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The Donizetti Works page includes some suggested recordings for many of Donizetti's operas and the Mayr page for recordings of his works. Please email:-info@donizettisociety.com with any comments or suggestions for additions. Brian Capon, a Society member, has compiled a very extensive list of Donizetti and many other composers' opera recordings, which can be found at www.operadis.info . Brian is happy to provide a version on CD holding this information and more. Please email:-info@donizettisociety.com, if interested. A list of companies offering bel canto recordings can be found here. Video clips from operas by Donizetti (and many other composers) can be found at http://www.youtube.com/results?search=Donizetti&search_type=search_videos&search=Search. As the files are very large, you will really need broadband (DSL). The voice/picture coordination is not always very good but it gives the chance to see bits of performances that you may not have seen. The From September, Gramophone Magazine plans that "every word ever printed in Gramophone will be available for free as a fully searchable online archive reviews" giving access to thousands of past reviews of recordings. See here for more details. Remember when buying DVDs to check that it is playable in your country, as some are restricted by region.
Recordings of Donizetti's Non Operatic Works
Recent Opera ReleasesThe following is a list of bel canto recordings that have been released during 2006 and 2007. It does not claim to be exhaustive or, necessarily, to recommend them. Recordings may be released under a different label in some countries or may not be available in various countries unless ordered over the Web.
2008A DVD of the highly praised Dessay/Flórez performance of Donizetti's La Fille du régiment from Covent Garden will shortly be available. See http://www.rohshop.org/acatalog/info_PRE_ORDER_FILREG_DVD.html Opera Rara have released recordings of Rossini's La donna del lago (ORC 34), Pacini's Alessandro nell'Indie (ORC 35) and Donizetti's Imelda de' Lambertazzi (ORC 36) Naxos have released a DVD of Rossini's La cambiale di matromonio from the 2006 Pesaro festival on Naxos 2.110228. Naxos have released a CD of Liszt's transcriptions of themes from Donizetti operas on Naxos 8.570137. Naxos are planning to release a CD of Mayr's L'amor coniugale on Naxos 8.660198-99 from the 2004 Wildbad Festival. 2007Naive have released a DVD of Rossini's La pietra del paragone on Naïve V5089 EMI have released a new recording of Bellini's La Sonnambula with Dessay in the leading role on Virgin Classics 0094639513826. Cecilia Bartoli has released a recording entitled "Maria" of arias associated with Maria Malibran on Decca, many recorded for the first time. It is available as CD or download and in a luxury edition with book and DVD. See here . In the same vein, Decca ( 475 907-9 ) have also produced a CD of Rubini arias by Juan Diego Flórez. BMG have issued a new recording of Donizetti's Adelia on RCA Red Seal 88697108132 . See here for a review from The Guardian. Opera Rara have released recordings of Donizetti's Don Sebastién (ORC 33), Mercadante Maria Stuarda (highlights-ORR 241), Paer Sofonisba (highlights-ORR 237) and a CD entitled Pauline Viardot and Friends (ORR 240). Naxos have released Donizetti's La figlia del reggimento, on Naxos 8.660161-62 http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=8.660161-62 Nuova Era Internationale have reissued Donizetti's Rita , see here . Nuova Era seemed to drop from sight but are now back reissuing their past catalogue. Bongiovanni have issued a DVD of Verdi's Aroldo on AB 20003. It's from a live performance at Teatro Muncipale di Piacenza, November 2003. They have also issued a CD of Bellini's Norma from Ancona on GB 2551/52-2 and reissues of historic recording of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor with Leyla Gencer, Trieste 1957 on GB 1198/99-2 and of Rossini Guglielmo Tell with Giuseppe Taddei, Mario Filippeschi, Gabriella Tucci, Francesco Molinari Pradelli, Bologna, 1957 on HOC 050/51. Top2006Hardy Video Classics are releasing a DVD of Donizetti's Marin Faliero of the 2002 Parma production on November 28, 2006, see http://www.amazon.com/Marin-Faliero-Sub-Donizetti/dp/B000KEG8OS Deutsche Grammaphon have released a DVD of Gruberova in the 2005 Munich production of Donizetti's Roberto Devereux, see http://www.iclassics.com/productDetail?contentId=64698 Deutsche Grammaphon have released a 2 DVD compilation of highlights from Beverly Sills career, including arias from Donizetti, Handel, Verdi, Massenet, and Mozart as well as Victor Herbert and many others, see http://www.iclassics.com/productDetail?contentId=64861 Membran have issued CD's of Callas singing Bellini's Norma (appears to be the first Callas studio recording) and Verdi's I Vespri Siciliani ( the May 1951 production in Florence with E. Kleiber conducting to judge from the cast list, although no details are given) and Sayão and Tagliavini in a 1949 Metropolitan production of Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore As part of their new Heritage series, Covent Garden have released a CD of Sutherland's 1959 performance of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor on ROH002. One of our members has raised a question as to whether the transfer of the Mad Scene has been done accurately. Bongiovanni have released a premiere recording of Nicolini's Il geloso sincerato, Ponchielli's I Lituani, a DVD of Verdi's La battaglia di Legnano and Giuseppe Gazzaniga's Don Giovanni and vintage recordings of Bellini's Il puritani (GB1195/6-2) and Donizetti's Marino Faliero ( GB2408/9-2) and Caterina Cornaro (GB 2410/11-2) Decca have released many of their Sutherland recordings to mark her 80th birthday, see http://www.deccaclassics.com/artists/sutherland/index.html Yet another Rossini Il barbiere di Siviglia . This time from Sony, although at this time it doesn't appear on their site. Instead see http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2006/Aug06/Rossini_Barbiere_82876804292.htm Carrer's (also Karrer), Despo has been released on LYRA 0792 and is available from http://www.studio52.gr/srch_all_en.asp?D2=GR1&searcher=Karrer Opera Rara have released their CDs of Donizetti Il diluvio universale on ORC 31 and Paer Sofonisba (excerpts) on OR 277. The former can also be bought as part of a package with their Donizetti Diva and The Young Donizetti recordings, see http://www.opera-rara.com/site/product.asp?section=1&cat=1&sub=1&prod=679#Details Decca have released a DVD of Donizetti's La Fille du régiment from the production in Genoa 2005 with Juan Diego Flórez and Patrizia Ciofi on Decca 074 3146 7. Decca have re released the Sutherland recordings of Donizetti's Anna Bolena on Decca , Rossini's Semiramide on Decca and Bellini's Norma on Decca . Also Massenet Esclarmonde, Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur, Membran have issued a 26 CD compendium of Callas recordings including Lucia and other bel canto roles. See http://www.membran.net/db_php_eng/index.php?action=template&template=223521.tpl They have also started to issue individual Callas performances, such as Bellini's I puritani (see here) Decca have reissued their 1979 recording of Rossini's Gugliemo Tell with Milnes, Pavarotti and Freni on Decca Decca have released Rossini, Matilde di Shabran with Massis and Flórez on Decca 475 7688 4 DHO3 from the 2004 Pesaro Festival.. Dynamic have released a DVD of Bellini's Norma with Dimitra Theodossiou on DVD 33493 and a CD of Bellini's I Capuleti e I Montecchi, the 1830 version, from the 2005 Martina Franca festival on CDS 504/1-2. Dynamic's partnership with the Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro will add a series of new releases on DVD in 2006, all in high definition: Rossini's Bianco e Falliero, which has already appeared on CD(see below), Torvaldo e Dorliska (Fischer, Takova, Alberghini, Meli, Pertusi, Praticò, conducted by Victor Pablo Perez, directed by Mario Martone), La Cambiale di Matrimonio (featuring Gortsevskaya, Rancatore, Bordogna and Capitanucci, conducted by Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli, directed by Luigi Squarzina) and L’Italiana in Algeri directed by Dario Fo, (Bargnesi, Lo Monaco, Pizzolato, De Simone, Esposito, Mironov, Vinco, conductor Renzetti). Adelaide di Borgogna, which will be performed in concert form, will be recorded on CD (Barcellona, Ciofi, Regazzo, Zapata, conductor Riccardo Frizza). Opera Rara have set out their plans for releases and recordings this year at http://www.opera-rara.com/site/contact/aboutus.asp . They include Paër's Sofonisba, Donizetti Il diluvio universale, Rossini Adelaide di Borgogna and La donna del lago, Mercadante's Maria Stuart and Pacini’s Alessandro nelle Indie. Meyerbeer's Semiramide from last year's Wildbad Festival on Naxos 8.660205-06. Also available is L'Etoile du Nord 8.223829-31 from Wexford. Decca have re-released Halévy's La Juive with Carreras, Varady and the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by de Almeida on Decca . HMRL (Hellenic Music Research Lab) have just issued a CD of early works (1815-1827) by Nikolaos Halikiopoulos Mantzaros (1795-1872), see http://www.ionio.gr/~GreekMus/eng/pubeng/cds.htm See here for more details on Mantzaros. Decca have reissued the Sutherland/Pavarotti recording of Donizetti's L'elisir d'amore( Dynamic have released Rossini's Bianco e Falliero, a 2005 Pesaro Festival Opera production (CDS501) and Il Barbiere di Siviglia, a 1956 live recording with Callas and Gobbi (IDIS 6479/80). Dynamic have released a 2005 Teatro Regio, Parma production of Verdi's Ernani (CDS496). They also plan to release a DVD. Opera Rara has released a CD of Pacini and Mercadante arias and ensembles entitled Paventa Insano (ORR236). They are doing a special offer of that recording plus the one of Pacini's Maria regina d’Inghilterra, until May 31, 2006. See here. Nightingale Classics, which focuses mainly on Edita Gruberova, has improved its website to include generous sound extracts and a list of web outlets where you can get the recordings, which has sometimes proved difficult in the past. It includes her 2005 award winning recording of Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia, with Juan Diego Flórez. A recording from last year which has just appeared in the UK is of Donizetti duos for soprano (Sophie Marin-Degor) and mezzosoprano (Claire Brua) with Serge Cyferstein piano, Les Demoiselles de ... on Alpha 070. Donizetti's, L'ira d'Achille, the 1998 Bergamo production is available from Celestial Audio (CA 483). This site specialises in private recordings but note that the payment system is not secure. Dynamic has issued a DVD 33475 of the 2004 Verdi Gala Concert from the Teatro Regio, Parma featuring excerpts from several Verdi operas including some early ones. Opera Rara have issued excerpts from Meyerbeer's L'esule di Granata on ORC 234 Decca have release the 2005 Teatro Real, Madrid production of Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia on DVD 074 3111 5 DH2. The cast includes Bayo, Flórez, Spagnoli and Raimondi.
For anyone unfamiliar with bel canto opera but interested in trying it, a German company, Membran , has put out several 4 CD sets of operas, often highlights but sometimes complete, by different composers including Donizetti, Rossini and Bellini (search the index on the above link). The recordings are of 1950's vintage but are top flight casts :- Callas, di Stefano, Tagliavini, Pagliughi, Valletti, Gobbi, .... Most established collectors will already have them but they are a very cheap way (£9.99 at MDC London) to gain familiarity with such works as Lucia, L'elisir d'amore, Don Pasquale, La figlia del reggimento, Norma (complete), Il puritani, La sonnambula, Il barbiere di Siviglia, Il Turco in Italia. Another bargain is the boxed sets of 5 operas (10 CDs), some fairly uncommon, of Donizetti ( Lucia, L'elisir d'amore, Poliuto, La figlia del reggimento, Maria di Rohan), Rossini (Il Signor Bruschino, La scala di seta, L’occasione fa il ladro, La cambiale di matrimonio, L’inganno felice) and Bellini ( Il puritani, La sonnambula, Zaira, I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Adelson & Salvini) from Brilliant Classics. They retail for under 20 euros, for example, at JPC. They are reissues of fairly recent (1980/90's) Nuova Era recordings, often of live performances usually with reasonable casts, although some of the Donizetti operas include the tenor Giuseppe Morino, who is not to everyone's taste. TopRecordings of Donizetti's non Operatic WorksThe following recordings cover some of Donizetti's non operatic work. It does not claim to be exhaustive and some recordings may no longer be available. It is also worth checking out the Naxos site as they sometimes include Donizetti and other bel canto composers' instrumental music as part of collection CDs. SONGS DONIZETTI SONGS – written in the bass clef (incl: Canto d’Ugolino) Meridian CDE 84183 Ian Caddy bass-baritone, Melvyn Tan fortepiano, Anthony Halstead natural horn, Sebastian Comberti classical cello See here for song listing and to hear extracts from 3 of them, as well as an order form for the CD.
DONIZETTI – Nuits d’été à Pausilippe – Teresa e Gainfaldoni Thésis THC 82003 Zehava Gal mezzo soprano, Bruce Brewer tenor, Jeff Cohen piano
ITALIAN SONG, Volume 2, Gaetano Donizetti Collins Classics 15102 Dennis O'Neill tenor, Ingrid Surgenor piano
CHAMBER MUSIC
GAETANO DONIZETTI; Complete String Quartets, Volume 2, nos. 7 – 9 CPO Classics 999 170-2 The Revolutionary Drawing Room
GAETANO DONIZETTI; Complete String Quartets, Volume 3, nos. 10 - 12 CPO Classics 999 279-2 The Revolutionary Drawing Room
GAETANO DONIZETTI; Complete String Quartets, Volume 4, nos. 13 - 15 CPO Classics 999 280-2 The Revolutionary Drawing Room
GAETANO DONIZETTI; Complete String Quartets, Volume 5, nos. 16 - 18 CPO Classics 999 282-2 The Revolutionary Drawing Room
GAETANO DONIZETTI – COMPLETE PIANO DUETS CPO Classics 999 163-2 Larissa Kondratjewa, Reinhard Schmiedel
A number of musicians including Pietro Spada piano, Rodolfo Bonucci violin, Arturo Bonucci cello, Angelo Persichilli flute, Augusto Loppi oboe, Marco Costantini bassoon, Vincenzo Mariozzi clarinet, Vincenzo Bolognese violin, Mario Gangi guitar and the Orchestra da Camera di Santa Cecilia, conductor: Alessio Vlad have recorded all the known Donizetti chamber and piano music (except for the string quartets). The recordings come from a number of years and have appeared on LPs from Frequenz (e.g. 4 DAQ Stereo) and CDs from Arts Music ( http://www.artsmusic.de/ ) including:-
GAETANO DONIZETTI – CHAMBER MUSIC, KAMMERMUSIK Vol.1 Arts 47217-2
GAETANO DONIZETTI – CHAMBER MUSIC, KAMMERMUSIK Vol.2 Arts 47218-2
GAETANO DONIZETTI – CHAMBER MUSIC, KAMMERMUSIK Vol.3 Arts 47219-2
GAETANO DONIZETTI – CHAMBER MUSIC and COMPLETE PIANO MUSIC Arts 47530
Arts also released a CD box of just the COMPLETE PIANO MUSIC (Arts 6852034) with Pietro Spada and as 3 separate CDs (Arts 1202151, 1202152, 1494974).
THE OTHER DONIZETTI Meridian CDE 84147 Jeremy Polmear oboe/cor anglais, Diana Ambache piano
DONIZETTI: Notturni Ocean Classics Orchestra of Radio Bratislava, conductor: Edoardo Brizio
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC
GAETANO DONIZETTI – INSTRUMENTAL CONCERTI Originally Marco Polo 8.223701 and now on Naxos 8.557492 Camerata Budapest. conductor: László Kovács
DONIZETTI – Ballet Music (from operas) Philips Classics 422 844-2 Philharmonia Orchestra. conductor: Antonio de Almeida
RELIGIOUS MUSIC
MUSIQUE SACRÉE INÉDITE – DONIZETTI 3 San Paolo D2582 Cinzia Forte, Raffaela Liccardi sopranos, Roberto Bencivenga tenor, Carlo Lepore bass, Alexander Jablokov violin, Gabriel Koncer clarinet; Chœurs de l’Opéra slovaque & orchestre de la radio-télévision slovaque. conductor: Edoardo Brizio
MESSA DI GLORIA e CREDO Schwann Musica Sacra AMS3520 Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra. Berlin St Hedwig's Cathedral Choir. conductor Roland Bader
MESSA DI REQUIEM (the Requiem to Bellini). Memories HR 4131 Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Milano della RAI. conductor Francesco Molinari Pradelli
MISERERE Hungaraton The Slovak Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra. conductor Josef Maklari
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