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Theresia Orchestra, Alessandro De Marchi - Domenico Cimarosa: Le Astuzie Femminili (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

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Theresia Orchestra, Alessandro De Marchi - Domenico Cimarosa: Le Astuzie Femminili (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Theresia Orchestra, Alessandro De Marchi, Rocco Cavalluzzi, Eleonora Bellocci, Matteo Loi, Valentino Buzza, Martina Licari, Angela Schisano - Domenico Cimarosa: Le Astuzie Femminili (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 158:40 minutes | 2,87 GB
Classical, Opera | Label: CPO, Official Digital Download

Domenico Cimarosa’s Le astuzie femminili was presented with success at the Teatro dei Fiorentini in Naples on 26 August 1794. The libretto by Giuseppe Palomba is a rewriting of Giovanni Bertati’s Amor rende sagace. Bertati, who succeeded Lorenzo Da Ponte as imperial poet at the Habsburg court in 1790, had furnished this text to Cimarosa for a composition staged in Vienna during the previous year, in the wake of the triumphant success scored by the composer and the librettist with Il matrimonio segreto.

Marco Angioloni, Il Groviglio - Handel: Poro, re delle Indie (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

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Marco Angioloni, Il Groviglio - Handel: Poro, re delle Indie (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Marco Angioloni, Il Groviglio, Christopher Lowrey, Paul-Antoine Bénos-Djian, Alessandro Ravasio, Giuseppina Bridelli & Lucía Martín Cartón - Handel: Poro, re delle Indie (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 159:00 minutes | 3,06 GB
Classical, Opera | Label: Château de Versailles Spectacles, Official Digital Download

In 1731, at the height of his London fame, Handel created his 28th opera seria: a vocal pyrotechnic about the rivalry, in love and war, between Alexander the Great and the Indian King Porus.

Vasco Brondi - Un segno di vita (2024) [Official Digital Download]

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Vasco Brondi - Un segno di vita (2024) [Official Digital Download]

Vasco Brondi - Un segno di vita (2024) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44.1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 34:13 minutes | 394 MB
Rock | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

“Un segno di vita” (Carosello Records) è il nuovo album di Vasco Brondi. Anticipato dall’omonimo singolo uscito il 10 Gennaio 2024, si tratta di un ritorno molto atteso, a distanza di tre anni da “Paesaggio dopo la battaglia”, il primo album che l’artista ha pubblicato a suo nome dopo la conclusione del progetto Le Luci Della Centrale Elettrica.

i Disinvolti & Massimo Lombardi - Vulnerasti cor meum. Motets from the Song of Songs (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

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i Disinvolti & Massimo Lombardi - Vulnerasti cor meum. Motets from the Song of Songs (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

i Disinvolti & Massimo Lombardi - Vulnerasti cor meum. Motets from the Song of Songs (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 72:33 minutes | 1,27 GB
Classical, Vocal | Label: Arcana, Official Digital Download

“ Vulnerasti cor meum ” literally translates as “You have wounded my heart” – which is not only the most classic of amorous metaphors, but also one of the most celebrated to be featured in the Song of Songs . In this, perhaps the greatest love poem in the history of literature, the two central characters of the story exchange promises of love that are pervaded by sensual metaphors and passionate similes verging on the erotic, in a style that lies on the border between the sacred and the secular.

Chor und Orchester der Berliner Operngruppe, Felix Krieger - Donizetti: Dalinda (Live) (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

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Chor und Orchester der Berliner Operngruppe, Felix Krieger - Donizetti: Dalinda (Live) (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Chor und Orchester der Berliner Operngruppe & Felix Krieger - Donizetti: Dalinda (Live) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 102:15 minutes | 1,77 GB
Classical | Label: Oehms Classics, Official Digital Download

Since its foundation in 2013, the Berliner Operngruppe has made a name for itself by giving annual, semi-staged first performances in Berlin of works such as Donizetti’s Deux hommes et une femme and Betly, together with other operatic rarities. This album is the world premiere recording, made on 14 May 2023, of Donizetti’s opera Dalinda, a work that had a brush with the censors, similar to that experienced by his opera Lucrezia Borgia, and disappeared unperformed until it was rediscovered a few years ago by the musicologist Eleonora Di Cintio, in whose critical RICORDI edition it’s heard here.

Maria Callas - Sings Operatic Arias (1955/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

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Maria Callas - Sings Operatic Arias (1955/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

Maria Callas - Lyric and Coloratura Arias (1955) [Remastered 2014]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 48:51 minutes | 503 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

As this recital amply demonstrates, Maria Callas encompassed an extraordinary range of roles. She is as convincing in the pinpoint coloratura of Lakmé's 'Bell Song' ('Her chromatic scale is beautifully done and she sails up to the region known as in alt with the greatest ease,' said Gramophone) as in the sweeping, richly coloured lines of Maddalena's 'La mamma morta' from Andrea Chénier, famously and movingly featured on the soundtrack of the 1993 Hollywood film Philadelphia.'There is great tenderness and simplicity, deep emotion,and the most lovely moulding of the vocal phrases,' wrote Gramophone, 'Madame Callas's characterizations… are nothing less than superb, and altogether there is some of her finest singing yet recorded'.

Maria Callas - Callas Portrays Verdi Heroines (1959/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

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Maria Callas - Callas Portrays Verdi Heroines (1959/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

Maria Callas - Callas Portrays Verdi Heroines (1959) [Remastered 2014]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 49:27 minutes | 1,02 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Maria Callas’s recital discs occupy a central place in her recorded legacy, alongside her complete opera recordings. The Verdi featured three roles she had sung in the opera house: Abigaille, brimming with youthful and impressive vocal grandeur at the San Carlo in Naples in 1949 (her earliest complete live opera recording to have survived); Lady Macbeth at the opening of the 1952–3 La Scala season, one of her greatest triumphs (the live recording was reissued by EMI); and Elisabetta (Élisabeth de Valois) at La Scala in 1954 (of which we have no recording), a character whose aria ‘Tu che le vanità’ would become a central feature of the concerts she gave between 1959 and 1962.

Pia Davila, Bernhard Reichel & Ensemble Musica getutscht - Dolente partita. Madonne e Maddalena (2024) [Digital Download 24/96]

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Pia Davila, Bernhard Reichel & Ensemble Musica getutscht - Dolente partita. Madonne e Maddalena (2024) [Digital Download 24/96]

Pia Davila, Bernhard Reichel & Ensemble Musica getutscht - Dolente partita. Madonne e Maddalena (Works by Monteverdi and his contemporaries) (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 56:51 minutes | 1,01 GB
Classical, Vocal | Label: Coviello Classics, Official Digital Download

Soprano Pia Davila and the ensemble Musica getutscht under the direction of Bernhard Reichel show how Claudio Monteverdi and his contemporaries transferred the modern dramatic style from secular opera to sacred music during the Counter-Reformation. For example, they told the Passion of Christ in a completely new way - namely from the personal perspective of the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene. Both lament the painful parting from Jesus, not only as their savior, but above all as their son and lover.

RIAS Kammerchor, Freiburger Barockorchester, Rene Jacobs - Mozart: Don Giovanni (2007) [3x SACD-ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC]

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RIAS Kammerchor, Freiburger Barockorchester, Rene Jacobs - Mozart: Don Giovanni (2007) [3x SACD-ISO + DSD64 + Hi-Res FLAC]

RIAS Kammerchor, René Jacobs, Freiburger Barockorchester - W.A. Mozart: Don Giovanni (2007)
3x SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 170:33 minutes | Full Scans included | 8,55 GB
or DSD64 2.0 Stereo (from SACD-ISO to Tracks.dsf) > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | Scans included | 3,96 GB
or FLAC Stereo (carefully converted & encoded to tracks) 24bit/48 kHz | Scans included | 1,77 GB
Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound | Harmonia Mundi France # SACD HMC 801964.66
The playful drama in two acts

Roberto Del Piano - Saluti da casa / Ho dato il mio sangue alla musica (2024) [Official Digital Download]

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Roberto Del Piano - Saluti da casa / Ho dato il mio sangue alla musica (2024) [Official Digital Download]

Roberto Del Piano - Saluti da casa / Ho dato il mio sangue alla musica (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 61:03 minutes | 611 MB
Avant-Garde Jazz | Label: Materiali Sonori, Official Digital Download

A committed and militant bassist, he began his career at a very young age, frequenting the Milanese pop music scene and then dedicating himself to jazz. In 1971, after meeting Guido Mazzon, he joined his Gruppo Contemporaneo, a group that contributed to spreading free jazz in Italy and which, among others, included Gaetano Liguori on piano and Filippo Monico on drums. Later, with them, he experienced the Trio Idea from which the long partnership with Liguori was born, alongside him in numerous projects and actively participating in the scene of that "political jazz" that musically characterized the decade.

Xavier Sabata - Georg Friedrich Handel: Bad Guys (2012) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

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Xavier Sabata - Georg Friedrich Handel: Bad Guys (2012) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

Xavier Sabata, Il Pomo d'Oro, Riccardo Minasi - Handel: Bad Guys (2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 53:02 minutes | 978 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

This ranks among the most intelligent and striking recital discs of recent years. Spanish counter-tenor Xavier Sabata, along with the Italian ensemble Il Pomo d'Oro - conducted by Riccardo Minasi, explores the worlds of Handel's villains – the tyrants, hypocrites and sensualists who are integral to his dramatic and moral vision, but whose music is rarely heard outside of the theatre. The album reminds us that Handel characterises evil with the same complexity and insight with which he depicts good; and it forms a superb showcase for an exceptional singer, who's never received the attention he deserves.

Maria Callas - Arias from Verdi Operas (1972/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

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Maria Callas - Arias from Verdi Operas (1972/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz]

Maria Callas - Arias from Verdi Operas (1972) [Remastered 2014]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 50:13 minutes | 1030 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

This third Verdi collection was the last recital that Callas recorded, over an extended period between 1964 and 1969. Arias from operas in her stage repertoire – Aida, Un ballo in maschera, I vespri siciliani and Il trovatore – were complemented by numbers from more rarely heard works from Verdi’s ‘galley years’: When five of the tracks from this recital were originally released as Callas by Request, Gramophone admired the way: ‘Callas revealed her matchless command of line, verbal declamation and musical insight’.

Carlo Rizzi - Donizetti- L'esule di Roma (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

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Carlo Rizzi - Donizetti- L'esule di Roma (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

Carlo Rizzi - Donizetti- L'esule di Roma (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/192]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 02:05:41 minutes | 4,51 GB
Classical, Opera | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

To celebrate the 225th anniversary of Gaetano Donizetti’s birth, Opera Rara has restored L’esule di Roma (1828), an opera which is considered a milestone in the composer’s illustrious career.

Michael Spyres, Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset - In the Shadows (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

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Michael Spyres, Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset - In the Shadows (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Michael Spyres, Les Talens Lyriques & Christophe Rousset - In the Shadows (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 84:50 minutes | 1,43 GB
Classical, Vocal | Label: Erato Records, Official Digital Download

Michael Spyres is a singer who challenges and reshapes perceptions – as his albums BariTenor and Contra-Tenor have shown. Now, preparing for his debut at the Bayreuth Festival in Summer 2024, he searches In the Shadows to reveal more about Wagner and the origins of his music dramas. “Wagner evokes a varying spectrum of emotions – awe, ecstasy, even trepidation,” explains Spyres. “This album endeavours to illuminate the composers who languish in the shadows, who formed the foundation of Wagner’s compositions and sculpted the framework of vocal writing for the Wagnerian tenor.”

The Sixteen & Harry Christophers - Masters of Imitation (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

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The Sixteen & Harry Christophers - Masters of Imitation (2024) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

The Sixteen & Harry Christophers - Masters of Imitation (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 66:35 minutes | 1,13 GB
Classical, Choral | Label: Coro, Official Digital Download

Imitation is the ultimate compliment. To take inspiration from someone else’s work, to borrow and rework it to form another piece…what could be more flattering? This technique, known as ‘parody’, was hugely popular in late 16th-century Europe and Orlande de Lassus was one of its most famous advocates. The Sixteen’s programme showcases the master of parody at work and also features a new commission from the extraordinarily inventive composer Bob Chilcott parodying one of Lassus’ finest secular madrigals.