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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BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 6 (de Sabata) (1947)
Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI di Torino, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Victor De Sabata
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 12 okt. 2002
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Puccini: La bohème, Highlights (Mono Version)
Renata Tebaldi, Carlo Bergonzi, Tullio Serafin, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia
Divers - Released by BNF Collection on 1 jan. 1960
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Verdi: Aida, Act IV, Extracts (Mono Version)
Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, Ebe Stignani, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia
Klassiek - Released by BNF Collection on 1 jan. 1954
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Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor
Opera - Released by The Art Of Singing on 15 jan. 2015
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Leoncavallo: Pagliacci
Opera - Released by The Art Of Singing on 12 dec. 2014
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Puccini · manon lescaut
Renata Tebaldi, Mario del Monaco, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia
Klassiek - Released by G.O.P. on 20 mrt. 2023
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Puccini · La bohème
Renata Tebaldi, Carlo Bergonzi, Tullio Serafin, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia
Klassiek - Released by G.O.P. on 24 apr. 2023
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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
Divers - Released by BNF Collection on 1 jan. 1953
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Vivaldi: Le quattro stagioni (Mono Version)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Bernardino Molinari
Divers - Released by BNF Collection on 1 jan. 1953
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Respighi: Feste romane & Fontane di Roma (Mono Version)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Fernando Previtali
Divers - Released by BNF Collection on 1 jan. 1961
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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
Klassiek - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 jan. 1952
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Sings Verdi And Puccini Arias (Album of 1953)
Mario del Monaco, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
Klassiek - Released by Casta Diva on 31 jul. 2023
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Debussy: Jeux - Poème Dansé, L.126
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Vittorio de Sabata
Klassiek - Released by Ibis on 28 jun. 2019
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Siepi, Cesare: Great Operatic Arias (1955)
Cesare Siepi, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
Opera - Released by Naxos Classical Archives on 1 jun. 2007
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Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor, Extracts (Mono Version)
Dame Joan Sutherland, Robert Merrill, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Sir John Pritchard
Klassiek - Released by BNF Collection on 1 jan. 1963
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Debussy: Jeux - Respighi: Les fontaines de Rome (Mono Version)
Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Victor De Sabata
Divers - Released by BNF Collection on 1 jan. 1952
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Puccini: Madame Butterfly, extraits (Mono Version)
Renata Tebaldi, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
Divers - Released by BNF Collection on 1 jan. 1958
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Verdi: La traviata, extraits (Mono Version)
Renata Tebaldi, Gianni Poggi, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
Divers - Released by BNF Collection on 1 jan. 1958
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Puccini: La bohème, extraits (Mono Version)
Renata Tebaldi, Carlo Bergonzi, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Tullio Serafin
Divers - Released by BNF Collection on 1 jan. 1961
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Puccini: La bohème, extraits (Mono Version)
Giancinto Prandelli, Renata Tebaldi, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Alberto Erede
Divers - Released by BNF Collection on 1 jan. 1958
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Puccini: Madame Butterfly, extraits (Mono Version)
Renata Tebaldi, Carlo Bergonzi, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Tullio Serafin
Divers - Released by BNF Collection on 1 jan. 1961
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo