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Verdi: | Aida recorded live in 1951 Maria Callas (Aida), Mario del Monaco (Radamès), Giuseppe Taddei (Amonasro), Oralia Dominguez (Amneris), Roberto Silva (Ramfis), Ignacio Ruffino (Il Re di Egitto), Rosa Rodríguez (Una Sacerdotessa), Carlos Sagarminaga (Un Messaggero) Orquesta y Coro del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Oliviero de Fabritiis Macbeth recorded live in 1952 Maria Callas (Lady Macbeth), Enzo Mascherini (Macbeth), Gino Penno (Macduff), Italo Tajo (Banco), Luciano della Pergola (Malcolm), Angela Vercelli (Dama), Dario Caselli (Medico), Attilio Barbesi (Domestico), Mario Tommasini (Sicaro) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Victor de Sabata La Traviata recorded live in 1955 Maria Callas (Violetta), Giuseppe di Stefano (Alfredo), Ettore Bastianini (Giorgio), Silvana Zanolli (Flora), Luisa Mandelli (Annina), Giuseppe Zampieri (Gastone), Arturo La Porta (Baron Douphol), Antonio Zerbini (Marchese d'Obigny), Silvio Maionica (Dottore Grenvil) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Carlo Maria Giulini Un ballo in maschera recorded live in 1957 Maria Callas (Amelia), Giuseppe di Stefano (Riccardo), Ettore Bastianini (Renato), Giulietta Simionato (Ulrica), Eugenia Ratti (Oscar), Giuseppe Morresi (Silvano), Antonio Cassinelli (Samuele), Marco Stefanoni (Tom) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Gianandrea Gavazzeni |
Maria Callas, one of the most celebrated sopranos of the 20th century, performed more roles by Verdi than by any other composer. With her supreme dramatic presence and stunning voice, Callas is revered for her command of Verdi’s style and her sensitive and convincing portrayal of his tragic heroines. This collection captures all the drama of Callas’s thrilling live performances in four of Verdi’s greatest operatic masterpieces and is one of the EMI Classics releases marking the bicentenary of the birth of Giuseppe Verdi, which will occur on 10 October 2013. | 
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| |  | Essential Choral
Excerpts from works by Allegri, JS Bach, Brahms, Fauré, Handel, Haydn, Mahler, Mendelssohn, Orff, Tavener, Vivaldi, Verdi and more
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| |  | Verdi: Requiem Mass & Te Deum
Originally released in 1986, this set was one of our classical best sellers for well over a decade, and was reissued in improved sound in 2003 due to popular demand. Harvey Sachs writes in his liner notes “Performances of the Verdi Requiem often emphasize the work’s dramatic aspects to the detriment of its lyricism, or vice-versa. Here, Toscanini balances these elements completely convincingly…we are unlikely to hear a more overwhelming performance of the work than this. “For a conductor famous for incandescence and relentless intensity, this account of the Requiem, from a Carnegie Hall concert of November 23, 1940, is most remarkable for its lyrical beauty and its breadth” Sunday Times, 10th March 2013 |
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| |  | Essential Opera Divas
Beethoven: | Abscheulicher! Wo eilst du hin? (from Fidelio) | Bellini: | Casta Diva (from Norma) | Donizetti: | Spargi d'amaro pianto (from Lucia di Lammermoor) | Dvorak: | Mesícku na nebi hlubokém 'Song to the Moon' (from Rusalka) | Gluck: | Dieux puissants que j'atteste… Jupiter, lance la foudre (from Iphigénie en Aulide) | Gounod: | Ah! Je ris de me voir (from Faust) Ah! Je veux vivre dans ce rêve (from Roméo et Juliette) | Handel: | Ma quando tornerai (from Alcina) | Korngold: | Glück, das mir verbleib 'Marietta's Lied' (from Die Tote Stadt) | Meyerbeer: | Ombra leggiera (Dinorah) | Mozart: | Dove sono i bei momenti (from Le nozze di Figaro) Or sai chi l'onore (from Don Giovanni) Batti, batti, o bel Masetto (from Don Giovanni) In quali eccessi ... Mi tradì quell'alma ingrate (from Don Giovanni) Non mi dir (from Don Giovanni) Der Hölle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen (from Die Zauberflöte) Ach, ich fühl's (from Die Zauberflöte, K620) Ruhe sanft, mein holdes Leben (from Zaïde) | Puccini: | Vissi d'arte (from Tosca) Si, mi chiamano Mimi (from La Bohème) Un bel di vedremo (from Madama Butterfly) Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (from La Rondine) O mio babbino caro (from Gianni Schicchi) In questa reggia (from Turandot) | Rossini: | Una voce poco fa (from Il barbiere di Siviglia) | Verdi: | D'amor sull'ali rosee (from Il Trovatore) Pace, pace mio Dio! (from La forza del destino) Ô ma chère compagne (from Don Carlos) Ave Maria (from Otello) | Vivaldi: | Il Bajazet (Il Tamerlano) : Anch'il mar par che sommerga | Wagner: | Dich, teure Halle (from Tannhauser) Euch Lüften, die mein Klagen (from Lohengrin) |
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| |  | French Army's Choir
French Army's Choir, Commandante Aurore Tillac, Capitaine Émilie Fleury Unique men’s professional choir in France, and founded in 1982, it numbers 45 singers. Part of the French Republican Guard, it’s the official choir of the republic of France. The choir regularly performs with the large French symphonic orchestras, under conductors such as Yutaka Sado, Christoph Eschenbach, Pierre Boulez, Michel Plasson, Peter Eötvos. |
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| |  | Verdi: Opera Highlights
Verdi: | Libiamo, ne' lieti calici (from La Traviata) È strano! è strano!...Ah! fors è lui (from La traviata) Parigi, o cara (from La Traviata) Caro nome (from Rigoletto) Cortigiani, vil razza dannata (from Rigoletto) La donna è mobile (from Rigoletto) Bella figlia dell'amore (from Rigoletto) Anvil Chorus (from Il Trovatore) Il balen del suo sorriso (from Il Trovatore) Ah sì ben mio (from Il trovatore) Di quella pira (from Il trovatore) D'amor sull'ali rosee (from Il Trovatore) Ai nostri monti (from Il trovatore) Va, pensiero (from Nabucco) Nel dì della vittoria … Ambizioso spirto … Vieni t'affretta! … Or tutti sorgete (Lady Macbeth) Ah, la paterna mano (from Macbeth) Di' tu se fedele (from Un ballo in maschera) Ecco l'orrido campo … Ma dall'arido stelo divulsa (from Un ballo in maschera) O tu che in seno agli angeli (from La Forza del Destino) Rataplan, rataplan, della gloria (from La forza del destino) Pace, pace mio Dio! (from La forza del destino) Dio, che nell'alma infondere (from Don Carlo) O don fatale (from Don Carlo) O Carlo, ascolta (from Don Carlo) Celeste Aida (from Aida) Ritorna vincitor! (from Aida) O terra, addio (from Aida) Era la notte (from Otello) Ave Maria (from Otello) L'onore! Ladri! (from Falstaff) Del tuo barbero diagnostico (from Falstaff) |
Renata Scotto, Montserrat Caballe, Mirella Freni, Leontyne Price, Beverly Sills, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (sopranos), Fiorenza Cossotto (mezzo), Placido Domingo, Alfredo Kraus, Jon Vickers, Carlo Bergonzi (tenors), Sherrill Milnes, Tito Gobbi (baritones) Riccardo Muti, Carlo Maria Giulini, Herbert von Karajan |
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| |  | Karajan Adagio: Music To Free Your Mind
Albinoni: | Adagio for Strings and Organ in G minor | Bach, J S: | Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV1068: Air ('Air on a G String') | Bizet: | L'Arlesienne Suite No. 1: III. Adagietto Carmen: Entr'acte to Act III (Intermezzo) | Chopin: | Les Sylphides - Nocturne Arr. Roy Douglas | Debussy: | Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune | Gluck: | Orfeo ed Euridice (Orphée et Euridice): Dance of the Blessed Spirits | Grieg: | Peer Gynt: Solveig's Song Peer Gynt: Ase's Death | Handel: | Concerto grosso, Op. 6 No. 12 in B minor, HWV330: III - Aria | Mahler: | Symphony No. 5 in C sharp minor - Adagietto | Mascagni: | Cavalleria Rusticana: Intermezzo | Massenet: | Meditation (from Thaïs) | Mozart: | Serenade No. 13 in G major, K525 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik': Romance (Andante) | Offenbach: | Barcarolle (from Les Contes d'Hoffmann ) Arranged by M. Rosenthal | Pachelbel: | Canon | Puccini: | Humming Chorus (from Madama Butterfly) | Ravel: | Pavane pour une infante défunte | Respighi: | Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 3, P. 172: III. Siciliana | Sibelius: | Valse Triste, Op. 44 No. 1 Lemminkäinen Suite, Op. 22: The Swan of Tuonela (No. 2) | Tchaikovsky: | Romeo & Juliet - Love Theme Serenade for strings in C major, Op. 48: III. Élégie | Verdi: | La traviata: Prelude to Act 3 | Vivaldi: | Winter from The Four Seasons (extract) Rain Concerto in A minor for Two Violins, RV 523: Largo | Wagner: | Mild und leise 'Isolde's Liebestod' (from Tristan und Isolde): orchestral version |
Karajan Adagio is the most successful classical collection of all time with nearly 4 million units sold since 1993. It has now been re-engineered, re-titled, and newly compiled for the 21st century. “Adagio Karajan” was the ORIGINAL CLASSICAL CHILL-OUT ALBUM. Over two-and-a-half hours of the world’s most relaxing music – from the most accomplished conductor of all time. Emphasizing classical music’s unique power in transporting the listener away from the stresses and strains of modern-day living - All over the world, consumers are searching for an escape, and the soothing sounds of “Karajan Adagio” can provide that. “Adagio” – the literal translation is “at ease”, with a slowness, with a tranquillity, and with a longing – the perfect antidote to the relentless pace of modern global living. |
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| |  | New Year's Concert 2013
Hellmesberger: | In Confidence - Polka-mazur, Op. 15 | Lanner: | Steyrische Tänze, Op. 165 | Strauss, J, I: | Erinnerung an Ernst oder Der Carneval in Venedig, Op. 126 | Strauss, J, II: | Kuss-Walzer, Op. 400 Aus den Bergen Walzer (From the Mountains), Op. 292 Melodien-Quadrille nach Verdi, Op. 112 Wo die Zitronen blühen, Op. 364 | Strauss, Josef: | Die Souberette, Polka schnell, Op. 109 Theater Quadrille, Op. 213 Sphärenklänge, Op. 235 Die Spinnerin, Polka francaise, Op. 192 Hesperus’ Path, Waltz, Op. 279 | Suppe: | Leichte Kavallerie Overture | Verdi: | Don Carlos: Ballet Music, Act III: Prestissimo | Wagner: | Lohengrin: Prelude to Act 3 |
"This was one of the most beautiful New Year's Concerts since Karajan and Kleiber. Franz Welser-Möst knows how the music of the Strauss-dynasty, the music of Lanner and Hellmesberger has to sound" Österreich on the 2011 NY Concert Sony Classical is pleased to announce the release of the recording of one of the world’s most famous classical music events: the New Year’s Concert 2013 with the Vienna Philharmonic under the baton of celebrated conductor, Franz Welser-Möst. He returns to direct the 2013 celebrations after his acclaimed debut in 2011. Maestro Welser-Mőst is the former Music Director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. The annual New Year's Day Concert in the stunning Vienna Musikverein has been an exalted tradition for more than seven decades and the resulting recordings with works from the Strauss dynasty and their contemporaries are among the classical market's most important releases. The concert will be broadcast on TV and radio to over 70 countries around the world with an estimate of more than 40 million viewers. The programme traditionally revolves around waltzes and polkas by the Strauss family (Johann father and son as well as Josef and Eduard Strauss) whose music has enjoyed recent chart resurgence. The proven formula blends well-known classics with premieres of works that have never been performed before at the New Year´s Concert and the result is invariably both joyful and moving. The programme will remain a closely guarded secret until a few days before the event, but it can already be revealed that in 2013 the concert will include more premieres than ever before and probably some unexpected surprises. As is tradition, the concert will include the famous waltz The Blue Danube and the Radetzky March. “Welser-Möst can cut a curiously professorial figure, but the playing he gets from the orchestra really sparkles in an offbeat programme that includes 11 New Year’s Day premieres” Sunday Times, 27th January 2013 |
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| |  | New Year's Concert 2013
Hellmesberger: | In Confidence - Polka-mazur, Op. 15 | Lanner: | Steyrische Tänze, Op. 165 | Strauss, J, I: | Erinnerung an Ernst oder Der Carneval in Venedig, Op. 126 | Strauss, J, II: | Kuss-Walzer, Op. 400 Aus den Bergen Walzer (From the Mountains), Op. 292 Melodien-Quadrille nach Verdi, Op. 112 Wo die Zitronen blühen, Op. 364 | Strauss, Josef: | Die Souberette, Polka schnell, Op. 109 Theater Quadrille, Op. 213 Sphärenklänge, Op. 235 Die Spinnerin, Polka francaise, Op. 192 Hesperus’ Path, Waltz, Op. 279 | Suppe: | Leichte Kavallerie Overture | Verdi: | Don Carlos: Ballet Music, Act III: Prestissimo | Wagner: | Lohengrin: Prelude to Act 3 |
"This was one of the most beautiful New Year's Concerts since Karajan and Kleiber. Franz Welser-Möst knows how the music of the Strauss-dynasty, the music of Lanner and Hellmesberger has to sound" Österreich on the 2011 NY Concert Sony Classical is pleased to announce the release of the recording of one of the world’s most famous classical music events: the New Year’s Concert 2013 with the Vienna Philharmonic under the baton of celebrated conductor, Franz Welser-Möst. He returns to direct the 2013 celebrations after his acclaimed debut in 2011. Maestro Welser-Mőst is the former Music Director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. The annual New Year's Day Concert in the stunning Vienna Musikverein has been an exalted tradition for more than seven decades and the resulting recordings with works from the Strauss dynasty and their contemporaries are among the classical market's most important releases. The concert will be broadcast on TV and radio to over 70 countries around the world with an estimate of more than 40 million viewers. The programme traditionally revolves around waltzes and polkas by the Strauss family (Johann father and son as well as Josef and Eduard Strauss) whose music has enjoyed recent chart resurgence. The proven formula blends well-known classics with premieres of works that have never been performed before at the New Year´s Concert and the result is invariably both joyful and moving. The programme will remain a closely guarded secret until a few days before the event, but it can already be revealed that in 2013 the concert will include more premieres than ever before and probably some unexpected surprises. As is tradition, the concert will include the famous waltz The Blue Danube and the Radetzky March. “This New Year's Concert adds Verdi and Wagner, in their anniversary year, to a quite unusual selection of Straussian pieces, with Welser-Möst a fine, serious conductor.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2013 ***** “Welser-Möst can cut a curiously professorial figure, but the playing he gets from the orchestra really sparkles in an offbeat programme that includes 11 New Year’s Day premieres” Sunday Times, 27th January 2013 |
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Hellmesberger: | In Confidence - Polka-mazur, Op. 15 | Lanner: | Steyrische Tänze, Op. 165 | Strauss, J, I: | Erinnerung an Ernst oder Der Carneval in Venedig, Op. 126 | Strauss, J, II: | Kuss-Walzer, Op. 400 Aus den Bergen Walzer (From the Mountains), Op. 292 Melodien-Quadrille nach Verdi, Op. 112 Wo die Zitronen blühen, Op. 364 | Strauss, Josef: | Die Souberette, Polka schnell, Op. 109 Theater Quadrille, Op. 213 Sphärenklänge, Op. 235 Hesperus’ Path, Waltz, Op. 279 Die Spinnerin, Polka francaise, Op. 192 | Suppe: | Leichte Kavallerie Overture | Verdi: | Don Carlos: Ballet Music, Act III: Prestissimo | Wagner: | Lohengrin: Prelude to Act 3 |
Sony Classical are proud to release the recording of one of the world’s most famous classical music events: the New Year’s Concert 2013 with the Vienna Philharmonic under the baton of celebrated conductor, Franz Welser-Möst. He returns to direct the 2013 celebrations after his acclaimed debut in 2011. Maestro Welser-Mőst is the former Music Director of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. Includes the famous waltz "The Blue Danube" & the "Radetzky March". Usual promo & marketing activity across specialist media. The DVD & Blu-Ray formats are released on 21st Jan. “Welser-Möst can cut a curiously professorial figure, but the playing he gets from the orchestra really sparkles in an offbeat programme that includes 11 New Year’s Day premieres” Sunday Times, 27th January 2013 |
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