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Maria Callas - Bellini: Norma (1961/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at April 3, 2023

Maria Callas - Bellini: Norma (1961) [Remastered 2014]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 161:32 minutes | 3,32 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklets

Callas first sang Bellini's Norma in 1948, when she was just 25. She went on to perform the role of the heroic, but vulnerable Druid priestess -the ultimate embodiment of bel canto - more frequently than any other. In this second studio recording her conductor was again Tullio Serafin (he originally tutored her in the role in 1948), and the venue was again La Scala - where the opera was premiered in 1831. By 1960, Callas brought a wealth of new nuance to her interpretation, and she is aptly partnered by the creamy-voiced Christa Ludwig (in a rare recording of an Italian role) and the towering Franco Corelli.

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Maria Martinova - Tango, mon Amour! (2024) Music

Posted by Fizzpop at Oct. 27, 2024

Maria Martinova’s electrifying and enticing new album is a “love letter” to the riveting universe of Tango. The revolutionary work of the Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla was eye opening for Maria. Piazzolla was her gateway into the rich and vibrant world of Tango where she discovered its many facets: sadness, humour, passion, intimacy… What makes Tango fascinating is the transformation it has undergone, starting with its roots in Angola and later having been influenced by multiple musical styles such as the Italian Canzonetta, Klezmer, French Chanson, Jazz and Classical Music.

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Maria Callas - 90 Opera Arias (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Sept. 2, 2024

Maria Callas - 90 Opera Arias (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 456:38 minutes | 7,91 GB
Classical, Opera | Label: Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording, Official Digital Download

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").

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Maria Callas - Verdi: Il Trovatore (1957/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at Sept. 24, 2024

Maria Callas - Verdi: Il Trovatore (1957) [Remastered 2014]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 129:39 minutes | 1,34 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklets

The role of Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore was one that Maria Callas performed some 20 times in the theatre, and this recording was her leave-taking of it. Callas's Leonora was praised by the critics for its vocal and dramatic artistry. Cecil Smith in Opera magazine said: "For once we heard the trills fully executed, the scales and arpeggios tonally full-bodied but rhythmically bouncing and alert, the portamentos and long-breathed phrases fully supported and exquisitely inflected".

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Maria Cristina Kiehr, Concerto Soave - Strozzi: Sacri Musicali Affetti Libro Primo, Op.5 (1995) Music

Posted by tirexiss at April 26, 2023

This is the only recording of sacred music by the extraordinary 17th-century Venetian singer and composer Barbara Strozzi. The Latin works in her collection Sacri Affetti Musicali were entirely suitable for church performance–something Strozzi herself, as a woman outside a convent, was forbidden to do. Most likely she performed these pieces as "spiritual recreation" at meetings of the "Academy of the Unisons" founded by her father, a well-known poet.

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Maria Schneider Orchestra - Data Lords (2020) Music

Posted by delpotro at Aug. 15, 2020

NEA Jazz Master Maria Schneider creates music that critics describe as “heartstoppingly gorgeous and beyond categorization.” With her orchestra, she introduces her bold new piece, Data Lords, which explores life simultaneously being lived through the natural and digital worlds.

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María Toledo, Bilbao Sinfonietta, Iker Sánchez Silva, Francisco Dominguez - Falla 1915 (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Feb. 6, 2022

María Toledo, Bilbao Sinfonietta, Iker Sánchez Silva & Francisco Dominguez - Falla 1915 (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 49:47 minutes | 825 MB
Classical | Label: IBS Classical, Official Digital Download

Two iconic works by Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) were premièred in Madrid in 1915, El amor brujo [Love, the Magician] and Siete canciones populares españolas [Seven Spanish Folksongs] – two works that brought into being the Cadiz-born composer’s life purpose of sublimating Hispanic folklore. Artistic manifestations derived from the soul of the people, especially the vitality and dynamism of Andalusian sonorities and cante jondo [deep song], became his most fertile source of inspiration.

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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 - 90 Opera Arias (2023) [Official Digital Download 24/96] Vinyl & HR

Posted by delpotro at Sept. 2, 2024

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Maria Callas - Puccini: Madama Butterfly (1955/2014) [Official Digital Download 24-bit/96kHz] Vinyl & HR

Posted by HDV at May 6, 2023

Maria Callas - Puccini: Madama Butterfly (1955) [Remastered 2014]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Time - 139:02 minutes | 1,34 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

A famous backstage photo was taken in Chicago after one of just three performances that Callas gave of Madama Butterfly; it shows the soprano in her Japanese costume, snarling furiously at a bailiff who had served a writ on her - the very image of the tempestuous diva. By contrast, in her recording of the role, 'it is, miraculously,' as the critic John Osborne observed, 'the 15-year old girl and not the great Callas who stands before us.' Her genius for vocal characterization finds an apt complement in Herbert von Karajan's conducting: 'a wholly sympathetic rendering [that]brings out more of the detail of the score than I have ever heard before', wrote Gramophone.

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