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Discover - Opera

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2006-10-31

Works: Orazio Vecchi: L'Amfiparnaso; Claudio Monteverdi: L'Orfeo; Francesco Cavalli: Calisto; Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z 626; George Frederick Handel: Rinaldo; Jean-Philippe Rameau: Castor et Pollux,...
Performers: Alperyn, Graciela; Amps, Kym; Banditelli, Gloria; Barr, Frank; Benackova, Gabriela; Biel, Ann-Christine; Bordogna, Paolo; Borst, Martina; Buchanan, Alison; Carmignani, Alessandro; Cigna, Patrizia; Da...
Conductors: Vartolo, Sergio; ; Medlam, Charles; Mallon, Kevin; Östman, Arnold; Halász, Michael; Segerstam, Leif; Zedda, Alberto; Humburg, Will; Rahbari, Alexander; Davis, Colin; Casadesus, Jean-Claude;...
Ensemble: ; Aradia Ensemble; London Baroque; Scholars Baroque Ensemble

For 400 years, opera has illuminated the innermost recesses of human existence. Once the sport of kings and princes, it now provides the soundtrack of...continue...

Discover - Music of the Classical Era

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2005-11-01

Works: Roman Hoffstetter: Quartet for Strings in F major, (prev. attr. Haydn, Op.3/5); Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony no 45 in F sharp minor, H 1 no 45 "Farewell"; F Minor Variations; Mass in D minor, H 22 no...
Performers: Azesberger, Kurt; Berkes, Kalman; Biel, Ann-Christine; Holzer, Robert; Hugh, Timothy; Jando, Jeno; Kwon, Hellen; Loukianets, Viktoria; Payne, Joseph; Payne, Phoebe; Rydl, Kurt [Bass Vocals]; Sima, Ga...
Conductors: Wordsworth, Barry; Benda, Christian; Grodd, Uwe; Antal, Mátyás; Armstrong, Donald; Halstead, Anthony; Sobotka, Wolfgang; Drahos, Béla; Gmür, Hanspeter; Östman, Arnold; Hal...
Ensemble: ; Capella Istropolitana; Concentus Hungaricus; Drottningholm Court Theatre Orchestra; Failoni Chamber Orchestra; Hungarian Radio Orchestra; New Zealand Chamber Orchestra; Scottish Chamber Orchestra; ...

In music, the period from the middle of the 18th century to the beginning of the nineteenth is usually referred to as the Classical era....continue...

Opera Classics - Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice / Östman, et al

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2002-08-01

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Orfeo
Performers: Avemo, Kerstin; Biel, Ann-Christine; Boog, Maya
Conductors: Östman, Arnold

"Yet another feather in Naxos's cap: a superb live performance of the 1762 Viennese version of Gluck's first and best-known reform opera... What comes across...continue...

A-Z of Opera

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2000-10-01

Works: Claudio Monteverdi: L'Orfeo; Henry Purcell: Dido and Aenaeas; George Frederick Handel: Rinaldo; MEDLEY; Christoph Willibald Gluck: Christoph W. Gluck Dance of the Blessed Spirits; Alceste; Wolfgang A...
Performers: Alperyn, Graciela; Amps, Kym; Borowska, Joanna; Carolis, Natale de; Dalayman, Katarina; Gauci, Miriam; Harper, Thomas [Tenor Vocal]; Kertesi, Ingrid; Kohutkova, Adriana; Krause, Monika; Kwon, Hellen;...
Conductors: ; Kovács, László; Wildner, Johannes; Östman, Arnold; Leitner, Konrad; Morandi, Pier G.; Halász, Michael; Humburg, Will; Rahbari, Alexander; Dohnányi, Oliver von; Saccani...
Ensemble: ; Bratislava Children's Choir; Brussels Belgian Radio & TV Philharmonic Orchestra; Camerata Budapest; Camerata Transylvanica; Capella Istropolitana; Capella Musicale di S. Petronio di Bologna; Czecho...

The Best of Opera Vol 4

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2000-06-01

Works: Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; Il Trovatore; La traviata; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Così fan tutte, K 588; Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute...
Performers: Borowska, Joanna; Dalayman, Katarina; Dragoni, Maria; Gauci, Miriam; Harper, Thomas [Tenor Vocal]; Krause, Monika; La Scola, Vincenzo; Lippert, Herbert [Tenor Vocals]; Longhi, Daniela; Mukk, J?zsef [...
Conductors: Wildner, Johannes; Saccani, Rico; Humburg, Will; Selmeczi, György; Rahbari, Alexander; Morandi, Pier G.; Segerstam, Leif; Halász, Michael; Östman, Arnold
Ensemble: ; Brussels Belgian Radio & TV Philharmonic Orchestra; Camerata Transylvanica; Capella Istropolitana; Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra; Hungarian State Opera Orchestra; National Symphony Orchest...

From rousing orchestral works like the Overture to Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg to acrobatic showpieces like the aria from Rossini's La Cenerentola or Mozart's...continue...

Gluck: Alceste / Östman, Ringholz, Lavender, et al

3 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1999-06-14

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Alceste
Performers: Clausen, Emelie; Degerfeldt, Jonas; Giertz, Adam; Lavender, Justin; Lilja, Johan; Martinsson, Lars; Nilsson, Mattias; Ringholz, Teresa; Treichi, Miriam
Conductors: Östman, Arnold

The most famous composer of operas in the early 18th century, Gluck was to enjoy phenomenal success, wirh Orfeo ed Euridice still the most frequently...continue...