Decca - Hi-Res Downloads at MP3 Prices
Until 12th June we are offering all Decca downloads at MP3 prices.
Please note that this offer excludes new releases from 2024, and MP3 prices are not discounted.
Decca - Hi-Res Downloads at MP3 Prices, Michele Pertusi (bass-baritone)
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Bellini: Norma RecommendedCecilia Bartoli (Norma), Sumi Jo (Adalgisa), John Osborn (Pollione) & Michele Pertusi (Oroveso), Liliana Nikiteanu (Clotilde), Reinaldo Macias (Flavio)
Orchestra La Scintilla & International Chamber Vocalists, Giovanni Antonini
The result [of a mezzo Norma] is creditable and often expressive, but artistically compromised...while from a purely vocal point of view it sometimes sounds a struggle. Sumi Jo has greater success... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th May 2013
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Building a Library, November 2015, Stereo Recommendation
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Opera, August 2013, Recording of the Month
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Rossini: Il Turco in Italia RecommendedCecilia Bartoli (Fiorilla), Ramon Vargas (Narciso), Michele Pertusi (Selim), Laura Polverelli (Zaida), Alessandro Corbelli (Don Geronio), Roberto De Candia (Prosdocimo), Francesco Piccoli (Albazar)
La Scala Milan Chorus & Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly
Chailly has recorded the work before, but in the years since he's matured as a Rossini conductor, and the Scala orchestra has this music under its fingers; there's an energy and vitality to... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1998, Winner - Opera
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Rossini Discoveries Ildar Abdrazakov (baritone), Michele Pertusi (baritone), Laura Giordano (soprano), Nelson Calzi (fortepiano)
Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano Giuseppe Verdi, Riccardo Chailly
Philip Gossett calls this 'a Rossinian curio cabinet'.
'A banquet made with leftovers from the Rossini kitchen' would do as well. Whatever the analogy, the art is as much in the assembling of... — More…Awards:
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2002, Editor's Choice
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Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia RecommendedCecilia Bartoli (Rosina), Leo Nucci (Figaro), William Matteuzzi (Almaviva), Enrico Fissore (Bartolo), Paata Burchuladze (Basilio)
Chorus & Orchestra of Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Giuseppe Patanè
Cecilia Bartoli's rich, vibrant voice copes brilliantly with the technical demands. Like the conductor, Bartoli is wonderful at bringing out the fun. So is Leo Nucci and he gives a beautifully... — More…
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Building a Library, December 2001, First Choice
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Rossini: La Cenerentola Cecilia Bartoli (Cenerentola), William Matteuzzi (Ramiro), Enzo Dara (Don Magnifico), Alessandro Corbelli (Dandini), Michele Pertusi (Alidoro)
Chorus & Orchestra of Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Riccardo Chailly
All eyes and ears, inevitably, are on Bartoli, and she doesn't disappoint...The singing itself is ravishing. At the same time, the performance makes dramatic sense...Decca provide a superb Alidoro,... — More…
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Rossini: Il Turco in Italia RecommendedCecilia Bartoli (Fiorilla), Ramon Vargas (Narciso), Michele Pertusi (Selim), Laura Polverelli (Zaida), Alessandro Corbelli (Don Geronio), Roberto De Candia (Prosdocimo), Francesco Piccoli (Albazar)
Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano and Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano, Riccardo...
Chailly has recorded the work before, but in the years since he's matured as a Rossini conductor, and the Scala orchestra has this music under its fingers; there's an energy and vitality to... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1998, Winner - Opera
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Rossini: La Cenerentola Cecilia Bartoli (Cenerentola), William Matteuzzi (Ramiro), Enzo Dara (Don Magnifico), Alessandro Corbelli (Dandini), Fernanda Costa (Clorinda), Gloria Banditelli (Tisbe), Michele Pertusi (Alidoro)
Orchestra & Chorus of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Riccardo Chailly
All eyes and ears, inevitably, are on Bartoli, and she doesn't disappoint...The singing itself is ravishing. At the same time, the performance makes dramatic sense...Decca provide a superb Alidoro,... — More…
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527 Bryn Terfel (Don Giovanni), Renee Fleming (Donna Anna), Ann Murray (Donna Elvira), Michele Pertusi (Leporello), Herbert Lippert (Don Ottavio), Monica Groop (Zerlina), Roberto Scaltriti (Masetto)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Georg Solti
It has many virtues: it is as finely disciplined as any other Solti performance, the orchestral playing is excellent, and the rhythms are crisp, strong and tautly held. There is a sense of spaciousness... — More…
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Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588 Renee Fleming (Fiordiligi), Anne Sofie von Otter (Dorabella), Adelina Scarabelli (Despina), Frank Lopardo (Ferrando), Olaf Bar (Guglielmo), Michele Pertusi (Don Alfonso)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Georg Solti
von Otter knows how to extract the most in vivid characterization from her arias and capitulates to Guglielmo's advances with real feeling...Frank Lopardo is a paragon of a Ferrando, possibly... — More…
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Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588 Renée Fleming (Fiordiligi), Anne Sofie von Otter (Dorabella), Adelina Scarabelli (Despina), Frank Lopardo (Ferrando), Olaf Bär (Guglielmo), Michele Pertusi (Don Alfonso)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Sir Georg Solti
Frank Lopardo is a paragon of a Ferrando, possibly the finest of all on disc, partly because his supple tenor encompasses both the lyrical and heroic...[The Chamber Orchestra of Europe's] playing... — More…
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