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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Boito: Mefistofele
Opera - Released by Urania Records on 6 jul. 2018
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Verdi: Rigoletto, Highlights (Stereo Version)
Dame Joan Sutherland, Cornell MacNeil, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Nino Sanzogno
Divers - Released by BNF Collection on 1 jan. 1956
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Brahms: Violin Concerto; Bartók: Violin Concerto No.1
Janine Jansen, London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 6 nov. 2015
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Saint-Saëns: Karneval der Tiere
Antonio Pappano, Martha Argerich, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia
Klassiek - Released by Warner Music Group - X5 Music Group on 24 feb. 2023
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Giordano: Andrea Chénier
Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, Ettore Bastianini, Fiorenza Cossotto, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Gianandrea Gavazzeni
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 jan. 1970
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An Operatic Recital By Flaviano Labo
Flaviano Labó, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Fernando Previtali
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 jan. 2014
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Arias for Rubini (Bonus)
Juan Diego Flórez, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Roberto Abbado
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 jan. 2007
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Puccini: Madama Butterfly - Highlights
Renata Tebaldi, Fiorenza Cossotto, Carlo Bergonzi, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Tullio Serafin
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 jan. 1958
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Puccini: La Bohème - Highlights
Renata Tebaldi, Carlo Bergonzi, Gianna d' Angelo, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Tullio Serafin
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 jan. 2000
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Voices from Heaven
Cecilia Bartoli, Andrea Bocelli, Bryn Terfel, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Myung-Whun Chung, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia
Klassiek - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 1 jan. 1998
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Verdi: Otello
Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 8 dec. 1954
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Puccini: Turandot, Act 1: "Signore, ascolta!"
Sondra Radvanovsky, Ermonela Jaho, Jonas Kaufmann, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano
Klassiek - Released by Warner Classics on 13 jan. 2023
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Italian Overtures
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Myung-Whun Chung
Klassiek - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 1 jan. 2002
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Verdi: Aida
Renata Tebaldi, Ebe Stignani, Mario del Monaco, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 jan. 1952
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Virginia Zeani - Operatic Recital
Virginia Zeani, Orchestre du Mai Musical Florentin , Gianandrea Gavazzeni, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Franco Patane
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 jan. 1956
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Boito: Mefistofele
Opera - Released by Urania Records on 1 jan. 1993
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Verdi : Otello
Alberto Erede, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia
Volledige opera's - Released by Decca Music Group Limited on 8 dec. 1954
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Verdi: La traviata (highlights)
Renata Tebaldi, Gianni Poggi, Aldo Protti, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 16 okt. 2000
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Puccini: Tosca (highlights)
Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, George London, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 jan. 1959
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Puccini: Edgar
Plácido Domingo, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Veronesi
Klassiek - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 1 jan. 2005
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Il Maestro Di Capella & Mozart Concert Arias
Fernando Corena, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 jan. 2014
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