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Verdi - Nabucco / Cappuccilli, Domingo, Dimitrova, Nesterenko, Valentini-Terrani, Deutschen Oper Berlin, Sinopoli
(more) »rank: 25736by: Giuseppe Verdi, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Piero Cappuccilli, Placido Domingo, Ghena Dimitrova, Evgeny Nesterenko, Lucia Valentini-Terrani, Berlin State Opera Chorus
: :Nabucco was Verdi's third opera, and it's filled with one great, energy-filled melody after another; if the drama is a bit crude (the characters are one-dimensional at best), the emotions are sincere and the passions run high enough to make one forgive Verdi's youthful enthusiasm. The role of Abigaille, Nabucco's evil daughter, is a voice-wrecker, but the animal-like Ghena Dimitrova sounds as if she could sing it in her sleep. She hurls the high Bs and Cs at us as ferociously as the Bs and Cs two octaves lower--this is a stunner of a performance. As the title character, Piero Cappuccilli sings with ...
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Rossini - Petit Messe Solonnelle ~ Stabat Mater / Pavarotti, Freni, Lohrenger, Minton, Valentini-Terrani, LSO, Gandolfi, Kertesz
(more) »rank: 52737by: Gioachino Rossini, London Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, Romano Gandolfi, Istvan Kertesz, Mirella Freni, Lucia Valentini-Terrani, Luciano Pavarotti, Ruggero Raimondi, Pilar Lorengar, Yvonne Minton, Hans Sotin, Leone Magiera, Vittorio Rosetta, Coro Polifonico del Teatro alla Scala di Milano
: :Nabucco was Verdi's third opera, and it's filled with one great, energy-filled melody after another; if the drama is a bit crude (the characters are one-dimensional at best), the emotions are sincere and the passions run high enough to make one forgive Verdi's youthful enthusiasm. The role of Abigaille, Nabucco's evil daughter, is a voice-wrecker, but the animal-like Ghena Dimitrova sounds as if she could sing it in her sleep. She hurls the high Bs and Cs at us as ferociously as the Bs and Cs two octaves lower--this is a stunner of a performance. As the title character, Piero Cappuccilli sings with ...
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Sacred Classics - Messiah, Ave Maria, Pie Jesu, Zadok the Priest, L'enfance du Christ
(more) »rank: 31737by: George Frideric Handel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Gabriel Fauré, Antonio Vivaldi, Charles Gounod, Johannes Brahms, Edward Elgar, Gioachino Rossini, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Franz Schubert, Giuseppe Verdi, César Franck, Hector Berlioz, Franz Joseph Haydn, Felix Mendelssohn, Gregorio Allegri, Conservatory Concert Society Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London Philharmonia Orchestra, Halle Orchestra, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras, Andre Cluytens, Riccardo Muti, David Willcocks, Philip Ledger, Otto Klemperer
: :Nabucco was Verdi's third opera, and it's filled with one great, energy-filled melody after another; if the drama is a bit crude (the characters are one-dimensional at best), the emotions are sincere and the passions run high enough to make one forgive Verdi's youthful enthusiasm. The role of Abigaille, Nabucco's evil daughter, is a voice-wrecker, but the animal-like Ghena Dimitrova sounds as if she could sing it in her sleep. She hurls the high Bs and Cs at us as ferociously as the Bs and Cs two octaves lower--this is a stunner of a performance. As the title character, Piero Cappuccilli sings with ...
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Vivaldi - Magnificat ~ Gloria / Berganza, Valentini-Terrani, NPO, Muti
(more) »rank: 44810by: Riccardo Muti, Teresa Berganza, Lucia Valentini Terrani, New Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra
: :Nabucco was Verdi's third opera, and it's filled with one great, energy-filled melody after another; if the drama is a bit crude (the characters are one-dimensional at best), the emotions are sincere and the passions run high enough to make one forgive Verdi's youthful enthusiasm. The role of Abigaille, Nabucco's evil daughter, is a voice-wrecker, but the animal-like Ghena Dimitrova sounds as if she could sing it in her sleep. She hurls the high Bs and Cs at us as ferociously as the Bs and Cs two octaves lower--this is a stunner of a performance. As the title character, Piero Cappuccilli sings with ...
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Rossini: Stabat Mater
(more) »rank: 135423from: Deutsche Grammophon
: :Nabucco was Verdi's third opera, and it's filled with one great, energy-filled melody after another; if the drama is a bit crude (the characters are one-dimensional at best), the emotions are sincere and the passions run high enough to make one forgive Verdi's youthful enthusiasm. The role of Abigaille, Nabucco's evil daughter, is a voice-wrecker, but the animal-like Ghena Dimitrova sounds as if she could sing it in her sleep. She hurls the high Bs and Cs at us as ferociously as the Bs and Cs two octaves lower--this is a stunner of a performance. As the title character, Piero Cappuccilli sings with ...
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Verdi - Don Carlos / Domingo, Ricciarelli, Valentini-Terrani, Raimondi, Teatro alla Scala, Abbado
(more) »rank: 100282by: Giuseppe Verdi, Claudio Abbado, Plácido Domingo, Katia Ricciarelli, Lucia Valentini-Terrani, Ruggero Raimondi, Leo Nucci, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Ann Murray, Arleen Auger, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala
: :Nabucco was Verdi's third opera, and it's filled with one great, energy-filled melody after another; if the drama is a bit crude (the characters are one-dimensional at best), the emotions are sincere and the passions run high enough to make one forgive Verdi's youthful enthusiasm. The role of Abigaille, Nabucco's evil daughter, is a voice-wrecker, but the animal-like Ghena Dimitrova sounds as if she could sing it in her sleep. She hurls the high Bs and Cs at us as ferociously as the Bs and Cs two octaves lower--this is a stunner of a performance. As the title character, Piero Cappuccilli sings with ...
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Pergolesi - Stabat Mater / M. Marshall · Valentini-Terrani · LSO · Abbado
(more) »rank: 80062by: Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Claudio Abbado, Margaret Marshall, Lucia Valentini-Terrani, London Symphony Orchestra
: :Nabucco was Verdi's third opera, and it's filled with one great, energy-filled melody after another; if the drama is a bit crude (the characters are one-dimensional at best), the emotions are sincere and the passions run high enough to make one forgive Verdi's youthful enthusiasm. The role of Abigaille, Nabucco's evil daughter, is a voice-wrecker, but the animal-like Ghena Dimitrova sounds as if she could sing it in her sleep. She hurls the high Bs and Cs at us as ferociously as the Bs and Cs two octaves lower--this is a stunner of a performance. As the title character, Piero Cappuccilli sings with ...
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Verdi - Falstaff / Bruson, Ricciarelli, Nucci, Hendricks, Gonzalez, Valentini-Terrani, Giulini
(more) »rank: 181799by: Giuseppe Verdi, Carlo Maria Giulini, Renato Bruson, Barbara Hendricks, Lucia Valentini-Terrani, Leo Nucci, Katia Ricciarelli
: :The master of Italian tragedy finished his career unexpectedly with a comedy, and a comedy in the great tradition of his hero, Shakespeare: light, scintillating, utterly absorbing, and probably Verdi's most musically sophisticated work. This exciting live recording by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, with Renato Bruson in the title role, is conducted by the great Carlo Maria Giulini. --Joshua Cody
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Viva Verdi! A 100th Anniversary Celebration
(more) »rank: 78893by: Giuseppe Verdi, Hungarian State Opera Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, National Philharmonic Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra del Teatro all Scala, Munich Bavarian State Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Neville Marriner, Lamberto Gardelli, Nello Santi, Fabio Luisi, Claudio Abbado, Peter Maag, Carlo Maria Giulini, Tullio Serafin, Carlos Kleiber, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, Herbert von Karajan, Plácido Domingo, Carlo Bergonzi, Fiorenza Cossotto, Lajos Miller, Sylvia Sass, Jose Carreras, Montserrat Aparici, Sherrill Milnes, Giovanni Foiani, Shirley Verrett, Ruggero Raimondi, Montserrat Caballe, Alexander Oliver, Luciano Pavarotti, Matteo Manuguerra, Thomas Moser, Maria Venuti, Piero Cappuccilli, Anthony Michaels-Moore, Roberto Scandiuzzi
: :It's rare for sampler albums to demonstrate originality, but Decca's Giuseppe Verdi compilation honoring the 100th anniversary of the composer's death in 1901 goes beyond putting a smorgasbord of Verdiana on your plate. Its lavishly illustrated 100-page book includes a potted bio of the composer and sections on each of his operas, along with Universal's complete Verdi catalog (but no texts or translations). The discs contain samples from each opera, arranged in chronological order, featuring most of the top singers of the past 40 years. They're all here, from the Three Tenors to their betters, like Jon Vickers, whose powerfully sung 'Celeste Aida' ...
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Verdi: Nabucco (Highlights) / Sinopoli, Domingo
(more) »rank: 198724from: Deutsche Grammophon
: :It's rare for sampler albums to demonstrate originality, but Decca's Giuseppe Verdi compilation honoring the 100th anniversary of the composer's death in 1901 goes beyond putting a smorgasbord of Verdiana on your plate. Its lavishly illustrated 100-page book includes a potted bio of the composer and sections on each of his operas, along with Universal's complete Verdi catalog (but no texts or translations). The discs contain samples from each opera, arranged in chronological order, featuring most of the top singers of the past 40 years. They're all here, from the Three Tenors to their betters, like Jon Vickers, whose powerfully sung 'Celeste Aida' ...
