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Verdi: Aida

Anja Harteros (Aida), Jonas Kaufmann (Radamès), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Amneris), Ludovic Tezier (Amonasro), Erwin Schrott (Ramfis), Marco Spotti (Il Re d'Egitto), Paolo Fanale (Un Messaggero), Eleonora Buratto (Sacerdotessa), Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano

Anja Harteros can boast both the high-octane tone and the necessary level of dramatic expression to make Aida credibly three dimensional…[Ekaterina Semenchuk makes] many subtle observations pertinent... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2015 More…

Release Date: 20th Oct 2023
Catalogue No: 5419764081
Label: Warner Classics
Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

2nd October 2015
Sunday Times

2015

Albums of the Year
BBC Music Magazine

November 2015

Recording of the Month
BBC Music Magazine Awards

2016

Winner (Opera) and Recording of the Year
Gramophone Magazine

Awards Issue 2015

Recording of the Month
Record Review

October 2015

Record of the Week
Building a Library

April 2017

Also Recommended
Gramophone Awards

2016

Winner - Opera
Presto Recordings of the Year

Winner 2015
Diapason d’Or de l’Année

2015

Winner - Opéra

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Verdi: Aida

Work length2:25:21

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Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Ekaterina Semenchuk (mezzo-soprano), Anja Harteros (soprano), Eleonora Buratto (soprano), Erwin Schrott (baritone), Paolo Fanale (tenor), Ludovic Tézier (baritone), Erwin Schrott (bass), Marco Spotti (bass)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia
Antonio Pappano

Aïda: Preludio

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"Sì: corre voce che l'Etiope ardisca" (Ramfis, Radamès)

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"Se quel guerrier io fossi!" (Radamès)

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"Celeste Aida" (Radamès)

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"Quale insolita gioia nel tuo sguardo!" (Amneris, Radamès)

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"Vieni, o diletta, appressati" (Amneris, Aida, Radamès)

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"Alta cagion v'aduna" (King, Messenger, Radamès, Ramfis, Priests, Ministers, Captains, Aida)

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"Su! del Nilo al sacro lido" (King, Ramfis, Ministers, Captains, Aida, Radamès, Amneris, Priests, Messenger)

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"Ritorna vincitor!" (Aida)

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"Possente, possente Fthà" (Verdi: Aïda, Act 1: "Possente, possente Fthà" (High Priestess, Ramfis, Priests, Priestesses)

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"Sacred dance of the Priestesses" (Priestesses, Ramfis, Priests)

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"Mortal, diletto ai Numi" (Ramfis, Priests)

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"Nume custode e vindice" (Ramfis, Radamès, Priests, Priestesses)

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"Chi mai fra gl'inni e I plausi" (Slaves, Amneris)

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Dance of the Moorish slaves

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"Vieni: sul, crin ti piovano" (Slaves, Amneris)

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"Fu la sorte dell'armi a' tuoi funesta" (Amneris, Aida)

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"Pietà ti prenda del mio dolor" (Aida, Amneris)

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"Su! del del Nilo a sacro lido" (Chorus, Amneris, Aida)

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"Gloria all'Egitto, ad Iside" (Chorus, Priests)

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Triumphal march

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Ballet

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"Vieni, o guerriero vindice" (Chorus, Priests)

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"Salvator della patria" (King, Radamès, Ramfis, Priests)

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"Che veggo! Egli? Mio padre!" (Aida, Amneris, Radamès, Ramfis, King, Priests, Chorus, Amonasro)

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"Ma tu, Re, tu signore possente" (Amonasro, Aida, Slaves, Prisoners, Ramfis, Priests, Amneris, King, Radamès)

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"O Re, pei sacri numi" (Radamès, King, Amneris,Priests, Chorus, Ramfis)

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"Gloria all' Egitto, ad Iside" (King,Slaves, Prisoners, Chorus, Ramfis, Priests, Aida, Radamès, Amneris, Amonasro)

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"O tu che sei d'Osiride" (Priests, Priestesses)

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"Vieni d'Iside al tempio" (Ramfis, Amneris, Priests, Priestesses)

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"Qui Radamès verrà!" (Aida)

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"O patria mia" (Aida)

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"Ciel! mio padre!" (Aida, Amonasro)

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"Rivedrai le foreste imbalsamate" (Amonasro, Aida)

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"In armi ora si desta il popol nostro" (Amonasro, Aida)

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"Padre! a costoro schiava non sono" (Amonasro, Aida)

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"Pur ti riveggo, mia dolce Aida" (Radamès, Aida)

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"Nel fiero anelito di nuova guerra" (Radamès, Aida)

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"Fuggiam gli ardori inospiti... Là, tra foreste vergini" (Aida, Radames)

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"Ma, dimmi: per qual via" (Aida, Radamès, Amonasro, Amneris, Ramfis)

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"L'abborrita rivale a me sfuggia" (Amneris)

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"Già i sacerdoti adunansi" (Amneris, Radamès)

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"Ah! tu dei vivere! " (Amneris, Radamès)

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"Ohimè! morir mi sento!" (Amneris)

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"Spirto del nume, sovra noi discendi!" (Ramfis, Priests, Amneris)

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"Radamès, Radamès, Radamès" (Ramfis, Priests, Amneris)

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"A lui vivo, la tomba!" (Amneris, Ramfis, Priests)

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"La fatal pietra sovra me si chiuse" (Radamès, Aida)

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"Presago il core della tua condanna" (Aida, Radamès)

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"Vedi? di morte l'angelo" (Aida, Priests, Priestesses, Radamès)

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"O terra, addio" (Aida, Radamès, Priests, Priestesses, Amneris,)

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‘Who needs elephants when the music sounds this good?’ declared The Times of this milestone recording event in Rome with its ‘luxurious, surely never-to-be-repeated cast’. Once again proving his mastery of Italian opera, Sir Antonio Pappano moves between sumptuous grandeur and touching intimacy.

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November 2015

Anja Harteros can boast both the high-octane tone and the necessary level of dramatic expression to make Aida credibly three dimensional…[Ekaterina Semenchuk makes] many subtle observations pertinent to the character's inner emotional world…In Kaufmann's hands 'Celeste Aida' registers as a magnificent soliloquy, and unusually he closes it with the immaculately soft finish Verdi asks for, but which few tenors can actually deliver.

Awards Issue 2015

This would always have been an event, a major (in several senses) studio opera recording. But it's also a performance absolutely worthy of the attention, and a superb addition to the catalogue.

December 2015

Pappano’s conducting, indeed, in its combination of disciplined musicianship, red-blooded vitality and echt-Italian lyrical naturalness puts me in mind of Serafin’s 1955 EMI-La Scala Aida—not because the new set is like the old (Pappano’s temple, boudoir and triumphal dance episodes unfold with a vigorous sensuousness unique in my experience of the work, each phrase balletically shaped and ‘breathed’), but because of the Verdian genuineness each manages to communicate from first to last.

2nd October 2015

The cast really couldn't be bettered today...[Kaufmann's] sublime 'Celeste Aida' sets the tone for a recording that's full of fresh insights and attention to detail whilst never sounding clinical or micro-managed...But in the final analysis the laurel-wreath must go to Pappano's wonderful Santa Cecilia Orchestra, who capture every facet of the score's astonishing emotional and dynamic range.

7th October 2015

The playing that Antonio Pappano obtains from the Santa Cecilia Orchestra wonderfully mixes refinement and power – it’s coloured with perfect finesse in the dances towards the end of the first act and in the nocturnal scene-painting that opens the third, while the great triumphal choruses have tremendous presence and energy.

New York Times 11th December 2015

fluid and elegantly dramatic...Kaufmann, in excellent voice, offers a poetic “Celeste Aida”; Ms. Harteros is touching in the title role. But it’s the orchestra, airy and alert, that carries this fresh and invaluable new recording.

The Daily Telegraph 26th October 2015

Verdi's epic of Ancient Egypt…comes thrillingly alive here in a superb new recording which could hardly be bettered today…[Pappano] leads the orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in a reading free of pomp and rhetoric that manages to combine crisp textural clarity with vivid drama. The playing is alert and precise throughout - enchantingly so in the delicious ballet music.

Verdi: Aida

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