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ID: STR57012
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Opera
A new chapter in the Ricordi Oggi series, the collection that enacts the strong partnership between Stradivarius and the prestigious Casa Ricordi publishing house.
This world première recording is dedicated to Luca Francesconi and his Ballata, a two-act opera whose libretto, by Umberto Fiori, is based upon S. T. Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Francesconi confirms his particular confidence for large-scale musical thought, rather than merely show a flair for illustrative brilliance.
"Coleridge’s Mariner confronts a natural world that is implacably adverse, one that [...] remains magnificently indifferent to its needs. To respond to that requires a sense of pacing, of large-scale dynamic proportion, that must prevail over any proclivity to exuberant detail.[...] That sense of scale [...] is everywhere in Francesconi’s recent work. [...] Fiori’s fine libretto is so constructed as to allow for the enchained series of numbers that are integral to that form of dramaturgy, because they pace the opera’s progress through a sequence of images and actions whose synopsis could be presented in a few, trite sentences, but whose power and resonance can only be felt when worked through at the slow, remorseless pace common to Francesconi’s opera, and Coleridge’s poem” David Osmond-Smith, liner notes.
Thanos Adamopoulos, concertmaster
Renato Balsadonna, chorus- master |
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ID: SMCCD0093-94
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Oratorio
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
Performed by:
Yana Besyaduinskaya (Soprano I) - Widow
Oksana Lesnichaya (Soprano II)
Svetlana Trifonova (Alto) - Angel
Ella Feighinova (Alto) - Angel
Youlia Pronyaeva (Alto) - Queen
Andrey Dounaev (Tenor) - King Akhav, Avidy
Vladimir Baikov (Bass) - Elijah
Dmitriy Sidorov (Treble) - Adolescent
Leader - Loudmila Zhilenkova
Artistic Director Stanislav Kalinin
Place of recording: Grand Hall of the Moscow State Conservatoire
Date of recording: December 12, 1999 |
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ID: KAI0012432
CDs: 2
Type: SACD
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Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
World premiere recording
Begehren is a “dramaturgical” and compositional spur for music theatre in the 21st century: a parable on the dialectic of isolation, a man and a woman in a no man’s land of placeless-ness and a play on the potential possibilities behind reality. With a libretto after texts by Ovid, Virgil, Hermann Broch, Cesare Pavese and Günter Eich, this production was selected by a panel of 55 critics as the best worldwide premiere of the 2002/03 season |
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ID: IDIS6410-11
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Opera Live
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
Recorded 1952
Vocals: Maria Callas, Piero Campolonghi, Roberto Silva, Tanis Lugo, Rosa Rimoch, Giuseppe di Stefano, Ignacio Ruffino |
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ID: GFO00562
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Opera
Mirella Freni (Adina), Luigi Alva (Nemorino), Enzo Sordello (Belcore), Sesto Bruscantini (Dulcamara), Emily Maire (Giannetta)
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra & The Glyndebourne Chorus, Carlo Felice Cillario
Recorded live at Glyndebourne at one performance during June 1962.
The 2CD set is packaged as a 150 page hard bound book containing a full libretto translated into English, French and German along with a commissioned article about the opera, and synopsis in English, French and German.
Designed and Directed by Franco Zeffirelli.
Glyndebourne Opera has a history of trend setting and pioneering opera productions and Donizetti’s opera L’elisir d’amore is no exception. Popular in Donizetti’s own lifetime, L’elisir faded into relative obscurity until the 1890s when Caruso championed the role of Nemorino: his dedication and conviction were such that Covent Garden arranged a production of the opera in 1902. L’elisir was a personal favourite of Caruso’s, so much so that in 1920 he played Nemorino in his last appearance with the Metropolitan Opera. Almost 60 years later, in 1961, it was Glyndebourne who staged a production of L’elisir d’amore designed and directed by Franco Zeffirelli. Such was the success and acclaim for this production that Glyndebourne revived it in 1962, enhancing the production with the addition of the lively and capricious Mirella Freni.
As the press noted: ‘Her [Freni's] looks and her cantabile singing melt, so to speak, on the tongue, and she acts her teasing charades with Sergeant Belcore as if nothing were farther from her mind than cruelty.’ (The Times, August 1962) and ‘Mirella Freni, the sparkling new Adina, rightly allowed real tenderness to shine through vanity and caprice.’ (The Sunday Times, August 1962)
Mirella Freni was first engaged by Glyndebourne in 1960 (and sings Susanna in Glyndebourne’s own recording of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro GFOCD00162).
Previously she had also performed at the opera house in Torino in the late 50s and sung with Netherlands Opera in 1959-60 season, but her international break and recognition came by virtue of her role as Adina in this 1962 production.
This recording, released here for the first time, precedes Freni’s EMI recording of L’elisir d’amore with Nicolai Gedda as Nemorino in a Rome Opera production by some 5 years. In this recording, Freni has a cast of equals around her. As the besotted Nemorino, Luigi Alva vividly portrays the wounded innocent with The Daily Telegraph noting in August 1962 that ‘Alva’s Nemorino is a wonderful combination of rustic clowning and exquisitely finished bel canto’, with Enzo Sordello a baritone voice big enough to fill a stadium, providing a fresh virile and bold Belcore. Conductor Carlo Felice Cillario enjoyed a 60 plus year career and is remembered for his masterful interpretations of Puccini, Verdi and Donizetti operas and stands as one of the most singer-friendly conductors of all time.
Track list:
CD:1
L'elisir d'amore, opera
1. No. 1. Preludio
2. Act 1. Coro d'introduzione. Bel conforto al mietiore
3. Act 1. Cavatina. Benedette queste carte!
4. Act 1. Cavatina. Marziale
5. Act 1. Cavatina. Come Paride vezzoso
6. Act 1. Cavatina. Orse m'ami, com'io t'amo
7. Act 1. Recitativo. Intanto, o mia ragazza, occuperò la piazza
8. Act 1. No. 2. Scena. Una parola, o Adina
9. Act 1. Duetto. Chiedi all'aura lusinghiera
10. Act 1. No. 3. Coro. che vuol dire codesta sonata?
11. Act 1. Cavatina. Udite, udite, o rustici
12. Act 1. No. 4. Recitativo. Ardir! Ha forse il cielo mandato
13. Act 1. Scena e Duetto. Voglio dire... Io stupendo Elisir
14. Act 1. No. 5. Recitativo. Caro Elisir! sei mio!
15. Act 1. Duetto. Lallarallara, la, la, la
16. Act 1. Terzetto. Tran, tran... In guerra, ed in amor
17. Act 1. Finale. Quartetto. Signor sargente
18. Act 1. Finale. Quartetto. Adina, credimi, te ne scongiuro...
19. Act 1. Finale. Quartetto. Andiam, Belcore
CD:2
1. Act 2. No. 6. Coro d'introduzione. Cantiamo, cantiam
2. Act 2. Barcaruola a due voci
3. Act 2. Le feste nuziali!
4. Act 2. Ai perigli della guerra
5. Act 2. Qua la mano, giovinotto
6. Act 2. No. 8. Coro. Saria possibile?
7. Act 2. No. 9. Quartetto. Dell'elisir mirabile
8. Act 2. Come sen va contento!
9. Act 2. No. 10. Duetto. Quanto amore!
10. Act 2. No. 11. Romanza. Una furtiva lagrima
11. Act 2. No. 12. Recitativo ed Aria. Prendi, prendi, per me sei libero
12. Act 2. No. 13. Aria e Finale. Marziale
13. Act 2. Finale. Ei corregge ogni difetto |
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ID: GFO00664
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Opera
Recorded live at Glyndebourne 14 August 1964.
Includes 2 discs in a 113 page hard-bound book
Mozart is very much Glyndebourne’s signature composer and as a point of fact Glyndebourne was instrumental in putting Mozart back into the repertoire in the UK, so much so that the performing edition of Idomeneo was commissioned by Glyndebourne’s music director Fritz Busch. Glyndebourne’s 1951 Messel production of Mozart’s Idomeneo was the first professional performance in Great Britain. This 1964 recording is from the last staging of the Messel production and an opera John Pritchard had conducted at Glyndebourne since 1952. Pritchard was a consummate Mozartian and this recording allows, for the first time, Janowitz and Pavarotti to be heard before their respective international careers took off. Their vocal timbres are instantly recognisable - fresh, vital, flexible and already burgeoning with a distinctive projection of the text and drama. Pavarotti went on to have a long association with this opera, moving to the title role at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and recording it in the early digital age of 1983 with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted once again by Pritchard. Richard Lewis as Idomeneo in the recording has a gracious sense of style and carries the day.
In the past (10+ years ago) there have been pirated/bootlegged releases of this production taken from a BBC off air recording. This release is from Glyndebourne’s own archive and is NOT the previously available BBC performance.
Richard Lewis (Idomeneo), Gundula Janowitz (Ilia), Luciano Pavarotti (Idamante), Enriqueta Tarrés (Elettra), Dennis Wicks (Nettuno), Neilson Taylor (Arbace), David Hughes (Gran Sacerdote)
London Philharmonic Orchestra & The Glyndebourne Chorus, John Pritchard
Track list:
CD: 1
Idomeneo, rè di Creta, opera, K. 366
1. Ouverture
2. Act 1. Recitativo. Quando avran fine omai
3. Act 1. No. 1. Aria. Padre, germani, addio!
4. Act 1. Recitativo. Ecco, Idamante, ahimè!
5. Act 1. Recitativo. Radunate i Trojani, ite
6. Act 1. No. 2. Aria. Non ho colpa
7. Act 1. Recitativo. Ecco il misero resto de' Trojani
8. Act 1. No. 3. Coro. Godiam la pace, trionfi Amore
9. Act 1. Recitativo. Prence, signor, tutta la Grecia oltraggi
10. Act 1. No. 4. Aria. Tutte nel cor vi sento
11. Act 1. No. 5. Coro. Pietà! Numi pieta!
12. Act 1. Recitativo. Eccoci salvi alfin
13. Act 1. No. 6. Aria. Vedrommi intorno l'ombra dolente
14. Act 1. Recitativo. Cieli! che sento?
15. Act 1. No. 7. Aria. Il padre adorato
16. Intermezzo. No. 8. Marcia
17. Intermezzo. No. 9. Coro. Nettuno s'onori, quel nome risuoni
18. Act 2. No. 10. Recitativo. Siam soli. Odimi Arbace
19. Act 2. Recitativo. Se mai pomposo apparse
20. Act 2. No. 11. Aria. Se il padre perdei
21. Act 2. Recitativo. Qual mi conturbai sensi
22. Act 2. No. 12. Aria. Fuor del mar ho un mar in seno
CD: 2
1. Act 2. Recitativo. Chi mai del mio provò piacer più dolce?
2. Act 2. No. 13. Aria. Idol mio, se ritroso
3. Act 2. No. 14. Marcia. Odo da lunge armonioso suono
4. Act 2. Recitativo. Sidonie sponde!
5. Act 2. No. 15. Coro. Placido è il mar, andiamo
6. Act 2. Recitativo. Parti Idamante
7. Act 2. No. 16. Terzetto. Pria di partir, oh Dio!
8. Act 2. No. 17. Coro. Qual nuovo terrore!
9. Act 2. Recitativo. Eccoti in me, barbaro Nume!
10. Act 2. No. 18. Coro. Corriamo, fuggiamo
11. Act 3. No. 19. Aria. Zeffiretti lusinghieri
12. Act 3. Recitativo. Eistesso vien... oh Dei!
13. Act 3. Recitativo. Principessa, a'tuoi sguardi
14. Act 3. No. 20. Duetto. Spiegarti non poss'io
15. Act 3. Recitativo. Cieli! che vedo?
16. Act 3. No. 21. Quartetto. Andrò ramingo e solo
17. Act 3. No. 24. Coro. O voto tremendo!
18. Act 3. No. 25. Marcia
19. Act 3. No. 26. Cavatina con coro. Accogli, o rè del mar
20. Act 3. Coro. Stupenda vittoria!
21. Act 3. Recitativo. Qual risuono qui intorno
22. Act 3. No. 27. Recitativo. Padre, mio caro padre
23. Act 3. No. 27a. Aria. No la morte
24. Act 3. Recitativo. Ma che più tardi?
25. Act 3. No. 28a. La Voce. Idomeneo cessi essere
26. Act 3. Aria. D'Oreste, D'Ajace
27. Act 3. No. 30. Recitativo. Popoli, a voi l'ultima legge impone
28. Act 3. No. 30a. Aria. Torna la pace alcore
29. Act 3. No. 31. Coro. Scenda Amor, scenda Imeneo |
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ID: KAI0012532
CDs: 2
Type: SACD
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Collection: Vocal and Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
Das Theater der Wiederholungen [The Theatre of Repetitions], Bernhard Lang‘s magnum opus, is divided into three large sections, three narratives set in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries respectively. The theatre of repetitions is a reference to Gilles Deleuze and the specific compositional principle developed by Bernhard Lang, already hinting at the work‘s programmatic content („a possible story of cruelty“). (Wolfgang Reiter)
Includes booklet with texts by Wolfgang Hofer, Wolfgang Reiter and Bernhard Lang |
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