Sonia Ganassi
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Verdi: Requiem
RecommendedAnja Harteros (soprano), Sonia Ganassi (mezzo), Rolando Villazon (tenor), René Pape (bass)
Orchestra dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Coro dell’Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
Pappano's conducting maintains a firm control of his forces, showing a sense of drama that includes an awareness of the importance of some crucial moments of silence. Pappano's soloists are... — More…
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Building a Library, October 2015, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2009, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2010, Winner - Choral
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Choral Award Winner
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Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Recommendedde Grandis, Ganassi, Romero, Servile, Vargas
Hungarian Radio Choir, Failoni Chamber Orchestra, Budapest, Willi Humburg
Not everyone will approve, but there are ways in which this super-budget set of Il barbiere diSiviglia puts to shame just about every other version of the opera there has been. Those it may... — More…
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Building a Library, December 2001, Budget Choice
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Building a Library, February 2017, First Choice
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Special offer. Meyerbeer: Margherita d'Anjou
Annick Massis (Margherita d'Anjou), Bruce Ford (Duke of Lavarenne), Daniela Barcellona (Isaura), Alastair Miles (Carlo), Fabio Previati (Michele), Pauls Putnins (Duke of Gloucester), Colin Lee (Bellapunta), Roland Wood (Orner)
Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, London Philharmonic Orchestra, David Parry
Margaret of Anjou, the widow of Henry VI, is more familiar to us as the embittered old crone in Shakespeare's Richard III. In the opera she's relatively young and beautiful, and loved by the... — More…
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Rossini: La donna del lago
Sonia Ganassi (Elena), Maxim Mironov (Uberto/Giacomo), Marianna Pizzolato (Malcolm), Ferdinand von Bothmer (Rodrigo di Dhu), Wojtek Gierlach (Douglas d'Angus), Olga Peretyatko (Albina), Stefan Cifolelli (Serano)
SWR Radio Orchestra Kaiserslautern, Prague Chamber Choir & Tubingen Festival...
Like the excellent Opera Rara recording (reviewed above), this new Naxos set was also made live in 2006. An excess of mid-act applause notwithstanding, it offers yet another distinguished account... — More…
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Special offer. Bellini: Norma
RecommendedSonya Yoncheva (Norma), Joseph Calleja (Pollione), Sonia Ganassi (Adalgisa), Brindley Sherratt (Oroveso), David Junghoon Kim (Flavio), Vlada Borovko (Clotilde)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano, Àlex Ollé (director)
The virtues of this staging lie in individual performances and in the music-making, with the Royal Opera House Orchestra and chorus giving taut and committed interpretations under Antonio Pappano.... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Special offer. Bellini: Norma
RecommendedSonya Yoncheva (Norma), Joseph Calleja (Pollione), Sonia Ganassi (Adalgisa), Brindley Sherratt (Oroveso), David Junghoon Kim (Flavio), Vlada Borovko (Clotilde)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Antonio Pappano, Àlex Ollé (director)
The virtues of this staging lie in individual performances and in the music-making, with the Royal Opera House Orchestra and chorus giving taut and committed interpretations under Antonio Pappano.... — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2017
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Marvellous Mezzo-soprano and Contralto
Best-Loved Opera Arias
Marjana Lipovsek (mezzo-soprano), Michelle Breedt (mezzo-soprano), Ewa Podles (contralto), Agnes Baltsa (mezzo-soprano), Nidia Palacios (contralto), Sonia Ganassi (mezzo-soprano), Sonia Prina (alto), Lyudmila Shemchuk (mezzo-soprano), Barbara Dever (mezzo-soprano), Tatiana Troyanos (mezzo-soprano),...
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Liturgic Pappano
Lawrence Brownlee (tenor), Carlo Lepore (bass), Alessandro Carbonare (clarinet), Michael Spyres (tenor), Maria Irsara (cor anglais), Eleonora Buratto (soprano), Teresa Iervolino (mezzo-soprano), Anja Harteros (soprano), René Pape (bass), Rolando Villazón (tenor), Sonia Ganassi (mezzo-soprano), Anna...
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Donizetti: Maria Stuarda
Carmela Remigio (Maria), Sonia Ganassi (Elisabetta), Joseph Calleja (Leicester), Cinzia Rizzone (Anna), Riccardo Zanellato (Talbot), Marzio Giossi (Cecil)
Circuito Lirico Regional Chorus, Fondazione Orchestra Gaetano Donizetti di Bergamo, Fabrizio Maria Carminati
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