Massenet: Le Portrait De Manon

VA - James Matheson: String Quartet, Violin Concerto & Times Alone (2016)

VA - James Matheson: String Quartet, Violin Concerto & Times Alone
Classical | WEB FLAC (tracks) & d. booklet | 77:55 min | 368 MB
Label: Yarlung Records | Tracks: 11 | Rls.date: 2016

This release features a double bill of Massenet's Le Portrait de Manon and Berlioz's song cycle Les nuits d'ete, recorded from live staged performances at the Royal Opera House with artists from the Jette Parker Young Artists Programme and the Southbank Sinfonia led by Geoffrey Paterson and Volker Krafft. This is the first time the composers Massenet and Berlioz have appeared as part of the Opera Rara catalogue. The single-disc set comes with a lavishly illustrated book, including a complete libretto for Le Portrait de Manon and song translations for Les nuits d'ete, as well as detailed notes on both pieces written by the eminent musicologist Hugh Macdonald.
Inva Mula - Il Bel Sogno - Opera Arias (Ivo Lipanovic, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra) [2009]

Inva Mula - Il Bel Sogno - Opera Arias (Ivo Lipanovic, Zagreb Philharmonic Orchestra) [2009]
EAC Rip | FLAC, IMG+CUE, LOG | Covers | 1cd, 363 MB
Classical | Erato / 50999 6 94538 09

Mula is blessed with superb poise and wonderful assurance together with a tremendous ability to emotionally affect the listener.
Lyric-coloratura soprano Inva Mula has released an alluring recital of French and Italian arias for the Virgin Classics label. ‘Courtesan’ might be a more appropriate title for the disc as by my reckoning four of the heroine roles operate in that profession.
– Michael Cookson, MusicWeb International
Jonas Kaufmann, Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Marco Armiliato - Romantic Arias (2008) (Repost)

Jonas Kaufmann, Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Marco Armiliato - Romantic Arias (2008)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 72:49 | 398 MB
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: Decca | Catalog: 475 9966

Rave reviews have garnished Jonas Kaufmann’s career the last few years. Listening to his first recital disc, due for release on 14 January 2008, the day of his first Alfredo at Covent Garden, it is easy to see why. With film-star looks to match he seems predestined for great things. He has the classy Prague Philharmonic backing him, conducted by one of the more sought after Italian opera conductors of the younger generation.