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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 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 *** “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 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 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Forever Domingo
| | Ay, ay, ay London Symphony Orchestra, Karl-Heinz Loges | Bizet: | La fleur que tu m'avais jetée (from Carmen) London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado | Brodszky: | Be My Love London Symphony Orchestra, Karl-Heinz Loges | Cardillo: | Core 'ngrato London Symphony Orchestra, Marcel Peeters | Curtis, E: | Non ti scordar di me London Symphony Orchestra, Karl-Heinz Loges Non ti scordar di me London Symphony Orchestra, Karl-Heinz Loges | Donizetti: | Una furtiva lagrima (from L'elisir d'amore) Los Angeles Philharmonic, Carlo Maria Giulini | Grever: | Muñequita Linda London Symphony Orchestra, Karl-Heinz Loges | Hardelot: | Because London Symphony Orchestra, Karl-Heinz Loges | LaCalle: | Amapola London Symphony Orchestra, Karl-Heinz Loges | Lara, Augustin: | Granada London Symphony Orchestra, Marcel Peeters | Lecuona: | Siboney London Symphony Orchestra, Karl-Heinz Loges | Lehár: | Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (from Das Land des Lächelns) London Symphony Orchestra, Karl-Heinz Loges | Leoncavallo: | Mattinata - 'L'aurora di bianco vestita' London Symphony Orchestra, Marcel Peeters | Puccini: | Nessun dorma (from Turandot) Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Sangerknaben, Herbert von Karajan Recondita armonia (from Tosca) Philharmonia Orchestra, Giuseppe Sinopoli E lucevan le stelle (from Tosca) Philharmonia Orchestra, Giuseppe Sinopoli Ch'ella mi creda libero e lontano (from La Fanciulla del West) Orchestra and Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Zubin Mehta Donna non vidi mai (from Manon Lescaut) Philharmonia Orchestra, Giuseppe Sinopoli | Rossini: | Largo al factotum (from Il barbiere di Siviglia) Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Claudio Abbado | Verdi: | Se quel guerrier io fossi!…Celeste Aida (from Aida) Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Claudio Abbado La donna è mobile (from Rigoletto) Nicolai Ghiaurov (bass), Piero Cappuccilli (baritone) Wiener Philharmoniker, Carlo Maria Giulini Di quella pira (from Il trovatore) Rosalind Plowright (soprano) Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Carlo Maria Giulini |
forever DOMINGO offers a tantalising and generous selection of Plácido Domingo’s greatest hits. It combines acclaimed recordings of popular tracks such as Be My Love and Granada with the greatest tenor opera arias from Puccini, Verdi, Donizetti, Bizet and Rossini. Includes Nessun Dorma, La donna è mobile, Largo al factotum and Una furtiva lagrima. The album is rounded off by one of the best-known pieces in the Viennese operetta repertoire Dein ist mein ganzes Herz. PLÁCIDO DOMINGO - Whatever he does, he does it from his heart. The son of singers who ran their own zarzuela company, Domingo grew up surrounded by music and the theatre. Today it is safe to say that in every corner of the world, everyone who has even the most passing interest in opera is familiar with the name of Plácido Domingo. He truly is a living legend. “Domingo shows his lighter side in souped-up arrangements of popular songs and a clutch of standard arias” BBC Music Magazine, May 2013 **** | | | (Sorry, download not available in your country) | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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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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| |  | Granada: The Greatest Hits of Placido Domingo
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| |  | I Sing from the Heart
Adam: | O Holy Night | Brodszky: | Be My Love Summertime in Heidelberg | Buzzi-Peccia: | Lolita | Capua: | O sole mio | Caruso, E: | Serenata | Curtis, E: | Non ti scordar di me Senza nisciuno | Donaudy: | Vaghissima sembianza | Donizetti: | Una furtiva lagrima (from L'elisir d'amore) | Gastaldon: | Musica proibita | Giordano, U: | Un dì, all' azzurro spazio (from Andrea Chénier) | Gounod: | Ave Maria | Grieg: | Ich liebe Dich, Op. 5 No. 3 | Hardelot: | Because | Hopkins, J H: | We three Kings of Orient are | Kern: | You are love | Leoncavallo: | Un tal gioco (from I Pagliacci) Testa adorata (from La bohème) | Meyerbeer: | O Paradiso! (from L'Africana) | Nevin, E W: | The Rosary | Ponchielli: | Cielo e mar! (from La Gioconda) | Porter, C: | Begin the beguine I've Got You Under My Skin | Puccini: | O soave fanciulla (from La Bohème) Stolta paura, l'amor non uccide (Madama Butterfly) Nessun dorma (from Turandot) | Reger: | Mariä Wiegenlied, Op. 76 No. 52 | Rodgers, R: | You'll never walk alone (from Carousel) | Romberg, S: | One Alone (Harbach & Hammerstein) Deep in my heart, dear The Desert Song (excerpts) | Tosti: | Pour un baiser Luna d'estate L'alba separa dalla luce l'ombra La Mia Canzone Ideale Marechiare A vucchella | trad.: | The First Nowell | Verdi: | Celeste Aida (from Aida) La donna è mobile (from Rigoletto) | Wade: | O come, all ye faithful | Youmans: | Without a Song Through the years |
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| |  | Mario Del Monaco - Decca Recitals 1952-1969Includes works by Verdi, Puccini, Bellini & Donizetti plus others
Annibale: | O Paese d' 'o sole | Beethoven: | In questa tomba oscura, WoO.133 | Bellini: | Svanir le voci! (from Norma) | Bernstein: | Tonight (from West Side Story) | Bixio: | Parlami d'amore Mariù | Bizet: | Agnus Dei La fleur que tu m'avais jetée (from Carmen) | Brodszky: | Be My Love | Buzzi-Peccia: | Lolita | Capua: | O sole mio | Cardillo: | Core 'ngrato | Carocci: | Na lettera cucente | Catalani: | Quando a Sölden (from La Wally) Wally! Wally! (from La Wally) | Cilea: | È la solita storia 'Lamento di Federico' (from L'Arlesiana) | Cinque: | Mattinata Veneziana Trobadorica | Cioffi: | Na Sera 'E Maggio | Cottrau: | Addio a Napoli | Curtis, E: | Autunno Ti voglio tanto bene Torna a Surriento Tu ca nun chiagne | Donizetti: | Tombe degl'avi miei … Fra poco a me ricovero...Tu che a Dio spiegasti l'ali (from Lucia di Lammermoor) | Drigo: | Les Millions d'Arlequin - Serenade | Falvo: | Dicitencello vuie | Franck, C: | Panis Angelicus | Gastaldon: | Musica proibita | Giordano, U: | Un dì, all' azzurro spazio (from Andrea Chénier) Amor ti vieta (from Fedora) | Halévy: | Rachel, quand du Seigneur (from La Juive) | Handel: | Ombra mai fu (from Serse) | Lara, Augustin: | Granada | Lehár: | Gern hab' ich die Frau'n geküßt (from Paganini) Die Taube (from Zigeunerliebe) | Leoncavallo: | Si può? (from I Pagliacci) Testa adorata (from La bohème) | Mainardi: | Varca d' 'o primo amore | Mantovani, A P: | Cara mia | Mascagni: | Ah! Tu ch' odi lo mio grido...O popolo di vili (from Isabeau) | Massenet: | Ah! Tout est bien fini... O souverain (from Le Cid) | Meyerbeer: | Ô Paradis (from L'Africaine) | Modugno: | Ciao ciao bambina | Mozart: | Ave verum corpus, K618 | Perosi: | Messa da Requiem: Hostias et preces tibi Messa Te Deum laudamus: Benedictus | Ponchielli: | Cielo e mar! (from La Gioconda) | Puccini: | Firenze è come un albero fiorito (from Gianni Schicchi) Hai ben ragione (from Il tabarro) Una parola sola! … Or son sei mesi (from La Fanciulla del West) Ch'ella mi creda libero e lontano (from La Fanciulla del West) Che gelida manina (from La Bohème) Addio, fiorito asil (from Madama Butterfly) Ah! Non v'avvicinate! No, pazzo son (from Manon Lescaut) Recondita armonia (from Tosca) E lucevan le stelle (from Tosca) Nessun dorma (from Turandot) Non piangere, Liù! (from Turandot) | Rendine: | Vurria | Romberg, S: | Serenade (from The Student Prince) | Rossini: | Domine Deus & Crucifixus (from Petite Messe Solennelle) | Stradella: | Pieta, Signore | Tagliaferri: | Piscatore 'e pusilleco | Verdi: | Irne lungi ancor dovrei (from Alzira) Ah! sgombro e il loco alfin! ... Sotto il paterno tetto (from Oberto) Come rugiada al cespite (from Ernani) Ah sì, ch'io senta ancora … Dal più remoto esilio (from I Due Foscari) La mia letizia infondere (from I Lombardi) Di ladroni attornïato (from I Masnadieri) O mio castel paterno (from I Masnadieri) La vita è inferno … O tu che in seno (from La Forza del Destino) De' miei bollenti spiriti (from La traviata) 2 takes Oh! fede negar potessi (from Luisa Miller) 2 takes O figli … Ah, la paterna mano (from Macbeth) Ingemisco (from Requiem) La donna è mobile (from Rigoletto) Questa o quella (from Rigoletto) Di' tu se fedele (from Un ballo in maschera) Forse la soglia attinse (from Un ballo in maschera) La rivedrà nell'estasi (from Un ballo in maschera) | Wagner: | Ein Schwert verhieß mir der Vater (from Die Walküre) Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond (from Die Walküre) In fernem Land (from Lohengrin) 2 takes | Zandonai: | No, Smaragdi!…Inghirkandata di violette (from Francesca da Rimini) Giulietta, son io (from Giulietta e Romeo) |
Recorded: 1952-1969 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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