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add to cart $28.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks WAGNER Rheingold (complete opera) Eberhard Francesco Lorenz (Tenor), Catriona Smith (Soprano), Stuttgart State Opera Orchestra, Lothar Zagrosek (Conductor) [ Naxos Opera / 2 CD - released 18/Apr/2006 ] Wagner’s tetralogy, Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) was first performed as a whole in August 1876 at the new Festspielhaus in Bayreuth. The complete cycle consists of a Prologue, Das Rheingold (The Rhinegold), followed the next day...
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks GASSMANN Opera Overtures Eclipse Chamber Orchestra / Sylvia Alimena [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Praise for the Sylvia Alimena / Eclipse Chamber Orchestra's recording of Toch Cello works: "Textures remain open even though quite closely recorded ... [i]t is a work of gutsy virtuosity and spidery interplay ... all most aptly and engagingly done...
add to cart $28.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks GOUNOD Romeo et Juliette (complete opera recorded live in 1935) Eide Norena / Charles Hackett / Leon Rothier / Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera / Louis Hasselmans [ Naxos Great Opera Performances / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] Norena characterizes Juliette as a real teenager: her singing is full of wide-eyed wonder and hope until the tragic dénouement. Hackett declaims Roméo’s music with a beauty of legato tone and an amplitude of phrasing which is rarely heard today....
add to cart $36.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks VERDI La Traviata (complete opera recorded live in 1949) Eleanor Steber / Giuseppe d Stefano / Robert Merrill / Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera / Giuseppe Antonicelli [ Naxos Historical Great Opera Performances / 2 CD - released 1/Jan/2007 ] "For the most part, a vocal feast awaits you, broadcast live from the Met on January 22, 1949... The principals in this marvelous La Traviata are captured in their exultant primes."
add to cart $28.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks FRANZ SCHREKER Schreker: Der Ferne Klang (Complete Opera) Elena Grigorrescu, Thomas Harper / Hagen Opera Chorus, Hagen Philharmonic Orchestra, Michael Halasz [ Naxos Opera Classics / 2 CD - released 12/Jan/2008 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - "Naxos has included a detailed synopsis matching the CDs tracks. The solid performance gives a good idea of the work's visionary strengths and its prolix weaknesses." - San...
add to cart $28.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks RICHARD STRAUSS Capriccio (complete opera) Elisabeth Schwarzkopf / Nicolai Gedda/ Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau / Christa Ludwig / Hans Hotter / Philharmonia Orchestra / Wolfgang Sawallisch [ Naxos Historical Great Opera Recordings / 2 CD - released 20/Apr/2010 ] Immediately recognised as one of the composer's greatest and most subtle works, Capriccio poses the central dilemma in opera: what is more important, the words or the music? The legendary record producer Walter Legge produced this landmark recording...
add to cart $40.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks W.A. MOZART Cosi fan tutte (complete opera recorded in 1954) Elisabeth Scwarzkopf / Sesto Bruscantini / Nan Merriman / Philharmonia Orchestra / Herbert Von Karajan [ Naxos Historical Great Operas / 3 CD - released 15/Aug/2006 ] The Gramophone reviewer felt "the casting is ideal". He also commented that "Schwarzkopf is in splendid voice as the sentimental Fiordiligi, Merriman equally good as the practical Dorabella, and Otto is a good Despina and very amusing in her assumed...
add to cart $40.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks GIACOMO MEYERBEER Meyerbeer: L'étoile du nord (complete opera) Elizabeth Futral, Darina Takova, Agnete Munk Rasmussen, Patrizia Cigna, Juan Diego Flórez / National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland, Vladimir Jurowski [ Naxos / 3 CD Box Set - released 13/May/2022 ] After composing a spectacular series of grand operas for the Paris Opéra, Meyerbeer turned to two comic operas with spoken dialogue. One of these was L'Étoile du Nord ('The North Star').
add to cart $41.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks GLINKA Ivan Susanin (A Life for the Tsar) (complete opera recorded in 1947 & 1950) Elizaveta Antonova / Alexander Hosson / Maxim Mikhailov / Bolshoi Theatre Chorus / Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra / Alexander Melik-Pashayev (conductor) [ Naxos Historical / 3 CD - released 29/Jan/2006 ] Mikhail Glinka, the founder of the Russian nationalist school of opera, was the first Russian composer to have his works accepted outside Russia itself. Berlioz admired his compositions and Liszt used them as the basis for several of his piano...
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks JOSEPH HAYDN / ANTONIN DVORAK Haydn/Dvorak: Cello Concertos Emanuel Feuermann (cello) / Symphony Orchestra / Malcolm Sargent / Berlin State Opera Orchestra / Michael Taube [ Naxos Historical Great Cellists / CD - released 3/Mar/2002 ] "the beauty of Feuermann's playing impresses mightily." Audiophile Audition (Robert Moon), May, 2000
add to cart $28.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks WOLF-FERRARI La Vedova Scaltra (complete opera recorded in 2007) Emanuele D'Aguanno / Anne-Lise Sollied / Maurizio Muraro / Fenice Theatre Orchestra & Chorus / Karl Martin [ Naxos Opera / 2 CD - released 10/Oct/2008 ]
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks GRETRY Le Magnifique Emiliano Gonzalez Toro, Elizabeth Calleo, Marguerite Krull / Opera Lafayette, Ryan Brown [ Naxos / CD - released 20/Dec/2012 ] André-Ernest-Modeste Grétry was the greatest French composer of opéra-comique in the eighteenth century.
add to cart $30.00 Out of Stock RICHARD STRAUSS Strauss, R.: Ariadne auf Naxos (complete opera / original 1912 version recorded in 2012) Salzburg Festival / Emily Magee, Elena Mosuc, Jonas Kaufmann / Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Harding (conductor), Sven-Eric Bechtolf (director) [ Sony DVD / DVD - released 28/Jun/2014 ] "Jonas Kaufmann was spectacular as Bacchus, growing improbably stronger as he progressed. Emily Magee was scarcely less impressive in the demanding role of Ariadne." - New York Times
add to cart $55.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks RICHARD STRAUSS Strauss: Ariadne auf Naxos (complete opera / original 1912 version recorded in 2012) BLU-RAY Salzburg Festival / Emily Magee, Elena Moșuc, Jonas Kaufmann / Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Harding (conductor), Sven-Eric Bechtolf (director) [ Sony Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 17/Feb/2014 ] Jonas Kaufmann made his highly acclaimed debut as Bacchus in this 2012 Salzburg Festival production of Ariadne auf Naxos, leading a cast including Emily Magee and Elena Mosuc, with Daniel Harding conducting. Director Sven-Erich Bechtholf's staging is...
add to cart $60.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks JEAN-BAPISTE LULLY Lully: Atys (complete opera recorded in 2011) Blu-ray Emmanuelle de Negri, Stéphanie d'Oustrac, Bernard Richter / Compagnie Fêtes Galantes, Les Arts Florissants, William Christie [ Naxos Blu-ray / Blu-ray - released 24/Sep/2021 ] "..the stage picture is consistently opulent, with even Atys and Sangaride dressed ornately, at least until the shattering final act." New York Times
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks MANUEL DE FALLA La Vida breve (complete opera) Enrique Baquerizo (tenor) / Manuel Cid (tenor) / Alfonso Echeverria (bass) / Alicia Nafe (mezzo-soprano) / Asturias Symphony / Maximiano Valdes [ Naxos Opera Classics / CD - released 2/Jun/2004 ] Manuel de Falla is universally acknowledged as the central personality of twentieth-century Spanish musical culture. Born in 1876 in Cádiz, Andalusia, he aspired as a young boy to be a writer but by the mid-1890s had decided to concentrate on music.
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks PAUL SALERNI Tony Caruso’s Final Broadcast (complete opera) Eric Fennell / Jacquelyn Familant / Jan Opalach / Henry Fogel / Monocacy Chamber Orchestra / Jung-Ho Pak [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] Praised for his 'resplendent vocalism' (American Record Guide) and his 'lusciously sweet voice, with its ringing, perfectly-tuned high notes' (Opera Now), the young tenor Eric Fennell sings the title role.
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks R. STRAUSS Elektra & Ariadne auf Naxos (Final Scenes) Erna Schlüter / Ljuba Welitsch / Maria Cebotari / Karl Friedrich / Margaret Field-Hyde / Royal Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra / Sir Thomas Beecham [ Naxos Historical Great Opera Recordings / CD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] For the recording of Elektra, Beecham was fortunate to be to able call upon the renowned interpreters of Strauss's music Erna Schlüter, Ljuba Welitsch and Paul Schöffler, who were appearing with the Vienna State Opera at the Royal Opera House, Covent...
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks SERGEI RACHMANINOV Rachmaninov: All-Night Vigil, Op. 37, Vespers Eugen Antoni (tenor) / Raisa Palmu (soprano) / Erja Wimeri (contralto) / Finnish National Opera Chorus. Eric-Olof Soderstrom, conductor [ Naxos SACD / SACD - released 15/Jan/2005 ] Rachmaninov had been in contact with Orthodox sacred music since his childhood. The influence of Orthodox chant is clearly detectable in his music, for instance in his use of stepwise motion, a characteristic of Orthodox chant, in his themes. -...
add to cart $25.00 Out of Stock 6+ weeks LEOPOLDO de URCULLU Guitar Music (Incls 'La Amistad' & 'Opera variations') Eugenio Tobalina (guitar) [ Naxos Guitar Collection / CD - released 10/Sep/2009 ] Of the many mysteries that surround the history of the guitar, perhaps one of the most fascinating is that which shrouds the enigmatic figure of the 19th century Spanish composer Leopoldo de Urcullu. We know virtually nothing about the man or his...