Rossini reviews
Rhapsody (Varduhi Abrahamyan)
Varduhi Abrahamyan; Il canto di Orfeo; Les Musiciens du Prince-Monaco/Gianluca Capuano (Decca)
Il Cannone (Francesca Dego)
Francesca Dego (violin), Francesca Leonardi (piano) (Chandos)
I Am Hera
Hera Hyesang Park (soprano); Vienna Symphony Orchestra/Bertrand de Billy (DG)
Rossini: Matilde di Shabran
Ricardo Seguel, et al; Górecki Chamber Choir; Passionart Orchestra/José-Miguel Pérez-Sierra (Naxos)
Amici e Rivali (Rossini)
Lawrence Brownlee, Michael Spyres (tenor), et al; I Virtuosi Italiani/Corrado Rovaris (Erato)
Thalberg: L'art du chant appliqué au piano, etc
Paul Wee (piano) (BIS)
Rossini • Stravinski: Petrushka, etc
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Vasily Petrenko (Onyx Classics)
Rossini - Moïse
Alexey Birkus (bass), Patrick Kabongo (tenor), et al; Virtuosi Brunensis/Fabrizio Maria Carminati (Naxos)
Rossini: Le nozze di Teti e di Peleo
Leonor Bonilla, Eleonora Bellocci et al; Virtuosi Brunensis/Pietro Rizzo (Naxos)
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Cello Concerto in F; Sea Murmurs; plus arrangements of Rossini, Mozart and Ravel
Brinton Averil Smith; Evelyn Chen; Houston Symphony/Kazuki Yamada
(Naxos)
Rossini: Mosè in Egitto
Andrew Foster-Williams, Mandy Fredrich, Sunnyboy Dladla; Vienna Symphony/Enrique Mazzola; dir. Lotte de Beer (
C major; DVD)
Rossini: Zelmira
Federico Saachi, Silvia Dalla Benetta, Mert Süngü, Joshua Stewart, Marina Comparato, Luca Dall'Amico, Xiang Xu, Emmanuel Franco (voices); Górecki Chamber Choir, Krakow; Virtuosi Brunensis/Gianluigi Gelmetti (Naxos)
Momento Immobile: Arias by Bellini, Donizetti and Rossini
Venera Gimadieva, Natalia Brzezińska, Alberto Sousa; The Hallé/Gianluca Marcianò (Rubicon)
Hoffmeister • Rossini
Minna Pensola, Antti Tikkanen, Tuomas Lehto & Niek de Groot (BIS)
Caruso 1873
Roberto Alagna (tenor); Orchestre National d’Île de France/Yvan Cassar (Sony Classical)
Rossini: Ricciardo e Zoraide
Coro del Teatro Ventido Basso; Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI/Giacomo Sagripanti, et al (C Major / DVD)
Guido Cantelli conducts orchestral works by Rossini, Brahms and Schumann
Any recording from Guido Cantelli is precious: killed in an air crash aged 36, just a week after he had been appointed artistic director at La Scala, he was the one young Italian who excited Toscanini. We have Richard Itter to thank for this bootleg of an entire Philharmonia concert, broadcast by the BBC from the Royal Albert Hall in 1953. The sound quality improves as it progresses: Cantelli’s party piece, Rossini’s Semiramide Overture, sizzles with nonchalant panache, but it’s filtered through a loud hiss and intermittent interference.