Browse: Maurizio Benini (conductor)
This page lists all recordings conducted by Maurizio Benini.
-
Donizetti: Maria Stuarda
RecommendedJoyce DiDonato (Maria Stuarda), Elza van den Heever (Elisabetta), Matthew Rose (Talbot), Joshua Hopkins (Cecil), Matthew Polenzani (Leicester), Maria Zifchak (Anna Kennedy)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Maurizio Benini
handsomely designed...well acted and strongly sung. Elza van der Heever delivers a statuesque Elizabeth, if with tomboyish tendencies...DiDonato offers a physically plain, emotionally determined... — More…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, Editor's Choice
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
-
Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
-
-
Donizetti: Maria Stuarda
RecommendedJoyce DiDonato (Maria Stuarda), Elza van den Heever (Elisabetta), Matthew Rose (Talbot), Joshua Hopkins (Cecil), Matthew Polenzani (Leicester), Maria Zifchak (Anna Kennedy)
The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Maurizio Benini
handsomely designed...well acted and strongly sung. Elza van der Heever delivers a statuesque Elizabeth, if with tomboyish tendencies...DiDonato offers a physically plain, emotionally determined... — More…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, August 2014, Editor's Choice
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2014
-
Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
-
-
Leoncavallo: Zazà
RecommendedErmonela Jaho (Zazà), Stephen Gaertner (Cascart), Riccardo Massi (Milio), Patricia Bardon (Anaide), David Stout (Bussy)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Maurizio Benini
In this recording of the composer’s revised 1919 version of the accomplished score, conductor Maurizio Benini brings a light touch to his micro-management of BBC forces. Ermonela Jaho offers... — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
-
Opera, August 2016, Recording of the Month
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
Rossini: Le Comte Ory
RecommendedJuan Diego Flórez (Comte Ory), Diana Damrau (Comtesse Adèle), Joyce DiDonato (Isolier), Susanne Resmark (Ragonde), Michele Pertusi (Tutor), Stéphane Degout (Raimbaud)
Orchestra and Chorus of the Metropolitan Opera, Maurizio Benini
Sher's production is wise, witty and completely faithful to the spirit of the piece...Damrau is peerless, giving a bravura comic performance made from winks and nudges, heavy theatrical sighing... — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Recording of the Week, 9th April 2012
-
-
listen to the astounding talent of the young Pavarotti and your jaw will drop. — More…
2 CDs
$9.50 -
Rossini: Aureliano in Palmira
Kenneth Tarver (Aureliano), Catriona Smith (Zenobia), Silvia Tro Santafé (Arsace), Ezgi Kutlu (Publia), Andrew Foster-Williams (High Priest of Isis), Vuyani Mlinde (Licinio), Julian Alexander Smith (Oraspe)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Maurizio Benini
Opera Rara's performance is a fine one, conducted with stylistic assurance by Maurizio Benini and sung by a good cast, able to rise above the music's considerable technical challenges to achieve... — More…
3 CDs
$42.00Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
Offer,
Pavarotti - The Greatest Hits Luciano Pavarotti (tenor, vocals), Vienna Opera Chorus, Mirella Freni (soprano), Dame Joan Sutherland (soprano), Piero Odorici (saxophone), Roberto Rossi (trombone), Veris Giannetti (tenor), Marco Tamburini (trumpet), Fabio Sartoni (drums, drum), Stefano "Tellus" Nanni (piano), Kameron Brown (double...
3 CDs
$16.25Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
Bel Canto Bully: The Musical Legacy of the Legendary Opera Impresario Domenico Barbaja
Ugo Mahieux (harpsichord), Jessica Pratt (mezzo-soprano), Filippo Adami (tenor), Giorgio Trucco (tenor), Lorenzo Regazzo (bass), Akie Amou (soprano), Karen Bandelow (mezzo-soprano), Sonia Ganassi (mezzo-soprano), Maxim Mironov (tenor), Ewa Podles (contralto), Marcello Giordani (tenor), Giovanni Guagliardo...
The excerpts on this disc are a bit variable when it comes to the execution but generally the selections give a fairly good picture of the composers Barbaja promoted...This is quite an interesting... — More…
CD
$13.00Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
Anna Netrebko: Live at the Metropolitan Opera
Anna Netrebko (soprano), Dmitri Hvorostovsky (Andrei), Ekaterina Semenchuk (Sonya), Mariusz Kwiecien (Malatesta), Simone Alaimo (Don Pasquale), Juan Diego Florez (Ernesto), Nancy Fabiola Herrera (Maddalena), Eric Halfvarson (Sparafucile), Roberto Alagna (Romeo), Ildar Abdrazakov (Raimondo), Michael...
there is an alert sense of drama, which is where Netrebko really scores as a singing actress...While her bel canto is judged 'could do better', it's worth considering that, at 40, Netrebko is... — More…
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
Il salotto, Vol. 1: Mercadante - Les Soirees italiennes
David Harper (piano), Bruce Ford (tenor), Alastair Miles (bass), Yvonne Kenny (soprano), William Matteuzzi (tenor), Nelly Miricioiu (soprano), Garry Magee (baritone)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Maurizio Benini
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3?