classical music: Rolando Panerai

classical music: Rolando Panerai

classical music:

Rolando Panerai

Puccini - La Bohème / Freni, Pavarotti, Harwood, Berlin Phil., Karajan [Highlights]

Giacomo Puccini, Elizabeth Harwood, ...

Decca, 1990

One of the best recordings ever of a magnificent voice that will be missed. Thanks Mr Pavarotti!
I am writing this review a few days after the death of Luciano Pavarotti. Even if I do not know music, I like opera, and I love Puccini. This recording is one of the most beautiful I ever heard, and will make it clear, if ever there was any doubt, that we just lost one ...

Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana & Leoncavallo: Pagliacci (complete operas) with Maria Callas, Giuseppe di ...

Ruggero Leoncavallo, Pietro Mascagni, ...

EMI Classics, 2005

OUTSTANDING IN EVERY WAY!
There makes little sense in elaborating on the performances of these two little verismo shockers. These performances have been around for a long time and are justly acclaimed. They have SO much to offer (except for stereophonic sound, which I can easily accept, since ...

Maria Callas 100 Best Classics

Mario Borriello, Rolando Panerai, ...

EMI Classics, 2007

Timeless Treasure
Cleverly organized into 6 sections: 1.Bellini 2.Rissini and Donizetti 3.Verdi 4.Puccini 5.French operatic heroines 6.Dramatic heroines This 6 CD package is a must have for every classical music lover. Who can,after all,resist the union of the most beautiful ...

Leoncavallo: Pagliacci / Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana

Joh Vickers, Raina Kabaivanska

Deutsche Grammophon, 2008

A Force of Nature
When I ordered this DVD several weeks ago, I didn't realize that these were filmed, as opposed to live performances of Cav/Pag. I have a decent live Pagliacci performance (from the Met, paired with Puccini's Il Tabarro), but there don't seem to be any live, staged DVD ...

The #1 Opera Album

Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, ...

Decca, 2001

great collection
If one was wanting to introduce a friend to the wonderful world of opera, this would be a great cd to buy them. Also at this time when many of us are worrying about Luciano and his health , it is great to hear him featured on many of the selections. A great buy and ...

Puccini: La Boheme (complete opera) with Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Anna Moffo, Antonino Votto, ...

Giacomo Puccini

EMI Classics, 1997

Callas-None Better
La Boheme in its complete form is splendid no matter what, but Callas, who is clearly at the apex of her powers, is remarkable. This opera, and this version in particular, is a must for anyone who wishes to hear the best that the art form has to offer. Giuseppe di ...

Luciano Pavarotti: The Best (Farewell Tour)

Eric Garrett, Rolando Panerai, ...

Decca, 2005

what a blessing
He is indeed missed!!! What a blessing to have this CD to hear and remember one of the world's greatest tenors. Highly recommend!

Falstaff / Verdi, Gobbi · Schwarzkopf · Moffo · Karajan

Giuseppe Verdi, Herbert von Karajan, ...

EMI Classics 1957/1999, 1999

The benchmark Falstaff
Reference recordings are the touchstone by which all others are judged. The Callas-Gobbi Tosca is the universal example of a recording whose excellence so towers over the field as to bend the artistic vision of every subsequent laborer in the operatic vineyard in ...

The Ultimate Puccini Collection

Giacomo Puccini, Herbert von Karajan, ...

Decca, 1998

Fantastic!
This is one of the first opera CDs I ever got. It's wonderful for just about any body;from the newbies like me or the opera fanatics. I especially like 'In Questa Reggia'. Buy it now!!

Puccini - La Bohème / Freni, Pavarotti, Harwood, Ghiaurov, Karajan

Giacomo Puccini, Mirella Freni, ...

Decca, 1990

A Definitive Production of La Bohème.
Puccini's iconic La Bohème (1896) is among the most popular operas in history (second only to Puccini's Madama Butterfly), and "Che gelida manina" is one of the most familiar arias in opera. Based on Scènes de la vie de Bohème by Henri Murger, La Bohème is a romantic ...

Pavarotti's Opera Made Easy: My Favorite Opera for Everyone

Sherrill Milnes, Georges Bizet, ...

Decca, 1994

Selection for the Ages
This is indeed a marvelous selection of beautiful Opera, both for the beginner and for the well-listened veteran. Pavarotti makes wonderful choices from the world of Opera, and brings it home to the listener. The arias are breathtaking, and are recognizable to nearly ...

Amor--Opera's Great Love Songs

Georges Bizet, Gaetano Donizetti, ...

Decca, 1998

If you are unsure about opera, this is where to begin
Many people are turned off of opera because of the nature of the beast - unknown tongue, the continual singing and particularly the sopranos whose voices are as piercing as they are diffdicult to understand. These selections are ravishing in their beauty. It has been ...

Verdi: Falstaff

Giuseppe Verdi, Herbert von Karajan, ...

EMI Classics, 2007

STILL AN ATHLETE IN HIS OLD AGE
That's Verdi, not Sir John Falstaff. It was Shaw's tribute to the octogenarian prodigy, said admiringly while he still hankered after his beloved composer of Trovatore and Un Ballo. Believe if you like what Verdi said about Falstaff being written for himself. He was ...

Verdi: Il Trovatore (complete opera) EMI Great Recordings of the Century with Maria Callas, Giuseppe di ...

Giuseppe Verdi, Maria Callas, ...

EMI Classics, 2004

One of the great opera recordings
I am very impressed by EMI's new remastering of the famous Karajan/Callas recording of Il Trovatore, one of the greatest opera recordings ever made, in my view. Karajan elicits a remarkable degree of precision and refinement from the Scala orchestra, without ever ...

Verdi: Il Trovatore

Giuseppe Verdi, Herbert von Karajan, ...

EMI Classics, 2007

Exelent remastering
I love this production of IL TROVATORE.One of the exiting recording of Callas.The sound quality is very good.Exelent remastering...Bravo EMI.Highly recomended and unfogettable production...