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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Be My Love: A Tribute to Mario Lanza
Blessed with “a golden-age voice” (The Sunday Times) that routinely inspires comparisons with legendary singers from earlier eras, Joseph Calleja will follow the success of The Maltese Tenor with a tribute to one of the most popular tenors of all time; the unique “crossover” star of the Hollywood musical – Mario Lanza. This is an album that Joseph Calleja has always wanted to record. As a youth in Malta he saw Lanza in the cult film The Great Caruso and was so captivated that he gave up his predilection for Metallica and Iron Maiden and decided to become an opera singer “Calleja is not a Mario Lanza: he's a gifted lyric tenor with a voice that is most comfortable in the head...there's a nice throb in the voice in Lara's Granada...and Tosti's 'A vucchella' would seduce a slab of marble. But 'Vesti la giubba'. 'Cielo e mar' and 'Nessun dorma' all lack vocal drama.” BBC Music Magazine, December 2012 *** “an imaginative display of Calleja's art and interpretative approach, clearly captured by Decca's recording team.” International Record Review, December 2012 “Here is one of the most beautiful tenor voices now before the public, treated with musicality, style and feeling...but don’t expect the adrenalin kick that Mario Lanza was able to convey.” MusicWeb International, December 2012 “It's an unashamedly populist collection, Calleja rolling the Rs of "Granada" and "Arrivederci, Roma" with obvious relish in arrangements replete with castanets and trilling mandolins, before building to the full football climax with spirited renditions of "Nessun Dorma" and a mighty "You'll Never Walk Alone".” The Independent, 8th September 2012 *** “Calleja doesn’t suffer from...self-imposed comparisons: the voice is burnished and focused; the top notes whammy yet unforced; the legato tone garnished with saccharine slithers but not sloppy. Calleja doesn’t do final consonants; and sometimes you wish his conductor (Steven Mercurio) had encouraged more ebb and flow. But these throbbing ballads will delight Calleja’s fans.” The Times, 8th September 2012 *** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Enrico Caruso - Opera Arias and Songs Milan 1902-04
The ten sides the Italian tenor Enrico Caruso cut at the Grand Hotel, Milan, on 11 April 1902 are among the most historic of historical recordings. As John Steane notes in a wide-ranging essay that ideally complements this collection, these are legendary recordings by a legendary tenor. Indeed, Caruso’s fame, according to the old HMV catalogue, was perhaps the greatest ever attained by a singer. Steane sifts fact from fiction in the story of the producer Fred Gaisberg, wowed by Caruso at La Scala and determined to secure him for his company, agreeing the then huge fee of £100 for the ten arias and then receiving a cable from London that said ‘Fee exorbitant, forbid you to record’. Whatever the truth of that, the recording went ahead. Caruso came to the Grand Hotel that Friday afternoon ‘dressed like a dandy, twirling a cane’ with his accompanist Salvatore Cottone, and all was completed within two hours in the improvised studio Gaisberg had rigged up. Again, the new remastering by Abbey Road 78 expert Andrew Walter improves greatly on the recordings’ previous appearance on Références. Awards: Diapason d’Or, Timbre de Platine d’Opéra International, FFFF de Télérama | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Caruso 2000
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All tracks sung in French unless specified | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Be My Love: A Tribute to Mario LanzaPlease note - This is an LP vinyl record - NOT a CD!
Blessed with “a golden-age voice” (The Sunday Times) that routinely inspires comparisons with legendary singers from earlier eras, Joseph Calleja will follow the success of The Maltese Tenor with a tribute to one of the most popular tenors of all time; the unique “crossover” star of the Hollywood musical – Mario Lanza. This is an album that Joseph Calleja has always wanted to record. As a youth in Malta he saw Lanza in the cult film The Great Caruso and was so captivated that he gave up his predilection for Metallica and Iron Maiden and decided to become an opera-singer. “It's an unashamedly populist collection, Calleja rolling the Rs of "Granada" and "Arrivederci, Roma" with obvious relish in arrangements replete with castanets and trilling mandolins, before building to the full football climax with spirited renditions of "Nessun Dorma" and a mighty "You'll Never Walk Alone"” The Independent, 8th September 2012 *** “Calleja doesn’t suffer from...self-imposed comparisons: the voice is burnished and focused; the top notes whammy yet unforced; the legato tone garnished with saccharine slithers but not sloppy. Calleja doesn’t do final consonants; and sometimes you wish his conductor (Steven Mercurio) had encouraged more ebb and flow. But these throbbing ballads will delight Calleja’s fans.” The Times, 8th September 2012 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Tenor Arias Vol. 4Complete versions and orchestral backing tracks
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| |  | Il Mito dell'Opera: Martinucci, Vol. 2
Nicola Martinucci (tenor) | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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| |  | Best of Salvatore Licitra
Bach, J S: | Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV1068: Air ('Air on a G String') arr. as 'Solo Amore' | Bizet: | Au fond du temple saint (from Les Pêcheurs de Perles) | Cilea: | È la solita storia 'Lamento di Federico' (from L'Arlesiana) | Curtis, E: | Torna a Surriento | Giordano, U: | Come un bel dì di maggio (from Andrea Chénier) | Golijov: | Close your eyes | Leoncavallo: | Recitar!...Vesti la giubba (from I Pagliacci) | Ponchielli: | Cielo e mar! (from La Gioconda) | Puccini: | Nessun dorma (from Turandot) E lucevan le stelle (from Tosca) O dolce mani (from Tosca) Senti, l’ora è vicina (from Tosca) E non giungono (from Tosca) Addio, fiorito asil (from Madama Butterfly) Ah, quegli occhi… (from Tosca) Donna non vidi mai (from Manon Lescaut) | Sanfilippo: | Viaggio (after Faure) | Sartori: | Oltre la Tempesta | Verdi: | Mercè, diletti amici (from Ernani) Ah, la paterna mano (from Macbeth) Ah sì ben mio (from Il trovatore) L'onda de'suoni mistici (from Il Trovatore) Di quella pira (from Il trovatore) Forse la soglia attinse (from Un ballo in maschera) Oh! fede negar potessi (from Luisa Miller) Celeste Aida (from Aida) Di' tu se fedele (from Un ballo in maschera) | Wood, S: | Son gli occhi tuoi (after Gounod) Il Volo (after Rachmaninov's Vocalise) Fantasma d'amore |
The Italian Salvatore Licitra, who tragically died on September 5th 2011 after a motorbike accident, was one of the leading tenors of his generation in the highly sought-after dramatic Italian repertoire. A frequent guest at major opera and concert stages in Europe, the United States and the Far East, he was particularly devoted to Verdi repertoire. As a tribute to this exceptionally gifted artist we are releasing a selection of his best arias and songs taken from operas from the dramatic Italian oeuvre. Operas by Giuseppi Verdi and Giacomo Puccini feature heavily in the track-listing with each disc opening with a show-stopping famous tenor aria; Nessun Dorma and Celeste Aida respectively. The 2-CD set ends with five previously unreleased tracks - all well-loved Italian songs recorded with Marco Armiliato and The Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. “The occasional slips reflect a voice which, if not always perfect in control, was always alive with emotional intensity. His final recordings, poignant in their exuberance, include "Funiculi, Funiculà" and "O sole mio".” The Observer, 29th January 2012 | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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| |  | Berlin Opera NightRecorded live at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, 2003
Chor und Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Kent Nagano Major stars of the international opera stage come together with the Chor und Orchester of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, under the baton of the illustrious Kent Nagano, in this opera gala in aid of the German AIDS Foundation. Highlights from operas by Mozart, Puccini, Leoncavallo, Saint-Saëns, Massenet, Dvorák, Wagner, Richard Strauss, Lehár and Johann Strauss II are performed by world-class musicians from around the globe. Proceeds from the sales of this title go to support the work of the German AIDS Foundation. Picture format DVD: NTSC 16:9 Sounds formats DVD: PCM Stereo, DD 5.1, DTS 5.1 Region code: 0 Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian Booklet notes: English, German, French Running time: 78 mins FSK: 0 “In a rather mixed bag, there are a number of class acts...the highlight performance of the night in respect of bringing a role alive...[is]
Kasarova singing an expressive and beautifully realised Werther!...The audience might have been more thrilled by the tenors at full throttle, but this is the highlight for me - a gold nugget in this collection.” MusicWeb International, June 2011 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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