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Includes a bonus introduction CD from the acclaimed Opera Explained series on Naxos Educational. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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Maria Caniglia (Aida), Benianimino Gigli (Radamès), Ebe Stignani (Amneris), Gino Bechi (Amonasro), Italo Tajo (Il Re di Egitto), Tancredi Pasero (Ramfis), Maria Huder (Una Sacerdotessa), Adelio Zagonora (Un Messaggero) Rome Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Tullio Serafin “It is an electrifying performance, with Serafin at his most magnetic leading an outstanding cast of principals, all with voices firm and true. Heralded by trumpets that vividly leap out of the speakers, Gigli launches into Celeste Aida at the start with a clarity and bravura that marks this whole performance.” Penguin Guide, 2010 edition *** | | | (also available to download from $16.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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““How beautifully she caressed the phrases [in the final duet] starting “Vedi? di morte l’angelo”, touching gently the notes marked staccato, ravishing the ear with the downward portamento from the high B-flat” Opera “This is arguably the finest commercial recording of an opera that Maria Callas ever made...[Gobbi and Callas's duet] has never been matched...Barbieri is an impressive Amneris. The mono sound is clean and generally well balanced in Mark Obert-Thorn's excellent transfer” Penguin Guide, 2010 edition *** | | | (also available to download from $16.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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Recorded in July 1955 at the Opera House, Rome This July 1955 recording, hailed in 1956 by The Gramophone as “the best complete Aida recorded to date” | | | (also available to download from $12.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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Francesco Ellero d' Artegna (bass), Barbara Dever (mezzo-soprano), Maria Dragoni (soprano), Riccardo Ferrari (bass), Kristjan Johannson (tenor), Mark Rucker (baritone) Ireland National Symphony Orchestra, Ricco Saccani “The most impressive performer is indeed the fiery, plush-voiced, confident Dever... Gragoni is an interesting, highly individual Aida with some temperament and a good high C.” American Record Guide, May/June 2001 | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Five-act version sung in Italian
Jaakko Ryhanen (Filippo II), Lars Cleveman (Don Carlo), Peter Mattei (Rodrigo), Bengt Rundgren (Il Grande Inquisitore), Hillevi Martinpelto (Elisabetta), Ingrid Tobiasson (Eboli), Iwa Sörenson (Tebaldo) Royal Swedish Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Alberto Hold-Garrido NB Though the cover of this disc gives the title as 'Don Carlos', this recording is sung in Italian. “a lively, incisive account...[Hold-Garrido draws] out the formidable talents of his company in a warmly idiomatic reading. It is more impressive that this is a repertory performance without imported stars” Penguin Guide, 2010 edition **/*** | | | (also available to download from $12.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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| |  | Four-act version in Italian
When the recording was reviewed in The Gramophone in November 1955 it was commented: “Gobbi goes from strength to strength … Rodrigo’s noble death scene elicits from this artist some of the loveliest baritone singing I have ever heard on record. With the cardinal rôles of the King and Posa finely done, with beautifully moulded tone-colour and phrasing …, for the contributions of Gobbi and Christoff, the bloom of Stella’s voice and for the sublime ultra-Verdian splendours of this score, lovingly handled by Santini, the set will repay attention”. Recorded in the Opera House, Rome on 5th-9th and 11th-14th October, 1954 “chiefly memorable for the incomparable contributions of Tito Gobbi and Boris Christoff...which have never been matched since...Gobbi's singing in the Death Scene is arguably the finest recorded performance that even this glorious artist ever made...The bitingly dark tone of Christoff as the King also goes with intense feeling for the dramatic situation.” Penguin Guide, 2010 edition **/*** | | | (also available to download from $12.50) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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Jaakko Ryhänen, Lars Cleveman, Peter Mattei, Bengt Rundgren, Hillevi Martinpelto, Ingrid Tobiasson, Iwa Sörenson, Klas Hedlund, Martti Wallén & Hilda Leidland Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Swedish Opera, Stockholm, Alberto Hold-Garrido | | | (also available to download from $6.00) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. (Available now to download.) |
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Anna Bonitatibus, Maurizio Comencini, Allesandro Cosentino, Enrico Facini, Julia Faulkner, Franco de Grandis, Anna Maria di Micco, Robetrto Servile, Domenico Trimarchi Hungarian State Opera Orchestra, Hungarian State Opera Chorus, Will Humburg | | | (also available to download from $10.75) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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