Cesti, Antonio

Drama Queens / Joyce Didonato, soprano; Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis

1 CD / Virgin Classics / 2012-11-06

Works: Giuseppe Maria Orlandini: Berenice; Giovanni Porta: Ifigenia in Aulide; George Frederick Handel: Alcina; Giulio Cesare in Egitto; Alessandro; Reinhard Keiser: Fredegunda; Octavia; Johann Adolf Hasse:...
Performers: DiDonato, Joyce
Conductors: Curtis, Alan
Ensemble: Il Complesso Barocco

Grammy® Award winner Joyce DiDonato joins conductor Alan Curtis and Il complesso barocco for Drama Queens, an electrifying program of royal arias the 1rom 7th...continue...
Recording information: Villa San Fermo, Lonigo, Italy (07/16/2012-07/22/2012)....continue...

L'alba separa dalla luce l'ombra - songs by Hahn, Tosti, Cilea, Cesti, Respighi, et al. / Anna Caterina Antonacci, soprano; Donald Sulzen, piano

1 CD / Wigmore Hall Live / 2012-09-25

Works: Reynaldo Hahn: Venezia, song cycle for voice & piano; Paolo Tosti: Quatro canzoni d'Amaranta, song cycle for voice & piano; A Marechiare; Francesco Cilèa: Serenata ("Mormorante di tenero desio")...
Performers: Antonacci, Anna Caterina [Soprano]; Sulzen, Donald

Anna Caterina Antonacci's enchanting recital entitled L'alba separa dalla luce l'ombra (Dawn divides the light from the shadows) delves into a colourful landscape of French...continue...
Recording information: Wigmore Hall, London (12/05/2011)....continue...

The Erato Recitals / Soprano Sumi Jo (10 CDs)

10 CD / Erato / 2012-01-31

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Semiramide; Tancredi; Les soirées musicales; L'assedio di Corinto; Vincenzo Bellini: La sonnambula, opera; I Puritani, opera; I Capuleti e Montecchi; ...
Performers: Arevalo, Octavio; Bach, Gottfried; Barritt, Paul; Bennett, William; Black, Neil; Conlon, James; Davis, Mike [Violin]; Gerhardt, Alban [Cello]; Graham, Susan; Jo, Sumi; Kurosaki, Hiro; Maugue, Anne; R...
Conductors: Olmi, Paolo; Jordan, Armin; Montgomery, Kenneth; Carella, Giuliano; Bibl, Rudolf; Stratta, Ettore; Conlon, James; Schneider, Michael
Ensemble: ; Cappella Coloniensis

Praised for the remarkable agility, precision and warmth of her voice, and for her outstanding musicianship, Sumi Jo has established herself as one of her...continue...

An Evening with Leopold Stokowski

1 Super Audio CD / Glossa / 2011-01-02

Works: Leopold Stokowski: Toccata and Fugue in D minor, transcription for orchestra (after Bach, BWV 565); Purcell Suite, for orchestra (a set of transcriptions after Purcell); Antonio Cesti: Tu mancavi a t...
Conductors: Egarr, Richard

The charm and sheer full-blooded pleasure offered by Leopold Stokowski's transcriptions continues to hold sway today - complete with opulent and resonant strings - some...continue...
Recording information: Studio 4, Flagey, Brussels (06/16/2008-06/20/2008)....continue...

The Queen's Music: Italian Vocal Duets & Trios

1 CD / BIS (Sweden) / 2010-10-10

Works: Anonymous, Italian: Parlate per me, song; Pian piano mio core, song; Partitevi da me, song; Occhi belli, song; E' di ragion, song; Luigi Rossi: Tu sarai sempre, for 2 voices & continuo; Dite o Cieli,...
Performers: Bellini, Mikael; Harvey, Peter Harvey; Kirkby, Emma; Mortensen, Lars Ulrik; Rydén, Susanne; Yamahiro-Brinkmann, Mime

Queen Christina of Sweden is one of the most fascinating characters in the history of 17th-century Europe. As the only child of King Gustavus Adolphus,...continue...
Recording information: Länna Church, Sweden (05/2008)....continue...

Cesti: Le Disgrazie D'amore

2 CD / Hyperion / 2010-01-12

Works: Antonio Cesti: Le disgrazie d'Amore, opera in a prologue & 3 acts; Johann Heinrich Schmelzer: Balletto dei Ciclopi, for orchestra; Arias (2), for orchestra; Ballo delle Scimmie, for orchestra; Fine B...
Performers: Fedi, Elena Cecchi; Natale, Carlos; Oro, Martin
Conductors: Ipata, Carlo

Cesti was one of the most illustrious representatives of the seventeenth-century Venetian school of opera composers. He had an eventful and successful life and, like...continue...
Recording information: Villa Agostini della Seta, Corliano, San Giuliano Terme (02/09/2009-02/15/2009)....continue...

Icon - Leopold Stokowski - The Maverick Conductor

10 CD / EMI Classics / 2009-10-20

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582; Komm, süsser Tod, komm, sel'ge Ruh'!, BWV 478; English Suite no 2 in A minor, BWV 807; Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott, BWV 720; C...
Performers: Babikian, Virgina; Baker, Julius; Gardner, Guy; Hager, Clyde; Neikrug, George
Conductors: Stokowski, Leopold
Ensemble: Houston Symphony Orchestra; Leopold Stokowski Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra; Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra; ORTF National Orchestra

One of the most flamboyant conductors of the 20th century, Leopold Stokowski was born at Marylebone in London in 1882, the son of a Polish...continue...

Serenade - Songs by Beethoven / David Daniels, Martin Katz

1 CD / Virgin Classics / 2009-10-20

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Adelaide, song Op. 46; Franz Schubert: Der Tod und das Mädchen, D 531/Op. 7 no 3; Auf dem Wasser zu singen, D 774; Nacht und Träume, D 827; Adelaide, D 95; Antonio Cal...
Performers: Daniels, David; Katz, Martin

Auf Wiener Art - Music from the Habsburg Imperial / Jardin Secret

1 CD / Coro / 2009-10-13

Works: Antonio Cesti: Il pomo d'oro, opera in a prologue & 4 acts; Francesco Cavalli: Giasone; Jacques de Saint-Luc: Tombeau de François Ginter; Johann Heinrich Schmelzer: Stärcke der Lieb; Joha...
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Ensemble: Le Jardin Secret

A brand-new recording from the supremely talented young group that brought us last year's Musique pour Mazarin, this superb new disc contains music that is...continue...

Lamenti - Cavalli, Monteverdi, Carissimi, etc / Emmanuel Haïm, Le Concert d'Astrée, et al

1 CD / Virgin Classics / 2008-10-14

Works: Francesco Cavalli: Egisto; Didone; Claudio Monteverdi: Lamento della Ninfa (Canto Amoroso); Lasciatemi morire "Lamento d'Arianna a 1"; L'Incirinazione Di Poppea; L'Orfeo; Barbara Strozzi: Cantate, ar...
Performers: Ciofi, Patrizia; Dessay, Natalie; DiDonato, Joyce; Gens, Veronique; Haim, Emmanuelle [Condcutor/Harpsichord]; Jaroussky, Philippe; Lehtipuu, Topi; Naouri, Laurent; Purves, Christopher; Villazon, Rola...
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Ensemble: Le Concert d'Astrée

Emmanuelle Haim follows her acclaimed 2006 recording of Monteverdi's 'Combattimento' with an unusual and inventive program on the theme of the lamento, a literary and...continue...

Christinas Resa (Christina's Journey)

1 Super Audio CD / Caprice Records / 2008-04-29

Works: Marco Marazzoli: La Vita humana; Luigi Rossi: Cantata per Gustavo Adolpho, Rè de Svetia, morto in Guerra; Vincenzo Albrici: Sinfonia for 2 violins & basso continuo; Marc'Antonio Pasqualini: Si...
Performers: Akerberg, Asa; Carlen, Monica; Dominique, Jonas [Double Bass]; Ivanova, Anna [Violin]; Lindal, Eva; Lindal, Maria; Nyhlin, Karl; Ryden, Susanne; Sundin, Joel; Warnstad, Lars

Recording information: Nybrokajen 11, Stockholm (02/23/2004-02/25/2004)....continue...

Lebendige Vergangenheit - Giacinto Prandelli Vol 2

1 CD / Preiser / 2007-07-01

Works: Alessandro Scarlatti: Work(s); Il Tigrane; Antonio Lotti: Pur dicesti, o bocco bella, song; Francesco Durante: Vergin, tutto amor; Giovanni Battista Bassani: Ah se tu dormi ancora, for voice & piano;...
Performers: Lio, Tosca Da; Maero, Philip; Marzollo, Dick; Ongaro, Renata Ferrari; Pontiggia, Luigi; Prandelli, Giacinto; Scott, Norman
Conductors: Perlea, Jonel

Still vital in his nineties, Giacinto Prandelli is a living testament to the great traditions of Italian vocalizing between the World Wars, with its roots...continue...

Arie Antiche

1 CD / Philips Import / 2004-11-09

Works: Giacomo Carissimi: Vittoria, vittoria, mio core; Antonio Vivaldi: Tito Manlio, RV 738; Christoph Willibald Gluck: O del mio dolce ardor; Orfeo; Giuseppe Giordani: Caro mio ben, for voice & piano (or ...
Performers: Constable, John [Keyboards]; Hvorostovsky, Dmitri; Kenny, Elizabeth [Theorbo]; Latchem, Malcolm; Sillito, Kenneth
Conductors: Marriner, Sir Neville

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Una Voce Poco Fa - Portrait of Teresa Berganza

2 CD / Decca Import / 2004-05-11

Works: Gioachino Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia; La Cenerentola; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro), opera, K. 492; Così fan tutte, K 588; Ch'io mi scordi di te...No...
Performers: Berganza, Teresa [Mezzo Soprano Vocals]; Domingo, Placido; Hagger, Roger; Lauret, Benito; Lavilla, Felix; Parsons, Geoffrey
Conductors: Gibson, Alexander, Sir; Pritchard, John; Bonynge, Richard; Abbado, Claudio; Lauret, Benito; Gombau, Gerardo
Ensemble: Ambrosian Singers; London Symphony Orchestra; Orchestra; Royal Opera House Covent Garden Orchestra

Mezzo-soprano Teresa Berganza was one of the most sought-after artists for her interpretations of Rossini and Mozart for years from the late 1950s onwards. CD...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

The World of Early Music

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1999-12-13

Works: Gregorian Chant: Kyrie; In Paradisum Angeli; Hildegard von Bingen: O pastor animarum; Richard I Coeur-de-lion: Ja nuns hons pris, for consort; Walther von der Vogelweide: Palästinalied (Kreutzfa...
Performers: Cano, Carmen; Christie, James David; Landauer, Bernhard; Laurence Cummings [Conductor/Harpsichord]; Payne, Joseph; Posch, Michael; Richards, Steven; Rumsey, Shirley; Schenale, Manuela; Wilson, Christ...
Conductors: Turco, Alberto; Randon, Alessio; Summerly, Jeremy; ; Holten, Bo; Wimmer, Thomas; Vartolo, Sergio; Morel, Christine; Fasolis, Diego; Bychkov, Semyon; Crees, Eric; Mallon, Kevin; Niquet, Hervé; Kr...
Ensemble: ; Accentus Austria (Early Music); Aradia Ensemble; Capella Istropolitana; Ensemble Unicorn; Les Voix Humaines; London Baroque; Rose Consort of Viols; Scholars Baroque Ensemble; Westra Aros Pijpare

Early Music - Lamenti Barocchi Vol 3 / Vartolo, San Petronio

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1996-10-22

Works: Claudio Monteverdi: Lasciatemi morire "Lamento d'Arianna a 1"; Pietro Antonio Giramo: Lamento della Pazza; Barbara Strozzi: Lamento del marchese Cinq-mars; Giacomo Carissimi: Ferma lascia ch'io parli...
Performers: Zanasi, Furio
Conductors: Vartolo, Sergio
Ensemble: Soliosts of Cappella Musicale di San Petronio (Sol

"...It's an interesting collection of tales, historically speaking, and the performances are worthy. Soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci is unknown to me, but she has the...continue...

If You Love Me -18th century Italian songs / Cecilia Bartoli

1 CD / Decca / 1992-10-13

Works: Alessandro Scarlatti: L'honestà negli amori; La donna ancora è fedele; Il Pompeo; Work(s); Giuseppe Giordani: Caro mio ben, for voice & piano (or orchestra); Antonio Lotti: Arminio, ope...
Performers: Bartoli, Cecilia; Fischer, György