RODRIGO
Concierto de Aranjuez / Fantasia para un gentilhombre / Musica para un jardin / etc Marco Socias (guitar) / Orquesta Ciudad de Granada / Josep Pons [ Harmonia Mundi Gold / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] "Socias and Pons hit you on the head with ethnic flavouring, the music sings tartly, then sweetly, but always with a Spanish accent." - The Times (22 Oct 2002) |
VERDI
Les Vespres Siciliennes (complete opera recorded in 2010) Netherlands Opera / Barbara Haveman, Burkhard Fritz, Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester / Paolo Carignani (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / 2 DVD - released 1/Aug/2012 ] The Netherlands Opera Chorus...remains one of the most musically and dramatically responsive among major companies." (International Record Review) |
VERDI
Les Vespres Siciliennes (complete opera recorded in 2010) BLU-RAY Netherlands Opera / Barbara Haveman, Burkhard Fritz, Alejandro Marco-Buhrmester / Paolo Carignani (cond) [ Opus Arte Blu-ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 20/Nov/2015 ] Les vêpres siciliennes, like the similarly epic Don Carlos, was conceived as a grand opéra for Paris and is driven by the tensions between private passions and public politics. Originally set during Sicily's 13th-century uprising against French rule,... |
Carlo Galante, Lowell Liebermann, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piccolo Concertos Nicola Mazzanti (keef piccolo) Alessandro Visintini nagahara mini Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento Marco Angius conductor [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Nov/2016 ] On this unique and diverse recording, three contemporary concertante works for piccolo and orchestra are coupled with an arrangement of Mozart's Oboe Quartet with the solo wind part exchanged for its treble cousin. Liebermann (b.1961) has... |
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: Il Turco in Italia (complete opera recorded in 2007) Orchestra Haydn di Bolzano e Trento / Marco Vinco / Alessandra Marianelli / Andrea Concetti / Antonello Allemandi (cond) [ Naxos DVD / DVD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] G - Filmed at the Teatro Rossini, Pesaro, Italy, 18 August 2007. |
GIACOMO MEYERBEER
Meyerbeer: Il Crociato in Egitto (complete opera) Patrizia Ciofi / Michael Maniaci / Marco Vinco / Teatro la Fenice / Emmanuel Villaume [ Naxos Opera Classis / 3 CD Box Set - released 20/Apr/2010 ] ".. the true revelation in this recording is Michael Maniaci. The role of Armano offers him a great opportunity to showcase his unusual, beautiful voice. With a solid cast and great choral scenes, this disc set is highly recommended." (TheWholeNote.com) |
GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Rossini: L'equivoco stravagante (Complete opera) Petia Petrova, Marco di Felice, Marco Vinco / Czech Chamber Chours / Alberto Zedda [ Naxos Opera Classics / 2 CD Box Set - released 29/Jul/2002 ] "The cast is accomplished...with incisive diction and alert musicality. The one standout is the recording's Ernestina, the young Bulgarian mezzo Petia Petrova. She's a lively, vivid vocal presence, with the technique " - Opera News |
Francesco Cilea
Complete Piano Music Pier Paolo Vincenzi (piano), Marco Gaggini (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/Dec/2016 ] Francesco Cilea may now be best remembered as a composer of durable, blood-and-thunder staples of the verismo operatic school such as Adriana Lecouvreur and L'Arlesiana, but he addressed himself to chamber and instrumental music at both the beginning... |
GIUSEPPE VERDI
Verdi: Simon Boccanegra (complete opera recorded in 2007) BLU-RAY Roberto Frontali / Carmen Giannattasio / Giacomo Prestia / Marco Vratogna / Giuseppe Gipali / Teatro Comunale Di Bologna / Michele Mariotti [ Arthaus Musik Blu-Ray / Blu-ray Disc - released 26/Oct/2010 ] Sliding marble walls, a mosaic-like floor, a leafless tree centre-stage, elegant costumes - with its young cast and a superlative performance by Roberto Frontali as Simon Boccanegra, this production has all the ingredients to leave a lasting impression. |
FRANCESCO PAOLO TOSTI
Tosti: The Song of a Life, Vol. 1 Romina Casucci (soprano) Maura Menghini (soprano) Mark Milhofer (tenor) Denver Martin‐Smith (baritone) Marco Scolastra (piano), Roberto Rupo (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 22/Nov/2016 ] The start of a new exciting series: the complete songs by Paolo Tosti! Paolo Tosti (1846‐1916) worked in poverty as a music teacher till he met the influential composer Giovanni Sgambati, who became his mentor. He introduced Tosti to Princess... |
ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
San Filippo Neri Rosita Frisani, Manuela Custer, Marco Lazzara, Mario Nuvoli / Alessandro Stradella Consort / Estevan Velardi [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 1/May/2010 ] |
PUCCINI
Turandot (Complete opera recorded in 2013) Royal Opera / Lise Lindstrom, Marco Berti, Eri Nakamura, Raymond Aceto / Henrik Nánási (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 31/Mar/2014 ] "Long one of my favourite productions of anything...Serban struck a healthy blow against the ultra-ornate Zeffirellian approach with a look that's often as dark as the heart of the opera's Chinese fairy-tale princes" (Gramophone) |
ROSSINI
L'Inganno felice (Complete opera) Simon Bailey / Lorenzo Regazzo / Marco Vinco / Czech Chamber Soloists, Brno / Alberto Zedda [ Naxos Opera / 2 CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] Rossini's 'rescue opera' L'inganno felice (The Happy Deception) won immediate contemporary popularity after its first performance in 1812. One of the composer's most inventive and sparkling scores, with soprano, tenor and bass arias of great beauty,... |
GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Complete cantatas Vol 1 Stefanie True (soprano), Contrasto Armonico, Marco Vitale / Valentina Varriale (soprano), Mvsica Perdvta, Renato Criscuolo / etc [ Brilliant Classics / 14 CD Box Set - released 4/Aug/2017 ] This set presents an extensive collection of works which George Frideric Handel wrote during his short but astoundingly fruitful stay in Italy. Here he met the great composers of the day, imbuing the rich Italian style. |
W.A. MOZART
Le Nozze di Figaro [The Marriage of Figaro] (complete opera recorded in 2001) Teatro Argentina / Marco Grimaldi / Medelyn Renee Monti / Jose Farsilha / Paolo Ponziano Ciardi (cond) [ Brilliant Classics / DVD - released 15/Mar/2008 ] G : - |
VERDI
Un Ballo in Maschera [The Masked Ball] (complete opera recorded in 2008) Teatro Real / Marcelo Alvarez, Violeta Urmana, Marco Vratogna, ElenaZaremba / Jesus Lopez-Cobos (cond) [ Opus Arte DVD / DVD - released 1/Aug/2011 ] Passion, loyalty and political conspiracy are the three pillars of Un ballo in maschera (1859), the 'most operatic of all operas'. Set in XIX century Boston, Mario Martone's atmospheric production for the Teatro Real in Madrid brings out all the... |
PHILIP GLASS
Aguas da Amazonia Uakti / Marco Antonio Guimares [ Orange Mountain Music / CD - released 1/Oct/2006 ] Philip Glass's serious work in the field of "world music" was recognized long before the term entered the popular vocabulary. |
COPLAND / TICHELI / TORKE
Landscapes University of Kansas Wind Ensemble, Paul Popiel, Steve Leisring (trumpet), Ji Hye Jung (marimba), Margaret Marco (cor anglais) [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Apr/2013 ] Landscapes is a journey through the rich tapestry of American wind band music, performed by one of the country's leading ensembles. One of Michael Torke's most admired works, Javelin has been described as a 'sonic olympiad', while his arrangement of... |
ROSSINI
The Italian girl in Algiers (complete opera) Christianne Stotijn / Maxim Mironov / Marco Vinco / Riccardo Frizza (conductor) [ Bel Air Classique / DVD - released 28/Apr/2008 ] G : - Rossini's wonderful comic opera, written when he was only 21, to an Italian libretto by Angelo Anelli, was first performed in Venice on May 22, 1813. |
MOZART / SCHUBERT / MENDELSSOHN
Violin Concerto No. 5 in A, KV 219 / Rondo in A for violin and strings, D. 438 / Violin Concerto in D minor Vesko Eschkenazy (violin) / Concertgebouw Chamber Orchestra / Conducted by Marco Boni [ Pentatone SACD / SACD - released 20/Apr/2005 ] "This is the most enjoyable recording of the young Mendelssohn ever put on record". ---Luister (September 2002) |