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Rolando Panerai (baritone) Rolando Panerai was one of a number of fine Italian
baritones to emerge onto the international operatic
scene immediately after World War ll. Some, like
Giuseppe Taddei, Gino Bechi, Enzo Mascherini, Paolo
Silveri, Tito Gobbi and Giuseppe Valdengo had made
their debuts during the late 30’s, which meant that
during the hostilities their activities and any
recordings made were confined to European
audiences. However, from 1945, together with the new
wave, which included Aldo Protti, Giangiacomo
Guelfi, Giampiero Malaspina, Piero Cappucilli,
Anselmo Colzani, Mario Sereni, Antonio Manca-Serra
(who died tragically aged 32) and the young Rolando
Panerai, their talents began to be recognised world
wide, through the media of recordings, stage
performances, and in some cases films, many of them
enjoying excellent careers. None more so than
Rolando Panerai, who incredibly in his late 70’s was
still undertaking principal roles and singing with a
command and freshness of vocal timbre that surely
was the envy of many a singer 30 years younger. “Panerai was a large-voiced and exceptionally lively Figaro who raced to and fro like a kitten intrigued by everything around him. The portrayal looked like a delightfully impulsive improvisation.” Arthur Bloomfield on the baritone’s debut in San Francisco in 1958. | 
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| |  | Tales of Opera
Simon Keenlyside Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Ulf Schirmer “In a league of his own” – Sunday Telegraph  BBC Music Magazine
Opera Choice - November 2006 |
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| |  | The Essential Plácido Domingo
Bizet: | La fleur que tu m'avais jetée (from Carmen) London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti Je crois entendre encore (from Les Pêcheurs de Perles) Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini | Brodszky: | Be My Love arr.Ebbinghouse London Symphony Orchestra, Marcel Peeters | Cardillo: | Core 'ngrato arr.Peeters London Symphony Orchestra, Marcel Peeters | Curtis, E: | Non ti scordar di me arr.Engelen London Symphony Orchestra, Karl-Heinz Loges | Donizetti: | L'elisir d'amore: 'Una furtiva lagrima' L’elisir d’amore Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini Tombe degl'avi miei … Fra poco a me ricovero (Edgardo) Lucia di Lammermoor Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini | Franck, C: | Panis Angelicus Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Marcello Viotti | Freire: | Ay, ay, ay arr.Loges London Symphony Orchestra, Karl-Heinz Loges | Gardel: | Volver arr.Pansera Orchestra Roberto Pansera, Roberto Pansera | Halévy: | La Juive: 'Rachel, quand du Seigneur' La Juive Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini | LaCalle: | Amapola arr.Engelen London Symphony Orchestra, Karl-Heinz Loges | Lara, A: | Granada arr.Peeters London Symphony Orchestra, Marcel Peeters | Lecuona: | Siboney arr.Ebbinghouse London Symphony Orchestra, Karl-Heinz Loges | Lehár: | Lippen schweigen (from Die Lustige Witwe) Renée Fleming Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim Dein ist mein ganzes Herz (from Das Land des Lächelns) arr.Loges London Symphony Orchestra, Karl-Heinz Loges | Leoncavallo: | Pagliacci: Vesti la giubba Pagliacci Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Georges Prêtre Mattinata London Symphony Orchestra, Marcel Peeters | Mascagni: | Ave Maria (arranged from Intermezzo sinfonico from Cavalleria Rusticana) Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Marcello Viotti | Offenbach: | Il était une fois à la cour d'Eisenach (Hoffmann) Les Contes d’Hoffmann Les Chœurs de la Radio de la Suisse Romande, Pro Arte de Lausanne, Du Brassus & L’Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Richard Bonynge | Puccini: | Manon Lescaut: 'Donna non vidi mai' Manon Lescaut Philharmonia Orchestra, Giuseppe Sinopoli Ch'ella mi creda libero (Dick Johnson) Ch’ella mi creda libero (Dick Johnson)La fanciulla del West Sherrill Milnes Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Zubin Mehta Recondita armonia (Cavaradossi) Tosca Philharmonia Orchestra, Giuseppe Sinopoli Tosca: 'E lucevan le stelle' Tosca Philharmonia Orchestra, Giuseppe Sinopoli Turandot: 'Nessun dorma' Turandot Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan | Rossini: | Il barbiere di Siviglia: Largo al factotum Il barbiere di Siviglia The Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Claudio Abbado | Tosti: | Preghiera Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Marcello Viotti | Verdi: | Celeste Aida (from Aida) Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini La donna è mobile (from Rigoletto) Nicolai Ghiaurov & Piero Cappuccilli Wiener Philharmoniker, Carlo Maria Giulini Parmi veder le lagrime (from Rigoletto) Wiener Philharmoniker, Carlo Maria Giulini Oh figli … Ah, la paterna mano (Macduff) Macbeth Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Claudio Abbado Fontainebleau! Forêt immense et solitaire … (from Don Carlo) Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Claudio Abbado Quando le sere al placido (from Luisa Miller) Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Lorin Maazel De' miei bollenti spiriti (from La traviata) Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Carlos Kleiber Di quella pira (from Il trovatore) Rosalind Plowright & Walter Gullino Coro e Orchestra dell’Accademia
Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Carlo Maria Giulini Forse la soglia attinse (from Un ballo in maschera) Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Claudio Abbado Niun mi tema (from Otello) Ramon Vargas, Ildebrando d’Arcangelo & Giacomo Prestia Orchestre de l’Opéra Bastille, Myung-Whun Chung | Wagner: | In fernem Land (Lohengrin) Lohengrin Wiener Philharmoniker, Sir Georg Solti |
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| |  | Rossini - Bicentennial Gala
Deborah Voigt (soprano), Maria Fortuna (soprano), Marilyn Horne (mezzo), Frederica von Stade (mezzo), Mimi Lerner (mezzo), Kathleen Kuhlmann (mezzo), Craig Estep (tenor), Chris Merrit (tenor), Thomas Hampson (baritone), Jan Opalach (bass), Henry Runey (bass) & Samuel Ramey (bass) Orchestra of St. Luke’s & Concert Chorale of New York, Roger Norrington | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Grigory Ginzburg - The Goldenweiser SchoolHis Early Recordings 1
Grigory Ginzburg (1904-1961) was perhaps the most astounding virtuoso to emerge in Soviet Russia and it is a tragedy that he was never allowed to travel to the west after the mid 1930’s. He focussed his repertoire very much on the 19th century Romantic period and, above all, in Liszt, and his prolific recordings include many of Liszt’s virtuosic opera paraphrases that had fallen into neglect. This CD is the first of two devoted to his earliest 78rpm recordings mainly dating from the 1940s. These discs are extremely rare and many of the performances included will be unknown to even the most ardent collectors. The disc finishes with the most astounding performance of the greatest virtuoso warhorse of the 19th century – Balakirev’s Islamey. Ginzburg’s supremely elegant performance shows total control in even the thorniest passages, for him it appears no more difficult than a Haydn sonata, and the result is that we hear so much more in the music than is normally the case. |
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| |  | New Year’s Concert 2007Live recording from the 2007 New Year Concert, from the Teatro La Fenice, Venice
Dimitra Theodossiou (soprano), Giuseppe Filianoti (tenor), Roberto Frontali (baritone) & Massimo Quarta (violin) Orchestra e Coro del Teatro La Fenice, Kazushi Ono “The Venice choristers are superb and the orchestra responds handsomely” Classics Today | | | TDK - DVWW-CONYC7V (DVD Video) Normally: £19.99 (£17.01 ex. VAT) Special: £14.99 (£12.76 ex. VAT) |
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| |  | Dmitry Hvorostovsky - Portrait
| | Korobyeiniki: Oy, polna, polna karobushka Folk Songs Osipov Russian Folk Orchestra, Nikolai Kalinin Elegia: Kodga, dusha Folk Songs Osipov Russian Folk Orchestra, Nikolai Kalinin Kalinka Folk Song St Petersburg Chamber Choir, Nikolai Korniev | Bellini: | Or dove fuggo … Ah! Per sempre io ti perdei (from Ill Pirata) | Caldara: | Selve amiche La constanza in amor vince l’inganno Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner | Donizetti: | Com Paride vezzoso L’elisir d’amore Cruda, funesta smania Lucia di Lammermoor Bella siccome un angelo Don Pasquale Philharmonia Orchestra, Ion Marin | Gluck: | Che farò senza Euridice? Orfeo ed Euridice | Handel: | Serse: Frondi tenere e belle ... Ombra mai fù Serse | Mussorgsky: | Songs and Dances of Death (orch. Shostakovich) Kirov Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev | Rachmaninov: | Ne poy, krasavitsa, pri mne, Op. 4 No. 4 V molchanii nochi taynoy, Op. 4 No. 3 | Rimsky Korsakov: | Gorod kamennyi Sadko S uma neidyot krasavitsa! The Tsar’s Bride with Olga Borodina Kirov Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev Zachem ty? The Tsar’s Bride with Olga Borodina Kirov Orchestra, Mariinsky Theatre, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev | Rossini: | Il barbiere di Siviglia: Largo al factotum Il barbiere di Siviglia | Rubinstein: | Na vozdushnom okeane The Demon | Syrewicz: | Tears Russia’s War — Blood Upon The Snow Cantus Dei Choir of Moscow, Red Army Choir & State Symphonic Orchestra of Cinematography, Sergei Skripka | Tchaikovsky: | Vy mne pisali … Kogda by zhizn domashnim krugom Eugene Onegin Uzhel ta samaya Tatyana Eugene Onegin Vy tak pechalny, dorogaya The Queen of Spades Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Valery Gergiev Kto mozhet sravnitsa s Matildoyu moyei Iolante Nyet, tolko tot, kto znal, Op. 6 No. 6 Oleg Boshnyakovich (piano) O, yesli b ty mogla, Op. 38 No. 4 Mikhail Arkadiev (piano) Snova, kak prezhde, odin, Op. 73 No. 6 Oleg Boshnyakovich (piano) | Verdi: | Di provenza il mar (from La Traviata) Il balen del suo sorriso Il trovatore Per mi giunto … O Carlo, ascolta Don Carlo Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Valery Gergiev | Vivaldi: | Se il cor guerriero Tito Manlio |
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| |  | Essential Opera
Luciano Pavarotti, Kiri Te Kanawa, Placido Domingo & Joan Sutherland London Philharmonic and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Georg Solti and Herbert von Karajan | | | Usually despatched in 2 - 3 working days. |
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| |  | Grand Opera Gala
Deborah Norman (soprano), Wynne Evans (tenor) & Donald Maxwell (baritone) Royal Choral Society & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Owain Arwel Hughes | | | Usually despatched in 3 - 4 working days. |
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Gramophone Awards 2007
Gramophone Magazine