Ildebrando D'Arcangelo
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
RecommendedIldebrando D'Arcangelo (Don Giovanni), Luca Pisaroni (Leporello), Diana Damrau (Donna Anna), Joyce DiDonato (Donna Elvira), Rolando Villazón (Don Ottavio), Mojca Erdmann (Zerlina), Konstantin Wolff (Masetto), Vitalij Kowaljow (Commendatore)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
D'Arcangelo's full bass allows this Giovanni to register as a vocal heavyweight, a dominant male who's also an expert seducer...Nézet-Séguin supplies plenty of character, with effective tempos... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Opera Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th September 2012
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2012, Editor's Choice
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Opera, December 2012, Recording of the Month
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Building a Library, July 2018, Recommended Recording
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Rossini: Stabat Mater
RecommendedAnna Netrebko (soprano), Joyce DiDonato (mezzo), Lawrence Brownlee (tenor), Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (bass)
Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
There is no shortage of good recordings of Rossini's Stabat Mater, but few do this gloriously uplifting work as much justice as Antonio Pappano's new recording...There is a compelling commitment... —
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Building a Library, April 2011, First Choice
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2011, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Editor's Choice
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Verdi: Rigoletto
RecommendedLuciano Pavarotti (Il Duca), Vladimir Chernov (Rigoletto), Cheryl Studer (Gilda), Roberto Scandiuzzi (Sparafucile), Denyce Graves (Maddalena), Jane Shaulis (Giovanna), Ildebrando d' Arcangelo (Monterone), Dwayne Croft (Marullo), Paul Groves (Borsa), Yanni Yannissis (Il Conte di Ceprano), Heidi Grant...
Levine conducts a thrustful, exceptionally high-powered reading of Rigoletto, vividly dramatic. The sound is full and immediate...Chernov is a firm, clear, virile Rigoletto...Studer is a tenderly... —
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Building a Library, June 2013, First Choice
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Special offer. Vivaldi: Bajazet
Ildebrando d’Arcangelo (Bajazet), Patrizia Ciofi (Idaspe), David Daniels (Tamerlano), Elina Garanca (Andronico), Vivica Genaux (Irène), Marijana Mijanovic (Asteria)
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi
Fabio Biondi and his ensemble Europa Galante… seem to have found their métier and the result is vibrant and compelling. David Daniels is on impressive form as the cruel warrior Tamerlano.... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2005, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2005, Editor's Choice
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492 (highlights)
Sylvia McNair (Susanna), Lucio Gallo (Figaro), Cheryl Studer (Countess), Boje Skovhus (Count), Cecilia Bartoli (Cherubino)
Konzertvereinigung, Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
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Verdi: Requiem
Eva Mei (soprano), Bernarda Fink (mezzo), Michael Schade (tenor), Ildebrando d'Arcangelo (bass)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
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Verdi: Il Trovatore
Roberto Alagna (Manrico), Angela Gheorghiu (Leonora), Thomas Hampson (Il Conte di Luna), Larissa Diadkova (Azucena), Ildebrando d'Arcangelo (Ferrando)
London Voices, London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano
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Bellini: La Sonnambula
Cecilia Bartoli (Amina), Juan-Diego Flórez (Elvino), Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (Il Conte Rodolfo), Liliana Nikiteanu (Teresa), Gemma Bertagnolli (Lisa), Peter Kalman (Alessio) & Javier Camarena (Un Notaro)
Orchestra La Scintilla, Alessandro De Marchi
Sonnambula, though, stands or falls on the bel canto expertise of its two main protagonists, and on this occasion they are both in great form. The highlight of the first scene, and indeed of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2009, Editor's Choice
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Elina Garanca - Bel Canto
Arias from operas by Bellini, Donizetti & Rossini
Elina Garanca (mezzo)
Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Roberto Abbado
How Rossini would have fallen for the Latvian Elina Garanca! Her voice, with its creamy mezzo middle and purposeful drop into the chest register suggests a perfect Rosina; part passionate young... —
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Puccini Gold
Luciano Pavarotti (Tenor), The John Alldis Choir (Chorus), Montserrat Caballé (Soprano), Carlo Bergonzi (Tenor), Mirella Freni (Soprano), Renée Fleming (Soprano), José Carreras (Tenor), Domenico Trimarchi (Baritone), Renata Tebaldi (Soprano), Wiener Staatsopernchor (Chorus), Roberto Alagna (Tenor),...
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