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Antonio Pappano - Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade & Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain (2024)

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Antonio Pappano - Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade & Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain (2024)

Antonio Pappano & Orchestra dell'Academia nazionale di Santa Cecilia - Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade & Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 369 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 161 Mb | 01:09:29
Classical | Label: Warner Classics

Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade, telling sumptuous stories, and Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain, graphically chilling, are two of the most popular works in the Russian repertoire. Programming them together, as Music Director of the Orchestra and Chorus dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Sir Antonio Pappano reminds us of the links between the two composers. At the same time he provides a rare opportunity to hear both of Mussorgsky’s versions of Night on Bald Mountain – one for orchestra and one for orchestra and vocal forces.

Joyce DiDonato, Edoardo Müller, Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia - Rossini: Colbran, the Muse (2009)

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Joyce DiDonato, Edoardo Müller, Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia - Rossini: Colbran, the Muse (2009)

Joyce DiDonato, Edoardo Müller, Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia - Rossini: Colbran, the Muse (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 278 Mb | Total time: 72:05 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Virgin Classics | # 94579 | Recorded: 1998

Joyce DiDonato becomes more interesting and more of a complete artist with each performance and recording. Even though we are living in a time of great coloratura mezzos (Bartoli, Genaux), DiDonato still stands out. A video of her Dejanira in Handel's Hercules a few years ago alerted us to the fact that she wasn't just another pretty Rosina and Cenerentola; indeed, she had fine dramatic chops as well. Well, while she remains the Rosina and Cenerentola of choice, with this CD she seems poised to enter the dramatic-Rossini-role sweepstakes as well, heretofore the property of Gencer, Caballé, Sutherland, and in one case, Callas.

Jonas Kaufmann, Ludovic Tézier, Antonio Pappano, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia - Insieme (2022)

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Jonas Kaufmann, Ludovic Tézier, Antonio Pappano, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia - Insieme (2022)

Jonas Kaufmann, Ludovic Tézier, Antonio Pappano, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia - Insieme: Opera duets - Puccini, Ponchielli, Verdi (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 326 Mb | Total time: 73:40 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Sony Classical | # 194399870020 | Recorded: 2021

On stage they’re usually rivals, but in real life Jonas Kaufmann and Ludovic Tézier share a close friendship. After many live performances together these two extraordinary artists have recorded their first duet album: “Insieme”, meaning “together” in Italian, to be released on Sony Classical. Accompanied by the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Antonio Pappano, they present duets they’ve sung together on stage, plus works specially chosen for the album.

Jonas Kaufmann - Verdi: Otello (2020)

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Jonas Kaufmann - Verdi: Otello (2020)

Jonas Kaufmann, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Coro Dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia & Antonio Pappano - Verdi: Otello (2020)
XLD Rip | FLAC (tracks+log+.cue) - 514 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 309 Mb | 02:14:57
Classical, Opera | Label: Sony Classical

This studio recording finds Kaufmann and Pappano reunited after their 2017 staged run at Covent Garden—the tenor’s first Otello. It’s an elegant performance: Pappano follows the letter of the score with great attention to detail, drawing magnificent playing from his Roman orchestra, with lyricism the defining quality. Kaufmann’s Otello matches his conductor’s approach and his baritonal tenor easily embraces the full range of this formidable role. It’s a well-thought-out performance that gives much pleasure. Federica Lombardi’s Desdemona develops convincingly throughout the opera and truly touches the heart. Carlos Álvarez makes Iago an introspective schemer. Well worth your attention.

Antonio Pappano, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia - Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben; Burleske (2021)

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Antonio Pappano, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia - Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben; Burleske (2021)

Antonio Pappano, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia - Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben; Burleske (2021)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 312 Mb | Total time: 67:04 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Warner Classics | # 0190295028459 | Recorded: 2018, 2020

Antonio Pappano conducts Rome’s Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in two works from the earlier phase of Richard Strauss’s career: a comparative rarity, the mercurial, virtuosic Burleske for piano and orchestra, with Bertrand Chamayou as soloist, and the epic autobiographical tone poem Ein Heldenleben, one of the composer’s orchestral masterpieces. “Strauss always thought dramaturgically,” says Pappano. “Recording this music in Italy, the link has to be through opera, with all its theatricality, temperament, contrast and colour …You need a certain charisma in the sound, which these players achieve.”

Diana Damrau - Tudor Queens (2020)

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Diana Damrau - Tudor Queens (2020)

Diana Damrau - Tudor Queens (2020)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 264 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 160 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:09:09
Classical, Opera | Label: Erato Records, Warner Classics

Soprano Diana Damrau assumes the crowns of three different Tudor queens, the central characters in operas by Donizetti: Anne Boleyn (Anna Bolena), Mary, Queen of Scots (Maria Stuarda), and Elizabeth I (Roberto Devereux). With Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra and Chorus of Rome’s Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, she performs the substantial and climactic final scene of each work. When Damrau sang Maria Stuarda at the Zurich Opera, the Neue Zürcher Zeitung wrote: “She commands a voice that seems to have no limits. Her coloratura is stunning, her vocal range impressive, and her dynamic shadings are breath-taking. Damrau is in a class of her own.”