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Bellini - Casta Diva (from Norma)
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Special offer. Maria
RecommendedStandard CD jewel version
Cecilia Bartoli (mezzo), Maxim Vengerov (violin)
Orchestra La Scintilla & International Chamber Soloists, Ádám Fischer
Bartoli…sings everything with vivid personality. The accompaniments are well handled under Adam Fischer. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th November 2007
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2007, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2008, Winner - Recital
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Art of the Prima Donna
RecommendedJoan Sutherland (soprano)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
Awards:
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Grammy Awards, 4th Awards (1961), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Special offer. Maria
RecommendedLimited Edition Hardcover Book Version
Cecilia Bartoli & Maxim Vengerov (violin)
Orchestra La Scintilla & International Chamber Soloists, Ádám Fischer
…Bartoli…sings everything with vivid personality. The accompaniments are well handled under Adam Fischer. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 12th November 2007
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2007, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. My Hero
RecommendedGreta Bradman (soprano)
English Chamber Orchestra, Richard Bonynge
Bradman has it all – a richness and range of colour in the middle voice that puts many mezzos to shame, extreme high notes of extraordinary fullness, and the sparkling-clean coloratura that... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 28th August 2015
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2015
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Pilar Lorengar
RecommendedBerlin, 1959 - 1962
Pilar Lorengar, Richard Klemm (viola da gamba), Siegfried Behrend (guitar), Hertha Klust (piano)
RIAS-Kammerchor, RIAS-Orchester RSO Berlin & Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
[an] abundance of delights … if you want to revel in the beauty and freshness of one of the postwar era’s most lovable soprano voices in its youthful prime, this is a set to head for. —
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Opera, September 2014, Recording of the Month
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Building a Library, July 2019, Also Recommended
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Special offer. Cecilia Bartoli: Sospiri (Prestige Edition)
Cecilia Bartoli, with Bryn Terfel, with Juan Diego Flórez, with Luciano Pavarotti, with Cinzia Maurizio, Luigi Piovano & Daniele Rossi
Il Giardino Armonico, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra La Scintilla, International...
she attacks the music with punch and personality. The pieces have been well-chosen to demonstrate her extraordinary range...Even if she plays second fiddle to Pavarotti in the Cherry Duet from... —
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Leontyne Price: Great Soprano Arias from Handel to Britten
RecommendedPrima Donna Vol. 5
Leontyne Price (soprano)
The Philharmonia Orchestra, Henry Lewis
Awards:
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Grammy Awards, 23rd Awards (1980), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Special offer. Great Singers Live: Margaret Price
Selection from three “Sunday Concerts” with the Münchner Rundfunkorchester given in 1977, 1981, 1986 and 1991
Margaret Price (soprano)
Münchner Rundfunkorchester, Heinz Wallberg, Leopold Hager & Thomas Fulton
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Opera, April 2012, Recording of the Month
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The programme is expressly devised so that Kermes can shed new light on 19th-century vocal writing, applying the stylistic approaches she has developed in music of earlier eras: her trademark... —
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Gramophone Awards, 2014, Shortlisted - Recital
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Spirito
Bellini - Donizetti - Spontini
Marina Rebeka (soprano)
Orchestra e Coro del Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Jader Bignamini
Excerpts from Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda and Anna Bolena, and Spontini’s La Vestale, confirm Rebeka’s formidable intensity and interpretative intelligence…In many ways Rebeka recalls Callas in... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Vocal
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