Chamber Music & Recitals

VERDI: AIDA (MEXICO 03/07/1951) Aidaheld an important place in the earlier years of Callas's career, and in 1950 it brought her debut at La Scala, Milan, the theatre where she soon became reigning diva. That same year, she sang the role of the Ethiopian...

Verdi: Aida - Riccardo Muti - Composer: Giuseppe Verdi Other participants: Plcido Domingo * Montserrat Caball? * Fiorenza Cossotto * Piero Cappuccilli * Nicolai Ghiaurov * Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden * New Philharmonia Orchestra *...

Verdi created 28 works for the musical stage, from his fledgling Oberto of 1839 (after it's La Scala premiere the impresario Bartolomeo Merelli commissioned him to compose no fewer than three further operas) all the way to Falstaff of 1893. Verdi thus...

Verdi considered Shakespeare's MacBeth to be 'one of the greatest creations of man'. The opera's unbroken dramatic line, incisive libretto and range of expression from the comic to the sublime, made it a work that was way ahead of it's time. Verdi...

Veracini Vol. 3. Fifteen years after our first album featuring works by Francesco Veracini and two years after the release of the second such album, cpo is now releasing the third production by L'Arte dell'Arco in this series combining a complete edition...

Venice's four famous orphanages for girls, the Ospedali, were, along with St Mark's Basilica, the musical centers of the city and a European-wide attraction for musicians and travellers. Famous teachers such as Vivaldi, Hasse, Porpora, Legrenzi,...

Venice supported a healthy industry of both recorder manufacture and music for the instrument during the 18th century. Benedetto Marcello and the lesser-known Paolo Benedetto Bellinzani (1686 -1757) both composed stylish collections of sonatas for the...

Venezuelan born male soprano Samuel Mari?o (*1993) presents his debut album with baroque arias by Christoph Willibald Gluck and Georg Friedrich H?ndel. Gluck and H?ndel met each other and played music together in London in 1746. For this release, the...

Venetian composer Baldassare Galuppi' reputation rests principally on his pioneering series of comic operas. But, trained by Antonio Lotti, Galuppi was also a keyboard player of distinction who served at the court of Catherine the Great in St Petersburg...

Veit Erdmann-Abele writes of his new release: "The term I like to use is Klangbild, a picture in sound. It refers to the musical reaction we can have vis-?-vis paintings or texts. Take the Five Meditations on Stained-Glass Windows, for instance: the...

Vedi Napoli e poi muori; "See Naples and die." As the famous expression goes, there is nowhere in the world more beautiful than Naples, so once there, there is no need to go any further. This release invites you to experience a Neapolitan evening, or...

Vaughan Williams: The Lark Ascending by Andrew Manze - Onyx Classics UK James Ehnes (violin) Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra Following their hugely successful cycle of Vaughan Williams' nine symphonies, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra...