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Carmen Giannattasio, José Bros,Ludovic Tézier, Brindley Sherratt, Mark Le Brocq, Victoria Simmonds,London Philharmonic Orchestra, David Parry – conductorThe third opera by the 27-year-oldSicilian Vincenzo Bellini, Il piratamarked an important step forwardin his career. David Parry conductsthis exceptional example of earlyromantic opera at its mostdramatically potent.ORC45 (2CD) £28.99
DONIZETTI: Linda di ChamounixEglise Gutiérrez, Ludovic Tézier, StephenCostello, Marianna Pizzolato, AlessandroCorbelli, Bálint Szabó, Elizabeth Sikora,Luciano Botelho, Orchestra and Chorus ofthe Royal Opera House, Covent Garden,Sir Mark Elder – conductor Considered one of Donizetti’s finestachievements.‘Eglise Gutiérrez is surely the finestsoprano to record this role yet.'– Henry Fogel, FanfareORC43 (3CD) £37.50
DONIZETTI: Maria di RohanKrassimira Stoyanova, Christopher Purves,José Bros, Brindley Sherratt, GraemeBroadbent, Loïc Félix, Christopher Turner,Riccardo Simonetti, Enkelejda Shkosa, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Sir Mark Elder – conductor‘Stoyanova, radiant and impassioned,beautifully captured Maria's ambivalentglamour and the private hell beneath her cool allure.'– Tim Ashley, The Guardian(reviewing the concert performance)ORC44 (2CD) £28.99
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VERDI: RigolettoAlfredo Kraus, Ettore Bastianini, RenataScotto, Ivo Vinco, Maggio MusicaleFiorentino Orchestra and Chorus,Gianandrea Gavazzeni – conductor(Teatro della Pergola, Florence,1960)ANDRCD 9095 (2CD) £11.99
FRANCO CORELLI : The complete Cetra RecordingsMusic by Puccini, Donizetti, Verdi,Massenet, Bizet, Boito, Mascagni,Bellini and for the first time on CD, foursongs. Bonus: Franco Corelli in Carmen. ANDRCD9094 (3CD) £16.99
RICHARD STRAUSS: Die schweigsame FrauHans Hotter, Hilde Güden, Hermann Prey,Pierette Alarie, Vienna PhilharmonicOrchestra, Karl Böhm – conductor(Salzburg Festival, 8 August1959)ANDRCD 9099 (2CD) £11.99
DONIZETTI: Lucia di LammermoorJoan Sutherland, Richard Tucker, MarioZanasi, Chicago Lyric Opera Orchestraand Chorus, Antonino Votto – conductor(Lyric Opera, Chicago,14 October1961)ANDRCD9081 (2CD) £11.99
VERDI: Don CarloGre Brouwenstijn, Jon Vickers, FedoraBarbieri, Boris Christoff, CoventGarden Orchestra and Chorus, CarloMaria Giulini ( London,12 May1958)ANDRCD9096 (3CD) £16.99
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PUCCINI: La BohèmeVictoria de los Angeles, Barry Morell,Lorenzo Testi, Heidi Krall, MetropolitanOpera Orchestra and Chorus, George Schick – conductor (New York, 11 March 1961)00288 (2CD) £11.99
VERDI: La traviataVirginia Zeani, William McAlpine, MarieCollier, Royal Opera House Orchestraand Chorus, Nello Santi – conductor(Covent Garden, London,13 January1960). Available for the first time.00297 (2CD) £11.99
DONIZETTI: Lucia di LammermoorMaria Callas, Gianni Raimondi, RolandoPanerai, Teatro San Carlo Orchestra andChorus, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli –conductor (Naples, 22 April 1956)00296 (2CD) £11.99
CHERUBINI: MedeaMaria Callas, Jon Vickers, GiuliettaSimionato, Teatro alla Scala Orchestraand Chorus, Thomas Schippers –conductor (Milan,11 December 1961)00292 (2CD) £11.99
TCHAIKOVSKY: MazeppaMagda Olivero, Boris Christoff, EttoreBastianini, David Poleri, Maggio MusicaleFiorentino Orchestra and Chorus, Jonel Perlea – conductor (Florence, 6 June 1954)00286 (2CD) £11.99
DONIZETTI: Anna BolenaLeyla Gencer, Giulietta Simionato, Aldo Bertocci, Plinio Clabassi, Milan RAI Orchestra and Chorus, Gianandrea Gavazzeni – conductor (Milan,11 August 1958)00294 (2CD) £11.99
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GIORDANO: Andrea ChénierZinka Milanov, Richard Tucker, LeonardWarren, Frank Valentino, MetropolitanOpera Orchestra and Chorus, Fausto Cleva – conductor (New York, 28 December 1957) WLCD0342 (2CD) £11.99
VERDI: Il trovatoreFranco Corelli, Mirella Parutto, FedoraBarbieri, Ettore Bastianini, AgostinoFerrin, Teatro dell’Opera di RomaOrchestra and Chorus, Oliviero de Fabritiis– conductor (Berlin, 1 October 1961)WLCD0338 (2CD) £11.99
GOUNOD: Le Médecin malgré luiScipio Colombo, Andrée AuberyLuchini, Eric Tappy, Italo Tajo, PaoloMontarsolo, Rome RAI Orchestra andChorus, Nino Sanzogno – conductor(Rome, 22 July 1961). Available for the first time.WLCD 0345 (2CD) £11.99
MOZART: Le nozze di FigaroElisabeth Schwarzkopf, Fernando Corena,Elisabeth Söderström, Teresa Berganza,Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus,Carlo Maria Giulini – conductor (London,6 February 1961). A remarkable cast.WLCD0339 (2CD) £11.99
VERDI: Don CarloFranco Corelli, Mary Curtis-Verna, MarioSereni, Jerome Hines, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Nino Verchi (New York,15 April 1961) Available for the first time.WLCD0349 (2CD) £11.99
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VERDI: La traviataMaria Callas, Gianni Raimondi, EttoreBastianini, Giuseppe Zampieri, Teatroalla Scala Orchestra and Chorus,Carlo Maria Giulini – conductor(Milan, 19 January 1956)00210 (2CD) £11.99
VERDI: AttilaLeyla Gencer, Jerome Hines, NicolaMartinucci, Cesare Bardelli, OperaTheatre of New Jersey Orchestra andChorus, Alfredo Silipigni – conductor(Newark, 20 October 1972)MDCD0014 (2CD) £19.99
DONIZETTI: Messa da RequiemLeyla Gencer, Mirna Pecile, ArmandoMoretti, Alessandro Cassis, Milan RAIOrchestra and Chorus, GianandreaGavazzeni (Milan, 26 March1961)ARPCD0475 (1CD) £6.99
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GIUSEPPE DI STEFANO in San FranciscoGounod (Faust), Flotow (Martha), Puccini(La Bohème) with Bidu Sayao, RenataTebaldi and Lily Pons. San FranciscoAssociation Orchestra, Gaetano Merola –conductor (San Francisco,1950)00069 (1CD) £6.99
RUDOLF WAGNER-REGENY: Die Bürger von CalaisMaria Croonen, Ernst Gruber, HarryBoldau, Leipzig Radio SymphonyOrchestra, Herbert Kegel (Leipzig,18March 1958). Only recording available.00285 (2CD) £11.99
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OSCAR STRAUS: Der tapfere Soldat(The Chocolate Soldier)Helmut Berger, Caroline Stein, JohannesMartin Kränzle, Händel Collegium Köln,WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln, SiegfriedKöhler – conductor. First performed inVienna in 1908 and a huge success in the US and England thanks to its manypopular tunes.CAP5089 (2CD) £14.99
FRANZ SCHREKER: IrreloheRoman Sadnik, Ingeborg Greiner,Daniela Denschlag, Mark Morouse, Chordes Theater Bonn, Beethoven OrchestraBonn, Stefan Blunier – conductor.Premiered by Otto Klemperer in 1924,the opera was lost but thenrediscovered at the end of the 1970s.MDG9371687 (3CD) £40.00
DUKAS: Ariane et Barbe-BleueMarilyn Schmiege, Roderick Kennedy,Jocelyn Taillon, Kölner Rundfunkchor,Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester,Gary Bertini – conductor. This finerecording from 1986 is available for the first time on CD.CAP7112 (2CD) £25.00
OSCAR STRAUS: Die lustigenNibelungen (The Merry Nibelungs)Martin Gantner, Daphne Evangelatos,Michael Nowak, Kölner Rundfunkchor,WDR Rundfunkorchester Köln, Siegfried Köhler – conductor. This highly entertaining operetta waspremiered in Vienna in 1904.CAP5088 (1CD) £14.99
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La Serenata (ORR242)Bruce Ford, Diana Montague, Barry Banks,Majella Cullagh, Mark Stone, Elizabeth Vidal,Paul Austin Kelly, Roland Wood, SineBundgaard, Susie Beer – cello, RichardSimpson – oboe, David Harper – piano
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A Hundred Years of Italian Opera1820–1830 (ORCH104)Includes excerpts from three Bellini operasBruce Ford, Yvonne Kenny, Alastair Miles, Nuccia Focile, Ivan Sharpe, Paul Nilon andothers, Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, PhilharmoniaOrchestra, David Parry – conductor
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BELLINI: I puritaniLeyla Gencer, Gianni Raimondi, ManuelAusensi, Luisa Bartoletti, FerruccioMazzoli, Coro Estable del Teatro Colón,Orquesta Estable del Teatro Colón,Argeo Quadri – conductor (BuenosAires,1961)MCD00298 (2CD) £10.99
MUSSORGSKY: KhovanshchinaSoloists, Choir and Orchestra of theState Academic Bolshoi Theatre and the Kremlin Palace of Congresses, BorisKhaykin – conductor. Mussorgsky begancomposing this opera in 1872 and wrotethe libretto himself. The plot is based on events of the 17th century andconfrontations between old and newRussia.MEL1001867 (3CD) £22.99
ANDRÉ MODESTE GRÉTRY: Zémire et AzorBernard Lefort, Michel Hamel, MichelSénéchal, Huguette Boulangeot,Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra,Thomas Beecham – conductor. This is a long-awaited first CD release of Zémire et Azor, taken from a livebroadcast performance in Bath (1955).SOMMB30 (2CD) £18.99
HANDEL: Il pastor fidoLucy Crowe, Anna Dennis, KatherineManley, Madeleine Shaw, Clint vander Linde, Lisandro Abadie, La NuovaMusica, David Bates – director. Firstperformed at the Queen’s Theatre in1712, this opera only achieved sevenperformances and was not heardagain until 1971. This is its firstrecording.HMU907585/6 (2CD) £17.50
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Trésors de Russie (Treasures of Russia)Includes Rachmaninov, Vespers;Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 6,‘Pathéthique’; Mussorgsky, Pictures at anExhibition. Brigitte Engerer (piano),Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir,Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, DanieleGatti – conductor HMX2908385-7 (3CD) £14.99
VERDI: FalstaffGeraint Evans, Ilva Ligabue, AnnaMaria Rota, Oralia Domingeuz, SestoBruscantini, Mariella Adani, JuanOncina, Hugues Cuénod, RoyalPhilharmonic Orchestra, Vittorio Gui –conductor (Glyndebourne, 1960) GFOCD012-60 (2CD) £22.99
ROSSINI: Il barbiere di SivigliaRolando Panerai, Teresa Berganza,Luigi Alva, Fernando Corena, Ivo Vinco,Ronald Lewis, Josephine Veasey,Robert Bowman, Covent GardenOrchestra and Chorus, Carlo MariaGiulini – conductor (Covent Garden,1960)ICAC5046 (2CD) £17.50
KORNGOLD: Die stumme SerenadeHendrick Müller, Sarah Wegener,Birger Radde, Frank Buchwald,Werner Klockow, Anna-Lucia Leone,Sebastian Reich, Young OperaCompany, Holst-Sinfonietta, Klaus Simon – conductor. One ofKorngold’s lesser-known musiccomedies, set in 1820s Naples.CPO777485-2 (2CD) £27.99
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LEONCAVALLO: ZazàLisa Houben, Sergio Panajia, Barry Anderson, Rome PhilharmonicOrchestra and Choir, Silvano Frontalini– conductor. First release of theunabridged version.GB2289/90 (2CD) £22.99
DELIBES: LakméJoan Sutherland, Henri Wilden,Clifford Grant, Huguette Tourangeau,Isobel Buchanan, John Pringle.Australian Opera Chorus, ElizabethanSydney Orchestra, Richard Bonynge –conductor (Sydney Opera House,1976). A lyrical and exotic tale of adoomed romance between a priest’sdaughter and a British army officer.OPOZ56012CD (2CD) £14.99
GIOVANNI BOTTESINI: Ero e LeandroVéronique Mercier, Gian Luca Pasolini,Roberto Scandiuzzi, OrchestraFilarmonica del Piemonte, Aldo Salvagno – conductor (Teatro San Domenico, Crema, 2009) CDS670 (2CD) £14.99
LUIGI MOSCA: L’italiana in AlgeriWojciech Adalbert Gierlach, AgataBienkowska, Donat Havar, Asa FanneyGestsdottir, Christian Senn Vasquez,Czech Chamber Soloists Brno, Chamber Choir Ars Brunensis, Brad Cohen – conductor GB2275/76-2 (2CD) £22.99
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PERGOLESI: Adriano in SiriaMarina Comparato, LuciaCirillo, Annamaria Dell’Oste,Nicole Heaston, StefanoFerrari, Francesca Lombardi,Accademia Bizantina,Ottavio Dantone – conductor OA1065D (2DVD) £32.99
VERDI: JérusalemIvan Momirov, VerónicaVillarroel, FedericaBragaglia, Alain Fondary,Carlo Colombara, TeatroCarlo Felice Orchestra andChorus, Michel Plasson –conductor (live recording,Teatro Carlo Felice, 2000)107329 (1DVD) £15.50
MAYR: Medea in CorintoNadja Michael, RamónVargas, Alastair Miles, Alek Shrader, BayerischesStaatsorchester, Ivor Bolton– conductor. World premiererecording on DVD (liverecording, Nationaltheater,Munich, 2010).101578 (2DVD) £32.99
JOHANN STRAUSS: Der Zigeunerbaron (The Gypsy Baron)Lucian Krasznec, EvelinNovak, Harald Serafin,Wolfgang Bankl, MonikaBohinec, Festival OrchesterMörbisch, Chor und Balletder Seefestspiele Mörbisch &Statisterie der SeefestspieleMörbisch, ManfredMayrhofter – conductor. With English surtitlesVLMD018 (1DVD) £27.99
PONCHIELLI: La GiocondaDeborah Voigt, ElisabettaFiorillo, Carlo Colombara,Ewa Podles, Carlo Guelfi,Gran Teatre del LiceuOrchestra and Chorus,Daniele Callegari –conductor. Recorded live in2005 at the renowned operahouse in Barcelona. 107291 (2DVD) £32.99
GIORDANO: Andrea ChénierHéctor Sandoval, NormaFantini, Scott Hendricks,Tania Kross, RosalindPlowright, ViennaSymphony Orchestra, UlfSchirmer – conductor. An opera set against thebackdrop of the horrors ofthe French Revolution(Bregenz Festival, 2011).707908 (1DVD) £27.99
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