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The Variations on "Trockne Blumen" from the song cycle Die schone Mullerin are the central work on the album. Schubert on the pan flute; is that possible; is it even allowed?

FonoForum 08/04: "This alternation of feelings never seems uniform.​

Italian lyric tenor Alessandro Bonci presents a programme Italian vocal works, focuses on the great composer Gaetano Donizetti .

New, fun-filled arrangements, with historical authenticity on their side, of bright and breezy curtain-raisers by a once-celebrated contemporary of Mozart.

Romantic miniatures by a forgotten Italian cellist and composer: the first album ever dedicated to the music of Domenico Laboccetta.

Ludovic Tézier trained at the Paris Opéra's École d'art lyrique and at the Centre National d'Artistes Lyriques. He was a prize winner at Operalia, The World Opera Competition in 1998.

The Italian operatic repertoire offers some of the most passionate and much-loved music in the classical canon. In this outstanding collection, Azer Zada has selected music of moving intensity, dramatic power and spiritual resolve in works by Donizetti, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Puccini and Verdi. Favourite tenor arias such as Nessun dorma!, Una furtiva lagrima, Recondita armonia and E lucevan le stelle are included, as well as three essential intermezzi by Mascagni.

Maria Callas (born Maria Anna Cecilia Sophie Kalogeropoulou), was an American-born Greek soprano who was one of the most renowned and influential opera singers of the 20th century. Many critics praised her bel canto technique, wide-ranging voice and dramatic interpretations. Her repertoire ranged from classical opera seria to the bel canto operas of Donizetti, Bellini and Rossini and, further, to the works of Verdi and Puccini; and, in her early career, to the music dramas of Wagner. Her musical and dramatic talents led to her being hailed as La Divina ("the Divine one").

The story of the incredible success of La Finta Pazza in Venice in 1641 is often attributed to the presence of the diva Anna Renzi and to Torelli’s incredible stage machinery. However, a show with an excellent singer and an impressive machinery is nothing without remarkable music. As soon as I discovered this score, which has almost never been performed recently, I immediately understood the surprising quality of this music and why it had such an impact on young King Louis XIV.

Italian Soundtracks, the new album by maestro Giuseppe Grazioli together with the Verdi Orchestra of Milan, is a heterogeneous collection of composers who have written for the cinema, born from the idea of ​​highlighting an Italian method to film music, an unmistakable "sound" that - as Grazioli himself states - has been able to draw from the Italian musical heritage by seizing a legacy left by Vivaldi, Donizetti, Verdi, Puccini, and more.