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ID: GM5.0058
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Opera Collection
Victoria de los Ángeles (Cio Cio San), John Lanigan (Pinkerton), Geraint Evans (Sharpless), Barbara Howitt (Suzuki), Joyce Livingston (Kate Pinkerton), David Tree (Goro), David Allen (Yamadori), Michael Langdon (Lo zio Bonzo), Ronald Firmager (Il commissario imperiale), Harry Gawler (L'ufficiale del Registro)
Recorded in London 1957 |
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ID: NMCD146
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
The Opera Group's lively production of Edward Rushton's new opera, described as 'part satire on rampant consumerism, part psychological thriller.’
Edward Rushton’s new opera, The Shops is described as ‘part satire on rampant consumerism, part psychological thriller’. Its central character, Christoph Schmalhans, is an obsessive stamp collector. He manages to steal prize examples from museums with the aid of his girlfriend Francesca, who distracts attention by causing scenes. His activities eventually attract the interest of the police and psychologists. In between, there is a running commentary on the phenomenon of shopaholics, along with a song-and-dance number from members of a mutual support group.
Darren Abrahams (tenor), Anna Dennis (soprano), Phyllis Cannan (contralto), Richard Burkhard (baritone), Louise Mott (mezzo-soprano), Paul Reeves (bass) |
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ID: AB20002
CDs: 1
Type: DVD
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Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Opera
This is a DVD video. It can be played only on a DVD video player.
Region:
It is for region 0, meaning that it should be playable anywhere in the world.
Format:
Please ensure that both your DVD player and your TV are compatible. (Recent equipment is likely to support multiple standards but, if in doubt, consult the manual or your dealer.)
Color
Roberto Iuliano (Don Giovanni), Cristina Mantese (Donna Anna), Linda Campanella (Donna Elvira), Maurizio Leoni (Pasquariello), Giorgio Trucco (Don Ottavio), Dario Giorgelè (Biagio)
Fondazione Orchestra Stabile Gaetano Donizetti, Pierangelo Pelucchi |
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ID: STR57006
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Chamber Ensemble
Lohengrin is considered one of most remarkable of Sciarrino's works, which despite sharing a name with that other Lohengrin the only common characteristics are an inspiration from a particular medieval German fable and the fact that each is a product of a composer with a gift for highlighting emotional states through canny orchestration. Otherwise, Sciarrino's music is a logical continuation of Webern, a landscape of flinty utterances, alarming squeals and langorous sighs rendered all the more alien by Sciarrino's reliance upon unorthodox methods of sound production. Dramatically, the work continues the line of Peter Maxwell Davies's Eight Songs for a Mad King and Miss Donnithorne's Maggot, in both of which mental disorder is depicted through fragmented lines and extreme vocal techniques. |
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ID: STR33900
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Opera
By Sciarrino’s own admission, this is the best and reference version of his well-known 2-act-opera Luci mie traditrici in a stunning performance by Ensemble Algoritmo conducted by Marco Angius.
Luci mie traditrici was presented on 19th May 1998 in the Schwetzinger Festpiele under the German title Die tödliche Blume (The Deadly Flower). The libretto by Sciarrino is based freely on "Il tradimento per l’onore", a prose tragedy published for the first time in 1659 under the name of G.A. Cicognini (Florence 1606-Venice 1649) and followed by various reprintings. The libretto centres on lovers’ basic conflicts but Luci reaches beyond the ordinary by showing how familiar impulses can spiral into the pathological and cause disaster. A timid person turns into a perfidious murderer when he loses the certainty of his relationship. Tender feelings mutate into obsession; boundless love becomes immeasurable suffering, and the dream of lovers’ paradise turns into a vision of eternal damnation. |
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ID: CC2018
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Oboe
The 24-page full colour CD booklet has a 6,000 word programme note in English
with full details of each item, setting it in its operatic and historical context.
There are biographies of all the players and many photographs.
Emily Pailthorpe (the youngest winner of the Gillet International oboe competition) joins Elaine Douvas (Principle Oboe of the Met Opera Orch.) to give an oboist’s-eye-view of opera.
Introduction by Emily Pailthorpe:
This is a CD for lovers of opera and lovers of the oboe alike. Indeed it is often the vocal quality of the oboe to which listeners and players are drawn. Whether reaching out from the pit orchestra in accompaniment, or taking centre stage for a chamber work, playing the oboe does feel like singing. Portrayed here are some of the great oboe moments in opera (Fidelio, Meistersinger) as well as many that we always wanted to stand up and sing ourselves! (For example the 'Queen of the Night' aria from Mozart's Magic Flute, the Duo from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor.) Both the Diva and the gracious accompanist appear here - often swapping seamlessly from one role to the other.
My own love affair with opera grew when I was a student at The Juilliard School in New York, and my teacher Elaine Douvas gave me standing passes to come and hear the productions at the New York Metropolitan Opera, where she was principal oboe. It is a great pleasure to collaborate on this CD with her and her colleagues from the Met, and also to highlight the opera connection of players from the London CONCHORD Ensemble. Daniel Pailthorpe was principal flute at English National Opera for ten years and Andrea de Flammineis is principal bassoon at the Royal Opera House. I think that in this recording the operatic experience of all these players shines through. |
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ID: CDMAN138
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Baroque
Subcollection: Cello
Recorded by Petersburg Recording Studio, 1977
Dido, Queen of Cathage - Eugenia Gorokhovskaya
Aeneas, a Trojan prince - Nikolay Kaloshin
Belinda - Valentina Kozyreva
Sorceress - Nadezhda Vainer
1st witch - Valentina Gagen
2nd witch - Galina Pavlova
Alexander Demurjan, cello
Chamber choir, Leningrad Chamber Orchestra, conductor Valentin Nesterov |
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ID: CDMAN170
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Opera
Konstatin Pluzhnikov, tenor (7)
Gennady Bezzubenkov, bass (8) |
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ID: SIGCD372
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Opera Collection
Bartók: Duke Bluebeard's Castle, Sz. 48, Op. 11
An unforgettable live-concert recording, selected from the Philharmonia Orchestra and Esa-Pekka Salonen’s season of works by Béla Bartók - „Infernal Dance“.
Sir John Tomlinson Bluebeard
Michelle DeYoung Judith
Juliet Stevenson Narrator
Philharmonia Orchestra
Esa-Pekka Salonen conductor
Reviews of the concert from which this recording was taken:
„John Tomlinson and Michelle DeYoung were vocally so commanding as to render „choreography“ entirely superfluous. Tomlinson's cavernous voice seemed to embody the very interior world of his castle - its sadness, darkness, emptiness - his Hungarian so vivid and expressive in itself that it became another sonority in Bartok's aural palette. He was quite extraordinary. Musically stunning ..." The Arts Desk
"The part of Judith was well taken by Michelle DeYoung but it was the portrayal of Tomlinson that stole the show. At first predatory and prowling - no one can prowl like John Tomlinson - he visibly collapsed into himself as his secrets were exposed. And never was that magnificently gnarled tone put to better use." The Evening Standard |
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