Tagliaferri, Ernesto

Neapolitan Songs / Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor [Limited Ed.]

2 Super Audio CD / EMI Classics / 2012-05-08

Works: Arturo Buzzi-Peccia: Lolita "Spanish Serenade"; Paolo Tosti: Ideale, for voice & piano (or orchestra); Canzoni-stornelli (3); Romanze (3); La serenata; Non t'amo più; Addio; 'A vucchella; A Ma...
Performers: Di Stefano, Giuseppe
Conductors: Guarino, Gian Maria; Oliveri, Dino

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Di Stefano is here in very good form indeed ... He can still thrill with his power and can also be irresistibly tender in...continue...
Recording information: Milan (1953-04-??&1953-06-??&1961-)....continue...

J. Strauss: Die Fledermaus: Complete Opera Plus Bonus Gala Scene / Gueden, Kmentt, Koth, Berry, Waechter

2 CD / Musical Concepts / 2011-09-13

Works: Johann Strauss II: Die Fledermaus; Franz Lehár: The Merry Widow; Land of Smiles; Benedetto Ferrari: Domino; Frederick Loewe: I Could Have Danced All Night, song (for the musical My Fair Lady); E...
Performers: Bastianini, Ettore; Berganza, Teresa [Mezzo Soprano Vocals]; Bjorling, Jussi; Corena, Fernando; Del Monaco, Mario; Nilsson, Birgit [Soprano Vocal]; Price, Leontyne; Simionato, Giulietta; Sutherland, ...
Conductors: Karajan, Herbert von
Ensemble: ; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Legendary recording of Strauss II's opera, featuring some of the greatest opera stars of the mid-twentieth century. In addition to the opera itself - which...continue...
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Giuseppe di Stefano: Decca Recordings / Recitals; L'Elisir d'Amore

5 CD / Decca / 2011-08-30

Works: Alberto Favara: A la Barcillunisa, Sicilian folk song; Sicilian Traditional: Nota di li lavannàri; A la vallelunghisa; Muttetti di lu paliu; Chiovu "Abballati"; Cantu a Timuni; Cesare Cesarini: ...
Performers: Di Stefano, Giuseppe
Conductors: Olivieri, Dino; Pattacini, Iller; Patanè, Franco; Molinari-Pradelli, France

24 July 2011 marks what would have been the 90th birthday of Giuseppe di Stefano (died 3 March 2008). Di Stefano's long career began with...continue...

Godfathers Of Opera

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2010-04-20

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; La Traviata; Aida, opera; Il Trovatore; Requiem; Salvatore Cardillo: Core' ngrato; Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut; La bohème; Tosca; Turandot; Madame Butterfly; Edua...
Performers: Bjorling, Jussi; Blanc, Ernest; Carreras, Jose [Tenor Vocal]; Caruso, Enrico; Corelli, Franco; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Domingo, Placido; Gedda, Nicolai; Gigli, Beniamino; Gobbi, Tito; Kraus, Alfredo [T...
Conductors: Serafin, Tullio; Mingardo, Raffaele; Bartoletti, Bruno; Kohn, Eugene; Levine, James; Goehr, Walter; Molinari-Pradelli, France; Gavazzeni, Gianandrea; Guarino, G.M.; Schippers, Thomas; Ferraris, Franc...

Everyone needs a Godfather to look up to and today's crop of young singers need only review the pantheon of greats that came before them....continue...

Omaggio A Tito Schipa: Five Italian Tenors In Concert

1 CD / Bongiovanni / 2010-04-01

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Manon Lescaut; Madama Butterfly; Tosca; Giuseppe Verdi: La Traviata; Rigoletto; J...
Performers: Caputo, Aldo; Care, Andrea; Colaianni, Annarita; Liberatore, Alessandro; Marsiglia, Francisco; Talamo, Giuseppe
Conductors: Panni, Marcello

Recording information: Cortile del Palazzo dei Celestini, Lecce (06/11/2009)....continue...

Icon: Tito Gobbi / The Complete Solo Recordings

5 CD / EMI Classics / 2010-03-23

Works: Francesco Cilèa: L'Arlesiana; Adriana Lecouvreur; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Zazà, opera; Pagliacci; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Le nozze di Figaro; Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlo; Otello...
Performers: Alva, Luigi [Tenor Vocals]; Arie, Raffaele; Callas, Maria; Canali, Anna Maria; Caselli, Dario; Clabassi, Plinio [Bass Vocal]; Cornoldi, Claudio; de los Angeles, Victoria; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Dickie...
Conductors: Karajan, Herbert von; Erede, Alberto; Robertson, James; Green, Philip; Susskind, Walter; Braithwaite, Warwick; Olivieri, Dino; de Fabritiis, Oliviero; Bizzelli, Annibale; Serafin, Tullio; Santini, Ga...

This 5-CD set, devoted to the outstanding Italian baritone Tito Gobbi, is a further release in the EMI Classics ICON series. The bulk of this...continue...

Licia Albanese III

1 CD / Preiser / 2010-02-09

Works: Paolo Tosti: Vorrei morir for voice & piano/orchestra; Ave Maria; Stefano Donaudy: Madonna renzuola; O del mio amato ben; Quand' il tuo diavol nacque; Arturo Buzzi-Peccia: Mal d'amore; Ernesto Taglia...
Performers: Albanese, Licia; Marzollo, Dick; Trucco, Victor
Conductors: Savina, Carlo; Stokowski, Leopold

There was nothing greatly distinctive about Licia Albanese's career, but it took her in a straightforward manner to her highest goals. Her first Met role...continue...

Icon - Franco Corelli - Schubert, Verdi, Puccini, Massenet, Rossini, etc

4 CD / EMI Classics / 2009-04-21

Works: Vincenzo Bellini: I Puritani, opera; Norma, opera; Gaetano Donizetti: La Favorita; Giuseppe Verdi: Il Trovatore; Luisa Miller; La forza del destino; Macbeth; Rigoletto; Ernani; Un ballo in maschera; ...
Performers: Amara, Lucine; Bumbry, Grace; Corelli, Franco; de Palma, Piero [Tenor Vocal]; Freni, Mirella; Giaiotti, Bonaldo; Gobbi, Tito; Lazzarini, Adriana; Mazzini, Guido; Mercuriali, Angelo; Modesti, Giuseppe...
Conductors: Ferraris, Franco; Serafin, Tullio; Schippers, Thomas; Pedrazzoli, Eduardo; Mehta, Zubin; Santini, Gabriele; Matacic, Lovro von; Molinari-Pradelli, France; Lombard, Alain; Mingardo, Raffaele

With his powerful voice, charismatic stage presence, and film-star good looks, tenor Franco Corelli was one of the 20th century's outstanding operatic superstars. These 4...continue...

Pavarotti - The Studio Albums

12 CD / Decca / 2007-11-13

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Luisa Miller; I due Foscari; Un ballo in maschera; Macbeth; Il Trovatore; Rigoletto; Aida, opera; Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; Il Duca d'Alba; La Favorita; Dom Sébas...
Performers: Auger, Arleen; Baillie, Peter; Bartoli, Alberto; Beck, Jeff; Bonaviri, Daniele; Brown, Kameron; Bunger, Reid; Centonze, Michele; Cortesi, Manuela "Manu"; Fabbri, Giorgio "Cartolo"; Flossman, Gilels; ...
Conductors: Downes, Edward; Rescigno, Nicola; Magiera, Leone; Bonynge, Richard; Karajan, Herbert von; Mehta, Zubin; Adler, Kurt Herbert; Chiaramello, Giancarlo; Guadagno, Anton; de Fabritiis, Oliviero; Chailly, ...

'The Studio Albums' comprise the twelve original studio albums Luciano Pavarotti recorded during the course of his unparalleled career spanning four decades from the earliest...continue...

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Luigi Infantino

1 CD / Preiser / 2007-06-01

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; La traviata; Requiem Mass; Georges Bizet: Agnus Dei, for voice & piano (or orchestr...
Performers: Cockerill, John; Guerrini, Adriana; Infantino, Luigi; Silveri, Paolo
Conductors: Erede, Alberto; Rankl, Karl; Olivieri, Dino; Patanè, Franco; Bellezza, Vincenzo; Martin, Ray

Luigi Infantino possessed a wonderfully dignified voice, described by the critics as "expressive, flexible, round and lyrical." Another example of the tenor di grazia, he...continue...

The Millennium Collection - The Best of The Three Tenors

1 CD / Hip-O / 2007-04-03

Works: Eduardo di Capua: O sole mio; Cesare Andrea Bixio: Mamma; Ernesto de Curtis: Non ti scordar di me; Ernesto Tagliaferri: Passione; Paolo Tosti: Canzoni-stornelli (3); Giacomo Puccini: La bohème...
Performers: Carreras, Jose [Tenor Vocal]; Domingo, Placido; Pavarotti, Luciano
Conductors: Müller, Eduardo; Mancini, Henry; Loges, Karl-Heinz; Karajan, Herbert von; Magiera, Leone; Garcia-Asensio, Enrique; Giulini, Carlo Maria; Sinopoli, Giuseppe; Downes, Edward
Ensemble: ; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; English Chamber Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra; Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra; Orchestra; Philharmonia Orchestra; Vienna Opera Orchestra; Vienna Philharmon...

Joseph Schmidt singt Canzonen und Unterhaltungslieder

2 CD / Preiser / 2003-05-01

Works: Ernesto Tagliaferri: Piscatore 'e Pusilleco; Nun me scetà, for voice & piano (or orchestra); Mandulinata a Napule (Mandolins from Naples), song; Mischa Spoliansky: Heute Nacht oder nie; Karl W...
Performers: Schmidt, Joseph
Conductors: Dobrindt, Otto; Weissmann, Frieder; Günther, Felix; Goehr, Walter; Tauber, Richard; Brunner, Fritz; Kaiser, Emil

Prima Voce - Tito Schipa in Opera and Song

3 CD / Nimbus Records / 1999-09-14

Works: Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act; L'Amico Fritz; Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Luisa Miller; Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor; Don Pasquale; L' elisir d'amore, op...
Performers: Echantz, Jose; Gogorza, Emilio de; Schipa, Tito [Tenor Vocal]
Conductors: Antonicelli, Giuseppe; Olivieri, Dino; Sabajno, Carlo; Bourdon, Rosario; Riccardo, Alberto Fernanco; Pasternack, Josef A.

A comprehensive survey of the Italian tenor's art, this set includes all three previous Prima Voca releases of Schipa. Included are arias and songs by...continue...

Torna A Surriento

2 CD / Decca Import / 1998-02-02

Works: Ernesto de Curtis: Torna a Surriento; Tu ca nun chiagne; Sona Chitarra! for voice & orchestra; Canta pe' me; A Canzone 'e Napule for voice & orchestra; Ti voglio tanto bene; Francesco Bongiovanni: La...
Performers: Di Stefano, Giuseppe
Conductors: Pattacini, Iller; Olivieri, Dino

Viaggio Italiano

1 CD / / 1997-11-18

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Turandot; Francesco Cilèa: L'Arlesiana; Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth; Aida, opera; Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; César Franck: Panis angelicus; Franz Schubert: Av...
Performers: Bocelli, Andrea
Conductors: Fedoseyev, Vladimir

Andrea Bocelli's is a strikingly individual voice, a plangent tenor given to shaded crooning yet capable of exhilarating, effortless lifts to high C. The individual behind the voice is equally remark...continue...

Giuseppe di Stefano - Neapolitan Songs Vol 2

1 CD / Testament / 1997-04-01

Works: Luigi Denza: Funiculì funiculà; Pasquale Mario Costa: Luna nova; Emanuele Nutile: Mamma mia, che vo' sapè; Nicola Valente: Torna!; Ernesto de Curtis: Carmela; Rodolfo Falvo: Guap...
Performers: Di Stefano, Giuseppe
Conductors: Guarino, G.M.