Browse: Matthew Polenzani (tenor)
This page lists all recordings performed by Matthew Polenzani.
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Donizetti: Maria Stuarda
RecommendedJoyce DiDonato (Maria Stuarda), Elza van den Heever (Elisabetta), Matthew Rose (Talbot), Joshua Hopkins (Cecil), Matthew Polenzani (Leicester), Maria Zifchak (Anna Kennedy)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Maurizio Benini
handsomely designed...well acted and strongly sung. Elza van der Heever delivers a statuesque Elizabeth, if with tomboyish tendencies...DiDonato offers a physically plain, emotionally determined... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Donizetti: Maria Stuarda
RecommendedJoyce DiDonato (Maria Stuarda), Elza van den Heever (Elisabetta), Matthew Rose (Talbot), Joshua Hopkins (Cecil), Matthew Polenzani (Leicester), Maria Zifchak (Anna Kennedy)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Maurizio Benini
handsomely designed...well acted and strongly sung. Elza van der Heever delivers a statuesque Elizabeth, if with tomboyish tendencies...DiDonato offers a physically plain, emotionally determined... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2014, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Brahms: Lieder & Liebeslieder Waltzes
RecommendedRecorded live at the 2003 Verbier Festival
Andrea Rost (soprano), Magdalena Kožená (mezzo), Matthew Polenzani (tenor), Thomas Quasthoff (bass-baritone), Yefim Bronfman & James Levine (piano duet), James Levine
The quartet themselves make an appealingly lively sound…Quasthoff and especially Kozena are strongest in their solo selections, the mezzo’s three songs distinguished by her plangent tone and... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th June 2016
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Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
James Morris (Hans Sachs), Ben Heppner (Walther von Stolzing), Karita Mattila (Eva), Thomas Allen (Beckmesser), Jill Grove (Magdalena), Matthew Polenzani (David), René Pape (Pogner), John Relyea (Nachtwächter)
Metropolitan Opera & Chorus, James Levine
Thank goodness for no quirky ideas...The singers are all outstanding, led by James Morris's warmly genial Sachs...and by Ben Heppner, who is an equally convincing Walther...Mattila not only looks... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2005, DVD of the Month
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A Night at the Opera
Favourite opera arias, duets and ensembles
Indra Thomas (soprano), Kristine Jepson (mezzo-soprano), Matthew Polenzani (tenor), Mariusz Kwiecien (baritone), Valerian Ruminski (bass)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Rosekrans
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The A–Z of Opera: 2nd Expanded Edition
Chen-Ye Yuan (baritone), Kurt Moll (bass), Inga Nielsen (soprano), Mariusz Kwiecień (baritone), Valerian Ruminski (bass), Gloria Banditelli (mezzo-soprano), Rosita Frisani (soprano), Jana Valášková (soprano), Ingrid Kertesi (soprano), János Berkes (tenor), Nicola Martinucci (tenor), Alessandro Carmignani...
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Liszt: The Complete Songs Volume 1 - Matthew Polenzani
Matthew Polenzani (tenor) & Julius Drake (piano)
Polenzani is evidently a tenor of the finest quality: a lyric voice, sweet and ingratiating, with the capacity to ring out excitingly, gloriously easy on high but with a perfectly adequate body... — More…
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DG 120 – Opera 2 (1981-2009)
Plácido Domingo (tenor), Roger Wagner (chorus master), Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Magdalena Kožená (soprano), Jos Van Immerseel (fortepiano), Anna Netrebko (soprano), Rolando Villazón (tenor), Nadine Weissmann (mezzo-soprano), Elina Garanca (mezzo-soprano), Coro del Teatro Comunale di Bologna (chorus),...
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Gathering
Janai Brugger (soprano), Brian Zeger (piano), Isabel Leonard (mezzo-soprano), Joseph Lattanzi (baritone), Matthew Polenzani (tenor), Liz Callaway (soprano), Michael Kelly (baritone), Alexander Gemignani (tenor)
The distinguished assemblage of vocalists shines with committed, idiomatic, and beautifully sung renditions. Pianist Brian Zeger excels in Moore’s keyboard writing that is tonally rich, and is... — More…
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Elina Garanca - Bel Canto
Arias from operas by Bellini, Donizetti & Rossini
Elina Garanca (mezzo)
Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Roberto Abbado
How Rossini would have fallen for the Latvian Elina Garanca! Her voice, with its creamy mezzo middle and purposeful drop into the chest register suggests a perfect Rosina; part passionate young... — More…
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