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Sciarrino: Luci miei traditrici (Oh My Betraying Eyes)

Stradivarius

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Jul 01, 2003

Classical Music

Sciarrino: Luci miei traditrici (Oh My Betraying Eyes)

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Stradivarius

Jul 01, 2003

STR33645

Pergolesi: La Serva Padrona; Livietta e Tracollo

CPO

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Jan 03, 2025

Early opera underwent a strange development in the 17th century: under pressure from the paying public, comic elements increasingly overshadowed the fates of the great heroic figures it was supposed to be about. At some point, the brakes were applied and opera seria emerged, in which only noble characters acted. Slapsticks were isolated and played as interludes in front of the curtain for the audience's enjoyment. The two most famous of these intermezzi, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's Serva padrona and Livietta e Tracollo, were recorded by the Boston Early Music Festival after several live performances in Bremen last fall - two caprices that were real "hits" even during the (very short) lifetime of their creator and still unfold their Neapolitan wit today: The story of the maid who cleverly conquers her master's heart and the turbulent "robber's tale" of the cunning peasant girl who puts the scoundrel on the right path to the marriage haven are available here in an irresistible double pack.

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Jan 03, 2025

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Sinigaglia: Romanza e umoresca, Op. 16, Violin Concerto, Op.

Tactus

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May 04, 2018

Leone Sinigaglia is a musician who deserves to be rediscovered. He was a Jewish composer who was born in Turin on 14 August 1868 and died there on 16 May 1944 in front of the military force that had come to arrest him in the Ospedale Mauriziano, where he had sought shelter from the Nazi-Fascist persecution. During the period of his education in his native town, Sinigaglia often stayed in Milan, where he struck up important friendships with Antonio Bazzini (a violinist and composer who was professor of composition from 1873 and became director of the Conservatory of Milan from 1881 onwards), and with his pupils Alfredo Catalani and Giacomo Puccini. Bazzini urged him to travel to Europe to complete his training with the great names of the era, first of all Brahms, who, however, not accepting pupils but recognizing their value, diverted him to Eusebius Mandyczewski, a teacher of great fame and professor of composition at the Vienna Conservatory. From these years in Vienna came the great masterpiece by Sinigaglia: the concert for violin and orchestra included in this prestigious live performance by the young world star Laura Marzadori, first violin of La Scala in Milan. The album includes two pieces for cello and orchestra performed by the refined soloist Fernando Caida Greco, and the delicate orchestral piece "Regenlied." Marco Zuccarini leads with great confidence the Citta di Ferrara Orchestra in this live concert organized by the "Comitato dei grandi Maestri".

Sinigaglia: Romanza e umoresca, Op. 16, Violin Concerto, Op.

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Tactus

May 04, 2018

TC861901

Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, WWV 96 (Sung in Ital

Datum

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Mar 09, 2018

An overall glance at the history of opera shows that in many ways, the growth of multinational record companies after the end of the Second World War has had far-reaching effects. Up till then the national singing schools controlled the scene and nothing could have been more logical than for Italian, German, Russian and French singers to perform mainly in their own language. The language an opera was staged in depended on where the opera was being performed. For example: Boris Godunov wasput on in Russian at the Bolshoi, in Italian at the Scala, in French at the Opera, in German at the Staatsoper in Vienna, in English at Covent Garden and in English or Italian at the Met, depending on which company was performing. This release, despite it's 1962 recording, follows that same tradition of singing the presented opera in the language of the country in which it is being performed. In this case, Italian.

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Datum

Mar 09, 2018

DAT12310

A. Scarlatti: Il Pastor Di Corinto / Tredicine, Putelli

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Jan 01, 2009

ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI (1660 – 1725)
Il Pastor di Corinto, Opera pastorale in tre atti (1701)

Bruna Tredicine, soprano; Anna Carbonera, soprano; Cristina Cappellini, soprano; Caterina Novak, mezzo; Carlo Putelli, tenor; Roberta De Nicola, soprano buffo; Massimo Di Stefano, bass buffo

Romabarocca Ensemble/Lorenzo Tozzi

Tito Schipa, Jr., stage director
Adriana Ruvolo, costumes; Luigi Stefano Cannelli, design

Recorded: Auditorio di San Francesco a Bolsena, August 16 & 17, 2007 NTSC All Region; 16:9; 5.1; Approx. 140 mins. Subtitled in Italian, English

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Bongiovanni

Jan 01, 2009

AB20013

Il trionfo dell'onore

Dynamic

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Nov 21, 2025

Alessandro Scarlatti's Il trionfo dell'onore (The Triumph of Honour) - his only comic opera - was first performed in Naples in 1718. With it's distinctive recitatives and expressive arias, and a cast including four pairs of lovers, it can be considered one of the forerunners of opera buffa. The central character is the unrepentant seducer Riccardo Albenori, a Don Giovanni-like figure though without the villainous aura. In this opera, Scarlatti ensures not only perceptive psychology but a rich variety of arias, duets and quartets that generate the work's pathos as well as it's humour and eroticism.

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Il trionfo dell'onore

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Dynamic

Nov 21, 2025

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LA TRAVITA

ERATO

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Sep 11, 2015

LA TRAVITA

LA TRAVITA

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ERATO

Sep 11, 2015

EAO551883DVD

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

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Apr 30, 2013

Verdi: Simon Boccanegra

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Apr 30, 2013

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SIMON BOCCANEGRA

DECCA

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Oct 29, 2013

SIMON BOCCANEGRA

SIMON BOCCANEGRA

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DECCA

Oct 29, 2013

DCAB001930002.2

Seicento Stravagante - Violino over cornetto

BIS

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Feb 28, 2025

In the sixteenth century, the quality of a 'civil conversation' was a topic of great interest, both within learned academies and in the verbal games of convivial banquets. As musical virtuosi learned how to 'speak' through their instruments, it was only natural that they would also begin to 'converse'. After a much-acclaimed release in 2023, Seicento Stravagante give us another example of musical conversation, this time between three musicians. In works by thirteen Italian composers from the late 16th and early 17th centuries, the musicians of Seicento Stravagante, recreate the extravagance of early baroque music, when composers wove many individual 'voices' (whether vocal or instrumental) into a harmonious whole. While the compositions could often be played on instruments of various kinds, it was on the violin and cornetto that they could shine most brightly, and the two instruments developed an increasingly close relationship, to the point that they were virtually interchangeable. This recording allows us to appreciate the subtle blend of colours of these two instruments and the richness of Italian instrumental music of the period.

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BIS

Feb 28, 2025

BIS-2726

Rore: I madrigali a cinque voci / Blue Heron

Blue Heron Renaissance Choir

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Oct 04, 2019

The first release of new material from Blue Heron since winning the 2018 Gramophone Classical Music Award for Early Music, this two-album set is the world-premiere recording of Cipriano de Rore’s landmark first book of madrigals for five voices. The set includes all twenty madrigals in De Rore’s 1542 print, as well as readings of the Italian poems (many of which are by Petrarch) by Alessandro Quarta. De Rore is celebrated as an innovator who helped create the madrigal as it is known today, putting the music at the service of the text and inventing a new, dramatic, and expressive harmonic language. In this music, listeners will perceive a deep engagement with the text, an engagement matched by the singers of Blue Heron, who were led by both Scott Metcalfe and Alessandro Quarta in developing an appropriately rhetorical style of performance. Musicologist Jessie Ann Owens has shown that the book is a poetic and musical cycle that likely resulted from a collaboration between De Rore and the Venetian poet Giovanni Brevio, who wrote the opening and closing poems of the set. The narrative structure is illustrated with “the colors of the modal system,” the madrigals being sequenced in modal order. Professor Owens’ research and conclusions are presented in extensive notes in the booklet. Prof. Owens and Blue Heron won the 2015 Noah Greenberg Award from the American Musicological Society, which provided stimulus funding for the project.

Rore: I madrigali a cinque voci / Blue Heron

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Blue Heron Renaissance Choir

Oct 04, 2019

BHCD1009

Fano, Sinigaglia & Massarani: Musica "degenerata" per violon

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Feb 07, 2025

Italian composers and instrumentalists born in the second half of nineteenth-century Italy can be seen as the children of a true cultural revolution of the Risorgimento. This revolution was induced by the need to create a new national musical identity, disengaged from the iconic and dominant role of opera. In fact, for much of the nineteenth century, the operatic tradition had overshadowed the instrumental one, which began to regain particular momentum and diffusion only after 1860. Unified Italy was now compared to the great European powers and needed to be more cultured, progressive, and sophisticated. Instrumental music (symphonic and chamber), had always been associated with literature, philosophy, and the more intellectual world, and was perfectly suited to embody a new musical identity of the country that could match and compete with the great German model. It is the case of the three composers here represented (Sinigaglia, Fano, Massarani), who fully embraced the legacy of their predecessors but, like them, paid the price of living in a transitional historical moment. Like in a limbo between the "old" and the "new," between Romanticism - at the time entirely exhausted in the rest of Europe - and the first glimmers of a new musical language that would soon move towards deconstruction with the avant-gardes of the 20th century. Yet, the outcome of their work is worthy of historical and performance interest, and shows the necessity of rediscovering a significant portion of Italian music history. Certainly, their shared Jewish background and the consequent censorship of the racial laws from the early 1930s may have contributed to some extent to the oblivion that befell these names. Riccardo Pes and Pierluigi Piran focus this recording on the interesting works for cello and piano by the three authors.

Fano, Sinigaglia & Massarani: Musica "degenerata" per violon

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Tactus

Feb 07, 2025

TC870003

Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante - Bella mia fiamma - Cor sincer

Profil

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Apr 24, 2012

Great conductors often bring out the universality of music with particular clarity, a gift especially present in Klaus Tennstedt. Particularly known for his singular interpretations of the symphonies of Bruckner and Mahler, this recording reveals that Tennstedt was an equally adept interpreter of the symphonies of Haydn and the music of Mozart.

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Profil

Apr 24, 2012

PH10050

Carissimi: Oratorio della SS vergine - Jonas

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Jan 01, 2006

Classical Music

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Jan 01, 2006

TC602802

Cortellini: Il terzo libro de' madrigali a 5 voci

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Jan 01, 2009

Classical Music

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Jan 01, 2009

TC560301

A. Scarlatti: La SS Trinita

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Jan 01, 2003

Classical Music

A. Scarlatti: La SS Trinita

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Bongiovanni

Jan 01, 2003

GB2344/5-2

Verdi: La Traviata / Muti, Fabbricini, Alagna, Coni

Sony Masterworks

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Aug 24, 1993

This recording/performance is also available on laser disc and VHS (Sony 48353).

Verdi: La Traviata / Muti, Fabbricini, Alagna, Coni

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Sony Masterworks

Aug 24, 1993

S2K52486

Verdi: La Traviata - Highlights / Previtali, Moffo, Tucker

Sony Masterworks

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Sep 14, 1999

Giuseppe Verdi: La Traviata [Highlights]

Verdi: La Traviata - Highlights / Previtali, Moffo, Tucker

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Sony Masterworks

Sep 14, 1999

09026634972

Cacciando per gustar: cacce e madrigali del Trecento Italian

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Jan 01, 2007

Classical Music

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Bongiovanni

Jan 01, 2007

GB5635-2

Verdi: La traviata (Live)

Walhall Eternity Series

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Jan 01, 2010

Classical Music

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Walhall Eternity Series

Jan 01, 2010

WLCD0306

VERDI, G.: Simon Boccanegra [Opera] (1958)

IDIS

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Sep 01, 2008

Classical Music

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IDIS

Sep 01, 2008

IDIS6552-53

Mascitti: Sonate a Tre - Opera Prima

Challenge Classics

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May 10, 2024

Fourth release by Matteo Cicchitti and his Ensemble Elegentia on Challenge Classics. World premiere recording of Triosonatas op.1 by Michele Mascitti. The work was published in Paris in 1704. In his time Mascitti was particularly esteemed and rightly considered a major testimonial of Italian instrumental music in France in the 18th century. In this oeuvre, which is for once a real discovery, Mascitti tries to combine the tradition of the Corellian sonata with the French 'gout' of the dedicatee, the Duke d'Orléans.

Mascitti: Sonate a Tre - Opera Prima

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Challenge Classics

May 10, 2024

CC 72979

Trascrizioni d'opera

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Jun 02, 2017

The pieces recorded in this release stem from an all-pervading performance practice that deeply marked out the musical taste of the nineteenth century: that of “transcription”. This practice enabled a widespread dissemination of the most popular opera passages, well beyond the official circuits of the great theatres, and above all into the sphere of holy rites. Arias, cavatinas, cabalettas and symphonies were plentiful everywhere: in many cases they were transcriptions of pieces by well-known composers (it was sufficient to give them a “liturgical” title); more often they were homely elaborations. Almost all these pieces are being performed here for the first time in the modern age; the composers are practically unknown; in their music, famous opera themes are freely mixed with fanciful variations on those themes. The purpose was to reproduce this atmosphere, at once theatrical and sacred, in its entirety, by means of period instruments: a wonderful nineteenth-century organ and a series of precious original brass instruments. In fact Marco Arlotti is sitting the Adeodato Bossi Urbani 1874 organ, and Michele Santi, a specialist in nineteenth-century trumpets, is playing seven different period instruments delivering the best and most characteristic sound to each track.

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Jun 02, 2017

TC850003

Rossini: Sei Sonate a Quattro per 2 violini, violoncello e c

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Jan 01, 2004

Classical Music

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Jan 01, 2004

TC791802

Postcards from Italy - Italian Music for Film / Albonetti, Silvestri, Roma Sinfonietta

Chandos

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Oct 06, 2023

For his third album for Chandos, the saxophonist Marco Albonetti turns to the rich tradition of film music from his native Italy. Marco writes: ‘Film music has been described as the defining new genre of classical music in the twentieth century. It engages both the ear and the heart of an audience. The masterpieces composed by two Italian film composers in particular, Nino Rota and Ennio Morricone, embody the cultural identity of most Italians and they have become recognised and loved by audiences around the world. The film themes on this album capture the magical combination of romance, melancholy, friendship, and violence. The notes vibrate with such passion that the compositions continue to engage the listener, bringing the work of these great Italian composers to life wherever and whenever it is performed.

Film music is meant to be an accompaniment to the action on screen. However, the music of the great Italian composers is so powerful and enduring that these melodies can stand on their own merit, transporting us to another time and place, evoking memories of past experiences or introducing us to new worlds, places which we can only see in our imagination. This album is a tribute to the Italian spirit, to my spirit, expressed through a musical journey: it offers Postcards from Italy.’

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Chandos

Oct 06, 2023

CHAN 20291

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