Browse: Sara Mingardo (contralto)
This page lists all recordings performed by Sara Mingardo.
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Berlioz: Les Troyens
RecommendedBen Heppner (Enée), Michelle DeYoung (Didon), Petra Lang (Cassandre), Sara Mingardo (Anna), Peter Mattei (Chorèbe), Stephen Milling (Narbal), Kenneth Tarver (Iopas), Toby Spence (Hylas), Alan Ewing (Priam), Guang Yang (Hécube), Isabelle Cals (Ascagne), Tigran Martirossian (Panthée), Bülent Bezdüz...
So what's so special about the performance? Try Canadian tenor Ben Heppner, outdoing his fellow countryman Jon Vickers on Sir Colin's first recording of Les Troyens. The other principals are... — More…
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Building a Library, November 2012, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2002, Winner - Opera
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2001, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Rossini: Petite Messe solennelle
RecommendedMarina Rebeka (soprano), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Francesco Meli (tenor), Alex Esposito (bass)
Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Sir Antonio Pappano
Pappano opts for a strong-limbed, purposeful approach that has the music sounding neither trite nor portentous, pleasingly bringing together its charm and expansiveness...The four high-quality... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 22nd April 2013
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Rossini: Petite Messe solennelle
Eleonora Buratto (soprano), Sara Mingardo (mezzo), Kenneth Tarver (tenor)
Luca Pisaroni (bass)
Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg, Gustavo Gimeno
Rossini’s late masterpiece for scaled-down forces is a palatable, varied work that is heard here in its fully orchestrated form. The recorded sound slightly muffles the chorus sound though, with... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Choral
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Baroque Voices 11 - Pergolesi & Scarlatti: Stabat Mater
RecommendedGemma Bertagnolli & Sara Mingardo
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
This is a totally Italianate performance of both high drama and moving pathos...Alessandrini's instrumental support could not be more telling, and the recording is made in an ideal acoustic. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Editor's Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Vivaldi: Vespri solenni per la festa dell’Assunzione di Maria Vergine
RecommendedGemma Bertagnolli (soprano), Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Anna Simboli (soprano), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Gianluca Ferrarini (tenor), Matteo Bellotto (baritone), Antonio De Secondi (violin)
Concerto Italiano ensemble vocale e strumentale, Rinaldo Alessandrini
This isn't the 'Vivaldi Vespers', or even a reconstruction of a specific event, but a kind of 'sacred concert' in Vespers form, of the sort that Venetian churches in Vivaldi's time would mount... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 2004, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Handel: Messiah Susan Gritton (soprano), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Mark Padmore (tenor), Alastair Miles (bass)
Tenebrae Choir, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
Sir Colin Davis's way with Messiah, as recorded live at the Barbican last December, is old-fashioned by present-day standards. His soloists are all good. The Tenebrae Choir, with its thirty-odd... — More…
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Sara Mingardo: Monteverdi, Vivaldi & Handel
Sara Mingardo (contralto)
Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini
A genuine contralto with accompaniments of vivid spontaneity by Rinaldo Alessandrini — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2005, Choral & Song Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2004, Editor's Choice
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Monteverdi: Vespers
Roberta Invernizzi, Monica Piccinini, Anna Simboli (sopranos), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Francesco Ghelardini (countertenor), Vincenzo di Donato, Luca Dordolo, Gianluca Ferrarini (tenors), Pietro Spagnoli, Furio Zanasi (baritones), Antonio Abete, Daniele Carnovich (basses)
Concerto Italiano,...
Rinaldo Alessandrini has waited long before committing to disc his thoughts on Monteverdi's most famous sacred publication. On the issues that have divided modern performers he's unflappably... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Collection
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2005, Editor's Choice
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Handel: Germanico
RecommendedSara Mingardo (Germanico), Maria Grazia Schiavo (Agrippina), Laura Cherici (Antonia), Magnus Staveland (Celio), Franco Fagioli (Lucio), Sergio Foresti (Cesare)
Il Rossignolo, Ottaviano Tenerani
If the discovery of Germanico marks a career boost for Tenerani, he has repaid the favour in this stylishly executed performance...Laura Cherici brings warmth to Antonia's 'Sorti piu belle',... — More…
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Presto Recording of the Week, 26th September 2011
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2011, Opera Choice
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Mingardo is a natural partner for this work with her extraordinarily rich contralto depths and interpretive capabilities. She delivers Mahler's literally breathtakingly long lines with effortlessly... — More…
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