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See Terms & Conditions for p&p rates. | |  | Natalie Dessay - Italian Opera Arias (Standard Version)
Standard Version “Ms. Dessay treats opera like a form of theatre in which acting and singing are one” The Times “This selection of scenes and arias, all very familiar items, is distinguished by the imaginative accompaniments under Evelino Pidò. …here we have one of the great opera personalities of our time - it's a lovely voice, used with a formidable technique.” Gramophone Magazine, March 2008 “Violetta's aria at the end of Act I of La traviata demands the impossible. A lyric voice for 'Ah forse è lui' and then weight and depth and cascading coloratura in 'Sempre libera'. Natalie Dessay has it all… The Mad Scenes from I puritani and Lucia di Lammermoor are just as impressive.” BBC Music Magazine, February 2008 *****  BBC Music Magazine
Opera Choice - February 2008 |
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| |  | Bel Canto Arias
Recorded in her 59th year, this was one of Sutherland's last studio recordings. The notes are by Richard Bonynge, the indefatigable mind behind the research of much of this repertoire. “How good, for instance, that Sutherland should still be exploring. Everything here is new to her discography, and the solo from Il castello di Kenilworth will be new to most of her listeners … The fine tragic sweep of the violins in the Attila solo, the plaintive elegance of Bellini's cantilena, the simple good humour of Betly's 'tralla las' – none of these is too familiar to be welcome, and in the last of them Sutherland's gaiety is vividly personal and expert in timing. Of her French arias the Africaine is probably most successful, with its emotions imaginatively caught” Gramophone Magazine | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Bellini PortraitsRecorded 1992-2004
Bellini: | Oh! s'io potessi dissipar le nubi (from Il Pirata) Munchner Rundfunkorchester, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Fabio Luisi Qual suono ferale echeggia ... Oh, Sole! ti vela (from Il Pirata) Munchner Rundfunkorchester, Fabio Luisi Eccomi in lieta vesta...Oh! quante volte (from I Capuleti e I Montecchi) North Hungarian Symphony Orchestra, Hungarian National Choir, Friedrich Haider Morte io non temo...Ah non poss'io partire (from I Capuleti e I Montecchi) North Hungarian Symphony Orchestra, Hungarian National Choir, Friedrich Haider Ah! non giunge uman pensiero (from La Sonnambula) Munchner Rundfunkorchester, Marcello Viotti Casta Diva (from Norma) Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Vocal Ensemble Rastatt, Friedrich Haider Ah! Se un'urna (from Beatrice di Tenda) ORF Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien, Pinchas Steinberg La dama d'Arturo... Oh, vieni al tempio (from I Puritani) Munchner Rundfunkorchester, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Fabio Luisi |
Nightingale Classics is pleased to present a new compilation of Bellini Portraits interpreted by Edita Gruberova the worlds leading soprano of Belcanto repertoire. Bellini’s individually melancholic and ethereal phrases have always been a favourite of Edita Gruberova, and here she selects repertoire from six of his operas. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Mirella Freni: The First Recitals 1959-1961
Bellini: | Ah! Se una volta sola (from La Sonnambula) Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Ino Savini Eccomi in lieta vesta...Oh! quante volte (from I Capuleti e I Montecchi) Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Ino Savini | Bizet: | Je dis que rien ne m'épouvante (from Carmen) sung in Italian (as 'Io dico, no, non son paurosa') with preceding recitative Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Ino Savini | Mascagni: | Son pochi fiori (from L'Amico Fritz) Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Ino Savini | Puccini: | Senza mamma, o bimbo (from Suor Angelica) Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Ino Savini O mio babbino caro (from Gianni Schicchi) Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Ino Savini Si, mi chiamano Mimi (from La Bohème) Orchester der Wiener Volksoper, Argeo Quadri O soave fanciulla (from La Bohème) Viktor Remsey (tenor) Orchester der Wiener Volksoper, Argeo Quadri Donde lieta usci (from La Bohème) Orchester der Wiener Volksoper, Argeo Quadri Signore, ascolta! (from Turandot) Orchester der Wiener Volksoper, Argeo Quadri Tu che di gel sei cinta (from Turandot) Orchester der Wiener Volksoper, Argeo Quadri Viene la sera (from Madama Butterfly) Gino del Ferro (tenor) Orchester der Wiener Volksoper, Argeo Quadri | Verdi: | Sul fil d'un soffio etesio (from Falstaff) Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Ino Savini |
The first of these solo recitals (1959) is with the orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera, conducted by Savini.The second with the Vienna’ s Volksoper orchestra,devoted to Puccini, is taken from a very rare LP and is released on CD for the first time in its entirety. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Opera Album 2012
Bellini: | Eccomi in lieta vesta...Oh! quante volte (from I Capuleti e I Montecchi) Ah! non giunge uman pensiero (from La Sonnambula) | Donizetti: | All'afflitto è dolce il pianto (from Roberto Devereux) Amici miei, che allegro giorno! (from La figlia del reggimento) Quanto è bella, quanto è cara! (from L'Elisir d'amore) | Flotow: | M'appari (from Martha) | Giordano, U: | Come un bel dì di maggio (from Andrea Chénier) La mamma morta (from Andrea Chénier) | Gounod: | Ah! Je ris de me voir (from Faust) | Handel: | Dove sei, amato bene? (from Rodelinda) Cara speme (from Giulio Cesare) | Mascagni: | Regina coeli laetare (from Cavalleria Rusticana) | Meyerbeer: | Mi batte il cor … O paradiso (from L'Africana) | Mozart: | Voi che sapete (from Le nozze di Figaro) Deh! vieni alla finestra (from Don Giovanni) Soave sia il vento (from Così fan tutte) Non so più cosa son, cosa faccio (from Le nozze di Figaro) Porgi amor (from Le nozze di Figaro) Ach, ich fühl's (from Die Zauberflöte, K620) | Offenbach: | O Dieu, de quelle ivresse (from Les contes d'Hoffmann) | Ponchielli: | Cielo e mar! (from La Gioconda) | Puccini: | E lucevan le stelle (from Tosca) O mio babbino caro (from Gianni Schicchi) O soave fanciulla (from La Bohème) Recondita armonia (from Tosca) Addio, fiorito asil (from Madama Butterfly) In quelle trine morbide (from Manon Lescaut) Non piangere, Liù! (from Turandot) | Purcell: | Thy hand, Belinda … When I am laid in earth (from Dido & Aeneas) | Strauss, J, II: | Nun's Chorus from Casanova | Verdi: | Di quella pira (from Il trovatore) Questa o quella (from Rigoletto) Caro nome (from Rigoletto) Noi siamo zingarelle (from La Traviata) Di provenza il mar (from La Traviata) Gli arredi festivi (from Nabucco) | Vivaldi: | Gelido in ogni vena (from Il Farnace, RV711) | Wagner: | Die Walküre: Ride of the Valkyries Begluckt darf nun dich 'Pilgrims' Chorus' (from Tannhauser) |
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| |  | Soprano Arias Vol. 7Complete versions and orchestral backing tracks
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| |  | Bellissimo Italian OperaDuets and arias by Rossini, Donizetti, Verdi, Bellini & Cilea
Bellini: | Eccomi in lieta vesta...Oh! quante volte (from I Capuleti e I Montecchi) Patrizia Ciofi Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia, Luciano Acocella | Cilea: | La dolcissima effigie (from Adriana Lecouvreur) Marcelo Alvarez Che? Tu tremi? (from Adriana Lecouvreur) Marcelo Alvarez, Micaela Carosi Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Regio di Torino, Renato Palumbo | Donizetti: | Fra queste braccia (from Pia de’ Tolomei) Patrizia Ciofi, Laura Polverelli Sposo, ah tronca ogni dimora (from Pia de’ Tolomei) Patrizia Ciofi Ah, di Pia che muore (from Pia de’ Tolomei) Patrizia Ciofi Orchestra e Coro del Teatro La Fenice di Venezia, Paolo Arrivabeni | Rossini: | Questo cor ti giura amore (from Demetrio e Polibio) Christine Weidinger, Sara Mingardo Orchestra Sinfonica di Graz, Coro da camera Sluk di Bratislava, Massimiliano Carraro | Verdi: | Liberamente or piangi (from Attila) Dimitra Theodossiou Qual suon di passi! (from Attila) Dimitra Theodossiou, Carlo Ventre Mentre gonfiarsi l’anima parea (from Attila) Ferruccio Furlanetto Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Verdi di Trieste, Donato Renzetti Infelice! E tu credevi (Ernani) Giacomo Prestia O sommo Carlo (from Ernani) Ferruccio Furlanetto Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Verdi di Trieste, Donato Renzetti |
Bellissimo Italian Opera offers a selection of duets and arias from Rossini’s Demetrio e Polibio, Donizetti’s Pia de’ Tolomei, Bellini’s Capuleti e Montecchi, Cilea’s Adriana Lecouvreur and Verdi’s Attila and Ernani. Features some of the finest singers including Sara Mingardo, Patrizia Ciofi, Marcelo Alvarez and Dimitra Theodossiou. | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Berliner Philharmoniker: Italian NightLive Recording from The Waldbühne Berlin, 1996
As one of the most beautiful open-air venues in Europe, the Berlin Waldbühne draws more than twenty thousand people per year to enjoy popular classical music performed by the world-renowned Berlin Philharmonic under the beguiling canopy of a summer night’s sky. While some of the most famous conductors have already taken the podium at these concerts, repeated performances have most notably been given by the Italian maestro Claudio Abbado. The programme of Abbado’s 1996 “Italian Night” at the Waldbühne focused on highlights from operas by the Italian composers Giuseppe Verdi, Gioacchino Rossini and the master of bel canto – Vincenzo Bellini. Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic were once again accompanied by outstanding luminaries from the international opera scene: the Romanian soprano Angela Gheorghiu, whose exquisite good looks are surpassed only by the sublime beauty of her voice, the great Russian tenor Sergej Larin and the Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel, one of the most soughtafter opera and oratorio singers in the world. Sound Format: PCM STEREO, DD 5.1 Picture Format: 4:3 DVD Format: DVD 9, PAL Running Time: 107 mins FSK: 0 | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Anna Netrebko - Opera
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| |  | Mariella Devia
Mariella Devia (soprano) Svizzera Italiana Orchestra, Marcello Rota “A voice of lovely quality and extensive range, a technique well-schooled in legato and florid work, an intelligence that is keenly active in matters both musical and dramatic shown in careful phrasing and sensitive coloration” Gramophone Magazine, October 1994 | | | Usually despatched in 8 - 10 working days. |
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