Various - One Act Operas - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

On the dark side of fame awaits the slide into obscurity. That's certainly true for a number of operas that, while popular and highly lucrative during their composers' lifetime, soon followed their creators into the shadowy realm of oblivion. Operas, for example, that only ever get mentioned in connection with some much more famous sibling. Giuseppe Gazzaniga's Don Giovanni - premiered half a year before Mozart's masterpiece - is such an example, as is Ruggero Leoncavallo's La Boheme and George Bizet's Djamileh, widely considered the predecessor of Carmen. Other operas just do not stand out among other works by a composer - Jules Massenet's operas for example are hardly a footnote of music history, his opera Therese, a thoroughly forgotten work, however, is. Two examples for works that are scarcely performed or even known outside of what is now the Czech Republic are also included in this collection of Opera Rarities on ORFEO Dvorak's last opera Armida and Zdenek Fibich's sarka. Album Tracks 1. Don Giovanni (O Sia Il Convitati Di Pietra) 2. Djamileh 3. Armida 4. Sarka 5. Thérèse 6. La Bohème

The Great Classics series from Naxos is the perfect introduction to myriad genres of classical music. Comprising both complete and compiled selections from the greatest works in the repertoire, the boxes are bursting with wonderful pieces of music, both recognizable and unfamiliar. The boxes take the listener on a thrilling tour of some of the world's most dramatic musical media, encompassing music from six centuries and featuring sensational performers. All boxes come with a fascinating booklet with detailed information on the genre itself, chronological placement of each work, and a comprehensive study of the music. A fitting celebration of 25 years of superb music from Naxos, the world's favourite classical tag. Album Tracks 1. Mozart Don Giovanni 1. Mozart Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute) 1. Rossini Il Barbiere Di Siviglia (The Barber of Seville) 1. Verdi la Traviata 1. Verdi Aida 1. Bizet Carmen 1. Mascagni Cavalleria Rusticana 2. Leoncavallo Pagliacci 1. Puccini Tosca 1. Puccini Madama Butterfly 1. Puccini la Boheme

Digression Music responds to the national and international echo of the debut album of the Duo Re-Imagine, positively reviewed by the most important music publications, with the launch of the Gold Vinyl (limited edition) of the homonymous album signed by Dario Doronzo at the Flugelhorn and Pietro Gallo at the Piano. The Duo proposes a wide-ranging repertoire that finds it's roots in the complex and elegant reinterpretation in a modern key of compositions and arias of the cultured sphere. A continuous dialogue, without ever dropping tension, between spaces, dynamics, virtuosities, colors, synergistically merging into a music of new breath that finds in the revisitation the fulcrum of it's knowledge. Fil rouge is the theme of the Inchre-readingInch, a stylistic and aesthetic figure suitable for joining two such different worlds as classical music and the more fluid modern Jazz. InchDisassembleInch and InchreassembleInch works of a classic type with modifications and variations on a melodic, harmonic, timbric and rhythmic level leads the listener to fully savor the true value of Opere which, after about four hundred years, still move the mysterious strings of our soul. Album Tracks 1. Giuseppe Verdi Ouverture (Otello) 2. Claudio Monteverdi SÌ Dolce È'l Tormento 3. Giacomo Puccini Nessun Dorma (Turandot) 4. Pietro Mascagni Intermezzo (Cavalleria Rusticana) 5. Tommaso Giordani Caro Mio Ben 6. Giovanni Paisiello Nel Cor Più Non Mi Sento (La Molinara) 7. Michel Godard Fruccia D'ali (Inspired By Pur Ti Miro)