Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia
The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome consists today of many organizations, including a well-known symphony orchestra, a conservatory and drama school, an institute for musicological research, a museum of musical instruments, and even an experimental film studio. However, none of these is as old as the Accademia di Santa Cecilia Chorus, which dates back to the last two decades of the 16th century. It has been active in one form or another almost ever since and is one of the world's oldest performing organizations of any kind. Its creation was the work of a group of choristers and choir directors who came together, elected Palestrina as their president, and formed a new choir that had both artistic and charitable aims. Although this placed the group in a rivalry with the better-known Sistine Chapel Choir, Pope Sixto V blessed their efforts with a papal bull in 1595. The choir has operated ever since except for a brief interruption during the Napoleonic Wars. Its association with the Santa Cecilia Orchestra was formalized in 1895.
The mission of the present-day choir extends far beyond sacred music. The choir has performed in operatic productions and participated in opera recordings, and it joins the Santa Cecilia Orchestra in major choral-orchestral repertory. It is headquartered at the Parco della Musica in Rome, a handsome structure designed by Renzo Piano, and it performs regular concerts there and elsewhere. Some of the choir's recordings have involved opera, and it has issued a pair of albums of Verdi choruses on its own. The Accademia di Santa Cecilia Chorus numbers about 90 singers, and its director, as with the Santa Cecilia Orchestra, is Antonio Pappano. In 2018, he led the chorus and orchestra in a performance of Leonard Bernstein's Symphony No. 3 ("Kaddish") to mark the 100th anniversary of Bernstein's birth. The choir joined Pappano and the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam in a new recording of Berlioz's Requiem, Op. 5, in 2021.
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Puccini: Madama Butterfly
Renata Tebaldi, Giuseppe Campora, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
Klassik - Erschienen bei Decca Music Group Ltd. am 01.01.1951
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Verdi : Rigoletto
Alberto Erede, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia
Gesamtaufnahmen von Opern - Erschienen bei Decca Music Group Limited am 01.01.1954
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Vlad, R.: Cantata No. 3, "Le Ciel Est Vide" / Piano Works
Carlo Grante, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Giuseppe Sinopoli
Chorwerk (für den Chor) - Erschienen bei Music and Arts Programs of America am 06.10.2008
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Verdi: Requiem / Faure: Requiem
Paul Van Kempen, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Jean Fournet, Choeurs Elisabeth Brasseur, Orchestre Lamoureux
Klassik - Erschienen bei Universal Music Australia Pty. Ltd. am 18.03.2016
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Dallapiccola: Canti di prigionia (Mono Version)
Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Igor Markevitch
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1953
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Puccini: Tosca
Renata Tebaldi, Giuseppe Campora, Enzo Mascherini, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
Klassik - Erschienen bei Decca Music Group Ltd. am 01.01.1952
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Puccini: Madame Butterfly, Extracts (Mono Version)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia
Klassik - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1958
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Dallapiccola, L.: Canti Di Prigionia / Delage, M.: 4 Poemes Hindous (Markevitch, Cluytens) (Unesco Program) (1955)
Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia
Chorwerk (für den Chor) - Erschienen bei Naxos Classical Archives am 01.01.2000
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Famous Operatic Choruses (Accademia Di Santa Cecilia, Rome) (1955)
Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia
Oper - Erschienen bei Naxos Classical Archives am 07.08.2007
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