classical music: Ferruccio Mazzoli

classical music: Ferruccio Mazzoli

classical music:

Ferruccio Mazzoli

Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia / Perlea, Caballé

Gaetano Donizetti, Montserrat Caballé, ...

RCA, 1989

Musically rich and swiftly dramatic opera from Donizetti
Even though a somewhat neglected masterpiece, the opera LUCREZIA BORGIA (La Scala, Milan, 1833), from Gaetano Donizetti, will never fail to please audiciences around the world, because Lucrezia is an alluringly melodramatic character. This digitally remastered CD ...

Giuseppe Verdi: Otello
Robert Kerns, Tito Gobbi, ...

RCA, 1990

Rossini - Guglielmo Tell (William Tell) / Milnes, Pavarotti, Freni, Ghiaurov, D. Jones, E. Connell, van ...

Gioachino Rossini, Riccardo Chailly, ...

Decca, 1990

Opera was to be in French, but in music is glows with Italianate lyricism
Chailly's William Tell is a forceful reading, particularly strong in the many ensembles, and splendidly recorded. Milnes makes a heroic Tell, always firm, and though Pavarotti has his moments of coarseness he sings the role of Arnoldo with glowing tone. Ghiaurov too ...

Donizetti: Lucrezia Borgia

Andrea Mineo, Franco Ruta, ...

RCA Victor Europe, 1989

A Wonderful Bel Canto Opera
Lucrezia Borgia was first produced in 1833, 18 months after Donizetti's comic masterpiece, L'elisir D'Amore. The music is quintessential bel canto, dominated by the title role, which needs a firebrand soprano to do it justice. There are two studio recordings, ...

Verdi: Aida

Giuseppe Verdi, Zubin Mehta, ...

EMI Classics, 2006

A Legend...
If you really want to hear some great stuff, and understand Aida in one of it's best records, you must listen to this one. The cast is really the best, first with the great Franco Correlli, performing with a master technique a role that is perfectly suited for his ...

Spontini - Agnese di Hohenstaufen / Caballé · Stella · Bruscantini · Muti

Gaspare Spontini, Riccardo Muti, ...

Opera D'oro, 1999

Superb performance of an underrated opera
Gasparo Spontini's "Agnes von Hohenstaufen," here sung in Italian to a cut version of the score, provides a wonderful view of a highly underappreciated score. The original opera was written in German (because Spontini was Court Composer in Berlin at the time) and ...

Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli

Ferruccio Mazzoli, Franky Dariel, ...

Documents Classics, 2006

The Art of Michelangeli
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: This 10-CD set represents the recordings of the great Italian pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, from the maestro's earlier, post-World War years to the 1990's, spanning half a century of outsanding pianism and musicianship. Michelangeli ...

American Opera Singer

Lawrence Tibbett, Leonard Warren, ...

RCA, 1997

America
I believe that Canada is still part of America. This set then could have included Leopold Simoneau, Maureen Forrester etc.etc. More importantly, this very fine collection could have included Cornell MacNeil and my favorite, Maria Callas.I shouldn't harp on what's not ...

Verdi: Otello

Giuseppe Verdi, Tullio Serafin, ...

RCA Living Stereo, 2005

The gold standard for Otello recordings
It has been often said that Toscanini's recording with Ramon Vinay boasts the finest team ever to have been recorded on disc. I think that Vinay, along with Toscanini, made for a fine team at the studios when they conducted the opera, but Herva Nelli as Desdemona and ...

Rossini: Guglielmo Tell

Gioachino Rossini, Riccardo Chailly, ...

Decca, 2006

Best Guglielmo Tell Availabe, Now Remastered!
This is the Remastered edition (96 Khz · 24 bit) in the Legendary Recordings from the Decca Catalogue · The Originals Collection 4CD. This is the best Guglielmo Tell available on record, even better because of the remasterization of the original tapes recorded in 1979. ...

Boito: Nerone

Arrigo Boito, Franco Capuano, ...

Opera D'oro, 2005

A so-so opera in so-so sound. For dedicated fans only
SOURCE: Live performance from Teatro San Carlo in Naples, November 30, 1957. SOUND: This mono recording sounds like something heard on an AM radio in a 1955 Chevy. There is a bit of stage pounding and foot stomping, as well as some tepid audience reaction. The set ...

Mascagni: Guglielmo Ratcliff

Pietro Mascagni, Armando La Rosa Parodi, ...

Opera D'oro, 2003

WORTH LISTENING TO
THERE ARE NO OTHER RECORDINGS OF THIS OPERA THAT I KNOW OF, SO IF YOU WANT TO LISTEN TO IT, YOU HAVE NO OTHER CHOICE. AS USUAL WITH OPERA D'ORO, NO LIBRETTO, SCANT LINER NOTES. FOR A RECORDING FROM 1963, THE SOUND IS QUITE ACCEPTABLE. THE ONLY ARTIST WHOSE NAME I ...