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GIOCOMO PUCCINI
Puccini: Turandot (complete opera recorded in 2008) BLU-RAY Maria Guleghina, Marco Berti, Alexia Voulgaridou, Alexander Tsymbaluk / Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana, Zubin Mehta [ C Major Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 10/May/2016 ] This 2008 production is staged by Chen Kaige, the film director of Farewell My Concubine and winner of the Palme d'Or at Cannes Film Festival. |
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL & FRIENDS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Mr Handel's Dinner: Music for the Handel opera intermissions Maurice Steger (recorder) and Ensemble La Cetra [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 26/Apr/2019 ] "Steger is brilliant when the music is lively. Into his fleetness he mixes zest, charm and impish humour, making you wonder how such artfulness, at such speed and with such nutty dexterity, is humanly possible." BBC Music |
VIVALDI
The Rise of the North Italian Violin Concerto 1690-1740: Volume Two: Virtuoso Impresario Mhairi Lawson (soprano) / La Serenissima / Adrian Chandler (violin and director) [ Avie / CD - released 23/Sep/2007 ] "An outstanding collection, vividly characterised and full of energy, of fine - but not over-familiar - music" (Recording of the Month MusicWeb Sept 2007) |
MONTEVERDI
Monteverdi: Arie e Lamenti / Madrigali Guerrieri e Amorosi Montserrat Figueras / Andrew Lawrence-King / Rolf Lislevand / Ton Koopman / La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox Heritage Series SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 26/Sep/2011 ] At this time, [Figueras] developed an innovative style of interpretation, characterised by great fidelity to historical sources, combined with an extraordinary creative and expressive power, that has exerted a decisive influence on the whole... |
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ANONYMOUS / VARIOUS COMPOSERS
La voix de l'emotion [The voice of emotion] [2 CDs plus 272 page book] Montserrat Figueras / La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Hesperion XXI / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2012 ] This album gathers highlights from Montserrat Figueras' career for the Astrée, DHM, EMI and Alia Vox labels. |
DINASTIA BORGIA
Dinastia Borgia: Chiesa e potere nel Rinascimento (3 SACDs, 1 DVD with large book) Montserrat Figueras, Pascal Bertin, Marc Mauillon / La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / 4 CD/DVD - released 20/Nov/2010 ] "One might expect that, with the Borgias, all roads would lead to Rome, but in this case most lead back to Catalonia...Savall's own presence, as both leader and principal viol player, can always be felt." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine, February... |
LE ROYAUME OUBLIE
Le Royaume Oublie: The Albigensian Crusade (3 SACDs with large book) Montserrat Figueras, Pascal Bertin, Marc Mauillon / La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / 3 CD/Book - released 15/Mar/2010 ] "Savall takes ownership of the more elaborate versions of the Joan of Arc songs...and his own playing is sublime. Montserrat Figueras and the other vocal soloists and readers deliver superbly vivid performances...Altogether an impressive and deeply... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Misteri d'Elx - Homenatge al: La Vespra (Sacred Drama for the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary) Montserrat Figuerras, Marlia Vargas, Arianna Savall, La Capella Reial de Catalunya. Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox / CD - released 15/May/2004 ] "Listed by UNESCO on its list of masterpieces of oral history, the Mystery of Elche is a powerful work with deep roots. Jordi Savall does this sort of music with a tremendous sense of idiom, and he conjures some amazing sounds from his Catalonian... |
GEORGES MOINEAU
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Moineau: Messe Solennelle De Saint Remi Chœur "Cantabile" de la Cathédrale de Reims, Arsene Muzerelle [ Pavane / CD ] Original recording September 1996 |
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CANTELOUBE
Songs Of The Auvergne [complete] Netania Davrath (Soprano) / Orchestra conducted by Pierre De La Roche [ ALTO / 2 CD - released 25/Jan/2008 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die - "Canteloube did not want them to be sung in an overtly operatic fashion; he preferred an earthier, more unaffected approach. And that is the great glory of Netania Davrath's classic... |
VERDI / PAER / ROSSINI / MOZART / TCHAIKOVSKY / MENDELSSOHN / etc
The Peter Maag Edition New Symphony Orchestra of London, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, London Symphony Orchestra, Peter Maag, with Barry Tuckwell (horn) [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 20 CD Box Set - released 5/Feb/2021 ] Newly compiled for the first time, the Decca career of a pre-eminent Mozart conductor, complemented by his recordings for Deutsche Grammophon and Westminster. |
GIORDANO
Fedora (complete opera) Nino Machaidze, Angela Gheorghiu, Plácido Domingo / Orchestre symphonique et choers de la Monnaie, Alberto Veronesi [ Deutsche Grammophon / 2 CD Box Set - released 1/Mar/2011 ] "Fedora herself is the crux of the opera, and Angela Gheorghiu brings the full weight of her imposing, aloof delivery to the role." (The Independent) |
HANDEL
Italian Cantatas Volume 4 - Aminta e Fillide, Rome (1707-1708) Nuria Rial, Maria Grazia Schiavo (sopranos) / La Risonanza, Fabio Bonizzoni (harpsichord & direction) [ Glossa Handel Italian Cantatas / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] Gramophone Magazine Editor's Choice - December 2008 |
AARON COPLAND
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Appalachian Spring, / Fanfare for the Common Man / Old American Songs, Sets 1 & 2 / etc Orchestra of St. Luke's / Dallas Symphony / Orquestra Filharmanica de la Cuidad de Mexic / Dennis Russell Davies, Eduardo Mata & Enrique Batiz [ EMI American Classics / CD - released 1/Jun/2008 ] The music of Aaron Copland (1900-1990) is almost every music-lover's introduction to what might be called American 'classical' music. Either through the picture postcard that is El Salón Mexico or the fresh-faced innocence of the ballet Appalachian... |
GABRIEL FAURE / ERNEST CHAUSSON / PAUL DUKAS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Faure: Pelleas et Melisande / Dukas: Sorcerer's Apprentice / Chausson: Symphony Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet [ Decca Eloquence / CD - released 20/Jul/2002 ] The best-loved French classics performed by the famous Orchestre de la Suisse Romande |
STRAVINSKY / RIMSKY-KORSAKOV / DEBUSSY / BARTOK / RACHMANINOV / etc
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Great Conductors of the 20th Century-Ernest Ansermet Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Orchestre de la Societe des Concerts du Conservatoire [ EMI The Great Conductors / 2 CD - released 20/Mar/2002 ] The greatest conductors the world has ever known |
GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI
Pergolesi: Stabat Mater Patrizia Bovi (soprano), Pino de Vittorio (tenor), Bernard Arrieta (bass) / Chantres de la Chapelle, Vincent Dumestre [ Alpha Classics / CD - released 20/Nov/2015 ] This recording stands out insofar as it restores the context of the sun-drenched, dramatic processions through the streets of Naples.: the singing and playing of professional musicians mingled with ritual dances and other singing. |
J.S. BACH
Bach: Cantatas for solo bass (BWV 56, 82, 158) Peter Kooy (bass) La Chapelle Royale, Philippe Herreweghe [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 18/Nov/2022 ] These three cantatas for bass solo are based on episodes from the life of Christ (the healing of the lame man, the presentation in the temple, scenes from the Passion) with implications of the benevolence and consolation of death. |
CAMILLE SAINT-SAENS
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Saint-Saens: Symphony No. 3 "Organ" / Carnival of the Animals (with Poulenc: Model Animals - Suite) Maurice Durufle (organ) / Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Georges Prêtre [ EMI Classics Encore Collection / CD - released 2/Feb/2001 ] Original recording from 1964 & 1967 |
IGOR STRAVINSKY / SERGE PROKOFIEV
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Stravinsky: Le Sacre du Printemps, Petrushka, Pulcinella (suite), Divertimento (with works by Prokofiev) Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Francaise, Igor Markevitch [ EMI Classics / CD - released 18/Mar/1989 ] Recorded 1954 - 1959 |
