Alfano, Franco

Franco Alfano: Violin Soanta; Piano Quintet; Nenia e Scherzino / Darvarova, Dunn, Mumm & Magill

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2011-08-30

Works: Franco Alfano: Sonata for violin & piano in D major; Piano Quintet in A flat major; Nenia & Scherzino, for violin & piano
Performers: Darvarova, Elmira; Dunn, Scott; Magill, Samuel; Mumm, Craig; Mumm, Mary Ann

Alfano's chamber music is receiving deserved recognition. The Violin Sonata is a powerful and impressive work, with elements of French impressionism, but essentially post-romantic in...continue...
Recording information: Edith Memorial Chapel, The Lawrenceville School, Lawren (02/22/2011/02/23/2011)....continue...

Alfano: Cyrano de Bergerac / Fournillier, Domingo, Radvanovsky [Blu-Ray]

1 Blu-Ray Video / Naxos (USA) / 2011-05-31

Works: Franco Alfano: Cyrano de Bergerac
Performers: Cruz, Arturo Chacon; Domingo, Placido; Gilfry, Rodney; Radvanovsky, Sondra
Conductors: Fournillier, Patrick
Ensemble: Valencian Community Choir; Valencian Community Orchestra

While best known today for having composed the ending to Puccini's unfinished Turandot, Franco Alfano wrote some dozen operas, including Cyrano de Bergerac (1936) based...continue...
Run Time: 141 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: Blu-Ray, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): LPCM Stereo, DTS HD Master Audio 5.1
Subtitles: French, English, Spa...continue...

La Voce Crepuscolare

1 CD / Stradivarius / 2010-09-14

Works: Paolo Tosti: Due Piccoli Notturni, for voice & piano; Gian Francesco Malipiero: I Sonetti delle Fate, for voice & piano; Giorgio Federico Ghedini: Tre liriche di Pascoli, for voice & piano; Alfredo C...
Performers: Duo Alterno

One hundred years after the birth of the Italian movement of "Futurismo," Duo Alterno delves into the repertoire of the "Crepuscolare" ("twilight"). This record is...continue...
Recording information: DG Studio (Cortazzone d'Asti) (06/2010)....continue...

Giordano: Fedora

2 CD / Bella Voce Import / 2010-02-23

Works: Umberto Giordano: Fedora; Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut; Tosca; Pietro Mascagni: Iris; Franco Alfano: Risurrezione; Francesco Cilèa: Adriana Lecouvreur; Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele
Performers: d'Anna, Mario; Giacomini, Giuseppe; Olivero, Magda; Ratti, Eugenia; Vietri, Pietro De
Conductors: Scaglia, Ferruccio; Vernizzi, Fulvio

Alfano: Cyrano de Bergerac / Fournillier / Valencian Community Orchestra / Domingo, Radvanovsky [DVD]

1 DVD Video / Naxos (USA) / 2009-11-17

Works: Franco Alfano: Cyrano de Bergerac
Performers: Accurso, Roberto; Caruso, Corrado Carmelo; Cruz, Arturo Chacon; Di Pierro, Nahuel; Domingo, Placido; Franco, Javier; Gilfry, Rodney; Mentxaka, Itxaro; Radvanovsky, Sondra
Conductors: Fournillier, Patrick
Ensemble: Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana

While best known today for having composed the ending to Puccini's unfinished Turandot, Franco Alfano wrote some dozen operas, including 'Cyrano de Bergerac' (1936) with...continue...
Run Time: 141 min.
Region: All
Picture Format: NTSC, 16:9, Color
Sound Format(s): Dolby Digital 2.0, Dolby Surround 5.1, DTS 5.1
Subtitles: French, Engli...continue...

Airs & Mélodies

1 CD / Musique en Wallonie / 2009-09-01

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Fidelio, Op. 72; Richard Wagner: Lohengrin; Die Walküre; Hector Berlioz: La damnation de Faust, Op. 24; Ernest Reyer: Sigurd; Gaetano Donizetti: La Favorita; Charles Gounod...
Performers: Lafont, Julien; Maison, Rene
Conductors: Leinsdorf, Erich; Cloez, Gustave

Alfano: Cello Sonata

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2009-07-28

Works: Franco Alfano: Concerto for Violin, Cello and Piano; Sonata for Cello and Piano
Performers: Darvarova, Elmira; Dunn, Scott; Magill, Samuel

Franco Alfano's completion of Puccini's opera 'Turandot' has eclipsed his own reputation, although the profound ability of this talented composer is finally emerging into the...continue...

Franco Alfano: Sakuntala / Anna De Cavalieri, et al

2 CD / Myto Records / 2009-07-08

Works: Franco Alfano: Sakuntala
Performers: De Cavalieri, Anna
Conductors: Basile, Arturo

The Great Tenors Vol 2 / Knote, Cerini, Paoli, Munteanu, Borgatti, Lapelletrie, et al

1 CD / Symposium / 2008-09-09

Works: Richard Wagner: Lohengrin; Die Walküre; Friedrich von Flotow: Alessandro Stradella; Bedrich Smetana: Bartered Bride, B 143/T 93; Dalibor, B 133/T 96; Gioachino Rossini: Guglielmo Tell; Fromental...
Performers: Biel, Julian; Bochnicek, Julius; Borgatti, Giuseppe; Campagnola, Leon; Cerini, Selmar; Knote, Heinrich; Lapelletrie, Rene; Maison, Rene; Monteanu, Petre; O'Sullivan, John; Paoli, Antonio; Vezzani, Ce...

This digitally transferred compilation of the great tenors in historic recordings provides background information on each of them in the notes. The recordings range from...continue...

Puccini: Turandot

2 CD / Warner Classics Import / 2007-10-23

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Turandot; Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda; Gustave Charpentier: Louise; Franco Alfano: Risurrezione; Jules Massenet: Manon; César Franck: La proces...
Performers: Bravura, Giuseppe; Elmo, Cloe; Giannotti, Armando; Magnetti, Ermelinda; Merli, Francesco; Neroni, Luciano; Olivero, Magda; Poli, Afro; Signore, Gino del; Vocals], Gina Cigna [Soprano; Zagonara, Adelio
Conductors: Ghione, Franco; Tansini, Ugo; Simonetto, Alfredo; Basile, Arturo

Opera Obsession! Act IV - Opera d'Oro's Greatest Hits

1 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2007-09-04

Works: Giacomo Puccini: La bohème; Gianni Schicchi, opera; Camille Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila, Op. 47; Giuseppe Verdi: Don Carlos; Ernani; Macbeth; Rigoletto; Antonin Dvorák: Rusalka; Wo...
Performers: Brilioth, Helge; Caballe, Montserrat; Corelli, Franco; Di Stefano, Giuseppe; Domingo, Placido; Dominguez, Oralia; Fassbaender, Brigitte [Mezzo-Soprano Vocals]; Freni, Mirella; Fusco, Cecilia; Harwood...

The fourth volume in Opera d'Oro's best-selling super-budget series celebrating the very best tracks from the vast Opera d'Oro catalog! Features the greatest singers of...continue...

Sunday Evenings with Pierre Monteux - California 1941-52

13 CD / Music & Arts / 2007-03-01

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Consecration of the House, overture Op. 124; Symphony no 5 in C minor, Op. 67; Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43; Egmont, incidental music, Op. 84; Fidelio, overture, Op. 72c; Leo...
Performers: Blinder, Boris; Blinder, Naoum; Cherkassky, Shura; Cutner, Solomon; Kapell, William; Kraus, Lili [Piano]; Warenskjold, Dorothy
Conductors: Monteux, Pierre
Ensemble: Standard Symphony Orchestra

"Is this ever a generous sampling of Pierre Monteux and the San Francisco Symphony! Music and Arts' Sunday Evenings with Pierre Monteux collects broadcast performances...continue...

Roberto Alagna - Viva l'Opera!

2 CD / Deutsche Grammophon / 2007-02-13

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Il Trovatore; Macbeth; Aida, opera; Otello; Gaetano Donizetti: La figlia del reggimento; L' elisir d'amore, opera; La Favorita; Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda; Friedrich ...
Performers: Alagna, Roberto; Barrard, Marc; D'Arcangelo, Ildebrando; Foster, Lucy; Fyfe, Elizabeth; Gheorghiu, Angela; Keenlyside, Simon; Manfrino, Nathalie; Mariotti, Alfredo; Moore, Darren; Price, John; Ragona...
Conductors: Armstrong, Richard; Abbado, Claudio; Pidò, Evelino; Elder, Mark; Chailly, Riccardo; De Billy, Bertrand; Guidarini, Marco

This is a great collection of Roberto Alagna singing opera's greatest hits. CD 1 features Italian arias and songs. CD 2 features French arias and...continue...

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Giacinto Prandelli

1 CD / Preiser / 2007-01-01

Works: Gaetano Donizetti: L' elisir d'amore, opera; Don Pasquale; Lucia di Lammermoor; Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda; Giuseppe Verdi: Rigoletto; Luisa Miller; Richard Wagner: Lohengrin; Jules Massenet: W...
Performers: Carteri, Rosanna; Giulio, Germana di; Prandelli, Giacinto
Conductors: Erede, Alberto; Quadri, Argeo; Basile, Arturo
Ensemble: Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra; Milan Symphony Orchestra; Santa Cecilia Academy Rome Orchestra

Giacinto Prandelli was born in 1914 in Lumezzane near Brescia. At the age of 20 he first studied voice with baritone Edmondo Grandini and made...continue...

Francesco Libetta - Live In Fort Lauderdale

1 CD / Nireo / 2006-03-07

Works: Giovanni Maria Trabaci: Gagliarda Prima a 5, for keyboard ("La Galante") (Book 2); Leonardo Leo: Amor Vuol Sofferenza, opera; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Variations (6) for Piano in F major on "Salve tu...
Performers: Libetta, Francesco

Prima Voce - Great Singers Vol 2 (1903-1939)

1 CD / Nimbus Records / 2006-02-14

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Otello; Ernani; Traditional: Ma Lisette; Friedrich von Flotow: Martha; Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly; Manon Lescaut; Giacomo Meyerbeer: L'Africaine; Les Huguenots; George Frederic...
Performers: Björling, Jussi; Calvé, Emma; Chaliapin, Feodor; Cottone, Salvatore; de Luca, Giuseppe; Ebert, Harry; Farrar, Geraldine; Favero, Mafalda; Flagstad, Kirsten; Garden, Mary; Gluck, Alma; Ivo...
Conductors: Blech, Leo; Barbirolli, John, Sir
Ensemble: Berlin State Opera Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra

...An utterly splendid collection, winners every one...a tour from one superlative to another. Gramophone. Very popular selection of arias and featuring the greatest singers recorded...continue...

La leggenda di Magda Olivero - Studio Recordings 1938-1953

1 CD / Italian Discographic Institute / 2005-11-04

Works: Giacomo Puccini: Turandot; Manon Lescaut; Tosca; La bohème; Suor Angelica; Gianni Schicchi, opera; Francesco Cilèa: Adriana Lecouvreur; Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele; Giuseppe Verdi: La tra...
Performers: Cigna, Gina; Magnetti, Ermelinda; Merli, Francesco; Olivero, Magda
Conductors: Ghione, Franco; La Rosa Parodi, Armando; Tansini, Ugo; Simonetto, Alfredo; Basile, Arturo
Ensemble: EIAR Chorus Turin; EIAR Symphony Orchestra Turin; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin

These offers most of the studio recordings made by Magda Olivero between 1938 and 1953, documenting the talent of this wonderful artist, who was born...continue...

Alfano: Symphonies no 1 & 2 / Yinon, et al

1 CD / CPO / 2005-03-22

Works: Franco Alfano: Symphony no 1 ("Sinfonia Classica"); Symphony no 2
Conductors: Yinon, Israel
Ensemble: Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt

Franco Alfano is best known for his completion of Puccini's 'Turandot'. However, he was also one of the pioneers of great Italian symphonic music as...continue...

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Magda Olivero

1 CD / Preiser / 2005-02-01

Works: Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele; Francesco Cilèa: Adriana Lecouvreur; Pietro Mascagni: L'Amico Fritz; Iris; Giuseppe Verdi: La traviata; Giacomo Puccini: Tosca; La bohème; Manon Lescaut; Suor A...
Performers: Magnetti, Ermelinda; Olivero, Magda; Tagliavini, Ferruccio [Tenor Vocals]
Conductors: Tansini, Ugo; Parodi, Armando La Rosa; Simonetto, Alfredo; Basile, Arturo

Alfano: Cyrano de Bergerac / Arena, Johns, Stapp, et al

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2004-06-08

Works: Franco Alfano: Cyrano de Bergerac, opera
Performers: Blancas, Antonio; Cesare, Ezio di; Giacomotti, Alfredo; Johns, William; Pace, Miti Truccato; Palmi, Agata; Savoiardo, Giovanni; Stapp, Olivia; Strudthoff, Claudio
Conductors: Arena, Maurizio
Ensemble: ; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin

Alfano is finally coming unto his own after decades of being remembered mainly as the composer who completed 'Turandot' after Puccini's death. Long stereotyped as...continue...

Alfano: Risurrezione / Boncompagni, Olivero, Gismondo, et al

2 CD / Opera D'Oro / 2003-11-04

Works: Franco Alfano: Risurrezione
Performers: Allegri, Maria Grazia; Boyer, Antonio; Cadoni, Fernanda; Casolari, Egidio; Condo, Nucci; di Stasio, Anna; Gismondo, Giuseppe; Magrini, Vera; Olivero, Magda; Pace, Patrizia; Sunara, Maja
Conductors: Boncompagni, Elio
Ensemble: Italian Radio Chorus Turin

Organ History - The Italian School: Busoni, etc / Sacchetti

1 CD / Arts / 2003-11-01

Works: Giuseppe Martucci: Sonata for organ in D minor, Op. 36; Giovanni Sgambati: Benedizione Nuziale in A flat major, for piano; Marco Enrico Bossi: Fede a Bach (Fuga a quattro voci su un tema di Arrigo Bo...
Performers: Sacchetti, Arturo

"Wherever he came from and whoever trained him, Sacchetti plays well. The mysterious organs sound fine, and there is some very beautiful music to be...continue...

Alfano: Risurrezione / Boncompagni, Olivero, Gismondo, et al

2 CD / Gala / 2003-05-04

Works: Franco Alfano: Risurrezione; Riccardo Zandonai: Francesca da Rimini, opera
Performers: Allegri, Maria Grazia; Boyer, Antonio; Cadoni, Fernanda; Casolari, Egidio; Condo, Nucci; Del Monaco, Mario; di Stasio, Anna; Dimita, Wanda; Gismondo, Giuseppe; Magrini, Vera; Olivero, Magda; Pace, Pa...
Conductors: Boncompagni, Elio; Gavazzeni, Gianandrea
Ensemble: Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin; Milan Teatro alla Scala Chorus; Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra

Alfano: Cyrano de Bergerac / Arena, Stapp, Johns, et al

2 CD / Gala / 2003-04-05

Works: Franco Alfano: Cyrano de Bergerac, opera; Giacomo Puccini: La Fanciulla del West
Performers: Blancas, Antonio; Cecchele, Gianfranco; Cesare, Ezio di; Giacomotti, Alfredo; Johns, William; Marchiandi, Angelo; Nosotti, Angelo; Pace, Miti Truccato; Palmi, Agata; Savoiardo, Giovanni; Scalce, Gius...
Conductors: Arena, Maurizio; Deloghu, Gaetano
Ensemble: ; Italian Radio Symphony Orchestra Turin

The Golden Age of Singing Vol 3 - 1920-1930

2 CD / Nimbus Records / 2001-03-06

Works: Charles Gounod: Roméo et Juliette; Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier; Erich Wolfgang Korngold: Die tote Stadt (The Dead City); Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni; Die Entführung aus ...
Performers: Anthony, Grace; Bori, Lucrezia; Chaliapin, Feodor; Cortis, Antonio; de Luca, Giuseppe; Fleta, Miguel; Fugere, Lucien; Galeffi, Carlo; Galli-Curci, Amelita; Garden, Mary; Gigli, Beniamino; Granforte, ...
Conductors: Bourdon, Rosario; Gelabert, Maestro; Gurlitt, Manfred; Setti, Giulio; Zweig, Fritz; Blech, Leo; Sabajno, Carlo; Weissmann, Frieder; Robinson, Stanford; Cloez, Gustave; Coates, Albert

This special 2-CD collection represents the third volume in a mini-series presenting 50 years of great voices on record. With all tracks culled from the...continue...

Bemjamino Gigli - Complete Opera Recordings Vol 4

2 CD / Italian Discographic Institute / 2001-03-02

Works: Francesco Cilèa: L'Arlesiana; Umberto Giordano: Andrea Chénier; Marcella, opera; Pietro Mascagni: Isabeau; Lodoletta; Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act; L'Amico Fritz; Georg...
Performers: Gigli, Beniamino; Gigli, Rina
Conductors: Berrettoni, Umberto; Seidler-Winkler, Bruno; Zamboni, Rainaldo; Carnevali, Vito; Robinson, Stanford; Quadri, Argeo

Prima Voce Vol 2 - Treasury of Opera - Historic Recordings

5 CD / Nimbus Records / 2000-11-14

Works: Daniel-François-Esprit Auber: Manon Lescaut; Giacomo Puccini: Manon Lescaut; Tosca; Turandot; Friedrich von Flotow: Martha; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: May Night; Sadko; Snow Maiden; The Tsar's Bri...
Performers: Anthony, Grace; Barone, Clement; Berger, Erna [Soprano vocals]; Björling, Jussi; Bori, Lucrezia; Bronskaya, Yevgeniya; Caruso, Enrico; Chaliapin, Feodor; de Luca, Giuseppe; Farrar, Geraldine [So...
Conductors: Pasternack, Josef A.; Romani, Romano; Molajoli, Lorenzo; Ormandy, Eugene; Cloez, Gustave; Bourdon, Rosario; Albergoni, Angelo; Dobrindt, Otto; Pelletier, Wilfred; Coppola, Piero; Ghione, Franco; Barb...

XX Century Italian Piano Music - Alfano, et al / Sandiford

1 CD / Bongiovanni / 2000-04-15

Works: Franco Alfano: Pieces (4) for piano, Op. 3/1, Mazurka; Pieces (4) for piano, Op. 3/2, Romanzetta; Pieces (4) for piano, Op. 3/3, Fable; Pieces (4) for piano, Op. 3/4, Causerie; Nostalgie for piano; I...
Performers: Sandiford, Riccardo

Opera in Chicago Vol 1 / Edith Mason, Mary Garden

1 CD / Symposium / 1994-01-01

Works: Felix Mendelssohn: Hear my prayer; Friedrich von Flotow: Martha; Charles Gounod: Faust; Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly; Charles Wakefield Cadman: Far Off I Hear a Lover's Flute; From the Land of t...
Performers: Garden, Mary; Mason, Edith