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TRACKLISTING This is the first release on CD of this recording of Donizetti's comic masterpiece Don Pasquale. The opera is a cruel, amusing take on the generation gap and has a concentration and vitality that sets it in a class of its own. In this all-Italian cast production Anna Maccianti as Norina stands out. Il campanello, a one-act farce that is a favourite among Donizetti's shorter operas, fills out the generous playing time. This release includes track-by-track synopses of both operas. |
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Rossini's masterpiece is a succession of marvellous numbers that captures the essence of the characters and at the same time offers an ironic, even malicious, commentary on them. This 2CD set features an all-Italian cast and includes a track-by-track synopsis of the plot. 'Bartoletti eschews superficial excitement in favour of elegance, and his orchestra plays beautifully...excellent.' The Met Guide |
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'Thrillingly sung and vividly conducted' The Penguin Guide Enmity, betrayal, torture, execution, murder and madness are all present in Tchaikovsky's fascinating portrayal of anti-hero Mazeppa and his world, dramatically realized in Neeme Järvi's heady account with the Gothenburg forces and Russian principals. This release includes a track-by-track synopsis of the action. |
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'Stylish and refined...the set can be recommended without reservation' The Penguin Guide With an unforgettable Birgit Nilsson as Reiza and Plácido Domingo as Huon this recording is a wonderful representation of Weber's rarely heard Oberon. 'Ripe for reissue', wrote BBC Music Magazine in 2005, and no wonder! With a star cast like this, underpinned by Kubelik's 'ethereally light handling of the orchestra' (Penguin Guide), Weber's delicately conceived score overcomes its sequence of illogical arias, scenas and ensembles strung together by an absurd pantomime plot. Includes track-by-track synopsis |
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Karajan's final opera recording, with a star cast and star orchestra and chorus - now at budget price! 'Music-making on this level was what I had come into the profession for' said Josephine Barstow. 'With this Ballo Karajan has gone out on an operatic high', wrote the Gramophone reviewer in 1989, who praised the 'new light being thrown on a familiar masterpiece in terms of dramatic power and orchestral subtleties.' With one of the finest casts to record the opera, including Dame Josephine Barstow, Plácido Domingo, Leo Nucci and Sumi Jo, this reissue will be warmly welcomed back into the catalogue by all opera lovers and CD collectors. Includes track-by-track synopsis |
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TRACKLISTING 'I'm sorry to go over the top, but Fedora really is one of the most satisfying examples of recorded opera from this already far-off age, with three great stars, each of them in their later fifties, showing just how and why a career dedicated to the correct repertory, not chopping and changing, can become, well, monumental.' Gramophone 'one of the supreme examples of verismo acting on record' Gramophone |
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TRACKLISTING 'And it has Tebaldi, of course...an affecting Angelica, really trying to refine the tender phrases of the role and with moments of that almost extinct Italian art of subtle portamento.' Gramophone |
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'This recording of a once-popular opera, now neglected, is a landmark on several fronts. No commercial recording of the complete opera has ever been available in this country, let alone one with so starry a cast as this...The most involving singer is Julia Varady, who gives a tender yet positive portrait of Rachel.' Gramophone |
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'Prokofiev's genial 'lyric-comic opera' on Sheridan's The Duenna is immensely likeable and it should certainly never be out of the catalogue....(featuring)....Anna Netrebko's mellifluous Louisa.' Gramophone |
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