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Puccini: Tosca / Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel. Antonio Pappano, The Royal Opera [DVD]

1 DVD Video / EMI Classics / 2013-05-21

Conductors: Pappano, Antonio
Ensemble: Royal Opera House Chorus; Royal Opera House Orchestra

Angela Gheorghiu, an iconic artist with a beautiful voice and a star quality that dazzles on stage, captivated the world in her role as Tosca...continue...

Britten: Songs / Ian Bostridge, tenor; Antonio Pappano, piano; Xuefei Yang, guitar

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2013-05-21

Works: Benjamin Britten: Winter Words, Op. 52; Sonnets (7) of Michelangelo, for voice & piano, Op. 22; Hölderlin Fragments (6), song cycle, for tenor & piano, Op. 61; Songs from the Chinese, song cycle...
Performers: Bostridge, Ian; Yang, Xue Fei
Conductors: Pappano, Antonio

Ian Bostridge is one of the only few tenors who specialist in lieder. Known for his distinctive voice and performance style who finds the essence...continue...

Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle / Marina Rebeka, Sara Mingardo, Francesco Meli, Alex Esposito. Pappano

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2013-04-23

Conductors: Pappano, Antonio
Ensemble: Coro della Accademia Naxionale di Santa Cecilia; Orchestra della Accademia Naxionale di Santa Cecilia

EMI Classics Releases an exciting new recording of Gioacchino Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle. Antonio Pappano conducts the Orchestra e Coro dell' Accademia Nazionale di Santa...continue...

Massenet: Werther / Roberto Alagna, Angela Gheorghiu, Thomas Hampson, Patricia Petibon. Antonio Pappano

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2013-03-26

Conductors: Pappano, Antonio
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

Puccini: Messa di Gloria; Preludio sinfonico; Crisantemi / Antonio Pappano, Roberto Alagna, Thomas Hampson

1 CD / EMI Classics / 2013-02-26

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Preludio a orchestra; Messa di Gloria; Chrysanthemums, elegy for string quartet
Conductors: Pappano, Antonio
Ensemble: ; London Symphony Chorus

EMI Classics relaunches the popular EMI Master Series: The definitive series of great classical music from a trove of the most notable and revered classical...continue...
Recording information: No. 1 Studio, Abbey Road, London (09/2000)....continue...

50 Best Verdi: CD One: Tenors & Baritones; CD Two: Soparnos & Mezzos; CD Three: Choruses

3 CD / EMI Classics / 2013-02-26

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; La traviata; Un ballo in maschera; Rigoletto; Luisa Miller; Macbeth; Il trovatore; I lombardi alla prima crociata; Don Carlos; Requiem; La forza del destino; Otello; Fals...
Performers: Alagna, Roberto; Arroyo, Martina; Bella, Benito di; Bergonzi, Carlo; Bonisolli, Franco; Bruson, Renato; Caballé, Montserrat; Callas, Maria; Carreras, José [Tenor Vocal]; Corelli, Franco...
Conductors: Muti, Riccardo; Viotti, Marcello; Patanè, Giuseppe; Rudel, Julius; Erede, Alberto; Karajan, Herbert von; Pappano, Antonio; Gardelli, Lamberto; Barker, John; Pidò, Evelino; Serafin, Tullio; ...

This 3-CD set contains 100 tracks from the most familiar and best-loved works by the iconic Italian operatic composer Giuseppe Verdi, performed by many of...continue...

Rolalndo Villazon Sings Verdi / Rolando Villazon, tenor

1 CD / Virgin Classics / 2013-01-22

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; La Traviata; Un Ballo in maschera; Ernani; I Lombardi; Don Carlo; Macbeth; Requiem Mass
Performers: Villazón, Rolando; Villaz?n, Rolando
Conductors: Viotti, Marcello; Plasson, Michel; Pappano, Antonio
Ensemble: ; Munich Radio Symphony Orchestra; Orchestra dell' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

From the very beginning of his glittering career, Rolando Villazon has shown himself to be an outstanding Verdi interpreter. On the occasion of the 200th...continue...

Essential Choral - Over 2 hours of uplifting classics

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2013-01-22

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria in D, RV 589; Johann Sebastian Bach: Cantata no 147, "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben" BWV 147; Magnificat in D, BWV 243; Cantata no 140; Mass in B minor; George Frederick Han...
Performers: Barley, Peter; Bell, David [Organ]; Beniston, Paul; Bowley, John; Corkhill, David [Conductor]; Finley, Gerald [Bass-Baritone Vocals]; Garcia, Jose Luis; Harper, Heather; Harrhy, Eiddwen; Lott, Felici...
Conductors: Marriner, Sir Neville; Willcocks, David; Mackerras, Charles, Sir; Cleobury, Stephen; Welser-Möst, Franz; Neumann, Peter; Sawallisch, Wolfgang; Muti, Riccardo; Tennstedt, Klaus; Pappano, Antonio;...

This collection of popular choral classics starts with some of the glories of the Baroque era by some of its greatest composers like Vivaldi, Handel...continue...

Essential Opera Divas - Over 2 hours of glorious operatic performances

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2013-01-22

Works: George Frederick Handel: Alcina; Antonio Vivaldi: Bajazet; Christoph Willibald Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro; Don Giovanni; Die Zauberflöte (The Ma...
Performers: Anderson, June [Soprano Vocal]; Arroyo, Martina; Auger, Arleen; Behrens, Hildegard; Caballe, Montserrat; Callas, Maria; Ciofi, Patrizia; Crespin, Regine; de los Angeles, Victoria; Dernesch, Helga [So...
Conductors: Hickox, Richard; Biondi, Fabio [Violin]; Rousset, Christophe; Muti, Riccardo; Giulini, Carlo Maria; Haitink, Bernard; Sawallisch, Wolfgang; Langrée, Louis; Karajan, Herbert von; Tennstedt, Kla...

These two CDs present a veritable galaxy of opera divas - sopranos who have won countless hearts and thrilled millions of opera lovers with their...continue...

Verdi: The Great Operas [35 CDs]

36 CD / EMI Classics / 2013-01-22

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco; Ernani; Giovanna d'Arco; Attila; Macbeth; Rigoletto; Il Trovatore; La traviata; I vespri siciliani; Simon Boccanegra; Un ballo in maschera; La forza del destino; Don Carlos; ...
Performers: D'Arcangelo, Ildebrando
Conductors: Muti, Riccardo; Levine, James; Serafin, Tullio; Pappano, Antonio; Santini, Gabriele; Giulini, Carlo Maria; Mehta, Zubin

2013 will herald the start Giuseppe Verdi's bicentennial year. To kick off the Verdi year, EMI Classics presents the ultimate Verdi box set that celebrates...continue...

Classical 2013 / DiDonato, Rattle, Frag, Jaroussky, Lim, Balsom, Pahud, Villazon

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2012-11-19

Works: Georges Bizet: Carmen, opera; Giacomo Puccini: La Bohème; Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for Piano no 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27/2 "Moonlight"; Sonata for Violin no 8 in G major, Op. 30/3; Fide...
Performers: Anderson, Ronald Kinloch; Argerich, Martha [Piano]; Baborak, Radek; Balsom, Alison; Bostridge, Ian; Brunello, Mario; Callas, Maria; Capucon, Gautier; Capucon, Renaud; Coates, Sam; Dalberto, Michel; D...
Conductors: Rattle, Simon, Sir; Armiliato, Marco; Summers, Patrick; Jensen, Eivind Gullberg; Spinosi, Jean-Christophe; Pinnock, Trevor; Wilson, John; Jenkins, Karl [Composer]; Petrenko, Vasily; Aadland, Eivind; ...
Ensemble: ; Ensemble Matheus; Les Violons du Roy; tenThing (Brass Ensemble); The English Concert

With 45 tracks, and over 2.5 hours of classical favorites, Classical 2013 is a double album featuring the best and most popular names in classical...continue...

Dvorák: Symphony No. 9 "From the New World"; Cello Concerto / Mario Brunello, cello. Pappano

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2012-10-22

Works: Antonin Dvorák: Symphony no 9 in E minor, Op. 95/B 178 "From the New World"; Concerto for Cello in B minor, Op. 104/B 191
Performers: Brunello, Mario
Conductors: Pappano, Antonio
Ensemble: ; Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

EMI Classics presents a new recording of two of Dvorak's best loved works together on disc - the Symphony No. 9 in E minor "From...continue...
Recording information: Sala Stanta Cecilia, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rom....continue...

Puccini: Tosca / Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel. Royal Opera House Orch. & Chorus - Antonio Pappano [DVD]

1 DVD Video / EMI Classics / 2012-10-22

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Tosca
Performers: Francis, Hubert; Gheorghiu, Angela; Jakobski, Lukas; Kaufmann, Jonas; Morrissey, John; Payne, William; Terfel, Bryn; White, Jeremy; Zhou, Zheng
Conductors: Pappano, Antonio
Ensemble: Royal Opera House Chorus; Royal Opera House Orchestra

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One need only watch Angela Gheorghiu as Tosca, scratching her chin in puzzlement as she tries to figure out who Cavaradossi's painting of Mary Magdalene...continue...

Russian Treasures

3 CD / EMI Classics / 2012-09-25

Works: Alexander Borodin: Prince Igor; In the steppes of central Asia; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade; Russian Easter Festival Overture, Op. 36; Flight of the Bumblebee; Modest Mussorgsky: Night on t...
Performers: Alexeev, Dmitri; Capuçon, Gautier; Dessay, Natalie; Isserlis, Steven; Pletnev, Mikhail [Piano, Conductor]; Pommier, Jean-Bernard; Thibaudet, Jean-Yves [Piano]; Truls Mork, Truls Otterbech
Conductors: Paavo, Järvi; Cluytens, André; Jordan, Armin; Mackerras, Charles, Sir; Jansons, Mariss; Gergiev, Valery; Gardiner, John Eliot; Previn, Andre; Muti, Riccardo; Litton, Andrew; Pletnev, Mikhai...

Treasures is a new series of 3-CD sets drawn from the catalogs of Virgin Classics, presenting the best loved and key works of the classical...continue...

Rachmaninov: Complete Piano Concertos / Lief Ove Andsnes, piano; Antonio Pappano

2 CD / EMI Classics / 2012-09-18

Works: Sergey Rachmaninov: Concerto for Piano no 1 in F sharp minor, Op. 1; Concerto for Piano no 2 in C minor, Op. 18; Concerto for Piano no 3 in D minor, Op. 30; Concerto for Piano no 4 in G minor, Op. 40
Performers: Andsnes, Leif Ove
Conductors: Pappano, Antonio
Ensemble: ; London Symphony Orchestra

Leif Ove Andsnes has long been renowned for his powerfully emotive and disciplined performances of Rachmaninov - attributes prized by the supreme composer-pianist himself. This...continue...

Voices of Italian Opera - Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, Verdi, Puccini / Gigli, Caruso, Bjorling, Gobbi, Callas, Scotto et al.

5 CD / EMI Classics / 2012-07-31

Works: Vincenzo Bellini: Norma, opera; La sonnambula, opera; I Capuleti e i Montecchi, opera; Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; Lucia di Lammermoor; La Favorita; Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di...
Performers: Alagna, Roberto; Alva, Luigi [Tenor Vocals]; Arroyo, Martina; Baltsa, Agnes; Barbieri, Fedora; Basiola, Marco; Bergonzi, Carlo; Bjorling, Jussi; Blake, Rockwell; Bonisolli, Franco; Borgonovo, Luigi; ...
Conductors: Serafin, Tullio; Eichhorn, Kurt; Pidò, Evelino; Fistoulari, Anatole; Sabajno, Carlo; Davis, Colin; Robinson, Stanford; Goehr, Walter; Gui, Vittorio; Levine, James; Albergoni, Angelo; Norrington,...

These two compilations present a sampling of the many outstanding voices captured on record by EMI Classics over the past century in the field of...continue...

Il Maestro Pappano - A musical portrait of a conductor for the 21st / Pappano, Antonio [DVD]

2 DVD Video / Cypress / 2012-07-01

Conductors: Pappano, Antonio

30 Years at La Monnaie

2 CD / Cypress / 2012-07-01

Works: Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman; Parsifal; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Richard Strauss: Salome; Modest Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov; Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlo; Simon Boccanegra; Falstaff; W...
Performers: Bastin, Jules; Cupido, Alberto; Dufrasne, Arnaud [Vocals]; Gustafson, Nancy [Soprano Vocals]; Kozlowska, Joanna; Krause, Carlos [Vocals]; Lascarro, Juanita; Malfitano, Catherine [Soprano Vocals]; McI...
Conductors: Cambreling, Sylvain; Pritchard, John; Pappano, Antonio; Schoenwandt, Michael; Fischer, Iván; Benjamin, George

Legendary baritone José van Dam celebrates a triple anniversary: his 70th birthday, 50 years onstage, and 30 years at La Monnaie, Brussels' opera house. This...continue...
Recording information: La Monnaie, Brussels, Belgium....continue...

Puccini: Il Trittico / Roberto Alagna, Angela Gheorghiu et al. / Antonio Pappano

4 CD / EMI Classics / 2012-06-05

Conductors: Pappano, Antonio
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra; Philharmonia Orchestra

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No previous recordings of the three one-Acters in Puccini's triptych bring quite such warmth or beauty or so powerful a drawing of the contrasts...continue...