Saccani, Rico

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

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...

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...

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...

Rose Plays Liszt / Jerome Rose, Rico Saccani, Budapest PO

1 CD / Medici Classics / 2003-02-01

Works: Franz Liszt: Concerto for Piano no 1 in E flat major, S 124; Concerto for Piano no 2 in A major, S 125; Totentanz, S 126
Performers: Rose, Jerome
Conductors: Saccani, Rico
Ensemble: Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra

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...

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...

Back 2 Back:brahms/Lizst

1 CD / SPJ Music / 2000-05-16

Works: Johannes Brahms: Hungarian Dances (21) for orchestra, WoO 1; Songs (5) for voice & piano, Op. 49; Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 77; Rhapsodies (2) for Piano, Op. 79; Variations on a Theme of Ha...
Performers: Klien, Walter; Matousek, Bohuslav; Rose, Jerome; Vazsonyi, Balint
Conductors: Scholz, Alfred; Hagen, Hans; Válek, Vladimír; Horenstein, Jascha; Klien, Walter [Piano]; Saccani, Rico

Verdi: Overtures, Preludes and Ballet Music

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1997-07-24

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: La forza del destino; Nabucco; La traviata; Rigoletto; Aida, opera; Un ballo in maschera; Un giorno di regno (Il finto Stanislao); I masnadieri; La battaglia di Legnano; I vespri sici...
Conductors: Morandi, Pier G.; Saccani, Rico
Ensemble: Hungarian State Opera Orchestra; National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland

Famous Marches - Grand March from Aida, Marche slave, etc

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1997-07-22

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Aida, opera; Jean Sibelius: Karelia Suite, Op. 11; Dag Wirén: Serenade for strings, Op. 11; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Marche slave, Op. 31; Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a; Georges Bi...
Conductors: Saccani, Rico; Schermerhorn, Kenneth; Kamu, , Okko; Leaper, Adrian; Johanos, Donald; Antal, Mátyás; Halász, Michael; Eschwe, Alfred; Bramall, Anthony; Lenárd, Ondrej; Bog&...
Ensemble: ; BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra Bratislava; Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra; National Symphony Orchestra; New Zealand Symphony Orchestra; Razumovsky Sinfonia;...

Italian Opera Choruses - Nabucco, Il Trovatore, Aida, etc

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1997-04-22

Works: Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco; Il Trovatore; Rigoletto; Macbeth; Otello; La traviata; Aida, opera; Pietro Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana, opera (melodramma) in 1 act; Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly; Gae...
Conductors: Dohnányi, Oliver von; Rahbari, Alexander; Humburg, Will; Morandi, Pier G.; Zedda, Alberto; Saccani, Rico
Ensemble: ; Budapest Festival Chorus; Capella Brugensis; Hungarian State Opera Chorus; Hungarian State Opera Orchestra; National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland; Slovak Philharmonic Chorus Bratislava; Slovak Rad...

Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances / Rico Saccani

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1996-11-29

Works: Ottorino Respighi: Ancient Airs and Dances, Set 1; Ancient Airs and Dances, Set 2; Ancient Airs and Dances, Set 3
Conductors: Saccani, Rico
Ensemble: National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland

"...This new recording is another winner for the superbudget Naxos. The readings are lovingly shaped and finely detailed. There is an instinctive feeling of authenticity...continue...

Verdi: Aida / Saccani, Dragoni, Johannsson, et al

2 CD / Naxos (USA) / 1995-06-08

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