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Beatrice Rana, Orchestra dell’Academia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano – Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:00 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Warner Classics
Maestro Antonio Pappano insisted he wanted to record with Beatrice Rana, the 22-year-old Italian pianist championed by Martha Argerich who shot to stardom when she claimed the Silver Medal and the coveted Audience Award in the 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. On that occasion, Huffington Post described the seasoned competition winner’s performance as ‘an endlessly fascinating piece of humanity that had the orchestra riveted on every note’. Warner Classics signed this young piano sensation in mid-2015; the Italian virtuoso now makes her label debut with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under the baton of Sir Antonio Pappano. Recorded in Rome, the formidable programme pairs two Russian masterpieces: a thrillingly fresh take on the warhorse of Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No.1 in B-flat minor – an indispensable repertoire benchmark and calling card for concert pianists all over the world – and Prokofiev’s stormy, emotionally charged Piano Concerto No.2. This coupling is a bold statement for a musician who ‘possesses an old soul that belies her twenty years, and more than a touch of genius’ (Gramophone), but the soloist believes she has ‘the right character’ for this kind of music: ‘People say that South Italians are very dramatic!’
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Antonio Pappano – Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op. 35 – Mussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:09:29 minutes | 769 MB | Genre: Classical
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In his role as music director of the orchestra and choir of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano has recorded the two works together to give us the connection between the two composers. At the same time, he offers us the rare opportunity to hear both versions of Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain – one for orchestra and one for orchestra and vocal ensemble (as conceived for Sorochyntsi’s opera The Fair). “Mussorgsky’s text has a bite that is very unusual for the time in which this music was composed,” says Pappano. “It is bare and unadorned, with a strong rawness”.
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London Symphony Orchestra & Antonio Pappano – Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 6 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:08:06 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Classical
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Sir Antonio Pappano leads the London Symphony Orchestra in a pair of symphonies by Ralph Vaughan Williams that span the build-up and aftermath of the Second World War.
Throughout the Fourth Symphony Vaughan Williams channels tension and power through the music inamongst moments of light and clarity. It evokes a sense of hardship and persistence, perhaps suggesting the ever-present threat of war in the 1930s.
Written in 1947, the composer’s Sixth Symphony also seems to reflect the hardships and devastation wrought by World War II. Melancholic in some movements, ferocious in others.
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Ian Bostridge, Antonio Pappano, Vilde Frang, Nicolas Altstaedt – Beethoven: Songs & Folksongs (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:05 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
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Conductor Antonio Pappano gladly trades in his conductor’s baton for his piano keys in this recording during which he accompanies some of the greatest voices in music today. He plays in perfect complicity with English tenor Ian Bostridge in this exciting program devoted to a selection of Beethoven’s Lieder.
The centrepiece of this album is, of course, An die ferne Geliebte (“To the distant beloved”), which is considered to be the first ever Lieder cycle in the history of music. The six poems depict an unknown woman that the composer had idealised from their very first encounter, quickly followed by their separation. His longing for her caused him so much torment that even the joyous awakening of spring could not take away his melancholy in this heart-rending lover’s lament.
The other twenty or so Lieder on this album, including the famous Adelaide, which was also set to music by Schubert, are a testament to Beethoven’s mastery of the lied and popular songs, which he liked to harmonise. Ian Bostridge and Antonio Pappano interpret these rare gems with sensitivity and sophistication. © François Hudry/Qobuz
Details of original recording : Recorded 2–4.X.2019, St Jude-on-the-Hill, London (England)
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Ian Bostridge & Antonio Pappano – Requiem: The Pity of War (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:24 minutes | 982 MB | Genre: Classical
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Two composers who in one way or another sang about the horrors of war, and two who lost their lives in it: Ian Bostridge’s takes a successful gamble here, with masterful accompaniment on the piano by Antonio Pappano. The first two are from Kurt Weill with Four Walt Whitman Songs in which the poet laments over the soldiers who died in the War of Succession, and Gustav Mahler, three of whose Lieder(s) taken from Knaben Wunderhorncruelly and repugnantly evoke the lives of poor young people, peasants and people who are barely through with their school years, sent to be torn apart on every possible and imaginable front. More directly concerned, if one may say so, are George Butterworth – who fell at the Somme in 1916, aged thirty-one, and whose A Shropshire Lad is without a doubt the greatest masterpiece here. Rudi Stephan fell at the Galician front in 1915 aged twenty-eight. His cycle Ich will dir singen ein Hohelied is a climax of unsettling eroticism… Would the fate of German music have been different if this genius had been able to act as a counterbalance, for example, to the emerging dodecaphonic music? Bostridge gives it his all here in this sad centenary of the end of the “war to end all wars”, which we know was tragically not the case.
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Ian Bostridge, Antonio Pappano – Beethoven: Songs & Folksongs (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:02:05 minutes | 1,02 GB | Genre: Classical
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At the heart of this programme of Beethoven songs performed by Ian Bostridge and Sir Antonio Pappano is the song cycle An die ferne Geliebte (To the distant beloved). Bostridge describes it as “the distillation of Beethoven as lover”. Among the other items are the rapturously lyrical ‘Adelaide’, the sombre ‘In questa tomba oscura’ and a selection of Beethoven’s settings of folksongs from the British Isles, which elicit the participation of violinist Vilde Frang and cellist Nicolas Altstaedt. “When we all play together,” says Pappano, “it’s like a family making music at home.”
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Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano – Rossini: Messa di Gloria (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:06 minutes | 1,14 GB | Genre: Classical
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Expanding their notable Rossini discography, Sir Antonio Pappano and the Chorus and Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia perform the composer’s Messa di Gloria of 1820. They are joined by five virtuosic vocal soloists: three Italians – soprano Eleonora Buratto, mezzo-soprano Teresa Iervolino and bass Carlo Lepore – and two Americans, Lawrence Brownlee and Michael Spyres.
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Concertgebouworkest, Antonio Pappano, Javier Camarena – Berlioz: Requiem, Op. 5 (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:23:39 minutes | 2,65 GB | Genre: Classical
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Berlioz composed his Requiem at the request of a French government minister to commemorate the soldiers who died in the July Revolution in 1830. The Requiem would become one of Berlioz’s most popular works, among other things because of its imaginative instrumentation and gigantic orchestration, including four brass ensembles distributed throughout the hall. The work was also dear to the composer’s own heart. He once said, ‘If someone were to threaten to destroy all my works, I would beg for mercy on behalf of my Grande messe des morts.’
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Janine Jansen, London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano – Brahms: Violin Concerto / Bartók: Violin Concerto No.1 (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:08 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
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With this release, acclaimed violinist Janine Jansen becomes the first major artist to couple these two landmark concertos by Brahms and Bartók on the same album. As Jansen says, to her “they seem a natural pairing.” Her visionary and profound interpretations of Brahms’s monumental Violin Concerto and Bartók’s youthful Violin Concerto No. 1 express the magical blend of lyrical beauty and symphonic power of these works, captured in vibrant high-definition sound. Jansen recorded the Brahms live with the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia over three concerts in February 2015; the Bartók with the London Symphony Orchestra, both conducted by Sir Antonio Pappano.
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Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano – Bernstein: Symphonies Nos 1-3, Prelude, Fugue & Riffs (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:52:53 minutes | 2,02 GB | Genre: Classical
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Warner Classics is honouring Bernstein with live recordings, made in Rome in February 2018, of his three symphonies and his Prelude, Fugue and Riffs. Sir Antonio Pappano conducts the Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and the soloists are pianist Beatrice Rana, mezzo-soprano Marie-Nicole Lemieux, soprano Nadine Sierra and narrator Dame Josephine Barstow. Bernstein, who died in 1990, was one of the defining forces in 20th-century music, not only as the first great American-born conductor and as a charismatic communicator, but as a composer who represents the cultural ‘melting pot’ of the USA.
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Luigi Piovano, Antonio Pappano – Brahms & Martucci: Two Sonatas and Two Romances for Cello and Piano (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/88,2 kHz | Time – 59:18 minutes | 886 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Arcana
Even a star of the podium like Antonio Pappano devotes himself with enthusiasm to chamber music: there are more and more concerts and recordings in which he sits at the piano, performing with such eminent artists as Dmitry Sitkovetsky, Diana Damrau, Ian Bostridge and Joyce DiDonato. Now it is his fifteen-year-old friendship and musical collaboration with Luigi Piovano that is reflected in this new and exciting album, in which the two musicians finally record their interpretation – honed over the years in dozens of performances at leading concert halls such as Rome, Milan, Bologna, Florence and Brussels – of the two Brahms Cello Sonatas and a gem of late nineteenth-century Italian instrumental music: Giuseppe Martucci’s Two Romances Op. 72.
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Antonio Pappano – Strauss: Ein Heldenleben & Burleske (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]
Antonio Pappano – Strauss: Ein Heldenleben & Burleske (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:07:00 minutes | 1,15 GB | Genre: Classical
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Antonio Pappano conducts Rome’s Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in two works from the earlier phase of Richard Strauss’s career: a comparative rarity, the mercurial, virtuosic Burleske for piano and orchestra, with Bertrand Chamayou as soloist, and the epic autobiographical tone poem Ein Heldenleben, one of the composer’s orchestral masterpieces. “Strauss always thought dramaturgically,” says Pappano. “Recording this music in Italy, the link has to be through opera, with all its theatricality, temperament, contrast and colour …You need a certain charisma in the sound, which these players achieve.”
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Antonio Pappano – Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals & Symphony No. 3, (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:01:26 minutes | 771 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Warner Classics
The pianists are perhaps the most exotic of all the creatures in the Carnival of the Animals. A very rare and treasurable pairing has been made by Warner Classics for this new recording of Saint-Saëns’ enchantingly witty suite: Martha Argerich, often described as the world’s finest example of the pianist species, and Antonio Pappano, a particularly fine specimen of the conductor-pianist.
Beside such natural wonders as the graceful swan, the mighty lion, the waltzing elephant, the iridescent denizens of the aquarium and the rattling fossils, the pianists are the prize exhibits of the Carnival, bringing their colour and virtuosity to all but one of its fourteen movements. Their big solo moment comes towards the end of proceedings as they relentlessly practise their scales, which are punctuated with peremptory chords from the strings.
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Anja Harteros, Jonas Kaufmann, Antonio Pappano – Verdi: Aida (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:25:46 minutes | 2,40 GB | Genre: Classical
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This magnificent recording of Aida, made in Rome, rises to all the musical and dramatic challenges presented by Verdi’s richly-coloured Egyptian epic. Antonio Pappano, once again proving his mastery of Italian opera, moves between sumptuous grandeur and touching intimacy. The responses of the Orchestra e Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia are both immediate and vibrant, while the singers – Anja Harteros, Jonas Kaufmann, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Ludovic Tézier and Erwin Schrott – do justice to every facet of their roles.
Gramophone Recording of the Month: “A magnificent achievement that gives enormous pleasure…Karajan has the Vienna Philharmonic but it is arguable that Pappano goes one better, with orchestral playing of rare accomplishment from an Italian ensemble which is alive to the opera’s every word.”
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Сomposer: Gioacchino Antonio Rossini (1792-1868)
Title: Il Barbiere di Siviglia
Release Date: 2015
Genre: Classical, Opera
Stage Director: Moshe Leiser, Patrice Caurier
Conductor: Antonio Pappano
Artist: Juan Diego Florez (Count Almaviva), Joyce DiDonato (Rosina), Pietro Spagnoli (Figaro), Alessandro Corbelli (Doctor Bartolo), Ferruccio Furlanetto (Don Basilio), Jennifer Rhys-Davies (Berta), Changhan Lim (Fiorello), Bryan Secombe (Ambrogio), Christoper Lackner (Officer), Andrew Macnair (Notary); Orchestra & Chorus of The Royal Opera House
Production/Label: Erato/Warner Classics
Duration: 02:57:17
Quality: Blu-ray
Container: BDMV
Video codec: AVC
Audio codec: DTS, PCM
Video:MPEG-4 AVC Video / 20996 kbps / 1080i / 29,970 fps / 16:9 / High Profile 4.1
Audio#1: Italian DTS-HD MA 5.1 / 48 kHz / 6000 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.0 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Audio#2: Italian LPCM Audio / 2.0 / 48 kHz / 2304 kbps / 24-bit
Subtitles: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
Size: 45.49 GB
The 23-year-old Gioachino Rossini completed his masterpiece Il barbiere di Siviglia with incredible speed – legend has it in just 13 days – which Rossini attributed to ‘facility and lots of instinct’. He adapted Pierre-Augustin Beaumarchais’ play Le Barbier de Séville, part of a dramatic trilogy that also inspired Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro. Within a few decades of its 1816 premiere, Il barbiere di Siviglia had been seen around the world, reaching opera houses in New York, Buenos Aires, Trinidad and Ecuador. The opera is characterized by youthful energy and bold wit: these qualities are brought to the fore in Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier’s colourful and inventive production, a popular favourite at the Royal Opera House since its premiere in 2005.
Il barbiere di Siviglia has all the right ingredients for comic chaos: an imprisoned young woman, her lecherous guardian and a young noble suitor. Skilfully plotting behind the scenes is Figaro – an irrepressible and inventive character in whom many have seen a resemblance to the young Rossini himself. The score fizzes with musical brilliance, from Figaro’s famous entrance aria ‘Largo al factotum’ to the frenzy of the Act I finale, when the five principal voices all pile on top of each other.
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