Ildebrando D'Arcangelo
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Rossini: Stabat Mater
RecommendedAnna Netrebko (soprano), Joyce DiDonato (mezzo), Lawrence Brownlee (tenor), Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (bass)
Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
There is no shortage of good recordings of Rossini's Stabat Mater, but few do this gloriously uplifting work as much justice as Antonio Pappano's new recording...There is a compelling commitment... — More…
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Building a Library, April 2011, First Choice
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2011, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Editor's Choice
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
RecommendedIldebrando D'Arcangelo (Don Giovanni), Luca Pisaroni (Leporello), Diana Damrau (Donna Anna), Joyce DiDonato (Donna Elvira), Rolando Villazón (Don Ottavio), Mojca Erdmann (Zerlina), Konstantin Wolff (Masetto), Vitalij Kowaljow (Commendatore)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Yannick Nézet-Séguin
D'Arcangelo's full bass allows this Giovanni to register as a vocal heavyweight, a dominant male who's also an expert seducer...Nézet-Séguin supplies plenty of character, with effective tempos... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, Opera Choice
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Presto Recording of the Week, 10th September 2012
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2012, Editor's Choice
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Opera, December 2012, Recording of the Month
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Building a Library, July 2018, Recommended Recording
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Verdi: Rigoletto
RecommendedLuciano Pavarotti (Il Duca), Vladimir Chernov (Rigoletto), Cheryl Studer (Gilda), Roberto Scandiuzzi (Sparafucile), Denyce Graves (Maddalena), Jane Shaulis (Giovanna), Ildebrando d' Arcangelo (Monterone), Dwayne Croft (Marullo), Paul Groves (Borsa), Yanni Yannissis (Il Conte di Ceprano), Heidi Grant...
Levine conducts a thrustful, exceptionally high-powered reading of Rigoletto, vividly dramatic. The sound is full and immediate...Chernov is a firm, clear, virile Rigoletto...Studer is a tenderly... — More…
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Building a Library, June 2013, First Choice
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492 (highlights) Sylvia McNair (Susanna), Lucio Gallo (Figaro), Cheryl Studer (Countess), Boje Skovhus (Count), Cecilia Bartoli (Cherubino)
Konzertvereinigung, Wiener Staatsopernchor & Wiener Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado
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Verdi: Otello
RecommendedPlácido Domingo (Otello), Cheryl Studer (Desdemona), Sergei Leiferkus (Iago), Ramón Vargas (Cassio), Michael Schade (Rodrigo), Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (Lodovico), Giacomo Prestia (Montano), Denyce Graves (Emilia)
Bastille Opera, Myung-Whun Chung
theatre, so Otello is a difficult opera to bring off out of it. For some years now, Domingo has been, on stage, the greatest Otello of our age. On record, though, he has had less success. Leiferkus... — More…
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Building a Library, January 2001, First Choice
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Verdi: Requiem
Eva Mei (soprano), Bernarda Fink (mezzo), Michael Schade (tenor), Ildebrando d'Arcangelo (bass)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Nikolaus Harnoncourt
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, K527
RecommendedRodney Gilfry (Don Giovanni), Luba Orgonasova (Anna), Charlotte Margiono (Elvira), Eirian James (Zerlina), Christoph Prégardien (Don Ottavio), Ildebrando d'Arcangelo (Leporello), Julian Clarkson (Masetto), Andrea Silvestrelli (Commendatore)
English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Gardiner's set has a great deal to commend it.
The recitative is sung with exemplary care over pacing so that it sounds as it should, like heightened and vivid conversation, often to electrifying... — More…Awards:
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Building a Library, July 2018, Also recommended
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Vivaldi: Bajazet
Ildebrando d’Arcangelo (Bajazet), Patrizia Ciofi (Idaspe), David Daniels (Tamerlano), Elina Garanca (Andronico), Vivica Genaux (Irène), Marijana Mijanovic (Asteria)
Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi
Fabio Biondi and his ensemble Europa Galante… seem to have found their métier and the result is vibrant and compelling. David Daniels is on impressive form as the cruel warrior Tamerlano.... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2005, Opera Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2005, Editor's Choice
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Bellini: La Sonnambula Cecilia Bartoli (Amina), Juan-Diego Flórez (Elvino), Ildebrando D'Arcangelo (Il Conte Rodolfo), Liliana Nikiteanu (Teresa), Gemma Bertagnolli (Lisa), Peter Kalman (Alessio) & Javier Camarena (Un Notaro)
Orchestra La Scintilla, Alessandro De Marchi
Sonnambula, though, stands or falls on the bel canto expertise of its two main protagonists, and on this occasion they are both in great form. The highlight of the first scene, and indeed of... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2009, Editor's Choice
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12 Audiobiographies of Great Composers By Jörg Handstein (in German)
Udo Wachtveitl (narrator), Albrecht Schuch (narrator), Shenja Lacher (narrator), Adam Gaigl (narrator), Florian von Manteuffel (narrator), Stefan Hunstein (narrator), Katja Schild (narrator), Anna Greiter (narrator), Folkert Dücker (narrator), Günter Holzhausen, Max Hanft, Alexej Gorlatch, Bernhard...
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