Dynamic
-
Mascagni: L’amico Fritz
Salome Jicia (Suzel), Charles Castronovo (Fritz), Teresa Iervolino (Beppe), Massimo Cavalletti (Davide)
Orchestra e Coro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Riccardo Frizza, Rosetta Cucchi
Charles Castronovo is an admirable Fritz. His last-act aria has great style, and for a moment you can believe this is a man who has fallen in love but is terrified of marriage. Salome Jicia's... — More…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, April 2023, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
-
-
Korngold: Violanta
Annemarie Kremer (Violanta), Michael Kupfer-Radecky (Simone Trovai), Norman Reinhardt (Alfonso), Peter Sonn (Giovanni Bracca), Soula Parassidis (Bice), Anna Maria Chiuri (Barbara); Orchestra e Coro Teatro Regio Torino, Pinchas Steinberg, Pier Luigi Pizzi
Korngold’s score has one foot in the world of Puccini’s Trittico and another already edging towards Hollywood, particularly in the love-duet for the eponymous heroine and the man she’d originally... — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Editor's Choice, June 2020
CD
$15.50Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
Gaetano Donizetti: La Favorite
Annalisa Stroppa (Léonor de Guzman), Javier Camarena (Fernand), Florian Sempey (Alphonse XI), Evgeny Stavinsky (Balthazar), Edoardo Milletti (Don Gaspar)
Orchestra Donizetti Opera, Coro Donizetti Opera and Coro dell’Accademia Teatro Alla Scala, Valentina Carrasco, Riccardo Frizza
Javier Camarena is exemplary as Fernand, every inch the bel canto tenor in his celebrated final act aria ‘Ange si pur’. Florian Sempey’s Alphonse is a gravel-voiced villain.. Annalisa Stroppa’s... — More…
Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine, February 2024, Opera Choice
-
-
CD
$15.50Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
Music of genius played with exceptional skill and understanding. — More…
Awards:
-
Building a Library, April 2023, Also Recommended
CD
$15.50Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
All fascinating stuff, impeccably recorded and a most enjoyable release — More…
Awards:
-
BBC Music Magazine, September 2009, Disc of the month
2 CDs
Original price ($15.25) Reduced price $12.25Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
Donizetti: Chiara E Serafina
Pietro Spagnoli (Don Meschino), Matías Moncada (Don Alvaro/Don Fernando), Fan Zhou (Serafina), Greta Doveri (Chiara), Hyun-Seo Davide Park (Don Ramiro), Sung-Hwan Damien Park (Picaro), Coro Dell’accademia Teatro Alla Scala, Orchestra Gli Originali, Sesto Quatrini, Gianluca Falaschi (director)
As revivals of forgotten operas go this is a gem: a clever staging, finely sung, of an opera that owes its 200 years’ neglect more to the circumstances of its making than to the music. — More…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, April 2024, DVD/Blu-ray of the Month
-
-
The Eucharist solo motet Sacramento laudes is sung with purling fluidity by alto Marta Fumagalli, although the violin band’s uneven raggedness takes a while to resolve...A brief five-voice Easter... — More…
CD
Original price ($15.50) Reduced price $12.50Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
Offer,
Steffani: Baccanali Nicolò Donini (Atlante), Riccardo Angelo Strano (Bacco / Tirsi), Barbara Massaro (Driade), Vittoria Magnarello (Celia), Paola Leoci (Clori), Elena Caccamo (Arminta), Chiara Manese (Fileno), Yasushi Watanabe (Ergasto)
Ensemble Cremona Antiqua, Antonio Greco
Not a gripping drama, but entertaining in its way. The music includes da capo arias, dances such as the gavotte and the gigue, and a French overture to introduce the proceedings…Vittoria Magnarello... — More…
2 CDs
Original price ($15.25) Reduced price $12.25Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
Rustioni’s handling of tempos and transitions across the concerto has an enjoyable forward momentum – pacy but never uncomfortably hurried, which is a good fit for Dindo’s own urgency. — More…
CD
$15.50Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3?
