Indispensable recordings 20.07.2024. Proms Composer 1: Verdi

[Ein Heldenleben]

The Sanctus in the Requiem is an 8 part fugue for double chorus and there is another fugue towards the end of the Libera Me.

Thanks . Good thread this ,
Must listen to the Pappano Trovatore….

[Mandryka]

And I thought I was being clever and witty . . .

[Sir Velo]

You both were. Punch gloves and make up!

[vinteuil]

Here are my five then

Marie Claire Alain's first Art of Fugue (Musical Heritage Society)
Gustav Leonhardt's second Art of Fugue (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi)
Matteo Messori's Art of Fugue
Rudof Scheidegger's Art of Fugue
Wolfgang Rubsam's third Art of Fugue (Counterpoint Records)
Håkan Wikman's Art of Fugue

... well, interesting certainly. But for me, not as indispensable as

Davitt Moroney 1985 harmonia mundi
Davitt Moroney 2002 abrsm
Grigory Sokolov
Richard Troeger
V Ghielmi & il suonar parlante
Kenneth Gilbert
Calefax
Hermann Scherchen 1949
André Isoir
Zoltán Kocsis

o, that seems to be ten...

Verdi, you say?

well, meh, when I'm in a particularly 19th century Italian frame of mind, I suppose.

I quite like

Simon Boccanegra, Abbado
Don Carlos, Pappano
Don Carlo, Giulini
Falstaff, JE Gardiner

and this is fun :

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Verdi-Overtures-Celeghin-Federica-Iannella/dp/B00FJ3R3NK

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[Rolmill]

I love Verdi - for me:

Simon Boccanegra - Abbado
Requiem - Giulini
Aida - Solti
Otello - Levine
Falstaff - Toscanini

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

I’m not a great Verdi fan, so I limit my choice to four:

Karajan Aïda (Decca)
Barbirolli Otello
Solti Requiem
Solti Falstaff

[smittims]

What a pity we don't hear any of these recordings on Radio 3! I well remember the days when they routinely played complete operas 'on gramophone records'.

Mention of the Solti (Decca) Requiem reminds me that for no particular reason I've never heard this famous recording, one of John Culshaw's last in his long-running Decca series. We could have another thread: 'famous recordings you've never heard'.

[Pulcinella]

For many Italians (especially those of the Lega Nord), I imagine that ANY recording of Va pensiero would be indispensable (though they'd all know it by heart anyway).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Va%2C_pensiero

Like Alpie, I'm not a great Verdi fan, though he's not unrepresented in my CD collection (and of course I could now stream pretty much what takes my fancy should the urge come over me).

I suspect that my collection has been built from recommendations one way or another, but not many have hitherto been mentioned (that I've noticed).

Requiem: LSO/Hickox; Atlanta SO/Shaw (c/w operatic choruses); Chicago SO/Solti (RCA); and a BBC MM release (BBCSO/Pritchard)
Four Sacred Pieces: BPO/Muti; Atlanta SO/Shaw
Falstaff: NBC/Toscanini (live New York, 1950)
Otello : VPO/Solti
Rigoletto: LSO/Bonynge; Acccademia Nationale di Santa Cecilia/Sinopoli
La Traviata: Met Opera House Orchestra/Bonynge (live New York 1970)
Il Trovatore: Orchestra of La Scala Milan/Serafin

But I wouldn't claim any as indispensable.

[mikealdren]

What a pity we don't hear any of these recordings on Radio 3! I well remember the days when they routinely played complete operas 'on gramophone records'.

Mention of the Solti (Decca) Requiem reminds me that for no particular reason I've never heard this famous recording, one of John Culshaw's last in his long-running Decca series. We could have another thread: 'famous recordings you've never heard'.

In its day it was unfavourably compared with the Giulini recording but I've always loved it, very dramatic and the recording still sounds good.

[akiralx]

Il trovatore - Giulini
Rigoletto - Sinopoli
Requiem - Jansons
Complete overtures and ballet music - Downes
Paraphrase on Simon Bocanegra (Liszt) - Arrau

[Pulcinella]

Did anyone listen?

There is no indispensable information on the website but the playlist includes FOUR Verdi items.
I tried a copy and paste but the format got the better of me.

[Ein Heldenleben]

Did anyone listen?

There is no indispensable information on the website but the playlist includes FOUR Verdi items.
I tried a copy and paste but the format got the better of me.

Yes I did. That Caballe Aïda is good (well they all are really )

• Giuseppe Verdi
  
  
  Ernani: Act IV Trio
  
  Performer: Ezio Flagello. Singer: Carlo Bergonzi. Singer: Leontyne Price. Conductor: Thomas Schippers.
  • VERDI: ERNANI ((REMASTERED)).
  • SONY CLASSICAL.
  • 11.
• Giuseppe Verdi
  
  
  Aida, Act 3: "O patra mia"
  
  Performer: Montserrat Caballé. Performer: Plácido Domingo. Performer: Fiorenza Cossotto. Performer: Nicolaï Ghiaurov. Performer: Piero Cappuccilli. Orchestra: New Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
  • VERDI: AIDA.
  • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • 4.
• Giuseppe Verdi
  
  
  Don Carlos, Act 5: "Au revoir dans un monde où la vie est meilleure"
  
  Choir: Chœur du Théâtre du Châtelet. Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
  • VERDI: DON CARLOS (LIVE).
  • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • 45.
• Giuseppe Verdi
  
  
  Simon Boccanegra, Act I: "Orfanella il tetto umile"
  
  Lyricist: Francesco Maria Piave. Lyricist: Giuseppe Montanelli. Lyricist: Antonio García Gutiérrez. Orchestra: Orchestra of La Scala, Milan. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
  • VERDI: SIMON BOCCANEGRA.
  • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON (DG).
  • 11.

[Pulcinella]

Yes I did.
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Thanks.
That's what I'd found and copied across, but in my attempt to strip out the images to save space it all went mad!

[Retune]

There is no indispensable information on the website but the playlist includes FOUR Verdi items.

The missing one is the 1964 Giulini / Philharmonia studio Requiem (EMI, now Warner). From 31.03 on BBC Sounds.

[Ein Heldenleben]

Thanks.
That's what I'd found and copied across, but in my attempt to strip out the images to save space it all went mad!

Stripping out images is Ph,D level . I’m barely GCSE