Sempre Libera (2004) more music like this

performed by Andrea Concetti (bass), Anna Netrebko (soprano), Nicola Ulivieri (bass baritone), Saimir Pirgu (tenor), Sara Mingardo (mezzo-soprano), Sascha Reckert (harmonica), Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Chorus of Milan (choir, chorus), Mahler Chamber Orchestra
composed by Gaetano Donizetti, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, Vincenzo Bellini

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Bach: Christmas Cantatas (2000) more music like this

performed by Ann Monoyios (soprano), English Baroque Soloists, Gotthold Schwarz (bass), Julian Podger (tenor), Katharine Fuge (soprano), Rufus Müller (tenor), Sara Mingardo (contra-alto), Stephan Loges (bass), Monteverdi Choir (choir, chorus)
composed by Johann Sebastian Bach

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Santiago De Murcia Codex (2005) more music like this

performed by Ami Flamer (violin), Anne Gastinel (cello), Arianna Savall (vocals), Concerto Italiano, Cyril Dupuy (cymbalom), Discantus, Doulce Mémoire Ensemble, Ensemble Kapsberger, Francesca Vicari (violin), Gérard Barreaux (accordion)
composed by Anonymous, Antoine de Lhoyer, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Fillippo Azzaiolo, Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin, Giovanni Paolo Foscarini, Gregorian Chant, Jean-Marie Leclair, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, John Dowland

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Bellini: La Sonnambula (2007) more music like this

performed by Carlo Colombara (vocals), Francesco Meli (vocals), Gordon Gietz (vocals), Jaël Azzaretti (vocals), Natalie Dessay (vocals), Paul Gay (vocals), Sara Mingardo (vocals), Lyon National Opera Chorus (choir, chorus), Lyon National Opera Orchestra
composed by Vincenzo Bellini

This recording of La Sonnambula is attractive (and significant) for a number of reasons. It's the first to use the critical edition of the score by Alessandro Roccatagliati and Luca Zoppelli, to which some music has been restored and which has corrected the orchestration and restored the original keys of various numbers for which transposition has ...

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Haendel: Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno (2001) more music like this

performed by Deborah York (soprano), Gemma Bertagnolli (soprano), Nicholas Sears (tenor), Sara Mingardo (alto), Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor)
composed by George Frederick Handel

France's Naďve label has made its mark with stirringly played recordings of Baroque music by top groups from all over Europe, presented in packaging with striking contemporary design elements that emphasize the music's energy and relevance. The label has done well enough that it has been able to amplify its own catalog with reissues of ...

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Berlioz: Les Troyens (2001) more music like this

performed by Alan Ewing (bass), Andrew Greenan (bass), Ben Heppner (tenor), Bülent Bezdüz (tenor), Guang Yang (mezzo-soprano), Isabelle Cals (mezzo-soprano), Kenneth Tarver (tenor), Leigh Melrose (baritone), Mark Stone (baritone), Michelle DeYoung (mezzo-soprano)
composed by Hector Berlioz

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Vivaldi: Stabat Mater (2002) more music like this

performed by Andrea Mion (oboe), Antonio De Secondi (violin), Ettore Belli (viola), Francesca Vicari (violin), Luca Cola (double bass), Luigi Piovano (cello), Mauro Lopes Ferreira (violin), Paolo Ciociola (violin), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Concerto Italiano
composed by Antonio Vivaldi

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Vivaldi: Vespri per l'Assunzione di Maria Vergine (2003) more music like this

performed by Anna Simbola (soprano), Antonio De Secondi (violin), Concerto Italiano, Ettore Belli (viola d'amore), Gemma Bertagnolli (soprano), Gianluca Ferrarini (tenor), Marco Scavazza (bass), Matteo Bellotto (baritone), Roberta Invernizzi (soprano)
composed by Antonio Vivaldi, Rinaldo Alessandrini

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Handel: Messiah [Hybrid SACD] [includes DVD] (2007) more music like this

performed by Alastair Miles (bass), Mark Padmore (tenor), Sara Mingardo (alto), Susan Gritton (soprano), Tenebrae (choir, chorus), London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis (conductor)
composed by George Frederick Handel

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Sempre Libera [Hybrid SACD] (2004) more music like this

performed by Andrea Concetti (bass), Anna Netrebko (soprano), Nicola Ulivieri (bass baritone), Saimir Pirgu (tenor), Sara Mingardo (mezzo-soprano), Sascha Reckert (harmonica), Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Chorus of Milan (choir, chorus), Mahler Chamber Orchestra
composed by Gaetano Donizetti, Giacomo Puccini, Giuseppe Verdi, Vincenzo Bellini

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Vivaldi: Gloria Magnificat (1997) more music like this

performed by Akademia Ensemble, Concerto Italiano, Deborah York (soprano), Patrizia Biccire (soprano), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor)
composed by Antonio Vivaldi

If speed was the sine quo non of historically informed period instrument performance practice, this disc coupling Vivaldi's Gloria and Magnificat along with a pair of concerti performed by the Concerto Italiano under the direction of Rinaldo Alessandrini would be hands down the best historically informed period-instrument performance practice ...

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Handel: Arcadian Duets (2002) more music like this

performed by Anna-Maria Panzarella (soprano), Brian Asawa (counter tenor), Emmanuelle Haďm (organ), Emmanuelle Haďm (harpsichord), Juanita Lascarro (soprano), Laura Claycomb (soprano), Le Concert d'Astrée, Natalie Dessay (soprano), Patricia Petibon (soprano)
composed by George Frederick Handel

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Haydn: Heiligmesse; Paukenmesse more music like this

performed by Angharad Gruffydd Jones (soprano), Brindley Sherratt (bass), Elinor Carter (alto), English Baroque Soloists, Joanne Lunn (soprano), Julian Clarkson (bass), Sara Mingardo (alto), Topi Lehtipuu (tenor), Monteverdi Choir (choir, chorus)
composed by Franz Joseph Haydn

Despite his new career as a conductor of romantic and modern repertoire with the great symphony orchestras of Europe and America, John Eliot Gardiner still finds the time to make the occasional recording with the English Baroque Soloists and the Monteverdi Choir, the band and chorus he founded and with which he rose to fame in the '80s. In this ...

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Classique & Zen (2007) more music like this

performed by Anne Gastinel (cello), Claire Désert (piano), Daniel Blumenthal (piano), Ensemble Kapsberger, Fazil Say (piano), François-Frederic Guy (piano), Grigory Sokolov (piano), Hopkinson Smith (lute), Lise de la Salle (piano), Marie-Nicole Lemieux (contralto)
composed by Antonio Vivaldi, Claude Debussy, Claudio Monteverdi, Franz Schubert, Frédéric Chopin, Gustav Mahler, Johann Sebastian Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Maurice Ravel, Reynaldo Hahn, Santiago de Murcia, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Naďve's compilation album Classique & Zen offers no explanation of the relationship between the two concepts other than the simple direction, "You are free to be Zen." The lack of specificity in no way detracts from the effectiveness of the CD and its artful presentation. It stands out from many of the other collections with the goal of inducing a ...

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Rossini: Messe Solennelle; Stabat Mater (2002) more music like this

performed by Charles Castronovo (tenor), Iride Martinez (soprano), John Relyea (bass), Margot Pares-Reyna (soprano), Peter Lika (bass), Sara Mingardo (mezzo-soprano), Thomas Dewald (tenor), Chorus Musicus Köln (choir, chorus), New Berlin Chamber Orchestra
composed by Gioachino Rossini

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Berlioz: Edition du bicentenaire [Box Set] (2003) more music like this

performed by Alan Ewing (bass), Andrew Greenan (bass), Ben Heppner (tenor), Bülent Bezdüz (tenor), Daniela Barcellona (mezzo-soprano), David Wilson-Johnson (bass), Dean Robinson (bass), Enkelejda Shkosa (mezzo-soprano), Giuseppe Sabbatini (tenor)
composed by Hector Berlioz

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Vivaldi: Concerti e Cantate (1997) more music like this

performed by Concerto Italiano, Francesca Vicari (violin), Luigi Piovano (cello), Sara Mingardo (alto), Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor)
composed by Antonio Vivaldi

The recordings of the Concerto Italiano under its leader Rinaldo Alessandrini, such as this album, first released in 1997, electrified the authentic-performance movement in Italy. Alessandrini showed that performances of Vivaldi on authentic instruments could be edgy, brisk, even tough. The group's ensemble work was unmatched, but perhaps best of ...

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Vivaldi: Dixit Dominus; Galuppi: 3 Psalms (2006) more music like this

performed by Dresdner Instrumental-Concert, Lucia Cirillo (soprano), Paul Agnew (tenor), Roberta Invernizzi (soprano), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Thomas Cooley (tenor), Körnerscher Sing-Verein Dresden (choir, chorus), Peter Kopp (conductor)
composed by Antonio Vivaldi

The sticker emblazoned on the front of Archiv Produktion's Vivaldi: Dixit Dominus proclaims this as a "World-premiere recording of the work scholars are calling the 'the most important Vivaldi discovery in 75 years.'" That takes a little bit of qualification, though not much -- inside, Vivaldi scholar Michael Talbot clarifies that this Dixit is ...

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Stabat Mater (Box Set) [Box Set] (2002) more music like this

performed by Andrea Mion (oboe), Antonio De Secondi (violin), Cappella della Pieta de'Turchini, Charles Castronovo (tenor), Concerto Italiano, Daniela del Monaco (contralto), Emanuela Galli (soprano), Emanuela Galli (soprano), Enrico Baiano (harpsichord)
composed by Alessandro Scarlatti, Anonymous, Antonio Vivaldi, Domenico Scarlatti, Francesco Provenzale, Gioachino Rossini, Giovanni Carlo Cailo, Giovanni Pergolesi, Giovanni Salvatore

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Pergolesi, Scarlatti: Stabat Mater (1998) more music like this

performed by Francesca Vicari (violin), Gemma Bertagnolli (soprano), Luigi Piovano (cello), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor)
composed by Alessandro Scarlatti, Giovanni Pergolesi

This recording, made in 1998, was one of a group that elevated Pergolesi's Stabat mater, written shortly before his extremely untimely death from tuberculosis, to the status of a major masterpiece. Really the group as a whole has had more to do with that elevation than any single recording, for it has shown how much there is to this set of arias ...

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Antonio Vivaldi: Farnace (Favourite Aires) (2003) more music like this

performed by Adriana Fernandez (soprano), Cinzia Forte (soprano), Fulvio Bettini (baritone), Furio Zanasi (baritone), Gloria Banditelli (contralto), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Sonia Prina (mezzo-soprano), Coro del Teatro de la Zarzuela (choir, chorus)
composed by Antonio Vivaldi

This album of excerpts from Vivaldi's Farnace contains a generous selection of some of the opera's most attractive music, including arias, recitatives, and choruses. Farnace was apparently one of the composer's favorite operas because he mounted numerous productions in various cities, and he wrote six versions of the score, more than of any of his ...

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Berlioz: Beatrice & Benedict more music like this

performed by David Wilson-Johnson (baritone), Kenneth Tarver (tenor), Laurent Naouri (baritone), Sara Mingardo (contralto), Susan Gritton (soprano), London Symphony Chorus (choir, chorus), London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis (conductor)
composed by Hector Berlioz

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Verdi: Falstaff (2001) more music like this

performed by Anthony Michaels-Moore (vocals), Antonello Palombi (vocals), Eirian James (vocals), Francis Egerton (vocals), Hillevi Martinpelto (vocals), Jean-Philippe LaFont (vocals), Peter Bronder (vocals), Rebecca Evans (vocals), Sara Mingardo (vocals)
composed by Giuseppe Verdi

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Haydn: Schöpfungsmesse (2002) more music like this

performed by Andrew Busher (tenor), Bernarda Fink (alto), Brindley Sherratt (bass), Christoph Prégardien (tenor), David Watkin (cello), English Baroque Soloists, Joanne Lunn (soprano), Oliver Widmer (bass), Peter Butterfield (tenor), Ruth Ziesak (soprano)
composed by Franz Joseph Haydn

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Handel: Riccardo Primo (1996) more music like this

performed by Claire Brua (vocals), Emmanuel Balssa (cello), Emmanuelle Haďm (harpsichord), Les Talens Lyriques, Olivier Lallouette (vocals), Pascal Bertin (vocals), Roberto Scaltriti (vocals), Sandrine Piau (soprano), Sara Mingardo (vocals)
composed by George Frederick Handel

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