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ID: BRV9902
CDs: 14
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
Franco Corelli (tenor)
Donizetti:
Poliuto
Milan, 7th December 1960
Franco Corelli (Poliuto), Maria Callas (Paolina), Ettore Bastiani (Severo)
Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala Milan, Antonino Votto
Giordano, U:
Andrea Chénier
Vienna, 26th June 1960
Franco Corelli (Chenier), Renata Tebaldi (Maddalena), Ettore Bastianini (Carlo)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Chorus of the Vienna State Opera, Lovro von Matacic
Leoncavallo:
I Pagliacci
Milan, 26th September 1954
Franco Corelli (Canio), Tito Gobbi (Tonio), Mafalda Micheluzzi (Nedda)
RAI Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Milan, Alfredo Simonetto
Meyerbeer:
Les Huguenots
Milan, 7th June 1962 (Sung in Italian)
Franco Corelli (Raoul), Joan Sutherland (Margarita), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Marcello), Giulietta Simionato (Valentina)
Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala Milan, Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Puccini:
Tosca
London, 1st July 1957
Franco Corelli (Cavaradossi), Zinka Milanov (Tosca), Giangiacomo Guelfi (Scarpia)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Alexander Gibson
Turandot
Milan, 7th December 1964
Franco Corelli (Calaf), Birgit Nilsson (Turandot), Galina Vishnevskaya (Liu), Nicola Zaccaria (Timur)
Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala Milan, Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Verdi:
Il Trovatore
Salzburg, 31st July 1962
Franco Corelli (Manrico), Leontyne Price (Leonora), Ettore Bastianini (Luna), Giulietta Simionato (Azucena)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan |
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ID: BRV9903
CDs: 14
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Legendary Voices
Bizet:
Carmen
Cilea:
Adriana Lecouvreur
Puccini:
Manon Lescaut
Verdi:
Don Carlo
Aida
Otello
Placido Domingo (tenor)
Performers:
Alfredo Mariotti, Anne Pashley, Attilio d'Orazi, Carlo del Bosco, Claudie Saneva, Dano Raffanti, Dimiter Petkov, Emmy Greger, Ermanno Lorenzi, Fiorenza Cossotto, Francis Egerton, Franco Federici, Franco Ricciardi, Gerard Friedmann, Gianfranco Bertagna, Gianfranco Casarini, Gianfranco Manganotti, Giovanni Foiani, Giuliano Ciannella, Giulio Fioravanti,
Conductors:
Carlos Kleiber, Claudio Abbado, Eliahu Inbal, Georg Solti, Gianfranco Masini, Nello Santi
Orchestras:
Arena di Verona Orchestra, Covent Garden Orchestra, French Radio Orchestra, La Scala Theater Orchestra, Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra |
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ID: BRV9915
CDs: 15
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Legendary Voices
A 15-CD collection that will have great appeal for the collector; live recordings and performances of 7 complete operas with Joan Sutherland. The accompanying booklet contains a biographical essay on Sutherland, rare historic photos, complete cast lists and a short synopsis of each opera.
Joan Sutherland (soprano)
Bellini:
Beatrice di Tenda
recorded live in Milan on 10th May,1961
Joan Sutherland (Beatrice di Tenda), Raina Kabaivanska (Agnese), Dino Dondi (Filippo Maria Visconti), Giuseppe Campora (Orombello), Piero De Palma (Anichino), Walter Gullino (Rizzardo)
Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala Milan, Antonino Votto
Norma
recorded live in Buenos Aires in 1969
Joan Sutherland (Norma), Fiorenza Cossotto (Adalgisa), Charles Craig (Pollione), Ivo Vinco (Oroveso), Tatiana Zlatar (Clotilde), Orazio Mastrango (Flavio)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Teatro Colón, Richard Bonynge
Handel:
Rodelinda
recorded live on 24th June, 1959; sung in English
Joan Sutherland (Rodelinda), Janet Baker (Eduige), Margreta Elkins (Bertarido), Patricia Kern (Unulfo), Alfred Hallet (Grimoaldo), Raimund Herincx (Garibaldo)
Philomusica of London, Chandos Choir, Charles Farncombe
Haydn:
L'anima del filosofo, ossia Orfeo ed Euridice
recorded live in Edinburgh in 1967
Joan Sutherland (Euridice), Nicolai Gedda (Orfeo), Spiro Malas (Creon)
Scottish National Orchestra & Opera Chorus, Richard Bonynge
Meyerbeer:
Les Huguenots
recorded live in Milan on 7th June,1962
Joan Sutherland (Marguerite de Valois), Giulietta Simionato (Valentine de Saint-Bris), Fiorenza Cossotto (Urbain), Franco Corelli (Raoul de Nangis), Wladimiro Ganzarolli (Compte de Nevers), Giorgio Tozzi (Compte de Saint-Bris), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Marcel), Walter Gullino (Bois-Rosé), Piero De Palma (De Tavannes), Giuseppe Bertinazzo (De Cossé), Manuel Spatafora (De Thoré), Antonio Cassinelli (De Retz), Alfredo Giacomotti (De Meru), Silvio Maionica (Maurevert)
Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala Milan, Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Rossini:
Semiramide
recorded live in Rome in 1968
Joan Sutherland (Semiramide), Monica Sinclair (Arsace), Mario Petri (Assur), Ottavio Garaventa (Idreno), Ferruccio Mazzoli (Oroe), Giovanni Gusmeroli (L'Ombra di Nino), Gino Sinimberghi (Mitrane), Angela Rocco (Azeme)
Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Roma della RAI, Richard Bonynge
Tippett:
The Midsummer Marriage
recorded live in London on 27th January,1955
Richard Lewis (Mark), Joan Sutherland (Jenifer), Otakar Kraus (King Fisher), Adele Leigh (Bella), John Lanigan (Jack), Edith Coates (The She-Ancient), Michael Langdon (The He-Ancient), Oralia Dominguez (Sosostris), Monica Sinclair (A Voice)
Orchestra & Chorus of Covent Garden, John Pritchard |
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ID: MELCD1002164
CDs: 5
Type: CD
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Collection: Opera and Ballet
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
Soloists: Galina Vishnevskaya, Irina Arkhipova, Elena Obraztsova, Tamara Sinyavskaya, Sergey Lemeshev, Ivan Kozlovsky, Vladimir Atlantov, Alexander Pirogov, Mark Reizen, Evgeny Nesterenko
Nikolai Golovanov, Samuil Samosud, Alexander Melik-Pashayev, Evgeny Svetlanov, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Yuri Fayer, Mark Ermler, Alexander Lazarev
Firma Melodiya presents a unique set of recordings by soloists of the USSR Bolshoi Theatre - outstanding singers who performed on the main stage of this country during 1945 to 1990.
They call it the golden age of the Bolshoi not for nothing.
The first music theatre of the country attracted undiverted attention of not just millions of spectators and listeners (getting a ticket to the Bolshoi was almost an impracticable task for a “common Soviet citizen”). The supreme leadership of the Soviet Union watched the life of the theatre as closely as real music lovers did. Nearly all the premieres took place under the sign of “special responsibility”. The theatre recruited the best artistic forces from all over the country, and in the post-war period there still were those who got their education and started their careers even before the revolution keeping the continuity of the old tradition of the Imperial Bolshoi Theatre.
Galina Vishnevskaya, Irina Arkhipova, Elena Obraztsova, Tamara Sinyavskaya, Sergey Lemeshev, Ivan Kozlovsky, Vladimir Atlantov, Alexander Pirogov, Mark Reizen, Evgeny Nesterenko are just some of 30 soloists featured in this set. They are accompanied by the Bolshoi Orchestra lead by various conductors such as Nikolai Golovanov, Samuil Samosud, Alexander Melik-Pashayev, Evgeny Svetlanov, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Yuri Fayer, Mark Ermler, Alexander Lazarev and others. Each of them made a valuable contribution to the treasury of Russian music culture of the 20th century.
The set includes fragments from Russian classical opera and ballet repertoire of the 19th and 20th centuries, and some of the most popular foreign operas and ballets staged at the Bolshoi |
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ID: RCO8005
CDs: 14
Type: SACD
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Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
The Anthology of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra is a transcription in sound of the concert-giving history of the Concertgebouw Orchestra, based upon radio recordings from the archives of Dutch Radio and Radio Netherlands World Service. Six decades of the 20th century are put under the spotlight in six boxes, each containing 14 CDs. We have chosen not only legendary performances under chief conductors of the KCO but also concerts led by countless guest conductors of both greater and lesser renown. Famous soloists make their debuts with the orchestra alongside world premieres of works that have since become classics of the repertoire. This fifth volume of the Anthology features the radio recordings made by the orchestra in the 1980s, presenting an overview on 14 CDs of the orchestra's artistic development under various conductors during that period. |
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ID: MELCD1002431
CDs: 10
Type: CD
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Collection: Symphony
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
Dmitri Shostakovich’s creations constitute a musical chronicle of the epoch. What we hear in his music is something that continues to alarm minds and souls of millions of people. His fifteen symphonies captured not only the great musician’s evolution - as if the entire 20th century with its great discoveries and perturbations, unprecedented progress and terrifying catastrophes breathes in their scores. These are unique documents of human spirit that will stay with us for good to tell us about their time, to stir heated theoretical and aesthetic disputes, to give us a reason for very different interpretations, and to command our admiration or sharp rejection. Whatever the case may be, they will never find an indifferent listener.
Firma Melodiya is preparing a number of large-scale projects for the Shostakovich anniversary year. We present the first of them - a set of the composer’s symphonies performed by the greatest masters of the Soviet conducting school and brightest interpreters of Shostakovich’s music - Evgeny Mravinsky, Kirill Kondrashin, Evgeny Svetlanov and Gennady Rozhdestvensky. The set also includes recordings made by Konstantin Ivanov, a predecessor of Evgeny Svetlanov as chief conductor of the country’s principal orchestra - the USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra; Yuri Temirkanov, a successor of Evgeny Mravinsky, a great representative of the St. Petersburg conducting school; Rudolf Barshai, a founder of the first Soviet chamber orchestra and the one who inspired Shostakovich’s Fourteenth Symphony; and Maxim Shostakovich, the composer’s son who presented the world premiere of the last, Fifteenth Symphony.
The live and studio recordings of Shostakovich’s symphonies were made by Firma Melodiya from 1961 to 1984. The studio recording is peculiar for the fact it was realized shortly after the world premiere in the presence and under supervision of the composer. An unconfirmed legend among the former members of the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra has it that the recording was to be erased together with the other ones after Maxim Shostakovich defected from the Soviet Union. However, it survived among the Melodiya phonograms.
The edition comprises a lidded hard box made from lined cardboard, 9 digipacks and a thick hardcover booklet in English and Russian.
CD 1 - Symphonies Nos. 1-3
CD 2 - Symphony No. 4
CD 3 - Symphonies Nos. 5 - 6
CD 4 - Symphony No. 7
CD 5 - Symphony No. 8
CD 6 - Symphonies Nos. 9 - 10
CD 7, CD 8 - Symphonies Nos. 11 - 13
CD 9 - Symphony No. 14
CD 10 - Symphony No. 15 |
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