Zedda, Alberto

Bel Canto Bully: The Musical Legacy of the Legendary Opera Impresario Domenico Barbaja with music by Rossini, Weber, Bellini et a.

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2013-04-30

Works: Gioachino Rossini: La Gazzetta; Otello; Mosè in Egitto (Naples version); La Donna del lago; Maometto II; Carl Maria von Weber: Euryanthe; Vincenzo Bellini: Il Pirata, opera; Gaetano Donizetti: R...
Performers: Adami, Filippo; Amou, Akie; Bandelow, Karen; Colonna, Monica; Ganassi, Sonia; Giordani, Marcello; Guagliardo, Giovanni; Mahieux, Ugo; Mironov, Maxim; Podles, Ewa; Pratt, Jessica; Regazzo, Lorenzo; Th...
Conductors: Franklin, Christopher; Fogliani, Antonino; Koch, Martin; Amberger, Martin; Zedda, Alberto; Morandi, Pier G.; Walter, Alfred; Mercurio, Steven; Rota, Marcello; Benini, Maurizio

Domenico Barbaja (1777-1841) was the legendary impresario who dominated European operatic stages for thirty years. The ruthless mogul was at the very heart of the...continue...

Essential Verdi - Over 2 hours of dramatic arias and choruses

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2013-01-22

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: La Traviata; Rigoletto; Il Trovatore; Ernani; Macbeth; Nabucco; Un ballo in maschera; La forza del destino; Aida, opera; Requiem Mass; Otello; Don Carlo
Performers: Baltsa, Agnes; Bella, Benito di; Cappuccilli, Piero; Carreras, Jose [Violin]; Corelli, Franco; Crespin, Régine; D'Amico, Fiamma Izzo; de los Angeles, Victoria; Dessi, Daniella; Dimitrova, Ghen...
Conductors: Ceccato, Aldo; Davis, Colin; Serafin, Tullio; Molinari-Pradelli, France; Rudel, Julius; Muti, Riccardo; Schippers, Thomas; Zedda, Alberto; Gardelli, Lamberto; Patanè, Giuseppe; Prêtre, Geor...

The operas of Verdi today form the mainstay of the repertoire of opera all over the world. Some of his music has become absorbed into...continue...

Simply Opera

4 CD / Simply / 2012-09-04

Works: Vincenzo Bellini: Norma, opera; George Frederick Handel: Xerxes (Serse); Gaetano Donizetti: L' Elisir d'Amore; La Favorita; Don Sebastiano; Il Duca d'Alba; Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; The Pearl Fis...
Performers: Alperyn, Graciela; Amps, Kym; Barowska, Janna; Callas, Maria; Cupido, Alberto; Dickie, John [Tenor Vocal]; DiDonato, Joyce; Garrett, Lesley [Soprano Vocal]; Harper, Thomas [Tenor Vocal]; Jeric, Ana P...
Conductors: Camerata Budapest; Kovács, László; Elmquist, Martin; Rahbari, Alexander; ; Dohnányi, Oliver von; Halász, Michael; Greenwood, Andrew; Zedda, Alberto; Kuchar, Theodore; Wildner...
Ensemble: ; Camerata Budapest; I Solisti Italiani; Scholars Baroque Ensemble

Ludwig van Beethoven Invents Jazz

1 CD / Virgin Classics / 2011-11-15

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for Piano no 32, Op. 111; Johannes Brahms: Sonata for Cello no 2, Op. 99; Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Claude Debussy: Children's Corner; La plus que len...
Performers: Braley, Frank; Capucon, Renaud; Collins, Michael [Conductor/Clarinet]; de Peyer, Gervase; Ivaldi, Christian [Piano]; Lagerspetz, Juhani; Lee, Noel [Piano]; Meyer, Sabine [Clarinet]; Nat, Yves; Pommie...
Conductors: Mackerras, Charles, Sir; Rattle, Simon, Sir; ; Zedda, Alberto; Klemperer, Otto; Marshall, Wayne; Järvi, Paavo; Metzmacher, Ingo
Ensemble: ; Melos Ensemble of London

Ludwig van Beethoven invented jazz. That statement might seem enough to provoke a paroxysm from a musicologist, but, with a passage in his final piano...continue...

100 Best Soprano Arias

6 CD / EMI Classics Import / 2011-10-11

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata BWV 51; Cantata no 208, "Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd!" (Hunt) BWV 208; George Frederick Handel: Messiah; Joshua; Rinaldo; Alcina; Serse; Il Trionfo del Temp...
Performers: Anderson, June [Soprano Vocal]; Argenta, Nancy; Augér, Arleen; Behrens, Hildegard; Bella, Benito di; Caballé, Montserrat; Callas, Maria; Ciofi, Patrizia; Crespin, Régine; Croisie...
Conductors: Huggett, Monica; Schreier, Peter; Parrott, Andrew; Mackerras, Charles, Sir; Fischer, Georg; Trevor, Kirk; Hickox, Richard; Haïm, Emmanuelle; Biondi, Fabio [Violin]; Barbirolli, John; Rousset, Ch...
Ensemble: ; Europa Galante; Le Concert d'Astrée ; Les Talens Lyriques; Sonnerie; Taverner Players

Rossini: L'Italiana In Algeri

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2010-05-25

Works: Gioachino Rossini: L'italiana in Algeri (The Italian Girl in Algiers), opera
Performers: Fabbrini, Gianni
Conductors: Zedda, Alberto

Using the critical edition by Azio Corghi, this recording of L'Italiana in Algeri was made at a jubilee performance of the XXth Rossini in Wildbad...continue...
Recording information: Kursaal, Bad Wildbad, Germany (2008-07-02_2008-07-03&2008-)....continue...

Brana Records Collection, Vol. 2

5 CD / Brana Records / 2010-03-11

Works: Alessandro Scarlatti: Pirro e Dimitrio; Giovanni Pergolesi: La Serva Padrona; Leonardo Vinci: Catone in Utica; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Das Traumbild, K 530; Die kleine Spinnerin, K 531; Felix Mendel...
Performers: Blumental, Felicja; Celine, Annette
Conductors: Zedda, Alberto; Guschlbauer, Theodor; Inoue, Michiyoshi; Faerber, Jörg

This second 5 CD box set includes the rare keyboard works of Spanish and Portuguese composers, Soler, Seixas, Angles, Freixanet among others and includes two...continue...

Opera Explained - An Introduction to Bellini: La sonnambula

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

Works: Thomson Smillie: An Introduction to Bellini's "La sonnambula", narration with musical examples
Performers: Timson, David
Conductors: Zedda, Alberto

'La sonnambula' was written by Bellini as a vehicle for two of the supreme singers of his age and accordingly is a fine example of...continue...

Art and Music - Goya - Music of His Time

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2008-08-26

Works: Jean-Philippe Rameau: Daphnis et Églé, pastorale héroïque; Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata for Harpsichord in F minor, K 467/L 476; François-Joseph Gossec: Grande Messe des Morts,...
Performers: Eder, Gyorgy; Kaler, Ilya [Violin]; Kraft, Norbert [Producer/Guitar]; Laurence Cummings [Conductor/Harpsichord]; Rowland, Gilbert; Tokos, Zoltan
Conductors: Terey-Smith, Mary; Fasolis, Diego; Hauschild, Wolf-Dieter; Wordsworth, Barry; Cassuto, Alvaro; Halász, Michael; Zedda, Alberto

The artistic genius of Goya (1746-1828) was multifaceted and complex. Chief painter at the Spanish court, a master of the official portrait, he also gave...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...

Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5

1 CD / Brana Records / 2006-01-03

Works: Alessandro Scarlatti: Pirro e Demetrio; Giovanni Pergolesi: La La Serva Padrona; Giovanni Battista Ferrandini: Catone in Utica; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Das Traumbild, K 530; Die kleine Spinnerin, K ...
Performers: Blumental, Felicja; Celine, Annette
Conductors: Zedda, Alberto

The Beethoven Mysteries

1 CD / Brana Records / 2005-04-01

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 61; Rondo for Piano and Orchestra in B flat major, WoO 6; Concerto for Piano in D major, Op. 61a
Performers: Blumental, Felicja
Conductors: Waldhans, Jiri; Zedda, Alberto

The Italian Collection, Vol. 2

1 CD / Brana Records / 2005-01-15

Works: Vincenzo Manfredini: Concerto for harpsichord, two oboes and strings in B flat major; Giovanni Paisiello: Concerto for Piano no 2 in F major; Concerto for Keyboard no 1 in C major
Performers: Blumental, Felicja
Conductors: Inoue, Michiyoshi; Zedda, Alberto; Faerber, Jörg

Mozart, Clementi: Piano Concertos

1 CD / Brana Records / 2005-01-15

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Piano no 9 in E flat major, K 271 "Jeunehomme"; Muzio Clementi: Concerto for Piano in C major (orchestrated by Johann Schenk)
Performers: Blumental, Felicja
Conductors: Hager, Leopold; Zedda, Alberto

The Italian Collection, Vol. 1

1 CD / Brana Records / 2005-01-15

Works: Giovanni Battista Viotti: Concerto for Piano in G minor; Giovanni Benedetto Platti: Keyboard Concerto no 1 in G major; Keyboard Concerto no 2 in C minor
Performers: Blumental, Felicja
Conductors: Zedda, Alberto; Guschlbauer, Theodor

Variations

1 CD / Brana Records / 2005-01-15

Works: Carl Czerny: Variations on "Gott Erhalte," for piano & string quartet, Op. 73; Carl Stamitz: Concerto for Piano in F major; Georg Joseph Vogler: Variations and Capriccio on "Marlborough, S'en-va-t-en...
Performers: Blumental, Felicja
Conductors: Froschauer, Helmuth; Faerber, Jörg; Zedda, Alberto

30th Anniversary of Martina Franca Festival

3 CD / Dynamic / 2004-09-28

Works: George Frederick Handel: Giulio Cesare; Antonio Vivaldi: Il Farnace, RV 711; Giovanni Paisiello: Il duello comico, comic opera; Proserpine, opera; Domenico Cimarosa: Le Astuzie Femminili, opera; Gioa...
Performers: Alaimo, Simone [Bass Baritone Vocal]; Aliberti, Lucia [Soprano Vocal]; Allegretta, Sara; Antonucci, Stefano; Bonfatti, Gregory; Bumbry, Grace; Ciofi, Patrizia; Colaianni, Domenico; Coni, Paolo; Cuber...
Conductors: Panni, Marcello; Carraro, Massimiliano; Carella, Giuliano; Bernart, Massimo de; Zedda, Alberto; Arrivabeni, Paolo; Aprea, Bruno; Halász, Michael; Bosman, Arnold; Luisi, Fabio; Guidarini, Marco; ...