Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia
The Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia was integrally connected to the development of a serious tradition of symphonic music in Italy. It was the country's first orchestra to devote itself exclusively to the symphonic repertoire, giving premieres of major works such as Respighi's Roman tone poems.
The Academy of Saint Cecilia itself traces its origins to the year 1585, when it was founded by Pope Sixtus V; its first president was the composer Palestrina. The orchestra was founded in 1908, and its conductors have included Mahler, Debussy, Saint-Saëns, Strauss, Stravinsky, Sibelius, Hindemith, Toscanini, Furtwängler, Karajan, and Abbado, as well as major early 21st century baton masters such as Valery Gergiev and Gustavo Dudamel. The orchestra's music directors have included Bernardino Molinari, Franco Ferrara, Fernando Previtali, Igor Markevitch, Thomas Schippers, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Daniele Gatti, and Myung-Whun Chung, and, beginning in 2005, Sir Antonio Pappano. Leonard Bernstein served as the orchestra's Honorary President from 1983 to 1990. Daniel Harding is the conductor-designate of the orchestra, set to take up the baton in 2024.
In 1991, under conductor Franco Capuana, the orchestra backed a recording of Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur on the Decca label. Pappano raised the profile of the orchestra as both a concertizing and a recording ensemble. The orchestra has appeared at the Proms in London, White Nights in St. Petersburg, the Lucerne Festival, and the Salzburg Festival, as well as performing at the Philharmonie in Berlin, the Musikverein and Konzerthaus in Vienna, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Royal Albert Hall in London, and Suntory Hall in Tokyo. The group has appeared on symphonic, choral, and operatic recordings, several of which have won major awards; its recording of Verdi's Requiem under Pappano was garlanded with a Gramophone Award, a BBC Music Magazine Award, and a Brit Classical Award. The orchestra backed pianist Beatrice Rana in a major recording of Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23, and Janine Jansen on her recording of Brahms' Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77. The orchestra signed with the Warner Classics label in the mid-2010s and has released several albums under Pappano there, including a cycle of Leonard Bernstein's three symphonies (2018) and recordings of Rossini's Messa di Gloria (2022) and Puccini's Turandot (2023).
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Cherubini: Requiem Mass in C Minor
Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Carlo Maria Giulini
Classical - Released by Profil on 7 Oct 2016
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Elgar: Symphony No. 1 & In the South (Live)
Antonio Pappano, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia
Classical - Released by Ica Classics on 26 Aug 2016
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Schumann: Works for Piano and Orchestra
Jan Lisiecki, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 8 Jan 2016
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Verdi: Rigoletto
Dame Joan Sutherland, Renato Cioni, Cornell MacNeil, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Nino Sanzogno
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 Jan 1962
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Verismo
Anna Netrebko, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 2 Sep 2016
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Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 (Live)
Antonio Pappano, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia
Classical - Released by Ica Classics on 26 Aug 2016
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Puccini: Turandot
Sondra Radvanovsky, Ermonela Jaho, Jonas Kaufmann, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 10 Mar 2023
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Boito: Mefistofele (Great Scenes)
Tullio Serafin, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Cesare Siepi, Renata Tebaldi, Giuseppe Di Stefano
Classical - Released by Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. on 1 Jan 1973
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Operatic Recital
Carlo Bergonzi, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 Jan 1958
The Qobuz Essential Discography16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Cilea: Adriana Lecouvreur (Stereo Version)
Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Franco Capuana
Miscellaneous - Released by BNF Collection on 1 Jan 2013
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Madama Butterfly
Angela Gheorghiu, Jonas Kaufmann, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 1 Jan 2000
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Puccini: La Fanciulla del West
Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, Cornell MacNeil, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Franco Capuana
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 Jan 1958
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Verismo Arias (Digital Bonus)
Jonas Kaufmann, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
Opera Extracts - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 Jan 2010
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Debussy: La Mer; Images; Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Leonard Bernstein
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 1 Jan 1990
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Roman Trilogy
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
Classical - Released by Warner Classics on 8 Oct 2007
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Verdi: Il Trovatore
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Carlo Maria Giulini
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 1 Jan 1984
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Sacred Arias (Remastered)
Andrea Bocelli, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Myung-Whun Chung
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 9 Nov 1999
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Puccini: Madame Butterfly
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Tullio Serafin, Renata Tebaldi, Carlo Bergonzi
Opera - Released by The Art Of Singing on 24 Apr 2015
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Puccini: La Bohème
Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Leonard Bernstein
Classical - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 1 Jan 1988
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Verdi: Choeurs d'opera
Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Gino Nucci, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Carlo Franci
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 Jan 1964
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Giuseppe Di Stefano: Operatic Recital
Giuseppe Di Stefano, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Franco Patane
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 Jan 1959
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo