Verdi, Giuseppe > Naxos (USA)

Great Sacred Masterpieces - Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart et al. [10 CDs]

10 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2012-04-24

Works: Thomas Tallis: Spem in alium; Gregorio Allegri: Miserere; Giovanni Pergolesi: Stabat Mater; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Ave verum corpus; Requiem for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, K. 626; Charles Gou...
Performers: Baylon, Jay; Beckley, Lisa; Carey, Colm; Colombara, Carlo; Faulkner, Julie; Filipova, Elena; Gedge, Nicholas; Genz, Christoph; Hajossyova, Magdalena [Soprano Vocals]; Hernandez, Cesar; Im, Sunhae; Ke...
Conductors: Summerly, Jeremy; Halász, Michael; Wildner, Johannes; Kovács, László; Müller-Brühl, Helmut; Oberfrank, Géza; Spering, Andreas; Kosler, Zdenek; Jun, Märkl,; Sch...

The Great Classics series from Naxos is the perfect introduction to myriad genres of classical music. Comprising both complete and compiled selections from the greatest...continue...

Great Opera - Puccini, Bizet, Verdi, Rossini, Mozart et al. [10 CDs]

10 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2012-04-24

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Aida, opera; Georges Bizet: Carmen, ope...
Performers: Abel, Jozef; Alperyn, Graciela; Aragall, Giacomo; Benacka, Stanislav; Boschkowa, Nelly; Braga, Rannveig; Carroli, Silvano; d'Artegna, Francesco Ellero; Daniel, Boaz; Dever, Barbara; Dragoni, Maria; D...
Conductors: Halász, Michael; Humburg, Will; Rahbari, Alexander; Saccani, Rico

The Great Classics series from Naxos is the perfect introduction to myriad genres of classical music. Comprising both complete and compiled selections from the greatest...continue...

Verdi: Complete Ballet Music from Operas / Jose Serebrier

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2012-03-27

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Otello; Macbeth; Jérusalem; Don Carlo; Aida, opera; Il trovatore; I vespri siciliani
Conductors: Serebrier, José
Ensemble: ; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

This unique program is the first time that all the ballet music from Verdi's operas has been brought together in a single recording. Although The...continue...
Recording information: The Lighthouse, Poole, Dorset, UK (05/15/2011-05/17/2011)....continue...

Carlo Colombara: The Art of The Bass [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Naxos (USA) / 2011-12-13

Works: Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlo; Simon Boccanegra; Nabucco; Attila; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Charles Gounod: Faust; Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele; Sergey Rachma...
Performers: Colombara, Carlo
Conductors: Ghiaurov, Vladimir; Milani, Fabrizio; Rath, Gyorgy G.
Ensemble: Bulgarian Symphony Orchestra; Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana; Prague Tchaikovsky Orchestra

Described as "the great Verdian bass" (Le Figaro) and a "Mefistofele who stood out over all the others" (Der Neue Merker), Carlo Colombara brings some...continue...
Run Time: 68 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM Stereo,
Subtitles: English, French, Italian, Russian
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Ultimate Verdi Opera Album

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2010-12-14

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: La Traviata; Rigoletto; Nabucco; Il Trovatore; Macbeth; La Forza del Destino; Aïda; Otello; Un Ballo in Maschera; Ernani
Performers: Abel, Jozef; Csonka, Zsuzsa; Dragoni, Maria; Ferrarini, Alida; Frusoni, Maurizio; Gauci, Miriam; Johannson, Kristjan; Krause, Monika; Longhi, Daniela; Lotric, Janez; Mescherikova, Marina; Ramiro, Yor...
Conductors: Rahbari, Alexander; Dohnányi, Oliver von; Humburg, Will; Morandi, Pier G.; Saccani, Rico; Wildner, Johannes; Halász, Michael

This highly dramatic album includes the most famous moments from Verdi’s ever-popular operas, in which public splendor and private pathos, true love and tragedy, vie...continue...

Baritone Arias - Verdi, Rossini, Mozart, Donizetti / Lado Ataneli

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2009-12-15

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Attila; Ernani; I vespri siciliani; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K. 492; Don Giovanni, K. 527; Gaetano Donizetti: Lucia di ...
Performers: Ataneli, Lado
Conductors: Zocche, Lodovico

For his Naxos debut recording, the internationally acclaimed Georgian baritone Lado Ataneli has selected operatic arias by Bizet, Donizetti, Leoncavallo, Verdi, Massenet, Mozart and Rossini,...continue...
Recording information: Studio of the Württembergische Philharmonie, Reutlingen (07/09/2007-07/12/2007)....continue...

Verdi: Macbeth

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2009-09-29

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth
Performers: Altomare, Giuseppe; Angelis, Velia Moretti De; Cazacu, Valeria; Corro, William; Dall'Amico, Luca; Kudinov, Pavel; Pellizzari, Rubens; Pistolesi, Andrea; Voleri, Marco; Zhuravel, Olha
Conductors: Callegari, Daniele
Ensemble: Marchigiana Philharmonic Orchestra

Verdi was justifiably pleased with 'Macbeth', his tenth opera and his first on a Shakespearian subject - it would long remain his own favourite among...continue...

Opera's Greatest Moments

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2009-02-24

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Gianni Schicchi, opera; Turandot; Madama Butterfly; Tosca; Léo Delibes: Lakmé; Giuseppe Verdi: Il Trovatore; Nabucco; Aida, opera; La traviata; Rigoletto; Alfredo Catalani:...
Performers: Alperyn, Graciela; Borowska, Joanna; Dickie, John [Tenor Vocal]; Ferrarini, Alida; Gauci, Miriam; Harper, Thomas [Tenor Vocal]; Ionata, Maria Pia; Kohutkova, Adriana; Kwon, Hellen; Lamberti, Giorgio;...
Conductors: Humburg, Will; Wildner, Johannes; Halász, Michael; Dohnányi, Oliver von; Rahbari, Alexander; Leitner, Konrad; Morandi, Pier G.

All the opera you'll ever need! This 2-CD set compiles the world's most famous arias and choruses from the greatest operas of all time....continue...

Verdi: Macbeth / Callegari/"V. Bellini" Orchestra, Giuseppe Altomare, Olha Zhuravel, Pavel Kudinov [DVD]

4 DVD Video / Naxos (USA) / 2009-01-27

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth
Performers: Altomare, Giuseppe; Kudinov, Pavel; Pelizzari, Rubens; Voleri, Marco; Zhuravel, Olha
Conductors: Callegari, Daniele
Ensemble: Coro Lirico Marhigiano; Marchigiana Philharmonic Orchestra

Verdi was justifiably pleased with 'Macbeth', his tenth opera and his first on a Shakespearian subject - it would long remain his own favourite among...continue...
Run Time: 152 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): Dolby Digital 2.0, Dolby Digital 5.0, DTS Surround
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Toon Time - Classical Music from Classic Cartoons

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2008-11-25

Works: Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dances (21) for orchestra, WoO 1; Dmitry Kabalevsky: Comedian Galop; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Sleepin...

The 'Toon Time' collection includes well-known melodies from everyone's favorite animated shows. From "Flight of the Bumble-Bee" to "The Sorcerer's Apprentice," 'Toon Time' brings the...continue...

Verdi: Luisa Miller / Benini/Teatro La Fenice, Venice, Takova, Sabbatini, Salerno [DVD]

2 DVD Video / Naxos (USA) / 2008-03-25

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Luisa Miller
Performers: Favaron, Luca; Ferri, Ursula; Kotchinian, Arutiun; Martorana, Elisabetta; Sabbatini, Giuseppe; Salerno, Damiano; Takova, Darina; Vinogradov, Alexander
Conductors: Benini, Maurizio
Ensemble: Teatro La Fenice Chorus; Teatro La Fenice Orchestra

Based on Schiller's 'Kabale und Liebe' (Intrigue and Love), Verdi's tragic melodramma 'Luisa Miller' revolves around the loves of the heroine of the title and...continue...
Run Time: 158 min.
Picture Format: NTSC, Color
Country of Origin: Italy
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Cinema Classics 2007 - Classical Music Made Famous in Films

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2007-12-11

Works: Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt Suite no 1, Op. 46; Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Requiem Mass; Sergei Rachmaninov: Concerto for Piano no 2 in C minor, Op. 18; Jean-Philippe Rameau: Castor et Pollux; George Fre...
Performers: Coles, Priti; Filipova, Elena; Glemser, Bernd; Jandó, Jenö; Lotric, Janez; Morozov, Igor
Conductors: Engeset, Bjarte; Halász, Michael; Wit, Antoni; Mallon, Kevin; Morandi, Pier Giorgio; Wildner, Johannes; Ligeti, András; Kuchar, Theodore
Ensemble: Aradia Baroque Ensemble; Capella Istropolitana; Concentus Hungaricus; Hungarian State Opera Chorus; Hungarian State Opera Orchestra; Iceland Symphony Orchestra; Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra; The N...

Symphonic Brass - Verdi, Bizet, Gershwin, et al

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2007-11-20

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; Johannes Brahms: Academic Festival Overture in C minor, Op. 80; Georges Bizet: The Pearl Fishers, opera; Carmen, opera; L' Arlésienne, incidental music for voices & ...
Conductors: Childs, Nicholas J.
Ensemble: Black Dyke Band

A collection of popular classics though not as we know them, this recording includes perennial favourites such as the Grand March from Verdi’s 'Aida', Nimrod...continue...

Return to Sorrento - Italian Songs arranged for Trombone

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2007-03-27

Works: Ernesto de Curtis: Torna a Surriento; Eduardo di Capua: Ah! Maria, Marì, song for voice & piano (or orchestra); Paolo Tosti: A Marechiare; Giacomo Puccini: Turandot; Madama Butterfly; La boh&e...
Performers: Alessi, Joseph [Trombone]; Allen, Barbara; Jones, Warren
Conductors: ; Allen, Virginia; Pilafian, Sam [Tuba]
Ensemble: Alessi Street Band; Joe's Jersey Jazz Jesters Big Band; Juilliard School Trombone Choir

"Most of the pieces on this disc are arrangements of Italian opera arias, rendered in Alessi's beautiful legato tone. The accompaniments are nicely varied, ranging...continue...

Wind Band Classics - Monumental Works for Winds

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

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; Igor Stravinsky: Symphonies of Wind Instruments, for 24 wind instruments (1920 version); Vincent Persichetti: Symphony no 6 ("For Band"), Op. 69; Jaromir Weinberger: Schw...

"The President's Own United States Marine Band, established in 1798, is a tremendously virtuosic and accomplished ensemble, as this collection shows. The players handle the...continue...

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...

Verdi: Don Carlos (Highlights) / Hold-Garrido, et al

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2006-07-25

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos
Performers: Cleveman, Lars; Hedlund, Klas; Martinpelto, Hillevi; Mattei, Peter [Bass-Baritone Vocal]; Rundgren, Bengt; Ryhänen, Jaakko; Sorenson, Iwa; Tobiasson, Ingrid; Wallén, Martti
Conductors: Hold-Garrido, Alberto
Ensemble: Royal Stockholm Opera Chorus; Royal Stockholm Opera Orchestra

This disc of highlights from Verdi's epic opera 'Don Carlos' is taken from a complete set recorded live at the Royal Swedish Opera, Stockholm. When...continue...

The Very Best of Verdi

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2006-04-18

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: La forza del destino; Nabucco; Ernani; Macbeth; Luisa Miller; Aida, opera; Il Trovatore; Un ballo in maschera; Requiem Mass; La traviata; Ave Maria; Falstaff
Performers: Aragall, Giacomo; Colombara, Carlo; Dragoni, Maria; Ferrarini, Alida; Filipova, Elena; Frusoni, Maurizio; Gauci, Miriam; Giordani, Marcello; Harper, Thomas; Hernández, César; Johannsson...
Conductors: Morandi, Piergiorgio; Rahbari, Alexander; Dohnányi, Oliver; Halász, Michael; Mercurio, Steven; Humburg, Will; Saccani, Rico
Ensemble: Brussels Belgian Radio & TV Philharmonic Orchestra; Budapest Festival Chorus; Catania Teatro Massimo Bellini Opera Orchestra; Hungarian State Opera Chorus; Hungarian State Opera Orchestra; National S...

Giuseppe Verdi was the greatest of the late-nineteenth-century Italian opera composers, carrying the legacy of Rossini forward with more realistic storylines, seemingly playing out the...continue...

Operatic Arias / Hao Jiang Tian

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2006-04-18

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco; I vespri siciliani; Jérusalem; Macbeth; Simon Boccanegra; Don Carlos; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Eugen Onegin; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Vincenzo Bel...
Performers: Tian, Hao Jiang
Conductors: Rahbari, Alexander

A veteran of the world's most prominent opera stages, Hao Jiang Tian has established a particularly close relationship with New York's Metropolitan Opera, where he...continue...

Verdi: Songs / Dennis O'Neill, Ingrid Surgenor

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2005-11-15

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Ave Maria; In solitaria stanza, song for voice & piano; Nell' orror di notte oscura, song for voice & piano; More, Elisa, lo stanco poeta, song for voice & piano; Non t'accostare all'...
Performers: O'Neill, Dennis [Tenor Vocal]; Surgenor, Ingrid

Italys greatest opera composer was at his best in writing melodies that communicate a characters emotions, and that skill was equally applied to his song...continue...

Cinema Classics 2005 - Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, etc

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2005-06-21

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Johann Sebastian Bach: Orchestral Suite no 3 in D major, BWV 1068; Toccata and Fugue for Organ in D minor, BWV 565; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Così fan ...
Performers: Biret, Idil; Borowska, Joanna; Eder, Gyorgy; Istropolitana, Capella; Jand?, Jeno; Kraft, Norbert [Producer/Guitar]; Mikulas, Peter [Bass Vocals]; Orchestra, Slovak Radio Symphony; Ramiro, Yordy; Rubs...
Conductors: Humburg, Will; Müller-Brühl, Helmut; Wildner, Johannes; Selmeczi, György; Rahbari, Alexander; ; Drahos, Béla
Ensemble: Camerata Transylvania; Capella Istropolitana; Cologne Chamber Orchestra; Failoni Orchestra Budapest; Kodály Quartet ; Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia; Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

Naxos is pleased to present Cinema Classics 2005, which contains classical music made famous in films. This collection features classical music which was used in...continue...
Personnel: Norbert Kraft (guitar); Idil Biret, Francois-Joël Thiollier , Jenö Jandó (piano); Wolfgang Rubsam (organ)....continue...

Italian and French Opera Arias

4 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2005-03-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Aida, opera; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Charles Gounod: Faust; Jules Massenet: Werther; Giacomo Puccini: Le Villi; Tosca; Turandot; Manon Lescaut; Madama Butterfly; Agus...
Performers: Dvorsky, Peter
Conductors: Lenárd, Ondrej

Discover - Music of the Romantic Era

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2005-01-18

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 "Eroica"; Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14; Franz Liszt: Concerto for Piano no 1 in E flat major, S 124; Frédéric Ch...
Performers: Aragall, Giacomo; Banowetz, Joseph; BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Biret, Idil; Devoyon, Pascal [Piano]; Hill, Peter; Jando, Jeno; Kang, Dong-Suk [Violin]; Orgonasova, Luba; Podles, Ewa; Russell, L...
Conductors: Drahos, Béla; Talmi, Yoav; Dohnányi, Oliver von; Bramall, Anthony; ; Morandi, Pier G.; Humburg, Will; Rahbari, Alexander; Wildner, Johannes; Gunzenhauser, Stephen; Wit, Antoni; Kosler, Zden...
Ensemble: BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra; Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava; Hungarian State Opera Orchestra; Kodál...

The 'Discover Series' opens the door to key areas of classical music. Through a combination of illustrative music tracks and a richly filled booklet, the...continue...

A Night at the Opera / Rosenkrans, Thomas, Jepson, et al

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2004-11-16

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Don Carlos; Il Trovatore; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: La Clemenza de Tito; Don Giovanni; Charles Gounod: Faust; Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Gianni Schicchi, opera; Jacq...
Performers: Jepson, Kristine [Mezzo-Soprano Vocals]; Kwiecien, Mariusz; Polenzani, Matthew; Ruminski, Valerian; Thomas, Indra
Conductors: Rosekrans, Charles

'A Night At The Opera' features five young singers who have already made considerable names for themselves. These marvelous talents are backed by the renowned...continue...

Soprano Arias / Mescheriakova, Halász, Slovak RSO, et al

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2004-07-01

Works: Sergey Rachmaninov: Francesca da Rimini; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Eugen Onegin; Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos; Luisa Miller; Simon Boccanegra; Ernani; Vincenzo Bellini: Norma, opera; Gaetano Donizetti...
Performers: Meshcheriakova, Marina
Conductors: Halász, Michael

The Russian soprano Marina Mescheriakova has established herself as one of the most exciting voices in the opera and concert world. Here she presents a...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...

Tenor Arias - Il Trovatore, Carmen, etc / Marcello Giordani

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2003-11-01

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Guglielmo Tell; Gaetano Donizetti: La figlia del reggimento; La Favorita; Vincenzo Bellini: Il Pirata, opera; Torna vezzosa Fillide, for soprano & piano; Giovanni Pacini: La fidanz...
Performers: Arghiracopulos, Maria; Giordani, Marcello; Guagliardo, Giovanni
Conductors: Mercurio, Steven
Ensemble: Catania Teatro Massimo Bellini Opera Orchestra

Opera Classics - Verdi: Don Carlos / Hold-Garrido, et al

3 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2003-10-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos
Performers: Cleveman, Lars; Hedlund, Klas; Leidland, Hilde; Magnell, Mikael; Martinpelto, Hillevi; Mattei, Peter [Bass-Baritone Vocal]; Nilsson, Mattias; Pettersson, Torbjorn; Rundgren, Bengt; Ryhanen, Jaakko; S...
Conductors: Hold-Garrido, Alberto
Ensemble: Royal Stockholm Opera Orchestra

"The budget-price opera recordings on the Naxos Label are a valiant attempt to offer affordable performances of basic repertoire that can stand comparison from full-price...continue...

The Pearl Fishers and other Famous Operatic Duets

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2003-08-01

Works: Georges Bizet: The Pearl Fishers, opera; Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Madama Butterfly; Tosca; Manon Lescaut; Léo Delibes: Lakmé; Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; La forza del destino; Do...
Performers: Aragall, Giacomo; Gauci, Miriam; Kaludov, Kaludi; Kohutkova, Adriana; Krause, Monika; Lamberti, Giorgio; Lotric, Janez; Miricioiu, Nelly; Morozov, Igor; Orgonasova, Luba; Previati, Fabio; Ramiro, Yor...
Conductors: Wildner, Johannes; Humburg, Will; Rahbari, Alexander
Ensemble: Hungarian Radio Chorus; Jaak Gregoor Chorus; Slovak Philharmonic Chorus Bratislava; Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra; Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava

This recording brings together some of the best-loved and most popular duets in the French and Italian operatic repertoire. The selection takes in music by...continue...

Amore, sublime amore - Tenor Arias / Lotric, Wildner, Tansky

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2003-07-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: La forza del destino; Il Trovatore; Otello; Un ballo in maschera; Mikhail Glinka: A Life for the Tsar; Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier; Gioachino Rossini: Guglielmo Tell; Adolphe A...
Performers: Lotric, Janez; Poberezhina, Yaroslava; Tansky, Ruslan
Conductors: Wildner, Johannes
Ensemble: Kiev Chamber Chorus; Ukrainian National Opera Symphony Orchestra

Following this earlier recording of arias and duets with baritone Igor Morozov, Janez Lotric presents his first solo recital for the label. Born in Slovenia,...continue...

Verdi: Falstaff (Highlights) / Humberg, Trimarchi, et al

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2002-06-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff
Performers: Bonitatibus, Anna; Comencini, Maurizio; Cosentino, Alessandro; Dilber; Facini, Enrico; Faulkner, Julie; Grandis, Franco de; Servile, Roberto; Trimarchi, Domenico [Bass-Baritone Vocal]
Conductors: Humburg, Will
Ensemble: Hungarian State Opera Orchestra

'Falstaff' was Verdi's last opera, and stands at the very peak of his musical and dramatic achievements. It was closely based on Shakespeare's comedy 'The...continue...

Classical Heat

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2002-05-01

Works: Gustav Holst: The Planets, Op. 32/H 125; Aram Khachaturian: Gayaneh; Alberto Ginastera: Dances from Estancia, dance suite from the ballet, Op. 8a; Richard Wagner: Die Walküre; Tristan und Isolde...
Performers: -Lloyd, David; Alsop, Marin; Bisengaliev, Marat; Bloch, Thomas; Bramall, Anthony; BRT Philharmonic Orchestra; Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra; Dalayman, Katarina; Engeset, Bjarte; Geringas, Da...
Conductors: Lloyd-Jones, David; Bramall, Anthony; Bátiz, Enrique; Mund, Uwe; Wildner, Johannes; Morandi, Pier G.; Jean, Kenneth; Mogrelia, Andrew; Wit, Antoni; Rahbari, Alexander; Alsop, Marin; Gunzenhauser...
Ensemble: ; Vlach Quartet Prague

Classical Heat collects two discs' worth of fire-related and/or energetic classical music. The first disc, cryptically titled "By the Electric Fire," includes Khachaturian's Sabre Dance, Mars, the Bri...continue...

O Mio Babbino Caro -Famous Soprano Arias from Italian Operas

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2001-11-01

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Gianni Schicchi, opera; La bohème; Madama Butterfly; Tosca; La Rondine; Manon Lescaut; Turandot; Vincenzo Bellini: I Puritani, opera; Alfredo Catalani: La Wally; Giuseppe Verd...
Performers: Evstatieva, Stefka; Ferrarini, Alida; Gauci, Miriam; Krause, Monika; Longhi, Daniela; Miricioiu, Nelly; Orgonasova, Luba; Podles, Ewa
Conductors: Rahbari, Alexander; Humburg, Will; Wildner, Johannes; Morandi, Pier G.
Ensemble: Brussels Belgian Radio & TV Philharmonic Orchestra; Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra; Hungarian State Opera Orchestra; Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava

This collection brings together some of the best-loved and most popular soprano arias in the Italian opera repertoire. The selection takes in music by all...continue...

Night Music 11 - Classical Favourites for Relaxing

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2001-09-01

Works: Christoph Willibald Gluck: Christoph W. Gluck Dance of the Blessed Spirits; Johannes Brahms: Pieces (8) for Piano, Op. 76; Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor, BWV 1043; Wolfgang...
Performers: Biret, Idil; Jablokov, Alexander; Jandó, Jenö; Nishizaki, Takako; Szkolay, Balazs [Piano]
Conductors: Wildner, Johannes; Dohnányi, Oliver von; Wordsworth, Barry; Gunzenhauser, Stephen; Krcek, Jaroslav; Lenárd, Ondrej
Ensemble: ; Capella Istropolitana; Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Kosice

Great Opera Recordings - Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2001-08-21

Works: Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act; L'Amico Fritz; I Rantzau, opera in 4 acts; Guglielmo Ratcliff, opera (tragedia) in 4 acts; Iris; Le maschere, opera (commedia liric...
Performers: Bechi, Gino; Gigli, Beniamino; Marcucci, Maria; Rasa, Lina Bruna; Simionato, Giulietta
Conductors: Mascagni, Pietro
Ensemble: Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus; Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra

"Cavalleria Rusticana" tells a lurid and passionate story in a vivid musical style that brilliantly intensifies each dramatic situation and at the same time evokes...continue...

Verdi: Aida (Highlights) / Saccani, Dragoni, Dever, et al

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2001-01-01

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera
Performers: d'Artegna, Francesco Ellero; Dever, Barbara; Dragoni, Maria; Ferrari, Riccardo; Johannsson, Kristjan; Rucker, Mark
Conductors: Saccani, Rico
Ensemble: National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland

The Italian soprano Maria Dragoni, who sings Aida on this recording, won first prize in the Maria Callas Singing Competition in 1983. Icelandic tenor Kristjan...continue...

The Best of Opera Vol 5

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2000-11-01

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute), K. 620; Così fan tutte, K 588; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Giacomo ...
Performers: Alperyn, Graciela; Dickie, John [Tenor Vocal]; Ferrarini, Alida; Ganassi, Sonia; Harper, Thomas [Tenor Vocal]; Johannsson, Kristjan; Lamberti, Giorgio; Longhi, Daniela; Nielsen, Inga; Orgonasova, Luba
Conductors: Wordsworth, Barry; Rahbari, Alexander; Halász, Michael; Humburg, Will; Wildner, Johannes; Saccani, Rico

This well-filled disc contains music from some of the grandest operas in the Naxos catalog. This well-recorded collection is both an accessible memoir of and...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...

Verdi: Il Trovatore / Humburg, Frusoni, Longhi, et al

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

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Il Trovatore
Performers: Frusoni, Maurizio; Grandis, Franco de; Longhi, Daniela; Mukk, Jozsef [Tenor Vocals]; Servile, Roberto; Tandari, Janos; Tschistiakova, Irina
Conductors: Humburg, Will
Ensemble: Budapest Festival Chorus; Hungarian State Opera Orchestra

Il Trovatore was completed in 1863, and followed the success enjoyed by Rigoletto. Opera had never before witnessed such a triumph, and with in a...continue...

A-Z of Classical Music

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

Works: Gregorian Chant: De profundis clamavi, offertory in mode 2 (Liber Usualis no 1076; GR 388); Hildegard von Bingen: O virga mediatrix; Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Gloria; William Byrd: Pavan and ...
Performers: Anthony, Adele; Biret, Idil; Jandó, Jenö; Kejmar, Miroslav; Laurence Cummings [Conductor/Harpsichord]; Nishizaki, Takako; Ottensamer, Ernst; Szkolay, Balazs [Piano]
Conductors: Summerly, Jeremy; Bychkov, Semyon; Edlinger, Richard; Krcek, Jaroslav; Gunzenhauser, Stephen; Skvor, Petr; Dvorak, Jaroslav; ; Wordsworth, Barry; Grodd, Uwe; Sobotka, Wolfgang; Wildner, Johannes; Mor...
Ensemble: ; Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra; Brussels Belgian Radio & TV Philharmonic Orchestra; Camerata Budapest; Capella Istropolitana; Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra; Czecho-Slovak State Philharmoni...

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...

Intermezzo - Carmen, Cavalleria Rusticana, I Pagliacci, etc

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2000-04-01

Works: Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act; L'Amico Fritz; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; Franz Schmidt: Notre Dame; Engelbert Humperdinc...
Performers: Selmeczy, János
Conductors: Rahbari, Alexander; Halász, Michael; Breiner, Peter; Pollack, Christian; Selmeczi, György; Georgiadis, John; Kamu, , Okko; Schermerhorn, Kenneth; Lenárd, Ondrej
Ensemble: ; Brussels Belgian Radio & TV Philharmonic Orchestra; Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra; Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra; National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland; Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra; ...

The fourteen composers included on this disc have one thing in common - they wrote the most famous orchestral intermezzos, or interludes, in the world...continue...

Requiem - Classical Music for Reflection and Meditation

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1999-07-01

Works: Henry Purcell: Music on the Death of Queen Mary (Funeral Sentences / The Queen's Epicedium); Alonso Lobo: Versa est in Luctum; Giovanni Pergolesi: Stabat Mater; George Frederick Handel: Saul; Wolfgan...
Performers: Hock, Bertalan; Laurence Cummings [Conductor/Harpsichord]; Poly, Francois; Uria-Monzon, Beatrice
Conductors: ; Martini, Joachim Carlos; Kosler, Zdenek; Rahbari, Alexander; Piquemal, Michel; Summerly, Jeremy; Leaper, Adrian
Ensemble: ; Camerata Budapest; Oxford Camerata

Sanctus - Classical Music for Reflection and Meditation

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1999-07-01

Works: Guillaume de Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame; Guillaume Dufay: Missa L'Homme armé, for 4 voices; Thomas Tomkins: Pavane for 4 viols in F major; Thomas Tallis: Sanctus (from Mass for Four Voices); ...
Performers: Camden, Anthony; Coles, Priti; Dickie, John [Tenor Vocal]; Filipova, Elena; Hajossyova, Magdalena [Soprano Vocals]; Horska, Jaroslava; Kiss, Jozsef [Oboe]; Kundlak, Jozef [Tenor Vocals]; Loman, Judy;...
Conductors: Summerly, Jeremy; Bychkov, Semyon; Niquet, Hervé; Brembeck, Christian; Antal, Mátyás; Ward, Nicholas; ; Wildner, Johannes; Kosler, Zdenek
Ensemble: ; Camerata Cassovia; Capella Istropolitana; Kodály Quartet; Le Concert Spirituel Orchestra & Chorus; Oxford Camerata; Rose Consort of Viols; Scholars Baroque Ensemble

Benedictus - Classical Music for Reflection and Meditation

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1999-07-01

Works: Thomas Tallis: Sanctus (from Mass for Four Voices); Guillaume Dufay: Missa L'Homme armé, for 4 voices; Michael Praetorius: Terpsichore; Gregorio Allegri: Miserere; Marc-Antoine Charpentier: Mess...
Performers: Coles, Priti; Dickie, John [Tenor Vocal]; Filipova, Elena; Gauci, Miriam; Hajossyova, Magdalena [Soprano Vocals]; Hommel, Christian; Horska, Jaroslava; Kundlak, Jozef [Tenor Vocals]; Martin, Andreas ...
Conductors: Summerly, Jeremy; Farnlof, Bertil; Niquet, Hervé; Krcek, Jaroslav; ; Brembeck, Christian; Oberfrank, Géza; Müller-Brühl, Helmut; Wildner, Johannes; Kosler, Zdenek; Rahbari, Al...
Ensemble: ; Camerata Cassovia; Capella Istropolitana; Ensemble Bourrasque; Hungarian Radio Chorus; Le Concert Spirituel Orchestra & Chorus; Oxford Camerata; Scholars Baroque Ensemble

Stabat Mater - Classical Music for Reflection and Meditation

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1999-07-01

Works: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Stabat Mater; William Byrd: Work(s); Giovanni Pergolesi: Stabat Mater; Gioachino Rossini: Stabat mater; Louis Vierne: Epitaph for organ; Francis Poulenc: Stabat Mate...
Performers: Colombara, Carlo; Faulkner, Julie; Gonda, Anna; Lindley, Simon; Payne, Joseph; Scalchi, Gloria; Siragusa, Antonino
Conductors: Summerly, Jeremy; Halász, Michael; Piquemal, Michel; Stryja, Karol
Ensemble: ; Camerata Budapest; Oxford Schola Cantorum

Opera Classics - Verdi: Falstaff / Humburg, Trimarchi, et al

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1998-09-24

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff
Performers: Bonitatibus, Anna; Comencini, Maurizio; Cosentino, Alessandro; Dilber; Facini, Enrico; Faulkner, Julie; Grandis, Franco de; Servile, Roberto; Trimarchi, Domenico [Bass-Baritone Vocal]
Conductors: Humburg, Will
Ensemble: Hungarian State Opera Chorus

"As ever with opera sets from Naxos, this one does a good job in challenging the best in the field...This version may not supersede the...continue...

Famous Overtures - Marriage of Figaro, Egmont, Hebrides, etc

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1997-11-18

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Ludwig van Beethoven: Egmont Overture, Op. 84A; Felix Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture, in B minor Op. 26 "Fingal's ...
Conductors: Wordsworth, Barry; Gunzenhauser, Stephen; Dohnányi, Oliver von; Rahbari, Alexander; Steinberg, Pinchas; Walter, Alfred; Halász, Michael; Morandi, Pier G.
Ensemble: Brussels Belgian Radio & TV Philharmonic Orchestra; Capella Istropolitana; Czecho-Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra; Hungarian State Opera Orchestra; Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra; Zagreb Festival ...

Verdi: Requiem, Quattro Pezzi Sacri / Morandi, et al

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1997-09-19

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Requiem Mass; Sacred Pieces (4), for chorus & orchestra
Performers: Colombara, Carlo; Filipova, Elena; Hernández, César; Scalchi, Gloria
Conductors: Morandi, Pier G.
Ensemble: Hungarian State Opera Chorus

"Naxos have done it again. I have little hesitation in preferring this version among modern, large-scale performances...If you doubt that a super-budget account can be...continue...

Nessun Dorma - and other favorite Italian Tenor Arias

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1997-08-26

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Un ballo in maschera; La traviata; Aida, opera; Il Trovatore; Ruggero Leoncavallo: Pagliacci, opera; Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleri...
Performers: Aragall, Giacomo; Frusoni, Maurizio; Harper, Thomas [Tenor Vocal]; Johannsson, Kristjan; Kaludov, Kaludi; La Scola, Vincenzo; Lamberti, Giorgio; Lotric, Janez; Martinucci, Nicola; Ramiro, Yordy; Welc...