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Riccardo Muti, The Philadelphia Orchestra - Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (1985)

Riccardo Muti, The Philadelphia Orchestra - Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (1985)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 211 Mb | Total time: 54:38 | Scans included
Classical | Label: EMI | 7 47278 2 | Recorded: 1984

‘Muti can suggest a sensibility driven to the edge of sanity by its nightmare,’ wrote Gramophone of this intense interpretation of Berlioz’s visionary Symphonie fantastique, judging it among the finest recordings of the work and praising the conductor’s mastery at ‘holding the thread of argument together firmly, while never minimizing the incidental excitement’.
Riccardo Muti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Alexey Tikhomirov - Shostakovich: Symphony No.13 'Babi Yar' (2019)

Riccardo Muti, Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Alexey Tikhomirov - Shostakovich: Symphony No.13 'Babi Yar' (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 284 Mb | Total time: 68:30 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CSO Resound | CSOR9011901 | Recorded: 2018

Riccardo Muti leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, men of the Chicago Symphony Chorus and bass soloist Alexey Tikhomirov in this poignant performance of Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13, Op. 113 (Babi Yar), recorded live in September 2018.
Riccardo Muti, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala - Rossini: Guglielmo Tell (2004/1988)

Riccardo Muti, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala - Rossini: Guglielmo Tell (2004/1988)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Italiano (Dolby AC3, 2 ch) | 7,89+6,29 Gb (2xDVD9) | 240 min
Classical | Opus Arte | Sub: English

The staging is fascinating. Vast panelled video screens provide the scenic backdrops. Videos of nature in all its glory are projected onto these. It makes for breathtaking effect, and the good news is that one does not tire of it.
Muti conducts with real assurance. Pacing the drama magnificently, it is on performances like these that the controversial Maestro has made his well-deserved musical reputation. Tell emerges as a masterpiece from first to last. Rossini's compositional confidence in his craft is never once in doubt, and there is no trace of any longueur anywhere… (Musicweb International)
Riccardo Muti, Chicago SO, Soloists - Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique & Lelio, ou le Retour a la Vie (2015) 2CDs

Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique & Lélio, ou le Retour à la Vie (2015) 2CDs
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Riccardo Muti; Gérard Depardieu, narrator
Chicago Symphony Chorus; Mario Zeffiri, tenor; Kyle Ketelsen, bass-baritone

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 424 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 262 Mb | Scans ~ 45 Mb
Genre: Classical | Label: CSO Resound | # CSOR 901 1501 | Time: 01:54:42

Recorded in 2010 during Riccardo Muti's first subscription concerts as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's tenth music director, this new double-CD release pairs Hector Berlioz's beloved Symphonie fantastique with its sequel, Lélio, ou le retour de la vie (Lélio, or The Return to Life). Berlioz intended Symphonie fantastique to be followed by Lélio in concert, as the artist returns to life to comment anew on music and art. Maestro Muti and the CSO are joined in Lélio by the acclaimed actor Gérard Depardieu as the narrator, tenor Mario Zeffiri, bass-baritone Kyle Ketelsen, and the Chicago Symphony Chorus. With the "conclusion and complement" of Symphonie fantastique, as Berlioz referred to Lélio, this recording increases listeners' familiarity with the music of a daring and revolutionary composer.
Riccardo Muti, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano - Rossini: Guglielmo Tell (2010)

Riccardo Muti, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala di Milano - Rossini: Guglielmo Tell (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 921 Mb | Total time: 03:47:02 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Decca | 480 4697 | Recorded: 1988

In many ways this is a magnificent achievement… Muti conducts with real assurance. Pacing the drama magnificently, it is on performances like these that the controversial Maestro has made his well-deserved musical reputation. Tell emerges as a masterpiece from first to last. Rossini's compositional confidence in his craft is never once in doubt, and there is no trace of any longueur anywhere.
Riccardo Muti - Neujahrskonzert 2021 New Year's Concert 2021 Concert du Nouvel An 2021 (2021)

Riccardo Muti - Neujahrskonzert 2021 New Year's Concert 2021 Concert du Nouvel An 2021 (2021)
FLAC tracks | 44:47 | 997 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Sony Classical

L’évènement classique le plus festif et le plus populaire de l’année a revêtu une tonalité sombre et désolée en ce premier jour de 2021. Seules les cariatides raides et figées assistaient au traditionnel Concert de l’An, dans la magnifique salle dorée du Musikverein de Vienne, qui aurait dû se dérouler devant un public nombreux pour célébrer la musique viennoise, mais aussi le double anniversaire des quatre-vingt ans du Maestro Riccardo Muti et du célèbre concert qui avait eu lieu pour la première fois sous la direction de Clemens Krauss en 1941.
Riccardo Muti, Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Mozart: Don Giovanni (2009/1999)

Riccardo Muti, Chor und Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper - Mozart: Don Giovanni (2009/1999)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano | LinearPCM, 2 ch | 7.55 Gb (DVD9) | 173 min
Classical | Arthaus Musik | Sub: English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Italiano

For his production of “ Don Giovanni“ at the Vienna International Festival (Wiener Festwochen), Roberto de Simone does not want to follow in the footsteps of other directors who modernise the design and add something that did not exist in Mozart’s original. He sends Don Giovanni on a journey through time to revisit the centuries that the character lived through starting with the original costume of the 16th century and ending in the 19th century. Don Giovanni changes garments but is still the same legend and archetype. Something similar can be said for his accompanying antagonist, Donna Elvira.
Riccardo Muti, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala - Donizetti: Don Pasquale (2007/1994)

Riccardo Muti, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala - Donizetti: Don Pasquale (2007/1994)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Italiano | LinearPCM, 2 ch | Dolby AC3, 6 ch | DTS, 6 ch | 7.83 Gb (DVD9) | 130 min
Classical | TDK | Sub.: English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Italiano

As a more consistently light-hearted version, with delightful La Scala sets and colourful costumes, the 1994 TDK Don Pasquale will also be hard to beat. Visually it is a joy, and with three outstanding principals the performance sparkles from start to finish. By not seeming too old, Ferruccio Furlanetto’s portrayal of Don Pasquale is the more convincing, but he has no chance against Nuccia Focille’s minx of a Norina and one certainly feels sorry for him at his discomfiture. Gregory Kunde is an appropriately ardent Ernesto; his voice isn’t creamy but the sings passionately and has good comic timing, and Lucio Gallo enters into the spirit of the story as a wily Dottore Malatesta.
Riccardo Muti & Wiener Philharmoniker - Neujahrskonzert 2021/New Year's Concert 2021 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Riccardo Muti & Wiener Philharmoniker - Neujahrskonzert 2021/New Year's Concert 2021 (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 01:44:38 minutes | 1,85 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

The 2021 Vienna Philharmonic New Year's Concert takes place on January 1, 2021, under the baton of Riccardo Muti in the Golden Hall of the Musikverein in Vienna. After 1993, 1997, 2000, 2004, and 2018, this year's concert will mark the 6th time that Riccardo Muti, whose close musical partnership with the Vienna Philharmonic has now extended nearly 50 years, conducts this prestigious concert event.
Riccardo Muti, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala - Rossini: Moïse et Pharaon (2005)

Riccardo Muti, Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala - Rossini: Moïse et Pharaon (2005)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Français | LinearPCM, 2 ch | Dolby AC3, 6 ch | DTS, 6 ch | 6.58+6.12 Gb (2xDVD9) | 181 min
Classical | TDK | Sub: English, Deutsch, Français, Español, Italiano

TDK presents an impressive staging of one of Rossini’s opera masterpieces. This production, staged by La Scala Milan is conducted by Riccardo Muti. Moïse et Pharaon - Rossini’s re-adaptation of the story of Moses in Egypt - emphasizes the dramatic moments of the biblical account beautifully and also demonstrates the composer‘s mastery of the French tradition: solos and choral work are superb compositions, the duets are expressive and touching. Including an extensive ballet scene at the beginning of Act III and featuring a preeminent international cast of singer-actors – Erwin Schrott, Barbara Frittoli, Sonia Ganassi - this recording brings a Rossini experience of the highest rank onto the screen.