VIVALDI / CAVALI / PROVENZALE / COUPERIN / RAMEAU / etc
Lea Desandre - Amazone Lea Desandre (mezzo) / Jupiter, Thomas Dunford, with Cecilia Bartoli & Véronique Gens [ Erato / CD - released 1/Oct/2021 ] "This is a stonkingly good album. It makes me wonder: what exactly are these enviously intelligent, inventive and generous musicians drinking?" Gramophone Award Finalist 2022 - Vocal & Ensemble |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Cosi fan tutte (complete opera) Lella Cuberli, Cecilia Bartoli, Joan Rodgers, Kurt Streit, Ferruccio Futlanetto / Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim [ Erato Classics Home of Opera / 3 CD - released 2/Sep/2016 ] Mozart's 'School for Lovers' is peopled by a captivating cast of singers, including the bel canto pairing of Lella Cuberli and Cecilia Bartoli as the deceived sisters and John Tomlinson as a Don Alfonso of Wagnerian stature. Daniel Barenboim relishes... |
DVORAK
Symphony No. 9 "From the New World" / Cello Concerto Mario Brunello (cello) / Orchestra dell' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano [ EMI Music / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2012 ] |
W. A. MOZART
Lucio Silla (complete opera recorded in 1990) Cecilia Bartoli, Peter Schreier, Dawn Upshaw, Edita Gruberova, Yvonne Kenny / Arnold Schoenberg Chor & Concentus musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Teldec / Warner Classics The Opera Collection / 2 CD - released 4/May/2009 ] |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: La Cenerentola [Cinderella] (complete opera recordedin 1992) Cecilia Bartoli, William Matteuzzi, Enzo Dara, Alessandro Corbelli / Orchestra & Chorus of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Riccardo Chailly [ Decca Operas / 2 CD - released 28/Aug/2014 ] "All eyes and ears, inevitably, are on Bartoli, and she doesn't disappoint...The singing itself is ravishing. At the same time, the performance makes dramatic sense...Decca provide a superb Alidoro, an alluring Clorinda, inventive and elaborate conti |
DEBUSSY
La Mer / Images pour Orchestre / Pralude a l'apras-midi d'un faune Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Leonard Bernstein [ DG Entrae / CD - released 1/Nov/2004 ] "Bernstein's Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune is probably the longest and most languid I know. It has a lot to recommend it, and plenty of romantic ardour." (MusicWeb February 2007) |
VERDI
Sacred Verdi Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano [ Warner Classics / CD - released 26/Aug/2013 ] Pappano is such a compelling advocate for Verdi's music that there could be no finer 200th-birthday salute than this stunning disc. |
RACHMANINOV
Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 (with Liadoc - The Enchanted Lake, Op. 62) Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano [ EMI Records / CD - released 1/Jul/2011 ] "Pappano is revelatory. It is rare indeed to hear the Second Symphony executed with such clarity and with such a faithful, balanced spectrum of instrumental colour but the performance goes much further than that." (Gramophone Editor's Choice May 2011) |
PUCCINI
Edgar (Complete opera) Placido Domingo / Adriana Damato / Marianne Cornetti / Juan Pons / Core e Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia / Alberto Veronesi [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2006 ] "The recording is clear and well balanced with a touch of bloom around the voices...Puccini completists and Domingo fans need not hesitate." (MusicWeb July 2006) |
VERDI
Rigoletto (complete opera recorded in 1962) Renato Cioni, Joan Sutherland, Cornell MacNeil / Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Nino Sanzogno [ Double Decca / 2 CD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] Joan Sutherland (Gilda), Cornell MacNeil (Rigoletto), Renato Cioni (Il Duca), Cesare Siepi (Sparafucile), Stefania Malagu (Maddalena), Anna di Stassio (Giovanna) |
DONIZETTI / BELLINI / VERDI / PUCCINI
Virginia Zeani: Operatic Recital Virginia Zeani (soprano) / Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma, Franco Patané / Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Gianandrea Gavaz [ Decca Most Wanted Recitals Vol. 50 / CD - released 20/Sep/2014 ] |
ROSSINI
Otello (complete opera recorded in 2013) BLU-RAY Zurich Opera / Cecilia Bartoli, Peter Kálmán, John Osborn, Javier Camarena / Muhai Tang (cond) [ Decca Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Jul/2014 ] DVD/Blu-ray of the Month - July 2014 |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Sosarme (complete opera recorded in 1955) Alfred Deller, William Herbert, Nancy Evans, Margaret Ritchie, etc / The Saint Cecilia Orchestra, Anthony Lewis [ ABC Decca Eloquence / 2 CD - released 9/Aug/2019 ] 'Sosarme should cause a good deal of excitement … L'Oiseau-Lyre has assembled a brilliant cast.' New York Times |
CACCINI / MOZART / SCHUBERT / ROSSINI / MASCAGNI / etc
Andrea Bocelli - Sacred Arias Andrea Bocelli (tenor) / Orchestra e coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Myung-Whun Chung [ Philips / CD - released 1/Nov/1999 ] On his album "Sacred Arias", Bocelli has recorded some of the most beautiful and inspired music ever written; a combination of timeless melodies, newly discovered gems and the world's most well known "Ave Marias". |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle Marina Rebeka, Sara Mingardo, Francesco Meli, Alex Esposito / Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Sir Antonio Pappano [ EMI Classics / 2 CD - released 12/Apr/2013 ] The Sunday Times wrote, "Pappano lives the text like the great opera conductor he is, bringing consolation as well as fire and brimstone to Rossini's heady spiritual brew." |
MOZART
Mozart: Divertimenti & Eine kleine Nachtmusik Archi di Santa Cecilia; Luigi Piovano (cond.) [ Arcana / CD - released 10/Jan/2020 ] "The Arcana label continues its fruitful collaboration with the Archi di Santa Cecilia, the Rome-based ensemble formed from members of the famous Orchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. The ensemble is conducted by Luigi Piovano, the... |
AGOSTINO STEFFANI
Mission Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) / I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis, with Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor) [ Decca DVD / DVD - released 6/Dec/2012 ] G: - "Bartoli's plummy mezzo soars, smoulders and seduces, milking the music's vocal and expressive scope to dramatic effect. It's hard to resist her sparkling personality and infectious passion for this repertoire" (Five Stars BBC Music) |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Semele (complete opera recorded in 2007) Zurich Opera / Cecilia Bartoli, Liliana Nikiteanu, Birgit Remmert, Isabel Rey / William Christie (cond) [ Decca Music Group DVD / 2 DVD - released 12/Mar/2009 ] G - "Sung dazzlingly, "Myself I shall adore" was one of many high points in Bartoli's stunning performance, her first operatic role in a language other than Italian…The wonderfully intimate Zurich Opera House allows every detail of her performance... |
HANDEL / VIVALDI / CALDARA / MOZART / BELLINI / FAURE
Sospiri Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo-soprano) with with Juan Diego Flórez, Bryn Terfel & Cinzia Maurizio [ Decca Music Group / CD - released 4/Oct/2010 ] Cecilia Bartoli is loved the world over for vocal fireworks and spectacular coloratura, but she is also adored for her spine-tingling pianissimi and her ability to shape endless, velvety phrases. |
AGOSTINO STEFFANI
Stabat Mater / etc Cecilia Bartoli, Nuria Rial, Yetzabel Arias Fernandez, Franco Fagioli / I Barocchisti & Coro della Radiotelevisione Svizzera, Diego Fasolis [ Decca / CD - released 13/Sep/2013 ] Cecilia Bartoli's exploration of the music of Steffani continues on from her best-selling recording 'Mission' with an album of the celebrated Stabat Mater alongside Steffani's greatest sacred works for chorus, orchestra and soloists, constituting the... |