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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Magic Verdi
Artists include Agnes Baltsa, Montserrat Caballé, Mirella Freni & Plácido Domingo
The name Verdi is synonymous with Italian opera. No other composer embodies all the fascination and passion of Italian music drama like Verdi. The special magic of his music comes out especially vividly when it's performed by the very greatest of vocal stars: Plácido Domingo, José Carreras, Montserrat Caballé and Mirella Freni. | 
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| |  | Pearl Fishers' DuetWorld-Famous Operatic Duets
There is always a special pleasure in the blending of two fine voices, and composers have usually been happy to provide it during the course of their operas. Characters may join their voices in a unity of feeling, or in extreme disagreement, or in any one of the thousand shades in between. On this CD, opening with the universally beloved 'Pearl Fishers Duet' the accent is on duets between male operatic characters, singing together in contexts ranging from friendship to the sharing of mutual loss, from fierce enmity to the celebration of joint purpose. | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Essential Verdi40 of his Greatest Masterpieces
Verdi: | La donna è mobile (from Rigoletto) Va, pensiero (from Nabucco) La Forza del Destino: Sinfonia Un dì felice, eterea (from La traviata) Mercè, dilette amiche 'Bolero' (from I Vespri Siciliani) Libiamo, ne' lieti calici (from La Traviata) Di quella pira (from Il trovatore) Anvil Chorus (from Il Trovatore) Stride la vampa (from Il Trovatore) Ritorna vincitor! (from Aida) Dio, che nell'alma infondere (from Don Carlo) La traviata: Prelude to Act 1 Caro nome (from Rigoletto) O don fatale (from Don Carlo) Se quel guerrier io fossi!…Celeste Aida (from Aida) Celeste Aida (from Aida) Surta è la notte...Ernani! Ernani, involami (from Ernani) Di' tu se fedele (from Un ballo in maschera) Morrò, ma prima in grazia (from Un Ballo in Maschera) Quando le sere al placido (from Luisa Miller) Gloria all'Egitto (from Aida) Dies Irae (from Requiem) Pace, pace mio Dio! (from La forza del destino) Questa o quella (from Rigoletto) Bella figlia dell'amore (from Rigoletto) Ave Maria (from Otello) Parigi, o cara (from La Traviata) Ah, la paterna mano (from Macbeth) Squilli, echeggi la tromba (from Il Trovatore) O Carlo, ascolta (from Don Carlo) Ingemisco (from Requiem) Come in quest'ora bruna (from Simon Boccanegra) Si colmi il calice di vino eletto (from Macbeth) O patria mia (from Aida) La mia letizia infondere (from I Lombardi) Lo sguardo avea degli angeli (from I Masnadieri) Solenne in quest'ora (from La Forza del Destino) Patria oppressa (from Macbeth) Tacea la notte (from Il Trovatore) Ah sì, ch'io senta ancora … Dal più remoto esilio (from I Due Foscari) Spuntato ecco il di d'esultanza (from Don Carlo) |
Joan Sutherland, Kiri te Kanawa, Renee Fleming, Angela Gheorghiu, Montserrat Caballé, Leontyne Price, Jussi Björling, Carlo Bergonzi Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Wiener Staatsopernchor, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Bernard Haitink, Sir Georg Solti, Gabriele Santini, Riccardo Chailly, Richard Bonynge, Sir Colin Davis, Sir John Pritchard, Lamberto Gardelli | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Placido Domingo & Sherrill Milnes: Great Operatic Duets
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| |  | Verdi: Arias and Duets from Verdi OperasSung in German
Helge Rosvaenge (tenor), Heinrich Schlusnus (baritone) Rosvaenge recorded exclusively for Electrola and Schlusnus for Grammophon. They had made just one duet record for Grammophon in 1933. These broadcast recordings are among the finest these two artists ever made, when both were at the height of their careers. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Joseph Metternich: Vocal Legends Vol. 10Scenes from Operas (sung in German)
Bizet: | Votre toast je peux vous le rendre 'Toreador Song' (from Carmen) Sung in German as 'Euren Toast kann ich wohl erwidern' | Leoncavallo: | Si può? (from I Pagliacci) Sung in German as 'Schaut her! Ich bin’s' | Verdi: | Di provenza il mar (from La Traviata) Sung in German as 'Hat dein heimatliches Land' Cortigiani, vil razza dannata (from Rigoletto) Sung in German as 'Feile Sklaven' Un di, se ben rammentomi... Bella figlia dell'amore (from Rigoletto) Sung in German as 'Als Tänzerin erschienst du mir...Holdes Mädchen, sieh mein Leiden' Erika Köth (Gilda), Sieglinde Wagner (Maddalena), Rudolf Schock (Graf) Alla vita che t'arride (from Un ballo in maschera) Sung in German as 'Für dein Glück und für dein Leben' Alzati…Eri tu che macchiavi quell'anima (from Un Ballo in Maschera) Sung in German as 'Erhebe dich...Ja, nur du hast dies Herz mir entwendet' Solenne in quest'ora (from La Forza del Destino) Sung in German as 'In dieser heil’gen Stunde' Rudolf Schock (Alvaro) Dio, che nell'alma infondere (from Don Carlo) Sung in German as 'Gott, der entflammte der Liebe heiße Glut im Herzen' Rudolf Schock (Carlo) Va, vecchio John (from Falstaff) Sung in German as 'Brav, alter Hans' Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Ford) Vanne, la tua meta gia vedo…Credo in un Dio crudel (from Otello) Sung in German as 'Ich glaube an einen Gott' |
The German baritone Josef Metternich (1915-2005) sang with the Cologne and Bonn choruses, before making his solo debut in 1941 with the Berlin State Opera in Lohengrin. His career was delayed by the war, it really took off in 1946, when he was able to return to the opera stage and was re-engaged at the “Berlin Städtische Oper”, where he appeared in roles such as Jago, Alfio, Simone, Pizarro, Escamillo, Figaro (Rossini), and Amonasro. Metternich made his debut at Covent Garden in 1951, as Flying Dutchman. From 1952 until 1959 he was a member of the Vienna State Opera and appeared at La Scala, the Grand Opéra of Paris and the Edinburgh Festival. From 1953 until 1956 hejoined the Met, where he debuted as Don Carlos (La forza del destino). Includes Bonus-CD (interview with Thomas Voigt, 1990/2000, 53 min.) | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | Charles Kullman - European Columbia Recordings1931 - 1938
“Lotte Lehmann sang Tosca opposite the Cavaradossi of the young American tenor Charles Kullmann, fresh from his European successes. In those days his voice--which had real sex appeal--was full of bloom……” Arthur Bloomfield, 50 years of the San Francisco Opera “A great North American tenor who had an international career, Kullman is shown on this disc to have a warm voice, though not often one used intimately.” BBC Music Magazine, Proms 2007 *** | | | Usually despatched in 4 - 5 working days. |
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| |  | King, Krause & Hillebrecht sing Verdi
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| |  | Between Friends
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| |  | The Pearl Fishers & Other Operatic Duets for Tenor & Baritone
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