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ID: NMCD157
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Chamber Ensemble
Significant concert activity planned to mark Sir Peter Maxwell Davies 75th birthday in 2009, including concert performances of Taverner in November by BBC SSO (UK).
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies was appointed Master of the Queen’s Music in 2004.
Maxwell Davies and Harrison Birtwistle studied together at the Royal Northern College of Music where they founded the contemporary music touring ensemble the Pierrot Players (later renamed The Fires of London).
Maxwell Davies Lives in Sanday in the Orkney Islands which are located off the northern tip of Scotland where the North Sea and the Atlantic Ocean meet. Orkney is an archipelago of 70 or so islands; just 21 of them are inhabited.
This is Peter Maxwell Davies’ first release on the NMC label. To mark Sir Peter Maxwell Davies’s 75th birthday NMC issue the long-awaited release of his seminal opera, Taverner.
This release is of the landmark 1997 BBC recording featuring an astonishing line up of the cream of British contemporary music interpreters, alongside specialist period instrument ensembles Fretwork and His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, conducted by Oliver Knussen. Although what is now known about the 16th-century English composer John Taverner differs considerably from the plot of this opera, the piece is both a fascinating study of an artist as a man for all seasons and an extraordinary indictment of the horrors inflicted on humanity by religion, or religious zealotry.
The Taverner of the opera abandons music to become a persecutor of the Catholic faith and thus betrays all that is good in himself. In Act 1 we see him being tried for heresy by the White Abbot and pardoned by the Cardinal (Wolsey) because of his music. In Act 2, which is a parody of the first, Taverner is trying the White Abbot, who is burned at the stake. That is the bare outline. A sub-plot is Henry VIII’s wish for a break with Rome in order to divorce Catherine of Aragon and the machinations of a Jester, otherwise Death, who controls Taverner’s fate. |
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ID: MKM260
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Opera
Werther - Placido Domingo, tenor
Albert, betrothed to Charlotte - Franz Grundheber, baritone
The Bailiff - Kurt Moll, bass- baritone
Schmidt - Alejandro Vazquez, tenor
Johann, a friend of the Bailiff - Laszlo Anderko, baritone
Bruhlmann, a young man - Wolfgang Vater, tenor
Charlotte, the Bailiff’s daughter - Elena Obraztsova, mezzo-soprano
Sophie, her sister - Arleen Auger, soprano
Katchen, a young girl - Gertrud von Ottenthal, soprano |
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ID: UP0140
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
The world premiere recording of the opera Alfred, by central Czech musical figure and composer of the New World Symphony, Antonín Dvořák, is a monumental event of great scholarly interest for experts and the general public alike.
This Wagnerian-style opera originated in 1870, and was performed and recorded for the first time as written (i.e. in the German language) in Prague's premiere acoustical venue: the Dvořák Hall at the Rudolfínum. The critical edition of the score and materials were prepared by a team of leading Dvořák scholars.
The recording features premiere Wagnerian singers, as well as the Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Czech Philharmonic Choir, and conductor Heiko Mathias Förster.
Alvina - Petra Froese, soprano
Harald - Ferdinand von Bothmer, tenor
Alfred - Felix Rumpf, bass
Gothron - Jorg Sabrowski, vocals
Sieward - Peter Mikuláš, bass
Dorset / Bote - Tilmann Unger, tenor
Rowena - Jarmila Baxova, soprano |
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ID: OPD7035
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Opera
Live performance, Berlin, September 29, 1955. One of the greatest live complete opera recordings starring Maria Callas, and the best of her recordings of Lucia di Lammermoor. Selected as one of the best performances from the vast Opera d’Oro catalog and reissued with new packaging, performance notes from Callas biographer Robert Levine, the fabulous cover art of Rafal Olbinski, and complete libretto newly translated by Bill Parker.
Vocals:
Luisa Villa, Maria Callas,Giuseppe di Stefano, Giuseppe Zampieri, Rolando Panerai, Mario Carlin
Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Rolando Panerai, Nicola Zaccaria, et al.: vocal soloists RIAS Symphony Orchestra, Berlin & La Scala Theater Chorus Herbert von Karajan: conductor |
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ID: AV2200105
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Renaissance
Regie: Siegfried Wittlich
Hildegard Alex (Performer), Ursula Werner (Performer), Barbara Dittus (Performer) |
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ID: OPD7019
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Opera
Teresa Berganza, Nicola Monti,Mario Petri, Sesto Bruscantini, Ornella Rovero,Mitì Truccato Pace & Leonardo Monreale, vocal soloists/Chorus of Teatro San Carlo & RAI Symphony Orchestra, Naples/Mario Rossi, conductor
Among Rossini’s numerous comic operas, La Cenerentola (1817) has long held a place second only to The Barber of Seville. In fact, for many years it was often more popular than The Barber, until its extreme vocal difficulties became too much for a generation of singers not trained in the Rossini style, and its fantastic atmosphere fell afoul of a preference for verismo, the school of realism. In recent years, the revival of the bel canto style and intense interest in resurrecting authentic Rossini manuscripts has brought about a happy new lease on life for La Cenerentola, which once again is rivaling The Barber in popularity. The libretto by Jacopo Ferretti, though based on the Cinderella fairy tale as told by Charles Perrault, is far different in tone. Rossini and Ferretti agreed to suppress the supernatural themes and create a comedy of manners steeped in irony. This live performance, recorded in Naples in 1958, is one of the finest of its era, with a virtual all-star cast thoroughly schooled in the Rossini style.
Ilustration © Rafal Olbinski |
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ID: OPD7004
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Opera
Leonie Rysanek, Hans Hopf, Eberhard Wächter, Grace Hoffman,Waldemar Kmentt, Murray Dickie, Kurt Equiluz, et al., vocal soloists/Orchestra & Chorus of the Vienna State Opera/Karl Böhm, conductor
Live performance, 1972, with a world-class cast, comparable to the best available anywhere. As with the other releases in the new Grand Tier series, this opera recording includes a full libretto in the original language and in English. Karl Böhm was one of the greatest Strauss conductors of all time, and his cast assembled here is truly stellar. Soprano Leonie Rysanek was legendary in the Strauss and Wagner roles.
Includes a 48-page deluxe booklet! Ilustration © Rafal Olbinski
Track Listing 1. Salome, opera, Op. 54 (TrV 215): Wie schön ist die Prinzessin Salome heute nacht! 2. Salome, opera, Op. 54 (TrV 215): Ich will nicht bleiben 3. Salome, opera, Op. 54 (TrV 215): Wo ist er, dessen Sündenbecher jetzt voll ist? 4. Salome, opera, Op. 54 (TrV 215): Intermezzo 5. Salome, opera, Op. 54 (TrV 215): Wo ist Salome? Wo ist die Prinzessin? 1. Salome, opera, Op. 54 (TrV 215): Tanz für mich, Salome 2. Salome, opera, Op. 54 (TrV 215): Dance of the Seven Veils 3. Salome, opera, Op. 54 (TrV 215): Ah! Herrlich! 4. Salome, opera, Op. 54 (TrV 215): Still, sprich nicht zu mir! 5. Salome, opera, Op. 54 (TrV 215): Ah! Du wolltest mich nicht deinen Mund küssen lassen 6. Salome, opera, Op. 54 (TrV 215): Sie ist ein Ungeheuer, deine Richter |
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ID: IMLCD076
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
Recorded live 19.01.1958
Pique Dame (The Queen Of Spades) - Opera in 3 Acts after A.Pushkin
Countess - Sofia Preobrazhenskaya, mezzo-soprano Herman - Matvey Gavrilkin, tenor Liza - Ludmila Revina, soprano Prince Yeletsky Konstantin Laptev, baritone Count Tomsky Lipa Solomiak, baritone |
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ID: IMLCD077
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
A Musical Trilogy in 3 parts and 8 scenes
Libretto by A. Wenkstern, based on the trilogy by Aeschylus.
CD1 (64:24)
CD2 (68:44)
Characters and Performers:
Agamemnon, King of Argos - Victor Morozov, bass
Clytemnestra, his wife - Sophia Preobrazhenskaya, mezzo-soprano
Aegisthus, his cousin - Konstantin Laptev, baritone
Orestes, son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra - Mikhail Dovenman, tenor
Elektra, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra - Nina Serval, soprano
Pallas Athena - Tatiana Lavrova, soprano
Judge of the Areopagites - Ivan Melentiev, bass
The Leningrad Radio Choir (chorus master Yury Slavnitsky)
The Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Gemal Dalgat
Recording dates: 8 and 15 January, 1958
Bonus track
Part 2. Scene 1
12. Oh, my soul is filled with horror (Clytemnestra)
Sophia Preobrazhenskaya, mezzo-soprano
The Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Edouard Grikurov
Recorded in 1951 |
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ID: UP0141
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
1750 Prague version
Jana Levicova (Ezio)
Eva Mullerova (Fulvia)
Yukiko Srejmova Kinjo (Onoria)
Michaela Srumova (Valentiniano)
Martin Srejma (Massimo)
Ondrej Socha (Varo)
Prague Symphony Chamber Orchestra, Jiri Petrdlik |
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