Meyerbeer, Giacomo > Naxos (USA)

Meyerbeer: Songs / Rotem

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2011-02-22

Works: Giacomo Meyerbeer: Le ricordanze, song for voice & piano; De miei giorni, canzona for voice & piano; Il nascere e il fiorire d'una rosa, canzonetta for voice & piano; Canzonettes italiennes (6), for ...
Performers: Rotem, Sivan; Zak, Jonathan

Best known for his spectacular operas, Giacomo Meyerbeer also contributed to the more intimate world of French, German and Italian song. Often reflecting on the...continue...
Recording information: Jerusalem Music Centre, Jerusalem, Israel (2009-06-14_2009-06-17&2009-)....continue...

Meyerbeer: Crusader In Egypt

3 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2010-03-30

Works: Giacomo Meyerbeer: Il crociato in Egitto
Performers: Favaron, Luca; Pedrini, Emanuele
Conductors: Villaume, Emmanuel

Meyerbeer created his operas as vast, elaborate woven tapestries - showered with detail and color - the result of years of painstaking work. This landmark...continue...
Recording information: Teatro La Fenice, Venice, Italy (01/16/2007)....continue...

Opera Classics - Meyerbeer: Semiramide / Bonynge, Riedel

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2006-06-20

Works: Giacomo Meyerbeer: Semiramide riconsciuto, opera
Performers: Adami, Filippo; Gierlach, Wojciech Adalbert; James, Fiona; Peretyatko, Olga; Riedel, Deborah; Silva, Leonardo
Conductors: Bonynge, Richard
Ensemble: Württemberg Philharmonie Reutlingen

"The performance takes off in exciting fashion with a rollicking overture. Bonynge keeps everything tightly reined in, the orchestra plays well, and the choir do...continue...

Beniamino Gigli - A Life in Words and Music

4 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2004-05-01

Works: Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda; Graeme Kay: Beniamino Gigli; Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Tosca; Madama Butterfly; Gaetano Donizetti: La Favorita; Lucia di Lammermoor; L' elisir d'amore, oper...
Performers: Albanese, Licia; Bori, Lucrezia; Caniglia, Maria; Gigli, Beniamino; Monte, Toti Dal; Tomei, Giulio; Zamboni, Maria

Gigli was born to sing, and he used records, broadcasts and film to promote his music and career way beyond the confines of the opera...continue...

A Date with the Devil - Berlioz, Liszt, et al / Samuel Ramey

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2002-07-01

Works: Hector Berlioz: La damnation de Faust, Op. 24; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Robert le Diable; Franz Liszt: Episodes from Lenau's Faust, S 110; Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele; Jacques Offenbach: Gaîté P...
Performers: Ramey, Samuel [Bass-Baritone Vocal]
Conductors: Rudel, Julius

The distinguished American bass Samuel Ramey, whom 'Time Magazine' referred to as 'a basso of extraordinary dramatic and lyric gifts' presents the Devil in various...continue...

History of Classical Music

4 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1997-08-01

Works: Gregorian Chant: Chant for Good Friday; Anonymous: Ambrosian Chant for Epiphany; Je Ne Puis . . . Amors Me Tienent . . . Veritatem, for consort; Oy voy; Hildegard von Bingen: Work(s); Pérotin: P...
Performers: Éder String Quartet; Biret, Idil; Cuckston, Alan; Elsner, Kasia; Fawkes, Richard; Harper, Thomas [Tenor Vocal]; Hill, Peter H.; Jandó, Jenö; Kliegel, Maria; Kodaly Quartet; La Scol...
Conductors: ; Antal, Mátyás; Warchal, Bohdan; Kraemer, Nicholas; Gunzenhauser, Stephen; Gmür, Hanspeter; Ward, Nicholas; Wordsworth, Barry; Halász, Michael; Wildner, Johannes; Kosler, Zdenek;...
Ensemble: ; Accentus Austria (Early Music); Capella Istropolitana; Capella Musicale di S. Petronio di Bologna; Ensemble Unicorn; Gothic Voices; Hungarian State Opera Orchestra & Chorus; In Dulci Jubilo Childre...

Majestic Marches / Hayman, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1990-03-30

Works: Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser; Camille Saint-Saëns: Suite algérienne, Op. 60; Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov: Caucasian Sketches Suite no 1, Op. 10; Giacomo Meyerbeer: Le Prophète; Pyo...
Conductors: Hayman, Richard
Ensemble: Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra