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Carlo Maria Giulini: Mozart’s Le Nozze Di Figaro (Richard Itter Collection)
MP3 Album:
Carlo Maria Giulinis celebrated studio recording of Le nozze di Figaro was recorded in September 1959 following a live performance at the Royal Festival Hall a few days earlier. Nearly 18 months later on 6th February 1961 there was another RFH performance but with a substantially different cast from that on disc. Only two roles the Countess (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf) and Antonio (Piero Cappuccilli) were sung by the same artists.
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Great Symphonies
MP3 Album:
Beethoven’s Ninth and Mendelssohn’s “Italian” are two of the great symphonies to appear in this collection, which also features works by Tchaikovsky, Schumann and Brahms, among others. With renowned conductors including Sir Adrian Boult and Gennadi Rozhdestvensky at the helm, these expertly remastered recordings represent an excellent addition to any symphony-lover’s collection.
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Great Italian Operas
MP3 Album:
This set features two classic performances from the golden age of the Covent Garden Opera Company and a sparkling Falstaff from the Edinburgh Festival, combining masterworks of Italian opera by Puccini, Verdi and Rossini into one outstanding collection. Carefully remastered and restored, the recordings feature a stellar cast of Italian singers and conductors, including renowned soprano Renata Tebaldi, said by Toscanini to possess ‘the voice of an angel’.
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BBC Legends Vol.1
MP3 Album:
This 20 CD box set brings together some of the greatest performances taken from the BBC archives which were featured in the best-selling series BBC Legends, launched in 1998. The collection features classic recordings by stellar artists including Mstislav Rostropovich, Arturo Toscanini, Emil Gilels, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Sir Thomas Beecham, Dennis Brain, Evgeny Mravinsky, David Oistrakh and Sviatoslav Richter.
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Ataúlfo Argenta
MP3 Album:
BEETHOVEN
Symphony No.3 ‘Eroica’
Palacia de la Música, Madrid, 24 May 1957
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SMETANA
The Bartered Bride Overture
Victoria Hall, Geneva, 29 August 1957
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CHAPÍ GIMÉNEZ
Zarzuelas
Orquesta Nacional de España
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Gran Orquesta Sinfónica
Madrid, 1955–77
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Carlo Maria Giulini
MP3 Album:
VERDI
Falstaff
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Fernando Corena
Anna Maria Rovere
Fernanda Cadoni
Oralia Dominguez
Walter Monachesi
Eugenia Ratti
Glyndebourne Opera Chorus
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
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Carlo Maria Giulini
MP3 Album:
ROSSINI
Il barbiere di Siviglia
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Figaro Rolando Panerai
Rosina Teresa Berganza
Count Almaviva Luigi Alva
Dr Bartolo Fernando Corena
Don Basilio Ivo Vinco
Fiorello Ronald Lewis
Berta Josephine Veasey
Un Ufficiale Robert Bowman
The Covent Garden Chorus
(Chorus Master: Douglas Robinson)
The Covent Garden Orchestra
Carlo Maria Giulini
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, LONDON, 21 MAY 1960