This two-act Opera Buffa is presented here in its world premiere recording on a two-disc set. Don Checco is an example of the best comic tradition of the 19th century Neapolitan musical theater. Performers on this recording include Orchestra Internazionale d’Italia, Chorus of the Transylvania State, and Philharmonic Orchestra of Cluj-Napoca. Along with Verdi’s La traviata, this opera became the most performed opera of the 19th century.

After the success of their Janacek album, the Energie Nove quartet presents a new release featuring works by Bedrich Smetana. "An exceptional [album] and one any admirer of this composer should hear. " (Nick Barnard, Musicweb International) Energie Nove is a string quartet based in Lugano, Switzerland. The quartet takes it's name from a radical early 20th century Italian political and literary magazine created by Piero Gobetti. Like the periodical, Energie Nove seeks to express the dynamism and the energy of the new. The four musicians are of diverse background and have each won numerous competitions and performed at the highest level. They have come together to animate the music through new and creative interpretations. The four members of Energie Nove are Hans Liviabella, Barbara Ciannamea, Ivan Vukcevic and Felix Vogelsang. Respectively, they play on the violins by A. Stradivari (1708) and L. Ventapane, a viola by C. F. Landolfi (1753) and a cello by Don Nicol� Amati (1730).

BORIS CHRISTOFF, LUGANO RECITA

This exciting Dynamic DVD features the complete recording of the critically acclaimed concert given by International superstars Franco Corelli and Renata Tebaldi at the NHK Auditorium in Tokyo on 21st November 1973. This concert includes no less than five encores.

Il salotto musicale di Annette von Menz

Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine

Roma 1670

Colasanti: Il canto di Atropo - La Rosa que no canto - Chaos

Eccles, J.: Mad Lover (The) / Bononcini, G.: Barbara Ninfa i

TARTINI, G.: Violin Concertos, Vol. 11 (L'Arte dell'Arco) -

PAISIELLO: Don Chisciotte

In 2011, on the 25th anniversary of the T�mmittam Percussion Ensemble, founded by Guido Facchin in Vicenza in 1986, he introduced the idea of a creating this celebratory double-CD set, which includes several world premiere recordings of works that mark the beginning of his collaboration with the Dynamic label.

RARE PIANO WORKS

THREE SONATAS FOR VIOLIN & PIA

Volume 31 of the Delizie Musicale series presents a very nice collection of Vivaldi at a very nice price.