Handel - Crude furie degli orridi abissi (from Serse)
-
Arrestingly, uncompromisingly thrilling...while the coloratura thrills here are predictably spectacular, it’s the other elements – the new-found care and weight of the slower arias, the range... — More…
Awards:
-
Presto Editor's Choice, January 2018
-
Gramophone Magazine, March 2018, Editor's Choice
-
Opera, May 2018, Recording of the Month
-
Presto Recordings of the Year, Winner 2018
CD
$15.25Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
Joyce DiDonato - Furore (Handel Opera Arias)
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo)
Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset
DiDonato tackles this catalogue of emotional meltdowns with customary gusto. Sampled track-by-track, it's a thrilling operatic show case… — More…
Awards:
-
Opera, February 2009, Recording of the Month
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
Rolando Villazón - Handel Arias
Rolando Villazón (tenor), with Rebecca Bottone (Asteria) & Jean Gandoullet (Tamerlano), Christopher Suckling (cello) & Robert Howarth (harpsichord)
Gabrieli Players, Paul McCreesh
It is splendid to hear a singer of abundant personality leaping into the suicide scene from Tamerlano with such dramatic authority. Listening to Villazón's lively rendition of Bajazet's "Ciel... — More…
Awards:
-
Gramophone Magazine, May 2009, Editor's Choice
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
-
Offer,
The 5 Countertenors Valer Sabadus (countertenor), Xavier Sabata (countertenor), Max Cencic (countertenor), Yuri Minienko (countertenor), Vince Yi (countertenor)
Armonia Atenea, George Petrou
[Yi's] super-refined delivery works wonderfully against Yuriy Mynenko’s persuasively virile athleticism. Xavier Sabata is the least overtly flamboyant of the five, though his dark alto and exceptional... — More…
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
Re-Joyce
The Best of Joyce DiDonato
Joyce DiDonato (mezzo), with Patrizia Ciofi (soprano), Frederica von Stade (mezzo),
Il complesso barocco, Les Talens Lyriques, Le Concert d`Astrée, Alan Curtis, Christophe Rousset, Emmanuelle Haïm and others
a very varied collection showing something of the singer’s current strengths as well as her vocal evolution as caught on record. — More…
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
The flexibility and assertiveness of his singing is best heard in excitable arias featuring storms or revenge…That said one of the best tracks here is Handel's superb aria for Cleopatra, 'Se... — More…
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
Fritz Wunderlich sings
Fritz Wunderlich (tenor), Ingeborg Hallstein (soprano), Hermann Prey (baritone), Erika Köth (soprano), Christa Ludwig (contralto), Hubert Giesen (piano), Singgemeinschaft Rudolf Lamy, Wiener Staatsopernchor, Die Spilar Schrammeln, Hilde Gueden (soprano), Claudia Hellmann (contralto), Friedrich Lenz...
Downloads
What are FLAC and MP3? -
Bavarian State Opera: Live 1997-2005
Paul Nilon (tenor), Anna Caterina Antonacci (soprano), David Daniels (countertenor), Ann Murray (mezzo), Susan Gritton (soprano), Vesselina Kasarova (mezzo), Anja Harteros (soprano), Martin Gantner (baritone), Waltraud Meier (mezzo), Peter Seiffert (tenor), Dorothea Röschmann (soprano)
Bavarian...
CD
$7.25