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Maria Callas - Bellini: I Puritani (1953/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Aug. 7, 2022

Maria Callas - Bellini: I Puritani (1953) [Remastered 2014]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 142:05 minutes | 1,39 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklets

Until she achieved a triumph in the delicate coloratura role of Elvira in I puritani - in Venice in 1949 under the tutelage of maestro Tullio Serafin - Maria Callas had been making her name in dramatic roles, such as the epically scaled title role in Die Walküre, which she had been singing just days before. Her success in Bellini's final opera set her firmly on the path to bel canto supremacy. Joining her as Arturo in this 1953 recording is one of her best-loved colleagues, the tenor Giuseppe di Stefano.

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Maria Callas - Maria Callas: 50 Most Beautiful Opera Arias (2015) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by El Misha at July 10, 2022

Maria Callas - Maria Callas: 50 Most Beautiful Opera Arias (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96.0 kHz | Time - 04:13:40 | 2.61 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

What a fantastic download. Firstly, the voice of Maria Callas, in this sample of her work there are so many contrasting emotions, love, joy, happiness, sadness, anger, regret etc. Secondly the range of operas that this selection opens up, there are 43 operas represented, from the familiar: Carmen, La Traviata, Tosca to the less familiar Medea, Un Ballo Maschero, Ernani to the unknown (to me) Il Pirata, La Vestale, Le Pardon de Peomel. So it alerts your ears to new possibilities. Thirdly the soundscape is good excellent orchestras the Philharmonia and La Scala being the most represented and excellent conductors Serafin and Pretre together with Resigno, Votto, Karajan etc. Lastly the generosity, over 4 hours of good music.

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Cappella Musicale di Santa Maria in Campitelli di Roma - Giovannini: Messa a Quattro Breve Concertata (2022) [24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Oct. 8, 2022

Vincenzo Di Betta, Cappella Musicale di Santa Maria in Campitelli di Roma - Giovannini: Messa a Quattro Breve Concertata (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 63:16 minutes | 1,02 GB
Classical, Sacred, Choral | Label: Tactus, Official Digital Download

Since 2010 the Associazione La Cantoria has dedicated its energies to the rediscovery of unpublished musical compositions from Rome, transcribing, studying and performing these both live and recording them under the Tactus record label. This cd is dedicated to the musician, composer and organist Francesco Giovannini who was chapelmeister at the Church of Santa Maria in Portico in Campitelli in the 18th century, and whose works are conserved in the archives of the Order of the Clerics Regular of the Mother of God in Rome.

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Adalberto Maria Riva - Émile Jaques-Dalcroze: Piano Music, Volume Four (2023) [Official Digital Download] Vinyl & HR

Posted by Pisulik at July 15, 2023

Adalberto Maria Riva - Émile Jaques-Dalcroze: Piano Music, Volume Four (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Time - 60:50 minutes | 513 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover, Digital Booklet

The Swiss composer Émile Jaques-Dalcroze (1865–1950) is best remembered for his development of Eurhythmics, which teaches the appreciation of music through movement. The buoyant miniatures recorded on this fourth album of his piano music document his fascination with dance, but nonetheless display a degree of variety: some are winsome and charming, others vigorous and folk-like, and occasionally they suggest echoes of some of his French contemporaries, not least Chabrier, Debussy, Fauré and Ravel.

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Maria Callas - Ponchielli: La Gioconda, Op. 9 (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by Pisulik at July 14, 2023

Maria Callas, Orchestra del Teatro della Scala di Milano & Antonino Votto - Ponchielli: La Gioconda, Op. 9 (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 166:07 minutes | 3,25 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Front cover

The character of Gioconda is one of the most tragic in the whole history of Italian opera: an altruistic cantatrice who sacrifices everything, to the death, to secure the escape of the man she loves with her rival. Who was better suited than Maria Callas to assume such a role? La Gioconda, the only opera by Ponchielli that has not fallen into neglect, is a stunning transitional work between Verdian romanticism and verismo. La Divina particularly liked this opera.

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Maria Callas - Bellini: Norma (1954/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at May 7, 2023

Maria Callas - Bellini: Norma (1954) [Remastered 2014]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 160:26 minutes | 1,63 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklets

This is the first of Callas's two complete recordings of her signature role, the druid priestess Norma, in which she has remained unrivaled for 50 years. It captures her voice inits imposing early prime, while in the two famous duets for Norma and Adalgisa she is partnered by Ebe Stignani, generally considered the greatest Italian mezzo-soprano of her era. The conductor is Callas's mentor Tullio Serafin.

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Maria Callas - Bellini: La Sonnambula (1957/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at May 5, 2023

Maria Callas - Bellini: La Sonnambula (1957) [Remastered 2014]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 120:56 minutes | 1,24 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklets

Like Lucia di Lammermoor and Elvira (I puritani), Amina, the gentle heroine of La sonnambula,was a role that had become associated with light-voiced coloratura sopranos. Callas brought both a new substance and subtlety to the role when Luchino Visconti staged it for her at La Scala in 1955. This recording was made two years later, when the production was revived.

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Maria Callas - Ponchielli: La Gioconda (1953/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at May 14, 2023

Maria Callas - Ponchielli: La Gioconda (1953) [Remastered 2014]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 160:26 minutes | 1,71 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklets

It was as Ponchielli's long-suffering ballad singer, La Gioconda, that Callas made her Italian debut, in 1947 at the Arena di Verona, and it proved crucial to her career. Five years later, La Gioconda became her first studio recording of a complete opera. It showcases both the dark-hued splendour of her voice at this period - she was still in her twenties - and her inimitable intensity and insight.

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Maria Callas - Mascagani: Cavalleria Rusticana (1953/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Aug. 7, 2022

Maria Callas - Mascagani: Cavalleria Rusticana (1953) [Remastered 2014]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 78:00 minutes | 670 MB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklets

In 1939, as a 15-year-old student in Athens, Maria Callas made her stage debut in the demanding role of Santuzza in Cavalleria Rusticana. Five years later she sang it professionally with the Greek National Opera Company. In 1953, when she was already a star - shortly to record Tosca - Tullio Serafin enlisted her as the last-minute replacement for an indisposed colleague at the sessions for Mascagni's one-acter at La Scala. The result was a recording in which full-blooded verismo was raised to new interpretative heights.

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Maria Callas - Rossini: Il Turco In Italia (1955/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at May 7, 2023

Maria Callas - Rossini: Il Turco In Italia (1955) [Remastered 2014]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 112:50 minutes | 1,22 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

Callas's two comic roles were both in operas by Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia and Il turco in Italia. She first played the capricious and flirtatious Fiorilla - a married Neapolitan woman who takes up with a visiting Turk - in Rome in 1950. Five years later, at La Scala, she appeared in a production by Franco Zeffirelli, also, famously, the director of her Covent Garden Tosca and Paris Norma. Gramophone wrote: 'Callas acts vividly, chiding, boasting, melting, and when in typical Rossinian style she is given a 'key' figure, each repetition of it carries, so one thinks, a slightly different meaning. I found myself teased by memories of these little phrases for hours afterwards'.

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