Marco Di Marco featuring Nathan Haines
My London Friends [ Arision Recordings / CD - released 9/Mar/2006 ] A moody, lovely set from pianist Marco Di Marco - the Italian player's ode to London - featuring masterful accompaniment on sax and flute by Nathan Haines! |
FERRUCCIO BUSONI
Busoni: Works for 2 Pianos Aldo Ciccolini, Aldo Orvieto, Marco Rapetti (piano) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Aug/2020 ] Ferruccio Busoni composed a significant number of works for two pianos throughout his life. |
GIORDANO
Andrea Chenier (complete opera) Andrea Bocelli / Violeta Urmana / Lucio Gallo / Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano Giuseppe Verdi / Marco Armiliato [ Decca Music Group / 2 CD - released 11/Mar/2010 ] This new recording partners Andrea Bocelli with the aristocratic soprano of Violeta Urmana, who has sung the role of Maddalena at the world's leading houses, including The Metropolitan Opera, New York. |
GLASS / KANCHELI / TUUR
Music for Violin & Piano Andrea Cortesi (violin) Marco Ventur (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2014 ] The reissue of one of the gems from the famous VOX catalogue: the complete Saint-Saëns Piano Concertos played by Gabriel Tacchino and the Orchestra of Radio Luxembourg, conducted by maitre Louis de Froment. |
GIYA KANCHELI
Miniatures for Violin and Piano Andrea Cortesi (violin) & Marco Venturi (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Dec/2016 ] Any album of music by the Georgian composer Giya Kancheli is eagerly awaited by a wide audience receptive to his particular, post-Soviet voice, which has touched the hearts and minds of many thousands of listeners through his music for both film and... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN
Schumann: Violin Sonatas Andrea Cortesi (violin) & Marco Venturi (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Feb/2016 ] These wonderful violin sonatas, written a few years before his death in an asylum, belie the dictum that "Schumann started as a genius, and ended as a talent". These are works by a passionate genius, highly original, full of feverish energy,... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Homage to Maria Callas Angela Gheorghiu (soprano) / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Marco Armiliato [ EMI Classics / CD - released 14/Nov/2011 ] "she occupies [Callas's] role with aplomb. Gheorghiu animates these arias with such gusto that her interpretations sometimes border on the eccentric, so enthusiastic is her characterisation" The Independent, 4th November 2011 **** |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Aida (complete opera recorded in 2012) BLU-RAY + BLU-RAY 3D Arena di Verona / Hui He, Marco Berti, Andrea Ulbrich, Ambrogio Maestri / Daniel Oren (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray 3D / Blu-ray Disc - released 25/Nov/2015 ] "It's straightforward, recalling Edwardian toy theatre...And the spectacle isn't overdone...Ulbrich is a fiery Amneris. But it's the Ethiopians who carry the day, with Maestri's thundering Amonasro and, above all, Chinese soprano Hui He's Aida, vocal |
GIACOMO PUCCINI / CHARLES GOUNOD / GIUSEPPE VERDI
Arena Di Verona Collection Volume 1: Turandot / Romeo et Juliette / Aida Arena di Verona / Maria Guleghina, Salvatore Licitra, Tamar Iveri, Nino Machaidze, Ketevan Kemoklidze, Hui He, Marco Berti, Andrea Ulbrich, etc [ Bel Air Classiques DVD / 4 DVD Box Set - released 9/Aug/2019 ] A 3-Opera set (Limited Edition) featuring great productions seen at the prestigious Arena di Verona : Puccini's Turandot, Gounod's Roméo & Juliette, Verdi's Aida. TURANDOT For their 88th edition the prestigious Arena di Verona Festival... |
CARLO GRAZIANI
Six Sonatas For Violincello & Continuo Op.3 Armoniosa (Stefano Cerrato solo violincello, Marco Demaria violincello di continuo, Michel Barchi harpsichord) [ Rubicon Classics / 2 CD - released 22/Sep/2017 ] Carlo Graziani, born in the Italian city of Asti c1710 was one of the earliest cello virtuosos. Well travelled, he played in London with the 7 year old Mozart in 1764 and left many sets of sonatas and several concertos for his instrument. He retired... |
GIACOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Tosca (complete opera recorded in 2017) BLU-RAY Baden-Baden Opera / Kristine Opolais, Marcelo Álvarez Mario, Marco Vratogna, Alexander Tsymbalyuk / Sir Simon Rattle [ EuroArts Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 1/Sep/2018 ] "Rattle and his orchestra add both depth and gloss: to hear the shimmer of the Berlin strings in the eerie dwells of the Te Deum is enough to absolve the conductor of his reverential tempos" Gramophone |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Storie Di Napoli Marco Beasley, Ensemble Accordone, Gido Morini [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 22/Oct/2012 ] This programme of Neapolitan music, covering a vast historical span (from the Renaissance to the 20th century) is a 'manifesto' of the musical influences that have nurtured Marco Beasley. Guido Morini's arrangements, written especially for him, make... |
FRANCESCO PAOLO TOSTI
Tosti: The Song of a Life, Volume 2 Benedetta Torre, Eugene Villaneuva, Luisa Prayer, Desirée Rancatore, Marco Scolastra, Jurgita Adamonyté, Piotr Lempa, Marco Moreco [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD - released 23/Feb/2018 ] This is the second instalment of a huge enterprise, a world premiere: the recording of the complete songs by Tosti! Paolo Tosti (1846‐1916) worked in poverty as a music teacher till he met the influential composer Giovanni Sgambati, who became his... |
RAVEL
Complete Melodies Monica Piccinini, Christian Immler, etc., Filippo Farinelli (piano), Claudia Giottoli (flute), Giacomo Menna (cello) / ECU Ensemble, Marco Momi [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 24/Jun/2013 ] Exquisite, refined, exotic, full of colouristic effects and unheard-of timbres, Ravel's songs are a cornerstone of the 20th century song repertoire. This new recording contains the complete songs, accompanied by piano or by instrumental ensemble. |
DOMENICO CIMAROSA
Cimarosa: L'Impresario in Angustie (complete opera recorded in 2017) Camilla Antonini, Lavinia Bini, Paola Cigna, Alejandro Escobar, Luca Gallo, Marco Filippo Romano / Orchestra Bruno Maderna di Forli, Aldo Salvagno [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2018 ] The Neapolitan Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801) was certainly a prolific composer of operas, having more than 80 titles to his name. Though many have only recently enjoyed a revival, they were widely admired in his day. |
DIEGO ORTIZ
Ad Vesperas: Napoli 1565 Cantar Lontano / Marco Mencoboni [ Alpha Classics / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Aug/2009 ] Cantar Lontano, Marco Mencoboni |
TCHAIKOVSKY
Serenade for Strings in C, Op. 48 / Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70 Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra. Conducted by Marco Boni [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 12/Apr/2005 ] Hybrid/SACD = playable on all Compact Disc players |
W.A. MOZART
Symphonies Nos. 5 The Hague & 29 / Sernade Eine kleine Nachtmusik; Serenade notturna Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra / Marco Boni [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 12/Apr/2005 ] Hybrid/SACD = playable on all Compact Disc players |
JOSEF HAYDN
Haydn: Symphonies Nos 22 'The Philosopher', 44 'Mourning', 64 'Tempora Mutantur' Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra, Marco Boni [ Pentatone SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 15/Sep/2003 ] |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Complete Cello Sonatas & Variations Costantino Mastroprimiano (fortepiano), Marco Testori (cello) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] Beethoven wrote sympathetically for the cello throughout his career, from the ardent, lyrical voice of the Op.1 piano trios onwards, and he rarely subjugated the instrument to its basso continuo role still prevalent in the works of Mozart and Haydn.... |