. Schubert is also included with his Ninth Symphony “the Great,” conducted with lyricism and sensitivity by Günter Wand, as is Brahms whose First and Third Symphonies are enlivened by Bruno Walter’s very human touch. George Szell breathes life into three of the most significant Mozart symphonies (nos. 35, 39 and 40), bringing out marvellous internal balance with precise phrasing Among the other benchmark recordings may be cited the eminently dramatic version of the Mozart Requiem by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, the tragic and restrained power of Bach’s Saint Matthew Passion by Gustav Leonhardt, the dynamic thrust of Carmina Burana under Seiji Ozawa or, in a different register, the flamboyant virtuosity of Horowitz in Rachmaninoff, the violin lyricism of Isaac Stern, the fiery temperament of Laurent Korcia or the integrity of Yo-Yo Ma in the Suites for cello by Bach. All these recordings enable the listener to enter on sure footing into the highly personal world of each of the composers, guided by musicians of great integrity and unparalleled artistry. | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | Live Recording from The Teatro Alla Scala, 1994
Set Design by Susanna Rossi Jost Costume Design by Roberta Guidi di Bagno This DVD presents a sophisticated staging of Donizetti’s wittiest opera, Don Pasquale. This production was performed at the world famous Scala in Milan. It was directed by Stefano Vizioli, who was praised for stripping the piece of any clichés acquired over a century-and-a-half of performing tradition, and making the characters truly live and breathe. The approach emphasised the unaffected brightness and gaiety of the opera, especially as the director was brilliantly supported by a pre-eminent international cast of singer-actors. From the uproarious orchestral guffaw that opens the piece onwards, Riccardo Muti’s reading reveals a flexibility and poise that matches the overall intention to take the opera’s humour seriously. In a recent interview, Muti emphasised the vein of melancholy that runs through Don Pasquale, and stressed how much the libretto contributes to the perfection of the opera as a whole, how the composer manages to bend the music to the text, and bring out the deep meaning of every word. This Scala production embodied his conviction, in a performance marked by ‘absolute clarity of diction, the right emphasis for every word’ as the press hailed. Sound Format: PCM Stereo, DD 5.1, DTS 5.1 Picture Format: 4:3 DVD Format: DVD 9, NTSC Subtitle Languages: IT, GB, DE, FR, ES Running Time: 130 mins FSK: 0 “This is a classic account of Donizetti's adorable opera, with superb conducting by Riccardo Muti, and a virtually flawless cast; and it's ravishing to look at too.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2011 ***** “a scintillating performance...in which the La Scala Orchestra plays as if wound up to its highest pitch of tension, every tutti razor-sharp, every wind solo bubbling with energy. Recorded in 1994, this production caught Muti's reign at the height of his power and he presides over the performance with imperial authority.” Gramophone Magazine, April 2011 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Bel Canto: The Beautiful Voices of Italian Opera
Bellini: | Norma Rome, 29th June 1955 Maria Callas (Norma), Mario del Monaco (Pollione), Ebe Stignani (Adalgisa), Giuseppe Modesti (Oroveso) RAI Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Rome, Tullio Serafin I Puritani Rome, 8th July 1969 Mirella Freni (Elvira), Luciano Pavarotti (Arturo), Sesto Bruscantini (Riccardo), Bonaldo Giaotti (Giorgio) RAI Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Rome, Riccardo Muti | Donizetti: | L'elisir d'amore Florence, 1967 Renata Scotto (Adina), Carlo Bergonzi (Nemorino), Giuseppe Taddei (Belcore), Carlo Cava (Dulcamara) Orchestra & Chorus of the Florence May Festival, Gianandrea Gavazzeni Lucia di Lammermoor Turin, 30th June 1967 Luciano Pavarotti (Edgardo), Renata Scotto (Lucia), Gianfranco Maganotti (Arturo), Piero Cappuccilli (Enrico) RAI Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Turin, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli La Fille du Régiment 13th February 1970 Beverly Sills (Marie), Grayson Hirst (Tonio), Fernando Corena (Sulpice), Muriel Greenspon (La Marquise) American Opera Society, Roland Gagnon | Rossini: | Il barbiere di Siviglia 16th February 1956 Maria Callas (Rosina), Tito Gobbi (Figaro), Luigi Alva (Almaviva), Nicola Rossi-Lemeni (Don Basilio) Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala Milan, Carlo Maria Giulini La Cenerentola Florence, May 1971 Teresa Berganza (Angelina), Luigi Alva (Ramiro), Renato Capecci (Dandini) Orchestra & Chorus of the Florence May Festival, Claudio Abbado |
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| |  | The World's Most Romantic OperasSeven Complete Operas
Beethoven: | Fidelio, Op. 72 Salzburg, 1969 Christa Ludwig (Leonore), James King (Florestan), Franz Crass (Rocco), Edith Mathis (Marzelline) Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Philharmonic, Karl Böhm | Donizetti: | L'elisir d'amore Florence, 2nd June 1967 Renata Scotto (Adina), Carlo Bergonzi (Nemorino), Giuseppe Taddei (Belcore), Carlo Cava (Dulcamara) Orchestra and Chorus of the Florence May Festival, Gianandrea Gavazzeni | Giordano, U: | Andrea Chénier Vienna, 26th June 1960 Franco Corelli (Chenier), Renata Tebaldi (Maddalena), Ettore Bastianini (Carlo Gerard), Margarete Sjöstedt (Bersi) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Lovro von Matacic | Gluck: | Orfeo ed Euridice Turin, 30th June 1970 Shirley Verrett (Orfeo), Antonietta Stella (Euridice) RAI Orchestra and Chorus, Seiji Ozawa | Massenet: | Manon Sung in Italian; Milan, 3rd June 1969 Mirella Freni (Manon), Luciano Pavarotti (Des Grieux), Rolando Panerai (Lescaut), Antonio Zerbini (Le Comte de Grieux) Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala, Peter Maag | Puccini: | La Bohème Rome, 17th July 1969 Luciano Pavarotti (Rodolfo), Mirella Freni (Mimi), Sesto Bruscantini (Marcello), Rita Talarico (Musetta) RAI Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Thomas Schippers | Verdi: | La Traviata Tokyo, 18th September 1973 Renata Scotto (Violetta), José Carreras (Alfredo), Sesto Bruscantini (Germont), Anna Pedrotti (Annina) Orchestra and Chorus of La Scala, Nino Verchi |
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| |  | Montserrat Caballé
Bellini: | Norma Orange, 20th July 1974 Montserrat Caballé (Norma), Jon Vickers (Pollione), Josephine Veasey (Adalgisa), Agostino Ferrin (Oroveso) Orchestra & Chorus of Teatro Regio, Turin, Giuseppe Patane | Cilea: | Adriana Lecouvreur Paris, 7th April 1975 Montserrat Caballé (Adriana Lecouvreur), Placido Domingo (Maurizio), Janet Coster (Princess de Bouillon), Orazio Mori (Prince de Bouillon) Lyric Orchestra of Radio France, Gianfranco Masini | Donizetti: | Lucrezia Borgia New York, 20th April 1965 Montserrat Caballé (Lucrezia), Alain Vanzo (Gennaro), Kostas Paskalis (Don Alfonso), Jane Berbié (Orsini) Jonel Perlea Gemma Di Vergy Naples, 12th December 1975 Montserrat Caballé (Gemma), Renato Bruson (Count di Vergy), Bianca Maria Casoni (Ida di Greville), Giorgio Caellato Lamberti (Tamas) Orchestra & Chorus of Teatro San Carlo, Naples, Armando Gatto | Puccini: | Madama Butterfly Madrid, 12th June 1968 Montserrat Caballé (Butterfly), Bernabé Marti (Pinkerton), Manuel Ausensi (Sharpless), Carmen Rigai (Suzuki) Orchestra & Chorus of Spanish Radio & Television, Gianfranco Rivoli | Strauss, R: | Salome Rome, 15th June 1971 Montserrat Caballé (Salome), Siegmund Nimsgern (Jokanaan), Beverly Wolff (Herodias), Karlheinz Thiemann (Herod) RAI Orchestra & Chorus, Rome, Zubin Mehta Arabella Rome, 1st December 1973 Montserrat Caballé (Arabella), Siegmund Nimsgern (Mandryka), René Kollo (Matteo), Kurt Moll (Waldner) RAI Orchestra & Chorus, Rome, Wolfgang Rennert |
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| |  | Mirella Freni
Bellini: | I Puritani Modena, 26th December 1962 Mirella Freni (Elvira), Alfredo Kraus (Arturo), Attilio D'Orazi (Riccardo), Raffaele Arie (Giorgio) Orchestra & Chorus of Teatro Communale, Modena, Nino Verchi | Donizetti: | La Figlia del Reggimento Milan, 11th February 1969 Mirella Freni (Maria), Luciano Pavarotti (Tonio), Vladimiro Ganzarolli (Sulpizio), Anna di Stasio (Marchesa di Birkenfeld) Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala Milan, Nino Sanzogno | Gounod: | Faust Milan, 16th February 1967 Gianni Raimondi (Faust), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Mephistopheles), Mirella Freni (Marguerite), Luigi Alva (Siebel) Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala Milan, George Prêtre | Handel: | Serse Milan, 19th July 1962 Luigi Alva (Serse), Mirella Freni (Romilda), Rolando Panerai (Arsamene), Fiorenza Cossotto (Atalanta) Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala Milan, Piero Bellugi | Mozart: | Le nozze di Figaro, K492 Salzburg, 31st July 1974 ose van Dam (Figaro), Mirella Freni (Susanna), Frederica von Stade (Cherubino), Tom Krause (Count Almaviva) Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus of the Vienna State Opera, Herbert von Karajan | Puccini: | La Bohème Rome, 17th July 1969 Luciano Pavarotti (Rodolfo), Mirella Freni (Mimi), Sesto Bruscantini (Marcello), Rita Talarico (Musetta) RAI Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Rome, Thomas Schippers |
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Bellini: | Beatrice di Tenda Turin, 9th October 1973 José Carreras (Orombello), Angeles Gulin (Beatrice), Renato Bruson (Filippo), Elena Zilio (Agnese) RAI Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Turin, Franco Mannino | Donizetti: | Maria Stuarda Paris, 26th March 1972 José Carreras (Leicester), Montserrat Caballé (Maria Stuarda), Michele Vilma Mendendez (Elisabetta), Maurizio Mazzieri (Talbot) Chorus & Lyric Orchestra of the ORTF, Nello Santi Caterina Cornaro London, 10th July 1972 José Carreras (Gerardo), Montserrat Caballé (Caterina), Lorenzo Saccomani (Lusignano), Enrique Serra (Andrea Cornaro) Orchestra & Chorus of Covent Garden, Carlo Felice Cillario | Verdi: | La Traviata Tokyo, 18th September 1973 José Carreras (Alfredo), Renata Scotto (Violetta), Sesto Bruscantini (Germont) Nino Verchi Un ballo in maschera Milan, 18th February 1975 José Carreras (Riccardo), Montserrat Caballé (Amelia), Renato Bruson (Renato), Margherita Guglielmi (Oscar) Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala Milan, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli Gerusalemme Turin, 20th December 1975 José Carreras (Gaston), Katia Ricciarelli (Helene), Sigmund Nimsgern (Roger), Alessandro Cassis (Count of Toulouse) RAI Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Turin, Gianandrea Gavazzeni Luisa Miller Turin, 9th May 1976 José Carreras (Rodolfo), Katia Ricciarelli (Luisa), Renato Bruson (Miller), Mario Rinaudo (Walter) Orchestra & Chorus of Teatro Regio Turin, Fernando Previtali |
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| |  | Renata Scotto
Bellini: | I Capuleti e I Montecchi Milan, 7th October 1967 Renata Scotto (Giulietta), Giacomo Aragall (Romeo), Luciano Pavarotti (Tebaldo), Alfredo Giacomotti (Lorenzo) Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala, Milan, Ettore Gracis La straniera Tokyo, 18th September 1973 Renata Scotto (Violetta), Jose Carreras (Alfredo), Sesto Bruscantini (Germont) Nino Verchi | Donizetti: | L'elisir d'amore Florence, 2nd June 1967 Renata Scotto (Adina), Carlo Bergonzi (Nemorino), Giuseppe Taddei (Belcore), Carlo Cava (Dulcamara) Orchestra & Chorus of the Florence May Festival, Gianandrea Gavazzeni Lucia di Lammermoor Turin, 30th June 1967 Renata Scotto (Lucia), Luciano Pavarotti (Edgardo), Piero Cappuccilli (Enrico), Gianfranco Maganotti (Arturo) RAI Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Turin, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli | Puccini: | Madama Butterfly Turin, 12th September 1967 Renata Scotto (Butterfly), Renato Cioni (Pinkerton), Alberto Rinaldi (Sharpless), Franca Mattiucci (Suzuki) RAI Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Turin, Arturo Basile | Verdi: | Rigoletto Florence, 19th November 1966 Renata Scotto (Gilda), Luciano Pavarotti (Duke), Kostas Paskalis (Rigoletto), Paolo Washington (Sparafucile) Orchestra & Chorus of the Teatro Communale, Florence, Carlo Maria Giulini |
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