Handel: Fernando (2007) more music like this

performed by Antonio Abete (bass), Filippo Adami (tenor), Lawrence Zazzo (tenor), Marianna Pizzolato (mezzo-soprano), Max Emanuel Cencic (counter tenor), Neal Banerjee (tenor), Veronica Cangemi (soprano), Il Complesso Barocco, Alan Curtis (conductor)
composed by George Frederick Handel

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Handel: Serse (2004) more music like this

performed by Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Antonio Abete (baritone), Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz (soprano), Giovanni Furlanetto (bass), Lawrence Zazzo (counter tenor), Sandrine Piau (soprano), Silvia Tro (mezzo-soprano), Les Arts Florissants Orchestra
composed by George Frederick Handel

Back in the nineteenth century, humorist Edward Lear wrote in his Nonsense Alphabet the following verse for the letter "X:" "X was King Xerxes, whom Papa much wished to know; but this he could not do, because Xerxes died long ago." Much of the same condition can be applied to George Frideric Handel's 1738 opera about Xerxes, properly referred to ...

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Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro more music like this

performed by Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano), Antonio Abete (bass), Elizabeth Randall (vocals), Kobie van Rensburg (tenor), Lorenzo Regazzo (bass), Marie McLaughlin (soprano), Nicolau de Figueiredo (fortepiano), Núria Rial (soprano), Patrizia Ciofi (soprano)
composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

No matter how many times you've heard Le nozze di Figaro, you owe it to yourself to hear this Le nozze di Figaro. It is fresh and funny and silly and moving and enchanting and as wise and as knowing as the work itself. The singers are the ideal kind of opera singers who make you forget they're singing because their acting is so good and their ...

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Vivaldi: Orlando finto pazzo (2004) more music like this

performed by Antonio Abete (bass), Gemma Bertagnolli (soprano), Manuela Custer (mezzo-soprano), Marianna Pizzolato (mezzo-soprano), Marina Comparato (mezzo-soprano), Martin Oro (counter tenor), Sonia Prina (contralto), Turin Teatro Regio Chorus (choir, chorus)
composed by Antonio Vivaldi

Recordings of Vivaldi operas are extremely scarce, and whether or not that will -- or should -- ever change is an open question. But excellent performances like this one make a good case for the music deserving wider appreciation, and offer a different perspective on a composer who, despite having been one of the greatest operatic composers of his ...

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Heavenly Handel: Arias and Duets (2004) more music like this

performed by Anna Bonitatibus (mezzo-soprano), Antonio Abete (baritone), Arleen Augér (soprano), David Daniels (counter tenor), Della Jones (mezzo-soprano), Derek Lee Ragin (counter tenor), Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Gerard Lesne (alto)
composed by George Frederick Handel

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Marcello: Arianna (2000) more music like this

performed by Anna Chierichetti (soprano), Antonio Abete (bass), Gloria Banditelli (contralto), Mirko Guadagnini (tenor), Sergio Foresti (bass)
composed by Benedetto Marcello

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Philidor: Carmen Saeculare; Overtures (2007) more music like this

performed by Antonio Abete (bass), Donald Litaker (tenor), Nora Gubisch (mezzo-soprano), Veronica Cangemi (soprano), Swiss Radio Choir (choir, chorus)
composed by François-André Danican Philidor

Like Chevalier de Saint-Georges, François-André Danican Philidor gained fame both as a composer and a sportsman. In addition to his facility as a composer of opera and as a pioneer in the field of opéra-comique, Philidor was the most famous chess master of his era, celebrated for his ability to win games while blindfolded. While this has kept ...

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Monteverdi: Madrigali guerrieri ed amorosi more music like this

performed by Antonio Abete (bass), Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano), Concerto Vocale, Jeremy Ovenden (tenor), John Bowen (tenor), Kobie van Rensburg (tenor), Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano), Mario Zeffiri (tenor), Renaud Delaigue (bass), Salome Haller (soprano)
composed by Claudio Monteverdi

This two-disc set introduces the listener to the passionate, agitated, even troubled world of Monteverdi's (1567-1643) extraordinary eighth book of madrigals, consisting of Canti guerrieri (Warrior songs) and Canti amorosi (Love Songs), and performed with exquisite taste, imagination, and passion by the vocal soloists and instrumentalists of ...

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Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine more music like this

performed by Andreas Scholl (alto), Andrew Murgatroyd (tenor), Antonio Abete (bass), Barbara Borden (soprano), Concerto Vocale, Jelle Draijer (bass), John Bowen (tenor), Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano), Victor Torres (baritone), Nederlands Kamerkoor (choir, chorus)
composed by Claudio Monteverdi

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Lamenti Barocchi Vol. 1 (1995) more music like this

performed by Antonio Abete (bass), Cappella Musicale di S. Petronio, Cristina Miatello (soprano), Gloria Banditelli (soprano), Lucia Bagnoli (contralto), Maura Pederzoli (soprano), Michel van Goethem (alto), Patrizia Vaccari (soprano), Sergio Vartolo (conductor)
composed by Barbara Strozzi, Claudio Monteverdi, Giovanni Felice Sances, Gregorian Chant, Luigi Rossi

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Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro more music like this

performed by Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano), Antonio Abete (bass), Elizabeth Randall (vocals), Kobie van Rensburg (tenor), Lorenzo Regazzo (bass), Marie McLaughlin (soprano), Núria Rial (soprano), Patrizia Ciofi (soprano), Simon Keenlyside (baritone)
composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

There are folks out there who never care to attend another Measure for Measure, who never care to watch another Modern Times, and who never care to hear another Le Nozze di Figaro because to them, comedy is obviously a lesser art form than tragedy. To them one can only say: "too bad!" because as this immensely musical and enormously humorous ...

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Mozart Diary 2006 [Book+CD] (2005) more music like this

performed by Andreas Staier (fortepiano), Antonio Abete (bass), Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano), Bruno Pasquier (viola), Kobie van Rensburg (tenor), Lorenzo Regazzo (bass), Marcel Boone (baritone), Michel Portal (clarinet), Myron Lutzke (cello)
composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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La révolution du Baroque italien (2005) more music like this

performed by Akademie für Alte Musik, Berlin, Andreas Lebeda (vocals), Andrew Manze (violin), Antonio Abete (bass), Bernarda Fink (vocals), Chiara Banchini (violin), Christina Hogman (vocals), Christophe Laporte (counter tenor), Claire Brua (soprano), Concerto Vocale
composed by Arcangelo Corelli, Biagio Marini, Claudio Monteverdi, Francesco Cavalli, George Frederick Handel, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Girolamo Frescobaldi, Luigi Rossi, Orazio Vecchi, Riccardo Broschi, Sigismondo d'India

With this disc, Harmonia Mundi's Century: A History of Music series moves onto what sports fans might call its home field: the Harmonia Mundi catalog is heavily stocked with discs by artists who have brought the music of the seventeenth century to life, and several of them, notably Les Arts Florissants and its Buffalo-to-Paris-transplanted leader ...

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Purcell: Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary Z860; Hail, bright Cecilia Z328; Motets (1997) more music like this

performed by Alberto Rasi (violone), Antonio Abete (bass), Fabian Schofrin (tenor), Francesco Cera (organ), Furio Zanasi (baritone), Lia Serafini (soprano), Loredana Bacchetta (soprano), Lorenzo Ghielmi (organ), Marco Beasley (tenor), Paolo Costa (tenor)
composed by Henry Purcell

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Unpublished Verdi (2001) more music like this

performed by Alberto Negroni (oboe), Antonio Abete (bass), Fausto Tenzi (tenor), Rino Vernizzi (bassoon), Coro "G. Verdi" di Busseto (choir, chorus), Orchestra "G. Verdi" di Busseto, Fausto Pedretti (conductor)
composed by Giuseppe Verdi, Giuseppe Verdi / Giacomo Mori

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René... By Himself [Includes DVD] more music like this

performed by Alexandrina Pendatchanska (soprano), Andreas Scholl (contratenor), Andreas Scholl (alto), Antonio Abete (bass), Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano), Chiara Banchini (violin), Christina Hogman (soprano), Christoph Prégardien (tenor), Christophe Coin (cello)
composed by Antonio Caldara, Antonio Cesti, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Claudio Monteverdi, Dietrich Buxtehude, Francesco Cavalli, Francisco Antonio de Almeida, François Couperin, Franz Joseph Haydn, Georg Philipp Telemann, George Frederick Handel, Heinrich Schütz

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Handel: Messiah [DVD Audio] (2003) more music like this

performed by Antonio Abete (bass), Charles Daniels (tenor), Guillemette Laurens (mezzo-soprano), Lynne Dawson (soprano), Swiss Radio Choir (choir, chorus), I Barocchisti, Diego Fasolis (conductor)
composed by George Frederick Handel

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Carissimi: Jonas; Historia Divitis (1998) more music like this

performed by Alberto Rasi (violone), Alberto Rasi (viola da gamba), Andrea Marcon (harpsichord), Annemieke Cantor (alto), Antonio Abete (bass), Diego Fasolis (organ), Elisabetta Tiso (soprano), Fulvio Bettini (baritone), Furio Zanasi (baritone)
composed by Giacomo Carissimi

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Monteverdi:Scherzi Musicali a tre voci (1998) more music like this

performed by Antonio Abete (bass), Enrico Casazza (violin), Federico Marincola (harpsichord), Gaetano Nasillo (cello), Patrizia Vaccari (soprano), Riccardo Manuel Vartolo (violin), Roberta Giua (soprano), Sergio Vartolo (harpsichord)
composed by Claudio Monteverdi

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Girolamo Dalla Casa: Il Secondo Libro dei Madrigali a Cinque Voci con i Passaggi (2001) more music like this

performed by Adriano Dallape (organ), Adriano Dallape (harpsichord), Antonio Abete (bass), Elena Cecchi Fedi (soprano), Francesco Tapella (lute), Francesco Tapella (theorbo), Gian Paolo Fagotto (tenor), Il Terzo Suono, Jean Tubéry (cornet), Laura Fabris (soprano)
composed by Anonymous, Giovanni Battista della Gostena, Girolamo della Casa

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Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (2007) more music like this

performed by Anna Simbola (soprano), Antonio Abete (bass), Furio Zanasi (tenor), Gianluca Ferrarini (vocals), Luca Dordolo (tenor), Marco Scavazza (vocals), Monica Piccinini (soprano), Raffaele Giordani (vocals), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Sergio Foresti (bass)
composed by Claudio Monteverdi

L'Orfeo has become enough of a standard that it's no longer treated as a museum piece requiring reverential sobriety in its presentation, but even by modern standards, Naïve's recording must qualify as one of most uninhibited and vivacious on disc. This quality is not merely a matter of tempo, even though this version is overall somewhat faster ...

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Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine more music like this

performed by Andreas Scholl (alto), Andrew Murgatroyd (tenor), Antonio Abete (bass), Barbara Borden (soprano), Jelle Draijer (bass), John Bowen (tenor), Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano), Victor Torres (baritone), Nederlands Kamerkoor (choir, chorus), Concerto Vocale
composed by Claudio Monteverdi

This handsome sewn-binding package contains a reissued 1995 performance of Monteverdi's Vespro della beata vergine (Vespers) of 1610, together with a hefty new booklet delivering nice reproductions of artwork of the period along with a great deal of information about this genuinely magnificent work and its context. The Vespers and the opera Orfeo ...

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Monteverdi: L'Orfeo (2000) more music like this

performed by Adriana Fernandez (vocals), Antonio Abete (vocals), Ensemble Elyma, Fabian Schofrin (vocals), Furio Zanasi (vocals), Gerd Turk (vocals), Giovanni Caccamo (vocals), Gloria Banditelli (vocals), Maria Cristina Kiehr (vocals), Maurizio Rossano (vocals)
composed by Claudio Monteverdi

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Monteverdi: Complete Chamber Duets (1998) more music like this

performed by Antonio Abete (bass), Elena Cecchi Fedi (soprano), Gian Paolo Fagotto (tenor), Giuseppe Zambon (counter tenor), Gloria Banditelli (mezzo-soprano), Il Complesso Barocco, Luca Dordolo (tenor), Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Roberto Abbondanza (baritone)
composed by Claudio Monteverdi

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Michelangelo Rossi: Straziami pur Amor (1997) more music like this

performed by Alan Curtis (harpsichord), Antonio Abete (bass), Daniela del Monaco (alto), Daniela del Monaco (mezzo-soprano), Elena Cecchi Fedi (soprano), Gian Paolo Fagotto (tenor), Il Complesso Barocco, Mario Cecchetti (tenor), Massimo Battistella (viola)
composed by Michelangelo Rossi

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